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In-situ microfluidic controlled low temperature hydrothermal growth of nanoflakes for dye-sensitized solar cells

, 2015
In this paper, an in-situ microfluidic control unit (MCU) was designed and applied in a hydrothermal synthesis process, which provides an easy way to localize liquid-phase reaction and realize selective synthesis and direct growth of nanostructures as ...
Child, David, Ping An, Hu, Robertson, Neil, Gibson, Desmond, Fu, Yong Qing, Hu, Yue, Zhao, Chao, Zhang, Jia   +7 more
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Size-controlled, high optical quality ZnO nanowires grown using colloidal Au nanoparticles and ultra-small cluster catalysts

APL Materials, 2019
Size-controlled ZnO nanowires were grown by eclipse pulsed laser deposition using Au colloids and ultra-small (sub 2 nm) Au101 and Au9 clusters as catalysts, tethered to c-plane sapphire substrates using aminopropyltrimethoxysilane (APTMS).
M. F. Lynam, N.-J. Ke, S. J. Bradley, T. Nann, A. Neiman, R. J. Reeves, A. J. Downard, V. B. Golovko, M. W. Allen   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

ZnO@TiO₂ Core/Shell Nanowire Arrays with Different Thickness of TiO₂ Shell for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Crystals, 2020
The ZnO@TiO2 core/shell nanowire arrays with different thicknesses of the TiO2 shell were synthesized, through depositing TiO2 on the ZnO nanowire arrays using the pulsed laser deposition process.
Liqing Liu, Hui Wang, Dehao Wang, Yongtao Li, Xuemin He, Hongguang Zhang, Jianping Shen   +6 more
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Investigating Organic Vapor Sensing Properties of Composite Carbon Nanotube-Zinc Oxide Nanowire

Chemosensors, 2022
The low operating temperature of nanowire gas sensors along with their high surface-to-volume ratio are two factors that make gas sensors more practical. In this paper, the growth of ZnO nanowires on a vertically aligned CNT forest is reported.
Mostafa Shooshtari, Saeideh Pahlavan, Saeideh Rahbarpour, Hasan Ghafoorifard   +3 more
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3D Printing Innovations in Polymeric Porous and Patterned Architecture

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Polymeric foams occupy a unique structural space between dense solids and open networks, where engineered void fraction governs mechanical compliance, thermal resistance, and mass transport. Additive manufacturing now enables precise spatial control over cellular architecture, unlocking designer foam structures across applications spanning crash ...
Dhanush Patil, Sri Vaishnavi Thummalapalli, Clarissa Westover, Arunachalam Ramanathan, M. Taylor Sobzcak, Roumika Patil, Qixuan Xiang, Tiantian Li, Sui Yang, Timothy E. Long, Hongyue Sun, Xianqiao Wang, Yang Liu, Kenan Song   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hydrothermal Growth and Application of ZnO Nanowire Films with ZnO and TiO₂Buffer Layers in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Nanoscale Research Letters, 2009
This paper reports the effects of the seed layers prepared by spin-coating and dip-coating methods on the morphology and density of ZnO nanowire arrays, thus on the performance of ZnO nanowire-based dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs).
Jiang Chunhua, Yang Weiguang, Wan Farong, Chen Siwei   +3 more
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Effects of mechanical strain on optical properties of ZnO nanowire

AIP Advances, 2018
The main objective of this study is to investigate the influences of mechanical strain on optical properties of ZnO nanowire (NW) before and after embedding ZnS nanowire into the ZnO nanowire, respectively.
Ali Vazinishayan, Dasaradha Rao Lambada, Shuming Yang, Guofeng Zhang, Biyao Cheng, Yonas Tesfaye Woldu, Shareen Shafique, Yiming Wang, Ndahimana Anastase   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Gold-Sensitized Silicon/ZnO Core/Shell Nanowire Array for Solar Water Splitting

Frontiers in Chemistry, 2019
Solar water splitting represents one of the most promising strategies in the quest for clean and renewable energy. However, low conversion efficiency, use of sacrificial agents, and external bias for current water splitting system limit its practical ...
Fu-Qiang Zhang, Ya Hu, Rui-Nan Sun, Haoxin Fu, Kui-Qing Peng   +4 more
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Blood Biomarkers and Surface‐Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy for Gout: A Comprehensive Review

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Schematic illustrating gout disease progression from asymptomatic hyperuricemia to chronic tophaceous disease, highlighting the limitations of conventional imaging and biochemical diagnostics and the potential of engineered SERS platforms for ultrasensitive blood‐based detection of urate‐related biomarkers across disease stages, with the color gradient
Isuri Perera, Chiranjeevi Kanike, Appurva Tiwari, Hongyan Wu, Larry D. Unsworth, Ben Bin Xu, Xuehua Zhang   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Bioinspired Adaptive Sensors: A Review on Current Developments in Theory and Application

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
This review comprehensively summarizes the recent progress in the design and fabrication of sensory‐adaptation‐inspired devices and highlights their valuable applications in electronic skin, wearable electronics, and machine vision. The existing challenges and future directions are addressed in aspects such as device performance optimization ...
Guodong Gong, You Zhou, Qingxiu Li, Wenyu Zhao, Sunyingyue Geng, Hangfei Li, Yan‐Bing Leng, Shirui Zhu, Guanglong Ding, Yongbiao Zhai, Ziyu Lv, Ye Zhou, Su‐Ting Han   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source