Investigation of properties and applications of ZnO polymer nanocomposites

A Asture, V Rawat, C Srivastava, D Vaya - Polymer Bulletin, 2023 - Springer
Polymer nanocomposites (PNCs) contain nanoparticles (NPs), with at least one dimension
of 10–100 Å. Even though polymers have many applications, NPs are dispersed on the …

PVDF/ZnO hybrid nanocomposite applied as a resistive humidity sensor

MV Arularasu, M Harb, R Vignesh, TV Rajendran… - Surfaces and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Polyvinyledene fluoride (PVDF), an aliphatic polymer with massive hydrophobic groups, has
been developed as humidity sensitive material (hydrophilic) using an additive of ZnO …

Evidence of oxygen defects mediated enhanced photocatalytic and antibacterial performance of ZnO nanorods

J Singh, S Juneja, S Palsaniya, AK Manna… - Colloids and Surfaces B …, 2019 - Elsevier
Defect engineered one-dimensional (1D) ZnO nanostructures have found great interest in
diverse fields, including water detoxification and environmental remediation. In this article …

Facile synthesis of Ce doped ZnO nanowires for efficient photocatalytic removal of organic pollutants from water

S Choudhary, M Sharma, V Krishnan… - Materials Today …, 2023 - Elsevier
We illustrate a facile fabrication of Ce doped ZnO nanowires with outstanding
photodegradation performance by thermal decomposition route. The impact of cerium …

Rapid synthesis of ZnO nanowires and nanoplates with highly enhanced photocatalytic performance

S Choudhary, K Sahu, A Bisht, B Satpati… - Applied Surface …, 2021 - Elsevier
ZnO nanowires and nanoplates with extremely enhanced photocatalytic performance were
prepared via one-step facile thermal decomposition of zinc acetate dihydrate and well …

Synergistic effect of zinc oxide nanorods on the photocatalytic performance and the biological activity of graphene nano sheets

AF Ghanem, AA Badawy, ME Mohram, MHA Rehim - Heliyon, 2020 - cell.com
In this work, decoration of the graphene surface with 5 wt.% ZnO nanorods (ZnO NRs), to
ensure the potential photocatalytic performance of the formed nanocomposites, is …

Synthesis and characterization of zinc oxide reinforced aluminum metal matrix composite produced by microwave sintering

N Kumar Bhoi, H Singh… - Journal of Composite …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
The study focuses on the microstructural, phase transformation, and physical and
mechanical aspects of aluminum/zinc oxide composite produced by a hybrid microwave …

Facile synthesis of ZnO nanoparticles by thermal decomposition of Schiff base complexes for the effective removal of organic pollutants in an aqueous medium

P Mahadevi, S Sivasuriya, S Sumathi - … Nanotechnology, Monitoring & …, 2023 - Elsevier
A series of mononuclear Schiff base transition metal complexes of the type [M
(LS)(temed)](where, M= Co (II), Ni (II), Cu (II), and Zn (II); LS= Schiff base ligand derived from …

Effect of Co2+ content on supercapacitance properties of hydrothermally synthesized Ni1-xCoxFe2O4 nanoparticles

S Sharifi, A Yazdani, K Rahimi - Materials Science in Semiconductor …, 2020 - Elsevier
Rich physical properties of ferrite nanoparticles, which exhibit a spinel structure, are
sensitive to the distribution of cations in tetrahedral and octahedral sites as well as the …

Possible bandgap values of graphene-like ZnO in density functional theory corrected by the Hubbard U term and HSE hybrid functional

A Shokri, A Yazdani, K Rahimi - Materials Today Communications, 2020 - Elsevier
Predicting the realistic bandgap of a semiconductor is critical to its applications. A relatively
new two-dimensional semiconducting structure with few experimental reports is graphene …