Nanostructured hybrid heterojunctions have been studied widely for photocatalytic applications due to their superior optical and structural properties. In this work, the impact of angstrom thick atomic layer deposited (ALD) ZnO shell layer on photocatalytic activity (PCA) of hydrothermal grown single crystalline TiO2 nanowires (NWs) is systematically explored. We showed that a single cycle of A...

This paper reports the effects of the seed layers prepared by spin-coating and dip-coating methods on the morphology and density of ZnO nanowire arrays, thus on the performance of ZnO nanowire-based dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). The nanowire films with the thick ZnO buffer layer (*0.8–1 lm thick) can improve the open circuit voltage of the DSSCs through suppressing carrier recombination, ...

One-dimensional semiconductors such as nanowires and nanotubes are attractive materials for incorporation in photovoltaic devices as they potentially offer short percolation pathways to charge-collecting contacts. We report the observation of freeelectron lifetimes in TiO2 nanotubes of the order of tens of picoseconds. These lifetimes are surprisingly short compared to those determined in films...

We present a density-functional theory study of finite-size effects in stoichiometric and nonstoichiometric BaTiO3 nanowires of varying cross-sectional sizes and sidewall terminations. The tendencies for axial, transverse, and toroidal ferroelectric polarization instabilities in these nanowires have been characterized and possible driving forces underlying these behaviors have been identified. ...

In this work, vertically aligned TiO2 nanowires (TiO2-NWs) and Ag nanoparticle (Ag-NP)-assisted aligned TiO2 (TAT-NWs) were deposited on glass flexible polyethylene terephthalate (PET) substrates using the glancing angle deposition (GLAD) technique. The morphology structural analysis of samples manifest successful TiO2-NWs TAT-NWs. high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HR-TEM) image...