“…Among them, the sol-gel method allows the using of a wide selection of solvents, surfactants, and heat treatment, making it easier to control the particle size and shape. For instance, the hollow microsphere with a diameter of approximately 5 μm composed of uniform nanoparticles with a diameter of approximately 20 nm was observed in the work of Chen et al (2020); the quasi-sphere shape with uniform morphologies has been reported (Acedo-Mendoza et al 2020); the hybrid nanocomposite in which CuO nanoparticle is attached to the ZnO-T tetrapod surface (Sharma et al 2020), ZnO nanorod (Patil et al 2019) , nanoflower-like structure (Mardikar et al 2020), nanowires (Chou et al 2017), and thin film (Asikuzun et al 2018) was investigated. The composite of ZnO and CuO was studied with various ratio of Zn/Cu:Cu content with very low Zn/Cu ratio in the range 1000/3÷1000/9 (Singh and Soni 2020), with the mass ratios as 99.9/0.1, 98.0/2.0, and 95.0/5.0 (Ruan et al 2020), or different percentages of Cu in the catalyst of 1, 3, 5, and 10% (Harish et al 2017), event component from 100% Zn to 100% Cu (Lavín et al 2019).…”