[HTML][HTML] ZnO nanostructured materials and their potential applications: progress, challenges and perspectives

S Raha, M Ahmaruzzaman - Nanoscale Advances, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Extensive research in nanotechnology has been conducted to investigate new behaviours
and properties of materials with nanoscale dimensions. ZnO NPs owing to their distinct …

Zinc oxide based dye-sensitized solar cells: A review

R Vittal, KC Ho - Renewable and Sustainable energy reviews, 2017 - Elsevier
Zinc oxide (ZnO) is the closest alternative to TiO 2 as the semiconductor material in a dye-
sensitized solar cell (DSSC). This is to be attributed to the facts that both TiO 2 and ZnO have …

Hierarchically structured porous materials for energy conversion and storage

Y Li, ZY Fu, BL Su - Advanced Functional Materials, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Materials with hierarchical porosity and structures have been heavily involved in newly
developed energy storage and conversion systems. Because of meticulous design and …

ZnO-based dye-sensitized solar cells

JA Anta, E Guillén, R Tena-Zaera - The Journal of Physical …, 2012 - ACS Publications
ZnO was one of the first metal oxides used in dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs). It exhibits a
unique combination of potentially interesting properties such as high bulk electron mobility …

Nanostructured photoelectrodes for dye-sensitized solar cells

Q Zhang, G Cao - Nano today, 2011 - Elsevier
Nanotechnology opens a door to tailing materials and creating various nanostructures for
use in dye-sensitized solar cells. This review classifies the nanostructures into (1) …

Band gap tuning and applications of ZnO nanorods in hybrid solar cell: Ag-doped verses Nd-doped ZnO nanorods

A Saboor, SM Shah, H Hussain - Materials Science in Semiconductor …, 2019 - Elsevier
ZnO nanorods doped with different concentrations of Ag and Nd (1–7%) were synthesized
by hydrothermal method. In this article we describe the synthesis, characterization and …

Improving the photovoltaic conversion efficiency of ZnO based dye sensitized solar cells by indium doping

RK Chava, M Kang - Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2017 - Elsevier
Indium doped zinc oxide nanoparticles (NPs) with various indium concentrations were
prepared by cost effective and low temperature aqueous solution method. The structure and …

[PDF][PDF] Selective pulsed heating for the synthesis of semiconductor and metal submicrometer spheres

H Wang, A Pyatenko, K Kawaguchi, X Li… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2010 - academia.edu
Spherical particles are of great interest because they are a thermodynamically favorable
state in terms of surface energy. Recent work has fully demonstrated their potential to obtain …

Ultrarapid sonochemical synthesis of ZnO hierarchical structures: from fundamental research to high efficiencies up to 6.42% for quasi-solid dye-sensitized solar cells

Y Shi, C Zhu, L Wang, C Zhao, W Li, KK Fung… - Chemistry of …, 2013 - ACS Publications
Zinc oxide (ZnO) hierarchical structures (HSs) have recently demonstrated notable
photochemical and photovoltaic performances attributed to their nano/micro combined …

Morphology dependent photovoltaic performance of zinc oxide-cobalt oxide nanoparticle/nanorod composites synthesized by simple chemical co-precipitation method

S Thambidurai, P Gowthaman… - Journal of Alloys and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Zinc oxide-cobalt oxide nanocomposites (ZnO–Co 3 O 4 NCs) with diverse concentrations
(0.03, 0.06, 0.09 and 0.12 M) of Co 2+ ions were synthesized by a simple chemical co …