Polymer-enhanced perovskite oxide-based photocatalysts: a review.

Oxide perovskites (OPs) have emerged as promising photocatalysts for numerous applications, such as energy conversion, renewable fuels, and environmental remediation. Although OPs are gaining traction, their efficacies are still hindered by low charge carrier mobility and poor stability. This study investigated the function of polymers actively participating in OP structures to improve the overall characteristics.

The Role of Polymers in Halide Perovskite Resistive Switching Devices.

Currently, halide perovskites (HPs) are gaining traction in multiple applications, such as photovoltaics and resistive switching (RS) devices. In RS devices, the high electrical conductivity, tunable bandgap, good stability, and low-cost synthesis and processing make HPs promising as active layers. Additionally, the use of polymers in improving the RS properties of lead (Pb) and Pb-free HP devices was described in several recent reports.

Rapid and sensitive detection of box turtles using an electrochemical DNA biosensor based on a gold/graphene nanocomposite.

The Southeast Asian box turtle, , is an ecologically important endangered species which needs an onsite monitoring device to protect it from extinction. An electrochemical DNA biosensor was developed to detect the mitochondrial cytochrome b gene based on an in silico designed probe using bioinformatics tools, and it was also validated in wet-lab experiments. As a detection platform, a screen-printed carbon electrode (SPCE) enhanced with a nanocomposite containing gold nanoparticles and graphene was used.

Nucleic acid-based electrochemical biosensors for rapid clinical diagnosis: advances, challenges, and opportunities.

Clinical diagnostic tests should be quick, reliable, simple to perform, and affordable for diagnosis and treatment of diseases. In this regard, owing to their novel properties, biosensors have attracted the attention of scientists as well as end-users. They are efficient, stable, and relatively cheap.

Influence of Incorporated Barium Ion on the Physio-Chemical Properties of Zinc Oxide Nanodisks Synthesized via a Sonochemical Process.

Nanostructure materials are of interest in last few decades due to their unique size-dependent physio-chemical properties. In this paper, zinc oxide (ZnO) and barium doped ZnO nanodisks (NDs) were synthesized using sonochemical method and characterized by various techniques such as X-ray diffraction (XRD), Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy, scanning electron microscope (SEM), UV-vis absorption and dielectric measurements. The XRD and FTIR studies confirm the crystalline nature of ZnO NDs, and the average crystallite size was found to be ~25 nm for pure ZnO and ~22 nm for Ba doped ZnO NDs.

Reduced graphene/nanostructured cobalt oxide nanocomposite for enhanced electrochemical performance of supercapacitor applications.

We demonstrate the preparation of nanostructures cobalt oxide/reduced graphene oxide (CoO/rGO) nanocomposites by a simple one-step cost-effective hydrothermal technique for possible electrode materials in supercapacitor application. The X-ray diffraction patterns were employed to confirm the nanocomposite crystal system of CoO/rGO by demonstrating the existence of normal cubic spinel structure of CoO in the matrix of CoO/rGO nanocomposite. FTIR and FT-Raman studies manifested the structural behaviour and quality of prepared CoO/rGO nanocomposite.

Effect of Synthesis Temperature on the Morphologies, Optical and Electrical Properties of MgO Nanostructures.

Herein, we report the effect of synthesis temperature on the morphologies, optical and electronic properties of magnesium oxide (MgO) nanostructures. The MgO nanostructures were synthesized at different temperatures, i.e.

Facile hydrothermal preparation of titanium dioxide decorated reduced graphene oxide nanocomposite.

A simple single-stage approach, based on the hydrothermal technique, has been introduced to synthesize reduced graphene oxide/titanium dioxide nanocomposites. The titanium dioxide nanoparticles are formed at the same time as the graphene oxide is reduced to graphene. The triethanolamine used in the process has two roles.