The study describes the synthesis and characterization of zinc(II) minoxidil nanocomposite (1). The reaction between zinc(II) acetate, minoxidil, {C9H15N5O=minoxidil=(2,4-diamino-6-piperidine-1-yl) pyrimidine N-oxide)} as a ligand and KI as bridging agent, in methanol at 60°C leads to the formation of nano-sized Zn(II) minoxidil nanocomposite, 1. Characterization of (1) was carried out by eleme...

Arrays of zinc oxide (ZnO) nanorods were synthesized over quartz substrates by the hydrothermal method. These grown in a predominantly vertical orientation with lengths 500–800 nm and an average cross-sectional size 40–80 nm. Gold, sizes 9 ± 1 4 0.5 nm, tin nanoclusters, 30 5 15 3 formed on top ZnO nanorods. Annealing was carried out at 300 °C for 2 h to form ZnO/SnO2 ZnO/Au The resulting nanor...

In this paper, indium oxide (In2O3) nanomaterials are successfully synthesized on the silicon substrates by hydrothermal method and calcination. By changing ratio of raw materials, In2O3 exhibits three morphologies nanorods, nanomaces, nanorod-flowers. Among nanomaterials, nanorod-flowers shaped shows a strong field emission property, turn-on electric as low 0.97 V/µm enhancement factor β up to...

In this study bio-hydrogen and bioethanol were produced from dry biomass of water hyacinth by microbial fermentation under influence of zinc oxide nanoparticles. For fermentative bio-hydrogen production biomass was first pretreated and then saccharified into fermentable sugars by enzymes. Sugars of enzymatic hydrolysis were xylose and glucose with concentration of 9.0% and 8.0% respectively. Fo...

BACKGROUND Rice as a renewable, abundant bio-resource with unique characteristics can be used as a bio-template to synthesize various functional nanomaterials. Therefore, the effect of uncooked rice flour as bio-template on physico-chemical properties, especially the morphology of zinc oxide nanostructures was investigated in this study. The ZnO particles were synthesized through hydrothermal-b...

Cobalt Oxide/ Zinc Oxide nanocomposite was synthesized by dropwise addition ofCo(NO)3.6H2O and Zn(NO3)2.4H2O solutions to KOH solution at different temperatures followed bycalcination at 300ºC for 4 h. The morphology and structure of nanoparticles and the influence oftemperature on particle size were studied using scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and X-RayDiffraction (XRD). Minimum particle s...

PURPOSE Zinc oxide effectively reduces visual cell loss in rats exposed to intense visible light and is known to slow the rate of disease progression in advanced stages of age-related macular degeneration. Our goal was to determine the efficacy of zinc oxide in combination with novel and well-established antioxidants in an animal model of light-induced oxidative retinal damage. METHODS One gr...