The Seebeck coefficient is an important quantity in determining the thermoelectric efficiency of a material. Phosphorene two-dimensional material with puckered structure, which makes its properties anisotropic. In this work, phosphorene nanodisk (PDisk) radius 3.1 nm connected to two zigzag nanoribbons studied, numerically, by tight-binding and non-equilibrium Green’s function (NEGF) methods pr...

We report the synthesis of Ag-ZnO hybrid plasmonic nanostructures with enhanced photocatalytic activity by a facile wet-chemical method. The structural, optical, plasmonic and photocatalytic properties of the Ag-ZnO hybrid nanostructures were studied by X-ray diffraction (XRD), field emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), photoluminescence (PL) an...

The current work displayed the efficacy of nanodisk shaped zinc oxide nanostructures (NDs-ZnONSs) processed via hydrothermal solution process and studies cytotoxicity against human breast cancer cells (MCF-7). NDs-ZnONSs were analyzed by using instruments such as X-ray diffraction pattern (XRD), Field emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM), Fourier transform infra-red spectroscopy (FTIR)...

ZnO nanostructures with different morphologies (nanowires, nanodisks, and nanostars) were synthesized hydrothermally. Gas sensing properties of the as-grown nanostructures were investigated under thermal and UV activation. The performance of the ZnO nanodisk gas sensor was found to be superior to that of other nanostructures (Sg ∼ 3700% to 300 ppm ethanol and response time and recovery time of ...