The important role that surface chemical analysis methods can and should play in the
characterization of nanoparticles is described. The types of information that can be obtained …

Lithiophilic hosts hold exciting prospects to tackle the challenges of the dendrite growth and
volume expansion of Li metal anode. However, insight into the structure of lithiophilic sites …

Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have advanced rapidly with power conversion efficiencies
(PCEs) now exceeding 22%. Due to the long diffusion lengths of charge carriers in the …

Coating of ZnO nanoparticles on paper surface has potential technological applications.
With this motivation, a simple approach of ultrasound assisted coating of paper with ZnO …

The past research work devoted to ZnO nanocolloidal sol-gel route is reviewed. It highlights
the cluster chemistry of alcoholic ZnAc 2 solutions and the results of ZnO colloid growth …

ZnO nanoparticles are widely used in biological, chemical, and medical fields, but their
toxicity impedes their wide application. In this study, pristine ZnO NPs (~ 7 nm;~ 18 nm;~ 49 …

Cold sintering is a chemo-mechanical densification process which allows densification of
ceramics at low temperatures below 300° C. This substantial reduction in the sintering …

Natural sponge is an ancient marine organism with a single lamellar structure, on which
there are abundant porous channels to compose full-fledged spatial veins. Illumined by the …

We report on investigations of the stability of inverted organic solar cells with ZnO electron
collecting interlayer that are solution-processed from zinc acetate (ZnAc) or diethylzinc …

Solvothermal synthesis of zirconium-substituted cobalt ferrite nanoparticles was
accomplished by the introduction of zirconium (Zr) in the spinel matrix to obtain a cost …