In this research, the zinc oxide (ZnO) microrods were grown by hydrothermal method on fluorine-doped tin oxide (FTO) glass functionalized by self-assembled monolayer of octadecyltrimethoxysilane (ODS; CH3(CH2)17Si(OCH3)3). The sharp-tip or polygonal shape with specific facets at the top end of ZnO microrods can be obtained by post retention at low temperature. The morphologies were characterize...

Reaction of 3-aminopropylsilyl-modified ZnO microrods with trioctylphosphineoxide-coated CdSe/CdS core/shell nanocrystals in THF produces rod-shaped nanoparticle clusters that show directional photoemission that can be tuned with the size of the CdSe nanocrystals. The observed waveguiding effect of these microstructures is due to total internal reflection of light at the cluster-air interface.

0167-9317/$ see front matter 2008 Elsevier B.V. A doi:10.1016/j.mee.2008.06.021 * Corresponding author. Address: Department of P Florida, 4000 Central Florida Boulevard, Orlando, FL 3 823 2333; fax: +1 407 823 5112. E-mail address: [email protected] (O. Lupan). For extensive use in an industrialized process of individual ZnO nano/microrods as building nanoblock in novel hydrogen sensors, a ...

This article presents the fabrication and characterization of ultra violet (UV) photosensor, which utilizes the semiconducting properties of single ZnO nanorod. We report a study on the ZnO nanorods synthesized by an aqueous solution route in a hydrothermal reactor. Samples were characterized by X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, optical and electrical studies. Our cost-effective ...

Zn2GeO4 microrods obtained by thermal evaporation of a compacted powder mixture ZnO and Ge exhibit quite intense UV luminescence at low temperatures. Herein, the properties are studied for 2:1 1:1 ZnO:Ge ratio in precursor mixture. In both cases, high crystal quality produce 355 nm emission under aforementioned bandgap excitation conditions However, this vanishes room temperature (RT) samples w...

ZnO materials with a range of different morphologies have been successfully synthesized via a simple double-solvothermal method in the presence of glycine. The morphologies of the products can be controlled from superstructures to microrods by adjusting the amount of water in the EtOH/H2O system. Photoluminescence (PL) studies reveal that the more amount of water was used, the stronger PL relat...

Dependences of water-photoelectrolysis efficiency on heights and packing densities of vertically arrayed ZnO nanorods (NRs) and ZnO microrods (MRs) were systematically studied for the first time over a wide range of light incidence angles, under the direction of nanooptics simulation. In the photoelectrolysis, dense NRs of 1.8 μm in height afforded the highest photocatalytic efficiencies, and f...

Photocatalytic reactions occur at the crystal-solution interface, and hence specific crystal facet expression and surface defects can play an important role. Here we investigate the structure-related photoreduction at zinc oxide (ZnO) microparticles via integrated light and electron microscopy in combination with silver metal photodeposition. This enables a direct visualization of the photoredu...