Fabrication of ZnO nanostructured films for self-cleaning applications

ISBN-13: 9786204717722 / Angielski / Miękka / 124 str.

Mohamed Shaban; Hany S. Hamdy; Mohamed Z. Mabrouk

Opis

This book discusses the fabrication and characterization of ZnO-based nanostructured films for self-cleaning applications. Today, one-dimensional zinc oxide (ZnO) nanostructures have great potential in many applications such as photocatalyst and self-cleaning. Therefore, it is really important to realize the controllable growth of ZnO nanostructures and investigate their properties. In this work, ZnO nanostructured thin films were grown onto glass substrates at different conditions by two different techniques: chemical bath deposition (CBD) and spray pyrolysis. The influence of deposition time (tD) and pH on the surface morphology, structural, optical properties, and wettability behavior of the ZnO nanostructured films were systematically investigated. The structural and morphological properties were studied by X-ray diffraction (XRD) and field emission-scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM). The optical and wetting properties were investigated by UV-Vis spectrophotometer and water contact angle (WCA) measurement, respectively. The surface morphology revealed complex and orientated hierarchical-based ZnO nanostructured films with diverse shapes from hexagonal nanorods to nanoplates.

O autorze

Shaban, MohamedMohamed Shaban is one of the top 2% scientists according to Stanford ranking. He is a professor of Materials science and nanotechnology at Islamic university in al-Madina (Saudia),Beni-Suef University(Egypt). He published more than 200 articles, books, patents.He contributed to 54 research projects and received 15 national and international awards.