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- Title
Hierarchical Assembly of Multifunctional Oxide-based Composite Nanostructures for Energy and Environmental Applications.
- Authors
Pu-Xian Gao; Paresh Shimpi; Haiyong Gao; Caihong Liu; Yanbing Guo; Wenjie Cai; Kuo-Ting Liao; Gregory Wrobel; Zhonghua Zhang; Zheng Ren; Hui-Jan Lin
- Abstract
Composite nanoarchitectures represent a class of nanostructured entities that integrates various dissimilar nanoscale building blocks including nanoparticles, nanowires, and nanofilms toward realizing multifunctional characteristics. A broad array of composite nanoarchitectures can be designed and fabricated, involving generic materials such as metal, ceramics, and polymers in nanoscale form. In this review, we will highlight the latest progress on composite nanostructures in our research group, particularly on various metal oxides including binary semiconductors, ABO3-type perovskites, A2BO4 spinels and quaternary dielectric hydroxyl metal oxides (AB(OH)6) with diverse application potential. Through a generic template strategy in conjunction with various synthetic approaches--such as hydrothermal decomposition, colloidal deposition, physical sputtering, thermal decomposition and thermal oxidation, semiconductor oxide alloy nanowires, metal oxide/perovskite (spinel) composite nanowires, stannate based nanocompostes, as well as semiconductor heterojunction--arrays and networks have been self-assembled in large scale and are being developed as promising classes of composite nanoarchitectures, which may open a new array of advanced nanotechnologies in solid state lighting, solar absorption, photocatalysis and battery, auto-emission control, and chemical sensing.
- Subjects
NANOCOMPOSITE materials; METALLIC oxides; CATALYSIS; MOLECULAR self-assembly; CHEMICAL detectors; BAND gaps
- Publication
International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2012, Vol 13, Issue 6, p7393
- ISSN
1661-6596
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/ijms13067393