Use of low-temperature nanostructured CuO thin films deposited by spray-pyrolysis in lithium cells

Study of structural and optical properties of cupric oxide nanoparticles

“…It is also an attractive candidate for light-harvesting applications due to its band gap energy of 1.4 eV (Son et al 2009;Xu et al 2007;Lim et al 2012). CuO compounds are technologically well-known materials that have their applications in areas (Qi et al 2007) such as solar energy materials, electronic materials, gas sensor, magnetic media, optical devices, batteries and catalyst (Kidowaki et al 2012;Lang et al 2006;Teng et al 2008;Stewart et al 2004;Wang et al 2007;Morales et al 2005), and constructing junction devices such as p-n diode (Muhibbullah et al 2003), as well as for photoconductive, photothermal, and photoelectrochemical applications (Chiang et al 2012).…”

Nanostructured copper oxides and phosphates from a new solid-state route

“…Thus the preparation methods for nanostructured materials in their solid-state phase are of great importance. Specifically for copper oxides, solid-state preparation methods have been reported [6,7,[10][11][12][13][14][15][16]. Xu et al [7] prepared CuO nanocrystals by a one-step solid-state reaction of CuCl 2 ⋅2H 2 O and NaOH, while Kawahashi and Shiho [6] obtained hollow spheres by calcination of a polymer-coated Cu(NO 3 ) 2 salt.…”

Removal of Toluene over NaX Zeolite Exchanged with Cu2+

“…It is worth noting that the Cu 2p3/2 photopeak BE observed for the materials are located at higher BE than those reported in the literature for bulk copper materials. For example, Morales et al [29] reported that Cu 2p3/2 BE in CuO is 933.7 eV. The highest BE value of electrons coming from the 2p level of Cu in zeolites in comparison to those in bulk metal oxides has been already reported [30,31].…”