objective(s): the wide scale use of zinc oxide nanoparticles (zno nps) in the consumer market world makes human beings more prone to the exposure to zno nanoparticles and its adverse effects. therefore, the aim of the present study is to assess renal toxicity potential of zno and polyethylene glycol coated zno nanoparticles in rat.materials and methods: co-precipitation chemical method was used...

The antibacterial effect of zinc oxide (ZnO) nanoparticles on Campylobacter jejuni was investigated for inhibition and inactivation of cell growth. The results showed that C. jejuni was extremely sensitive to treatment with ZnO nanoparticles. The MIC of ZnO nanoparticles for C. jejuni was determined to be 0.05 to 0.025 mg/ml, which is 8- to 16-fold lower than that for Salmonella enterica serova...

The optical properties of core-shell nanoparticles consisting of a ZnO shell grown on Ag and Au nanoparticle cores by a solution method have been investigated. Both the ZnO/Ag and ZnO/Au particles exhibit strongly enhanced near-band-edge UV emission from the ZnO when excited at 325 nm. Furthermore, the UV intensity increases with the metal nanoparticle concentration, with 60-fold and 17-fold en...

We report here a simple wet chemical process to synthesize ZnO nanoparticles. The morphology of the nanoparticles was observed in field emission scanning electron microscope. The nanoparticles have average diameter ~ 100 nm. The optical property of the synthesized ZnO nanoparticles was investigated using UVvisible absorption spectra. The synthesized nanoparticles exhibit strong absorption at ~ ...

Zinc oxide (ZnO) nanorods decorated with gold (Au) nanoparticles have been synthesized and used to fabricate dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSC). The picosecond-resolved, time-correlated single-photon-count (TCSPC) spectroscopy technique was used to explore the charge-transfer mechanism in the ZnO/Au-nanocomposite DSSC. Due to the formation of the Schottky barrier at the ZnO/Au interface and the ...

in this research zinc oxide (zno) nano-crystalline powders were prepared by sol-gel method using zinc acetate. the zno nanoparticles were characterized by x-ray diffraction (xrd), scanning electron microscopy (sem), ultraviolet-visible (uv-vis), fourier transform infra-red (ft-ir) and energy dispersive x-ray (edx) spectroscopy. the structure of nanoparticles was studied using xrd pattern. the c...

ZnO nanoparticles have been synthesized by ultrasonic irradiation of an aqueous-alcoholic/aqueous-alcoholic-ethylenediamine (EDA) solutions of zinc nitrate and sodium hydroxide. ZnO nanoparticles possess hexagonal wurtzite structures and they exhibit special photoluminescence properties with a red-shift of 22 nm in UV emission band. It is found that the ultrasonic irradiation time and the solve...

Monodispersed ZnO nanoparticles have been synthesised in ethylene glycol medium using zinc acetate and sodium hydroxide at room temperature through ultrasonic treatment. The monodispersed ZnO nanoparticles were characterized by XRD, TEM, SEM, and optical spectroscopy. The results indicate that ZnO shows the hexagonal wurtzite structure having 8 nm average particle size with the band gap of 3.93...

The synthesis of ZnO nanoparticles has attracted immense interest because of their unique properties and potential applications in optoelectronic devices. ZnO as a wide band gap semiconductor with large excitation energy becomes one of the most important functional material with near UV-emission, optical transparency, electric conductivity and piezoelectricity. ZnO nanoparticles were prepared b...

In this study, the effect of limewater on strength assessments and percentage of water absorption of concrete incorporating ZnO 2 nanoparticles has been investigated. Portland cement was partially replaced by ZnO 2 nanoparticles with the average particle size of 15 nm and the specimens were cured in water and saturated limewater for specific ages. The results indicate that ZnO 2 nanoparticles u...