Polarity in ZnO nanowires: A critical issue for piezotronic and piezoelectric devices

V Consonni, AM Lord - Nano Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
The polar and piezoelectric nature of the wurtzite structure of ZnO nanowires with a high
aspect ratio at nanoscale dimensions is of high interest for piezotronic and piezoelectric …

ZnO nanowires for solar cells: A comprehensive review

V Consonni, J Briscoe, E Kärber, X Li… - Nanotechnology, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
As an abundant and non-toxic wide band gap semiconductor with a high electron mobility,
ZnO in the form of nanowires (NWs) has emerged as an important electron transporting …

Boosting the piezoelectric coefficients of flexible dynamic strain sensors made of chemically-deposited ZnO nanowires using compensatory Sb doping

J Villafuerte, X Zhang, E Sarigiannidou, F Donatini… - Nano Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
The piezoelectric devices made of ZnO nanowires have received a great interest in the past
decade as potential nanogenerators and sensors. However, their characteristics are still …

Cellulose controlled zinc oxide nanoparticles with adjustable morphology and their photocatalytic performances

X Li, L Zhang, Z Wang, S Wu, J Ma - Carbohydrate Polymers, 2021 - Elsevier
The cellulose fibers with different size and aspect ratio was used as the matrix for the
controllable preparation of zinc oxide (ZnO) to synthesize ZnO/cellulose composite catalyst …

Solution synthesis of two-dimensional zinc oxide (ZnO)/molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) heterostructure through reactive templating for enhanced visible-light …

L Liu, P Chen, X Zhang, L Kovarik, JJ De Yoreo… - … Composites and Hybrid …, 2023 - Springer
Numerous inorganic materials have been identified as potential candidates for high-
performance photocatalysts. However, their solar-to-energy conversion efficiencies still fail …

ZnNiCo layered double hydroxide@ Mxene with 2D/2D hierarchical structure derived from micro-sized ZIF-8/67 anchored to Mxene for asymmetric supercapacitors

Y Meng, C Liang, D Jiang, Y Zhang, J Su, X Xu… - Chemical Engineering …, 2024 - Elsevier
Compared with other power storage technologies such as batteries, supercapacitors can
attain higher power density, but the situation of lower energy density requires improvement …

Zinc vacancy–hydrogen complexes as major defects in ZnO nanowires grown by chemical bath deposition

J Villafuerte, F Donatini, J Kioseoglou… - The Journal of …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Crystal defects in unintentionally doped ZnO nanowires grown by chemical bath deposition
(CBD) play a capital role in their optical and electrical properties, governing the …

ZnO/TiO2/Sb2S3 Core–Shell Nanowire Heterostructure for Extremely Thin Absorber Solar Cells

R Parize, A Katerski, I Gromyko… - The Journal of …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Extremely thin absorber (ETA) solar cells integrating ZnO nanowires have been receiving
increasing interest owing to efficient light-trapping phenomena and charge-carrier …

Controlled growth of semiconducting ZnO nanorods for piezoelectric energy harvesting-based nanogenerators

S Abubakar, ST Tan, JYC Liew, ZA Talib… - Nanomaterials, 2023 - mdpi.com
Zinc oxide (ZnO) nanorods have attracted considerable attention in recent years owing to
their piezoelectric properties and potential applications in energy harvesting, sensing, and …

Annealing temperature dependent reversible wettability switching of micro/nano structured ZnO superhydrophobic surfaces

E Velayi, R Norouzbeigi - Applied Surface Science, 2018 - Elsevier
Superhydrophobic ZnO surfaces with reversibly tunable wettability were fabricated on
stainless steel meshes via a facile chemical bath deposition method just by regulating the …