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Design of Solution-Grown ZnO Nanostructures

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The renewed interest of the scientific community in zinc oxide (ZnO) during the last decade has been mostly powered by the development of new low-temperature methods for the synthesis of ZnO nanostructures with a controlled morphology. The wide variety of morphology includes nanoparticles, nanowires, nanorods, nanotubes, nanosheets, as well as nanoporous films. The present chapter is a review of the most recent progresses made in the design of these structures by the use of different solution-based low-temperature preparation methods. The methods include chemical, sol-gel and hydrothermal synthesis, electrospinning, electroless deposition and electrodeposition. Special attention is paid to the preparation of organic/inorganic hybrid films, to patterning and to the doping of nanostructured ZnO layers. The interest in these nanostructures is illustrated by a large variety of applications, such as in solar cells, light emitting diodes (LED), photocatalysis and surfaces with controllable wettability.

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Pauporté, T. (2009). Design of Solution-Grown ZnO Nanostructures. In: Wang, Z. (eds) Toward Functional Nanomaterials. Lecture Notes in Nanoscale Science and Technology, vol 5. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-77717-7_2

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