Nanocasted mesoporous nanocrystalline ZnO thin films

Synthesis of mesoporous Ag/ZnO nanocrystals with enhanced photocatalytic activity

“…Mesoporous materials have found a large number of significant benefits due to their large surface area and well organized porous mesostructure. The physical properties of mesoporous ZnO could be improved leading to high optical quality, low refractive index, photoluminescent, small crystal sizes and better photocatalytic activity [7]. It is very complicated to prepare mesoporous structure especially ordered mesostructured in a single step [3,[7][8][9][10][11][12].…”

“…The physical properties of mesoporous ZnO could be improved leading to high optical quality, low refractive index, photoluminescent, small crystal sizes and better photocatalytic activity [7]. It is very complicated to prepare mesoporous structure especially ordered mesostructured in a single step [3,[7][8][9][10][11][12]. Synthesis of mesoporous transition metal-oxides in a controlled manner received great attention due to enhanced electronic, electrochemical and optical properties inherently associated with the low dimensionality of the mesoporous metal oxide.…”

A facile nanocasting synthesis of mesoporous Ag-doped SnO 2 nanostructures with enhanced humidity sensing performance

“…The nanocasting (hard template method) has been proved as an efficient approach for synthesis of highly ordered porous SMOx because of the stable support function of hard templates for high-temperature crystallization. Till now, a large number of porous SMOx, including TiO 2 , Fe 2 O 3 , Co 3 O 4 , NiO, CuO, ZnO, ZrO 2 , In 2 O 3 , WO 3 , SnO 2 , CeO 2 and have been successfully prepared by using the nanocasting method [15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22].…”

Custom‐Made Morphologies of ZnO Nanostructured Films Templated by a Poly(styrene‐block‐ethylene oxide) Diblock Copolymer Obtained by a Sol–Gel Technique

“…The radii of the cylinders follow a Gaussian distribution and the structure factor comes from a 1D paracrystal. [71,78] Figure 6. These values are listed along with their deviations in Tables 2 and 3 for the as-prepared and the calcined samples, respectively.…”

“…These values are comparable to the porosity of 70 % of similar ZnO mesoporous films of about 100 nm in thickness obtained by Grosso and co-workers. [71,78] Figure 6. Horizontal cuts of the 2D GISAXS data at the q z value of the Yoneda peak of the as-prepared films before calcination (a) and of ZnO films after calcination (b) for different combinations of weight fractions of DMF, water, and ZAD.…”