Effects of specific salts on the morphologies of ZnO microstructures

Morphological, Structural and Optical Properties of ZnO Thin Films Deposited by Dip Coating Method

“…On the contrary, the chemical processes do not undergo these drawbacks and are capable of producing unconventional shapes and structures 9 . A wide variety of chemical methods have been reported in the literature such as chemical bath deposition (CBD) 10 , electrodeposition [11][12][13][14][15] , hydrothermal 16 , spray pyrolysis…”

Phase evolution from rod-like ZnO to plate-like zinc hydroxysulfate during electrochemical deposition

“…Various surfactants have been employed as effective capping agents to prepare ZnO films with tailored dimensions [10,[25][26][27][28][29]. Meanwhile, the chemical nature of inorganic anions in solution allows the dimensions and the deposition rate of ZnO to be controlled as well [30,31]. Appropriate Cl − capping agents tend to preferentially adsorb onto the (0 0 0 1) planes to hinder the crystal growth along the c-axis of ZnO, resulting in the formation of platelet-like crystals [17].…”

“…Appropriate Cl − capping agents tend to preferentially adsorb onto the (0 0 0 1) planes to hinder the crystal growth along the c-axis of ZnO, resulting in the formation of platelet-like crystals [17]. Likewise, sulfates also appear to exhibit distinct effects on the morphologies of final products during the hydrothermal process [31]. However, it has not been reported that how the sulfate ions act on the growth of ZnO films during electrochemical deposition.…”

Oriented growth of ZnO nanostructures on different substrates via a hydrothermal method

“…Gas-phase [14][15][16][17][18] and solution-phase [19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26] syntheses are the two main approaches adopted for the fabrication of ZnO nanostructures, in which, the hydrothermal method is more promising for fabricating ideal nanomaterial with special morphology due to the simple, fast, less expensive, low growth temperature, high yield and scalable process.…”