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Phosphorus-doped silicon nanorod anodes for high power lithium-ion batteries

  • Chao Yan,
  • Qianru Liu,
  • Jianzhi Gao,
  • Zhibo Yang and
  • Deyan He

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 222–228, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.24

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  • Figure 1b, it can be seen that the Si layer was totally amorphous. The structural information of the obtained Si anode was further identified by transmission electron microscopy (TEM). Figure 2a clearly shows that the Si was conformally coated on the CuO nanorods, resulting in a core–shell nanorod
  • both of Cu(OH)2 and CuO nanorods, which was about 150 nm. The morphology of the obtained Si anode is illustrated in Figure 5c. The Si anode inherited the nanorod structure of the CuO precursor and presented a conformal Si coating. Comparing the insets in Figure 5b and Figure 5c, it can be estimated
  • the cycled Si anode is shown in Figure 5d. Here it is evident that the electrode remained as a nanorod array after 50 cycles without any obvious structural degradation, which may be responsible for the improved lithium storage performance. Based on the above discussion, the improvement of the
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Published 23 Jan 2017

Performance of colloidal CdS sensitized solar cells with ZnO nanorods/nanoparticles

  • Anurag Roy,
  • Partha Pratim Das,
  • Mukta Tathavadekar,
  • Sumita Das and
  • Parukuttyamma Sujatha Devi

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 210–221, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.23

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  • to replace the commonly used N719 dye molecule. Various nanostructured forms of ZnO, namely, nanorod and nanoparticle-based photoanodes, have been sensitized with colloidal CdS NPs to evaluate their effective performance towards quantum dot sensitized solar cells (QDSSCs). A polysulphide (Sx2−)-based
  • voltage (VOC) of 0.67 V was achieved for the ZnO nanorod/nanoparticle assembled structure. The introduction of ZnO nanorods over the nanoparticle led to a significant enhancement of the overall efficiency compared to the corresponding bare nanoparticles. Keywords: DSSC; QDSSC; quantum dot; solar cells
  • . ZnO nanoparticles and nanorods were synthesized by a solution-growth process, the details of which are reported elsewhere [31][32]. Fabrication of CdS-NP-sensitized ZnO-based films ZnO nanoparticle (ZnO-P) and nanorod (ZnO-R) films were fabricated by the doctor blade method on FTO glass (7 Ω/cm2) and
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Published 23 Jan 2017

Sensitive detection of hydrocarbon gases using electrochemically Pd-modified ZnO chemiresistors

  • Elena Dilonardo,
  • Michele Penza,
  • Marco Alvisi,
  • Gennaro Cassano,
  • Cinzia Di Franco,
  • Francesco Palmisano,
  • Luisa Torsi and
  • Nicola Cioffi

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 82–90, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.9

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  • but lower the activation energy. The sensing response of ZnO towards most of the toxic gases in general, and towards HC gases in particular, can be improved by surface deposition of noble metals. Sivapunniyam et al. [39] have reported the improvement of ZnO-nanorod-based HC gas sensing by doping the
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Published 10 Jan 2017

Sb2S3 grown by ultrasonic spray pyrolysis and its application in a hybrid solar cell

  • Erki Kärber,
  • Atanas Katerski,
  • Ilona Oja Acik,
  • Arvo Mere,
  • Valdek Mikli and
  • Malle Krunks

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 1662–1673, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.158

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  • to grow the Sb2S3 layer onto a structured substrate such as a ZnO nanorod layer. Experimental Technology of layers and solar cells We used a commercial 300 nm indium tin oxide (ITO) coated 1.1 mm glass with a sheet resistance of 10 Ω·sq.−1 from Zentrum für Sonnenenergie- und Wasserstoff-Forschung
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Published 10 Nov 2016

Sandwich-like layer-by-layer assembly of gold nanoparticles with tunable SERS properties

  • Zhicheng Liu,
  • Lu Bai,
  • Guizhe Zhao and
  • Yaqing Liu

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 1028–1032, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.95

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  • mainly driven by electrostatic interaction. Especially, multilayer thin films consisting of polymers and metal nanoparticles (NPs) have been extensively explored, and show interesting optical and SERS properties [9][10][11][12][13][14]. Wang and Dong et al. reported that polyelectrolyte–gold nanorod
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Published 15 Jul 2016

Development of highly faceted reduced graphene oxide-coated copper oxide and copper nanoparticles on a copper foil surface

  • Rebeca Ortega-Amaya,
  • Yasuhiro Matsumoto,
  • Andrés M. Espinoza-Rivas,
  • Manuel A. Pérez-Guzmán and
  • Mauricio Ortega-López

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 1010–1017, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.93

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  • inset), the Cu nanostructure itself and its core–shell feature were separately analyzed. HAAF image and EDS line-scan profile across of (a) single particle showing carbon, copper and oxygen signals, (b) single nanorod showing the carbon, copper and oxygen signals. FE-SEM image of (a) single particle
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Published 11 Jul 2016

The role of morphology and coupling of gold nanoparticles in optical breakdown during picosecond pulse exposures

  • Yevgeniy R. Davletshin and
  • J. Carl Kumaradas

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 869–880, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.79

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  • plasma increases with decreasing gap distance between dimers down to a 4 nm gap, which was the smallest gap they examined. Boulais et al. [37] revealed the existence of two different physical regimes of plasma generation in the vicinity of a gold nanorod during ultrafast pulse exposure. For a fluence
  • lower than 3 mJ/cm2, the gold nanorod strongly absorbed the incident pulse energy and the majority of the seed electrons were produced by photo-thermal emission (the absorption regime), while for fluences higher than 3 mJ/cm2 the formation of free electrons was dominated by multiphoton absorption due to
  • a high near-field enhancement surrounding the gold nanorod (the near-field regime). At picosecond pulses with low irradiation fluence, nanoparticle-mediated LIB is dominated by photo-thermal emission due to the fast temperature increase of the electrons in the nanostructure. The lack of a detailed
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Published 16 Jun 2016

Bacteriorhodopsin–ZnO hybrid as a potential sensing element for low-temperature detection of ethanol vapour

  • Saurav Kumar,
  • Sudeshna Bagchi,
  • Senthil Prasad,
  • Anupma Sharma,
  • Ritesh Kumar,
  • Rishemjit Kaur,
  • Jagvir Singh and
  • Amol P. Bhondekar

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 501–510, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.44

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  • . The morphological and spectroscopic analysis of the hybrid structures confirmed the ZnO thin film/nanorod growth and functional properties of bR. The photoactivity results of the bR protein further corroborated the sustainability of its charge transport property and biological activity. When exposed
  • coating (Millman, single-stage coating unit) was performed at 3000 rpm for 20 s to obtain a thin film of ZnO nanoparticles. ZnO nanorod (ZnO-NR) synthesis ZnO-NRs were grown on the ZnO-TF substrate by the hydrothermal method [36][83]. Zinc nitrate hexahydrate (0.2 M) was used as a precursor salt and was
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Published 04 Apr 2016

Blue and white light emission from zinc oxide nanoforests

  • Nafisa Noor,
  • Luca Lucera,
  • Thomas Capuano,
  • Venkata Manthina,
  • Alexander G. Agrios,
  • Helena Silva and
  • Ali Gokirmak

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 2463–2469, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.255

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  • lead to blue and white light emission. (a) SEM image of the ZnO nanorods grown on ≈100 nm thick, highly doped, patterned, p-type, silicon microstructures (before and after ZnO nanorod growth), (b) cross-section SEM image of the ZnO nanorods, and (c) schematic of the electrical probe and optical fiber
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Published 23 Dec 2015

Peptide-equipped tobacco mosaic virus templates for selective and controllable biomineral deposition

  • Klara Altintoprak,
  • Axel Seidenstücker,
  • Alexander Welle,
  • Sabine Eiben,
  • Petia Atanasova,
  • Nina Stitz,
  • Alfred Plettl,
  • Joachim Bill,
  • Hartmut Gliemann,
  • Holger Jeske,
  • Dirk Rothenstein,
  • Fania Geiger and
  • Christina Wege

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 1399–1412, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.145

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  • regular-shaped, readily available nanorod biotemplates with inorganic compounds has attracted increasing interest during recent years. The goal is an effective, bioinspired fabrication of fiber-reinforced composites and robust, miniaturized technical devices. Major challenges in the synthesis of
  • of mineralization-promoting peptides To nucleate and govern the deposition of silica shells, functionalized plant viral nanorod templates were generated by linker-assisted chemical conjugation of mineralization-active peptides to the outer surface of genetically modified TMVLys particles from plants
  • , respectively. Serial in vitro assembly of different genetically engineered CP types on RNA scaffolds can even generate nanorod subdomains, offering unique coupling functionality [76]. Addressing such sites for a selective conjugation of mineralization-guiding peptides such as KD10 might pave future routes
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Published 25 Jun 2015

Effects of swift heavy ion irradiation on structural, optical and photocatalytic properties of ZnO–CuO nanocomposites prepared by carbothermal evaporation method

  • Sini Kuriakose,
  • D. K. Avasthi and
  • Satyabrata Mohapatra

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 928–937, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.96

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  • and Discussion The FESEM images of pristine and irradiated nanocomposite samples are shown in Figure 1. The FESEM image of the pristine sample clearly illustrates the presence of a large number of nanosheets in addition to few nanorod-like structures, as shown in Figure 1a. It can be clearly seen that
  • these nanosheets and nanorod like structures consist of smaller nanoparticles. Figure 1b shows the FESEM image revealing the surface morphology of nanocomposite following irradiation with 90 MeV Ni ions at a fluence of 3 × 1013 ions/cm2. It can be clearly seen that swift heavy ion irradiation at a
  • large nanorods with distinct facets and increased width can be clearly seen. However, the density of nanorod-like structures formed is small and the average aspect ratio of such nanostructures was found to be 2.7, which is much smaller than that of the nanostructures in the pristine sample and the
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Published 10 Apr 2015

Morphology control of zinc oxide films via polysaccharide-mediated, low temperature, chemical bath deposition

  • Florian Waltz,
  • Hans-Christoph Schwarz,
  • Andreas M. Schneider,
  • Stefanie Eiden and
  • Peter Behrens

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 799–808, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.83

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  • grow on priorly seeded glass slides, when the procedure described in the Experimental section is applied. The growth of aligned ZnO nanorods arrays on different substrates has been previously reported [15][17][43][44]. The scanning electron micrographs in Figure 2 show a nanorod array that was grown
  • array of highly vertically aligned ZnO nanorods grows under CBD conditions as previously reported [15][17][43][44]. Notably, these nanorods do not overlap. Thus, although the thickness of such a nanorod array is quite large (120 nm), the actual mass deposited (as inferred from the intensity of the XRD
  • enhanced lateral growth of the nanorod bundles onto the support during the first CBD step, as revealed by the SEM images in Figure 4. The earlier the HYA is added during this step, the more the individual nanorods overlap. These differences in the films then lead to different growth characteristics in the
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Published 24 Mar 2015

Morphological and structural characterization of single-crystal ZnO nanorod arrays on flexible and non-flexible substrates

  • Omar F. Farhat,
  • Mohd M. Halim,
  • Mat J. Abdullah,
  • Mohammed K. M. Ali and
  • Nageh K. Allam

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 720–725, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.73

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  • , The American University in Cairo, New Cairo 11835, Egypt 10.3762/bjnano.6.73 Abstract We report a facile synthesis of zinc oxide (ZnO) nanorod arrays using an optimized, chemical bath deposition method on glass, PET and Si substrates. The morphological and structural properties of the ZnO nanorod
  • scale fabrication of ZnO nanoarchitectures on any substrate [12][13][14]. Herein, we report an optimized CBD method, employed to fabricate single-crystal ZnO nanorod arrays on flexible and non-flexible substrates at low temperature. High quality, oriented ZnO nanorods of uniform thickness and length
  • distribution ensure a desired light absorption and propagation characteristics as well as percolation pathways for charge transfer. Experimental ZnO nanorod arrays were grown on three different substrates (glass, PET and Si) by the chemical bath deposition (CBD) technique. The substrates (2 × 2 cm) were
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Published 12 Mar 2015

Electromagnetic enhancement of ordered silver nanorod arrays evaluated by discrete dipole approximation

  • Guoke Wei,
  • Jinliang Wang and
  • Yu Chen

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 686–696, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.69

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  • The enhancement factor (EF) of surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) from two-dimensional (2D) hexagonal silver nanorod (AgNR) arrays were investigated in terms of electromagnetic (EM) mechanism by using the discrete dipole approximation (DDA) method. The dependence of EF on several parameters, i.e
  • nanoarrays and incident excitations will shine light on the optimal design of efficient SERS substrates and improved performance. Keywords: discrete dipole approximation (DDA); enhancement factor; near-field; silver nanorod array; surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS); Introduction Surface-enhanced
  • ]. Among them, aligned Ag nanorod (AgNR) arrays fabricated by oblique angle deposition (OAD) were shown to be promising SERS substrates with enhancement factors of approximately 108 [12][13][14][15]. However, the uniformity and reproducibility of SERS substrates remains a major challenge for the
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Published 09 Mar 2015

Mechanical properties of MDCK II cells exposed to gold nanorods

  • Anna Pietuch,
  • Bastian Rouven Brückner,
  • David Schneider,
  • Marco Tarantola,
  • Christina Rosman,
  • Carsten Sönnichsen and
  • Andreas Janshoff

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 223–231, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.21

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  • mL of 0.1 M CTAB, 7 μL of 0.04 M silver nitrate (AgNO3), and 105 μL of 0.08 M ascorbic acid. Nanoparticle size was controlled by transmission electron microscopy (TEM). We determined a length of 38 ± 6.5 nm and a width of 17 ± 3 nm for nanorod and a diameter of 43 nm for spheres [25]. Concentrations
  • with different concentrations of gold nanorods and CTAB solution. Equilibrium frequency and dissipation change (after 24 h of incubation) of a confluent MDCK II cell monolayer cultured on a 5 MHz quartz (fundamental frequency) as a function of CTAB-coated gold nanorod (A) and CTAB-cated gold nanosphere
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Published 20 Jan 2015

Mammalian cell growth on gold nanoparticle-decorated substrates is influenced by the nanoparticle coating

  • Christina Rosman,
  • Sebastien Pierrat,
  • Marco Tarantola,
  • David Schneider,
  • Eva Sunnick,
  • Andreas Janshoff and
  • Carsten Sönnichsen

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 2479–2488, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.257

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  • nanoparticles were removed (Supporting Information File 1, Figure S2). Growth behavior In order to characterize the growth behavior of epithelial cells on gold nanorod-decorated substrates, 50 spread cells on the substrate were chosen after 4 h of incubation. These cells were investigated on a daily basis over
  • cells with respect to the number of starting cells for the different nanorod functionalizations is displayed in Figure 3A. At the start of the experiment, only adherent cells are chosen for all samples. The control sample shows the behavior of cells grown on a bare, nanoparticle-free substrate. Here, a
  • reduction in adherence by 30% as compared to the untreated control results from the cell growth on the NH2–PEG nanorod-decorated substrate, whereas immobilization of COOH–PEG nanorods does not have an influence. Proliferation The increase in the spreading area of an adherent cell is interpreted as a sign of
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Published 24 Dec 2014

Hybrid spin-crossover nanostructures

  • Carlos M. Quintero,
  • Gautier Félix,
  • Iurii Suleimanov,
  • José Sánchez Costa,
  • Gábor Molnár,
  • Lionel Salmon,
  • William Nicolazzi and
  • Azzedine Bousseksou

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 2230–2239, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.232

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  • diagram for an analog device but employing NR as the emitting material [30]. Adapted with permission from [28] and [30], copyright 2008 and 2013 Elsevier. a) SEM image of a gold nanorod array with 200 nm pitch. b) Extinction spectra of three nanorod arrays with different aspect ratios. c) Plasmon
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Published 25 Nov 2014

Electrical contacts to individual SWCNTs: A review

  • Wei Liu,
  • Christofer Hierold and
  • Miroslav Haluska

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 2202–2215, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.229

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  • CNFET was improved by more than two orders of magnitude [76]. Zhang et al. [50] reported that the resistance of Ti-SWCNT bottom contacts was reduced by annealing the devices at temperatures greater than 800 °C due to the formation of nanorod-like TiC (Figure 9b). On the contrary, Tomimoto et al. [75
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Published 21 Nov 2014

Controlling the dispersion of supported polyoxometalate heterogeneous catalysts: impact of hybridization and the role of hydrophilicity–hydrophobicity balance and supramolecularity

  • Gijo Raj,
  • Colas Swalus,
  • Eglantine Arendt,
  • Pierre Eloy,
  • Michel Devillers and
  • Eric M. Gaigneaux

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 1749–1759, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.185

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  • dictated by the interaction of the alkyl side chains of DODA with the substrate surface. On HOPG, the DODA–POM hybrid forms small domains of epitaxially arranged straight nanorod structures with their orientation parallel to each other. Conversely, randomly distributed nanospheres are formed when the
  • particular interest to observe any self-assembled features. DODA–Keggin POM, and DODA–WD POM hybrids form small domains scattered over the HOPG surface. High resolution AFM images of these small domains reveal that they are composed of well-ordered straight nanorod like features oriented parallel to each
  • arrangement of carbon atoms in the graphite basal plane, and hence reveal that the orientation of nanorods in the hybrid material is indeed controlled by the epitaxial interaction of DODA chains with HOPG. The periodicity of the nanorod arrays, measured as peak-to-peak distances from AFM cross-section
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Published 10 Oct 2014

Antimicrobial properties of CuO nanorods and multi-armed nanoparticles against B. anthracis vegetative cells and endospores

  • Pratibha Pandey,
  • Merwyn S. Packiyaraj,
  • Himangini Nigam,
  • Gauri S. Agarwal,
  • Beer Singh and
  • Manoj K. Patra

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 789–800, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.91

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  • File 1. Results and Discussion Structure and composition of CuO nanorods (PS2) and CuO multi-armed nanoparticles (P5) SEM/EDAX reveals the formation of several micrometer-long nanorod bundles with unit rod diameters of about 100 nm and a Cu/O ratio of 1:1 for the PS2 samples prepared by calcinations of
  • the wet-chemically synthesized precursor at 150 °C. Figure 1a and Figure 1b show SEM micrograph of PS2 at 5000× and 40000× respectively. Uniformly formed nanorod bundles that have individual rod diameters of 40–80 nm (average 60 nm with a standard deviation of 9.74 nm) and rod lengths of 4 µm to 11 µm
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Published 05 Jun 2014

Nanostructure sensitization of transition metal oxides for visible-light photocatalysis

  • Hongjun Chen and
  • Lianzhou Wang

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 696–710, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.82

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  • nanoparticles–Fe2O3 [69][82][83], gold nanoparticle–ZnO nanorods [68], gold nanorod–TiO2 [70][71][84], gold nanoparticles–TiO2 nanotube [66][72]. For more details, readers may refer to recent excellent reviews for basic principle and detailed effects of localized surface plasmons on transition metal oxides [85
  • carbon nanodot–TiO2 nanotube [130], carbon nanodot–SrTiO3 film [131], carbon nanodot–TiO2 nanoparticle [114], and carbon nanodot–ZnO nanorod arrays [132], exhibited a good performance for photoelectrochemical water splitting or photocatalytic activity in dye degradation under visible light irradiation
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Published 23 May 2014

Encapsulation of nanoparticles into single-crystal ZnO nanorods and microrods

  • Jinzhang Liu,
  • Marco Notarianni,
  • Llew Rintoul and
  • Nunzio Motta

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 485–493, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.56

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  • micro-photoluminescence measurement on a single ZnO nanorod containing luminescent nanodiamonds and the spectrum has a different shape from that of naked nanodiamonds, revealing the cavity effect of ZnO nanorod. Keywords: crystal growth; encapsulation; nanoparticles; photoluminescence; ZnO nanorods
  • 30 mM, respectively. The side-view image in Figure 1b shows that NDs were embedded in the nanorods after a second growth process (20 mM, 4 h). Regrowth of the nanorod along the axial direction leads to a new section with smooth surface. By measuring the length of newly-grown section, we can estimate
  • that the second growth process results in 1.7 times increase of the length. Nevertheless, the growth over the side facets was too slow to completely bury the surface-attached NDs. The close-view image in Figure 1c shows that the incomplete encapsulation of NDs leads to holes in the nanorod surface. For
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Published 16 Apr 2014

Photovoltaic properties of ZnO nanorods/p-type Si heterojunction structures

  • Rafal Pietruszka,
  • Bartlomiej S. Witkowski,
  • Grzegorz Luka,
  • Lukasz Wachnicki,
  • Sylwia Gieraltowska,
  • Krzysztof Kopalko,
  • Eunika Zielony,
  • Piotr Bieganski,
  • Ewa Placzek-Popko and
  • Marek Godlewski

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 173–179, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.17

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  • not only nanorods but also fill in the gaps between them (Figure 4). Samples A and B show a core-shell structure with the zinc oxide nanorod being the core and the AZO layer being the shell. For closely packed nanorods (sample C) the AZO film is grown only on the top of the nanorods. However, we also
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Published 14 Feb 2014

Template based precursor route for the synthesis of CuInSe2 nanorod arrays for potential solar cell applications

  • Mikhail Pashchanka,
  • Jonas Bang,
  • Niklas S. A. Gora,
  • Ildiko Balog,
  • Rudolf C. Hoffmann and
  • Jörg J. Schneider

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2013, 4, 868–874, doi:10.3762/bjnano.4.98

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  • CuInSe2 (CISe) nanorods are promising for the fabrication of highly efficient active layers in solar cells. In this work we report on a nanocasting approach, which uses track-etched polycarbonate films as hard templates for obtaining three-dimensionally (3D) arranged CISe nanorod arrays. Copper and indium
  • body’, a subsequent dissolution of the template, and a final thermal treatment at 450 °C. The nanorods that where synthesised in this way have dimensions equal to the pore sizes of the template. Investigation of the CuInSe2 nanorod samples by spectroscopic and diffraction methods confirmed a high
  • purity and crystallinity, and a stoichiometric composition of the CISe ternary semiconductor compound. Keywords: CIS; light absorption; nanocasting; nanorod arrays; precursor synthesis; Introduction Polycrystalline heterojunction solar cells with a columnar morphology of the photovoltaic active layer
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Published 10 Dec 2013

Photoresponse from single upright-standing ZnO nanorods explored by photoconductive AFM

  • Igor Beinik,
  • Markus Kratzer,
  • Astrid Wachauer,
  • Lin Wang,
  • Yuri P. Piryatinski,
  • Gerhard Brauer,
  • Xin Yi Chen,
  • Yuk Fan Hsu,
  • Aleksandra B. Djurišić and
  • Christian Teichert

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2013, 4, 208–217, doi:10.3762/bjnano.4.21

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  • difference between the 0.22 eV found here and the 0.54 eV can be simply explained by a higher junction temperature induced by the higher current. On the one hand, this “heating” affects the surface properties due to increased desorption, and on the other hand it might lead to a local annealing of the nanorod
  • upright standing ZnO nanorods, of photoluminescence obtained at 300 K. Current–voltage characteristics of dark (green curve, dashed) and illuminated state (red curve, solid) recorded from a single upright-standing ZnO nanorod by using a standard ±20 nA range amplifier. The illuminated characteristic was
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Published 21 Mar 2013
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