Morphology dependent photocatalytic activity of ZnO nanostructures - A short review

Gowtham M; Chandrasekar S; Mohanraj C; Senthil Kumar N

doi:10.34256/nnxt2015

Authors

Gowtham M Department of Physics, Kongunadu Arts and Science College, Coimbatore-641 029, Tamil Nadu, India Author
Chandrasekar S Department of Physics, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung 40227, Taiwan Author
Mohanraj C Department of Environmental Engineering and Management, Chaoyang University, of Technology, Taichung 41349, Taiwan Author
Senthil Kumar N Department of Physics, Kongunadu Arts and Science College, Coimbatore-641 029, Tamil Nadu, India Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.34256/nnxt2015

Keywords:

ZnO, Photocatalyst, Nanostructure, Morphology

Abstract

Zinc oxide (ZnO) is a material that is flexible with distinctive characteristics, such as high sensitivity, wide-ranging, non-toxicity, strong compatibility and strong isoelectricity point that support the consideration with a few exceptions. The advantages for energy and biological science applications depend on nanostructured morphology ZnO based material are regularly studied. These review works concentrate on the recent development in ZnO morphological depends nanomaterial, nanocomposites, and doped materials for the photocatalyst activities.

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