“…Recently, it was demonstrated NiO NPs have greater potential applications as photocatalysts compared with other metal oxide NPs [17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24]. Moreover, NiO NP is a p-type semiconductor with a wide band gap of 3.6-4 eV [22], and it exhibits good chemical, magnetic, and optical properties, which may make it suitable for industrial applications such as in antiferromagnetic materials [25], electrode materials for lithium-ion batteries [26], electrochemical supercapacitors [27], gas sensors adsorbents [28], optical amplifier and tunable lasers [29], photovoltaic devices [30], and electrochromic materials [31,32].…”