Structural and Morphological Characterization of CuO Nanostructure Precipitated by Water-soluble Copper (II) Nitrate Hemi(pentahydrate) and NaOH as Reactants

pH-induced wurtzite-zinc blende heterogeneous phase formation, optical properties tuning and thermal stability improvement of green synthesized CdS nanoparticles

“…Recently, semiconductor nanomaterial synthesis has gained enormous attention from the research community due to the formation of very small particle sizes in the nanoscale range between 1 and 100 nm. The semiconductor nanomaterials also exhibit unique properties that are different from bulk materials ascribed to the quantum confinement effect, which contributes to the improvement of electromagnetic radiation, optical properties, mechanical strength, thermal stability, energy storage, photocatalytic degradation, etc [ [1] , [2] , [3] , [4] , [5] ]. Cadmium sulfide (CdS) belongs to the II-VI group chalcogenide binary semiconductor family with a wide direct band gap of around 2.42 eV.…”