Tuning of Structural and Magnetic Properties of SrSnO Nanorods in Fabrication of Blocking Layers for Enhanced Performance of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells.

Perovskite-based SrSnO nanostructures doped with indium are prepared via a facile chemical precipitation method. Prepared nanostructures are used to assemble the dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs), and their photovoltaic response and electrochemical impedance spectra are measured. The synthesized samples are subjected to structural, morphological, optical, and magnetic properties.

Oxygen vacancies and intense luminescence in manganese loaded Zno microflowers for visible light water splitting.

ZnO nanorods and Mn/ZnO microflowers with nano-sized petals exhibit singly ionized oxygen vacancies, V. This is strongly supported by a green photoluminescence emission at 2.22 eV and an EPR g value of 1.

Spectroscopic dimensions of silver nanoparticles and clusters in ZnO matrix and their role in bioinspired antifouling and photocatalysis.

Silver doped zinc oxide nanoparticles are synthesized by a solution combustion method. The samples characterized by a variety of spectroscopic and other techniques clearly reveal the presence of silver nanoparticles as well as silver clusters. The silver in the two forms was identified by careful deconvolution of X-ray photoelectron spectral results.