The objective of this study was to quantify the influence of zinc oxide nanoparticles (nanoZnO) on the water repellency and dimensional stability of beech wood. Beech wood blocks were treated with a nano-ZnO solution at four treatment levels (0, 10,000, 20,000, and 40,000 ppm) using a modified dip method. Also, a thermal treatment was performed at 60 and 120°C. After conditioning the samples, w...

page 156 Abstract: The goal of this research is to fabricate a low cost and efficient solid state solar cell by coupling zinc oxide (ZnO) nanorods with a conjugated polymer of regio-regular poly(3-hexylthiopene) (P3HT). ZnO structures were grown onto FTO/nc-ZnO substrates through either hydrothermal solution phase or by electrodeposition and resulted in different morphologies depending on the g...

Recently, zinc oxide (ZnO) nanowires have drawn major interest because of their semiconducting nature and unique optical and piezoelectric properties. Various applications for ZnO nanowires have been conceived, including the next generation of field effect transistors, light emitting diodes, sensors and resonators. ZnO nanowires are also envisioned as nanogenerators by exploiting the coupling o...

BACKGROUND Nanoparticles are small-scale substances (<100 nm) with unique properties. Therefore, nanoparticles pose complex health risk implications. The objective of this study was to detect whether treatment with quercetin (Qur) and/or arginine (Arg) ameliorated nephrotoxicity induced by two different doses of nano zinc oxide (n-ZnO) particles. METHOD ZnO nanoparticles were administered ora...

A novel buffering method is presented to improve the stability of zinc oxide processed in aqueous solutions. By buffering the aqueous solution with a suitable quantity of sacrificial zinc species, the dissolution offunctional zinc oxide structures and' the formation of unwanted impurities can be prevented. The method is demonstrated for ZnO films and nanowires processed in aqueous solutions use...

Graphene oxide-zinc oxide hybrid nanostructures were synthesized and they demonstrated significant and promising antimicrobial activity on pathogenic bacteria. The combination of graphene oxide with zinc oxide nanorods showed an impressive antibacterial effect under intense scrutiny as compared with individual graphene oxide or zinc oxide nanomaterials. The characterization and investigation of...

BACKGROUND Rice as a renewable, abundant bio-resource with unique characteristics can be used as a bio-template to synthesize various functional nanomaterials. Therefore, the effect of uncooked rice flour as bio-template on physico-chemical properties, especially the morphology of zinc oxide nanostructures was investigated in this study. The ZnO particles were synthesized through hydrothermal-b...

Title of Document: PLD GROWTH OF HIGH QUALITY ZINC OXIDE THIN FILMS ON SI SUBSTRATES AND DEVICE DEVELOPMENT. Saeed Esmaili Sardari, PhD , 2012 Directed By: Professor Agis. A. Iliadis Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Growth of high quality zinc oxide thin films on silicon substrates is particularly important because it combines the unique features of zinc oxide (ZnO...

in this work, magnetically separable zno-znfe2o4-ppy nanocomposite as an efficient adsorbent was synthesized by two steps. at first, zinc oxide (zno) and znfe2o4 nanoparticles were synthesized using simple and facile precipitation method. then, zno-znfe2o4 mixed oxide was modified by polypyrrole (ppy). the adsorbent was characterized by x-ray diffraction (xrd), fourier transform infrared (ft-ir...

The composites graphite/ZnO were prepared using calcination method. Zinc chloride (ZnCl2) and sodium carbonate (Na2CO3) were used for synthesis of zinc oxide (ZnO), whereas micromilled and natural graphite were used as the matrix for ZnO nanoparticles growing. During the reaction of ZnCl2 with saturated aqueous solution of Na2CO3 new compound Na2Zn3(CO3)4•(H2O)3 originates. During the calcinati...