A combined experimental and first principles study of Cu defects in bulk ZnO is presented. Cu particles are epitaxially deposited on the polar O-ZnO(0001) surface at room temperature. Upon heating, a broadening of the quasielastic peak in high resolution electron energy loss spectra is observed, corresponding to an electronic doping effect of Cu atoms in bulk ZnO with an ionization energy of 88...

Synthesis of ultrathin ZnO nanowires gains great attention from research community because of their large potential in applications involving optoelectronics and sensors. In this study, a lowpressure and low-temperature hydrothermal synthesis of ultrathin ZnO nanowires is studied to understand the growth mechanisms better. To achieve this aim, an about 10 nm thin Zn seed layer was sputter-depos...

ZnO nanorod arrays and nanodisk networks were grown directly on Si substrate by thermal evaporation of ZnCl(2) powder and a mixture of ZnCl(2) and InCl(3)·4H(2)O at 450 °C in air, respectively. The ZnO nanorods with the diameters of 0.64 to 0.91 μm and length of about 5.1 μm are single crystalline with the hexagonal structure and grow along the [001] direction. The nanodisk has perfect hexagona...

The O-doped ZnTe (ZnTe! xOx) alloys present induce levels through O doping into the host semiconductor gap. ZnTe usually crystallizes in the zinc-blend structure and ZnO in the wurtzite structure under normal conditions. Therefore two possible ZnTe5 xOx phases may coexist, although in different proportions, depending on experimental growth conditions. We present total energy calculations and an...

This paper presents the fabrication and characterization of zinc oxide micro-flowers and their antibacterial activity. The micro-flowers of zinc oxide composed of hexagonal nanorods have been prepared via solution process using precursor zinc acetate di-hydrate and sodium hydroxide in 3 h of refluxing time at ~90°C. The antibacterial activities of grown micro-flowers were investigated against f...

The reaction of ZnO and tri-ethyl-ene-tetra-minehexaacetic acid (H6TTHA) in aqueous solution after refluxing yields the binuclear title compound, [Zn2(C18H26N4O12)(H2O)2]·4H2O. There is a centre of symmetry in the [Zn2(H2TTHA)(H2O)2] mol-ecule in the crystalline state. Both Zn(II) ions are octahedrally surrounded and bound by an N2O3 donor set from the H2TTHA(4-) anion and a water mol-ecule; th...

A second modification of the zinc(II) coordination polymer with citric acid, [Zn(3)(C(6)H(5)O(7))(2)(H(2)O)(2)](n) or [Zn(citrate)(2)(H(2)O)(2)], has been synthesized under hydro-thermal conditions by reacting zinc acetate with citric acid. The structure contains two unique Zn atoms, one with a distorted octa-hedral coordination and located on an inversion centre, and one with a distorted tetra...

ZnO particles were synthesized by hydrothermal route at 95 °C, with different ethylammonium nitrate (EAN) : water volume ratio (0.01 to 1) in reaction media. Morphology of ZnO particles changed from initial cylindrical to intermediate spindle and finally to spherical with increasing concentration of EAN in reaction media whereas pH of aliquots remained within range of 7-7.5. Aggregates of EAN b...

This paper reports on photocatalytic decolorization of a hazardous indigo carmine dye solution. The photocatalytic decolorization was carried out in the presence of the catalyst ZnO. The effect of catalyst dose, pH and initial dye concentration on the degradation process has been assessed. The aqueous dye solution was degraded in a photochemical reactor in the presence of UV light (365nm) along...

Zinc oxide nanoparticles (ZnO NPs) have many biomedical applications such as chemotherapy agents, vaccine adjuvants, and biosensors but its hemocompatibility is still poorly understood, especially in the event of direct contact of NPs with blood components. Here, we investigated the impact of size and surface functional groups on the platelet homeostasis. ZnO NPs were synthesized in two differe...