Electrical and optical study of ultrasonic-assisted hydrothermal synthesized Ga doped ZnO nanorods for polymer solar cell application

Substrate free ultrasonic-assisted hydrothermal growth of ZnO nanoflowers at low temperature

“…Gas sensing and photocatalytic activity of ZnO nanostructures can be tuned by varying its morphology [ 6 ]. A variety of methods have been adopted for the synthesis of nano/micro structured ZnO such as: hydrothermal method for ZnO NFs [ 6 – 10 ], microwave-assisted hydrothermal method for the growth of ZnO nano/micro structures [ 11 ], citric acid-assisted hydrothermal method for flower-like ZnO nanostructures [ 12 ], modified sol–gel method and solution plasma method for ZnO NFs [ 13 ], ultrasonic-assisted co-precipitation method for nanosheet based ZnO hierarchical structure [ 14 ] and ultrasonic-assisted hydrothermal method for flower-like nano ZnO [ 7 ], Ga doped ZnO nanorods [ 15 ], alpha-FeOOH flowers [ 16 ] and ZnO microstructures [ 17 ]. Hydrothermal method has also been used for the growth of ZnO nanoflowers on Si [ 18 ] and FTO [ 19 ] substrate.…”

“…The morphologies and surface area of the ZnO nanomaterials are reported to have a strong impact on the antibacterial properties as the catalysis of radical formation occurs on the nanomaterials surfaces [ 23 , Ref. 9 , 15 cited therein].…”