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ArticleNanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland)2021

Effect of Morphology and Plasmonic on Au/ZnO Films for Efficient Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting.

Mohamed Zayed, Nourhan Nasser, Mohamed Shaban, Hind Alshaikh, Hany Hamdy, Ashour M Ahmed

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Article in Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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16 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Strategies for Photoelectrochemical Splitting of Water.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026
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  8. Fabrication of ZnO/ZnAlNanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
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6 authors.

Mohamed ZayedNanophotonics and Applications (NPA) Laboratory, Physics Department, Faculty of Science, Beni-Suef University, Beni-Suef 62514, Egypt.ORCID 0000-0002-5638-5566
Nourhan NasserNanophotonics and Applications (NPA) Laboratory, Physics Department, Faculty of Science, Beni-Suef University, Beni-Suef 62514, Egypt.
Mohamed ShabanNanophotonics and Applications (NPA) Laboratory, Physics Department, Faculty of Science, Beni-Suef University, Beni-Suef 62514, Egypt.ORCID 0000-0002-4368-8269
Hind AlshaikhChemistry Department, Science and Arts College, Rabigh Campus, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 21911, Saudi Arabia.
Hany HamdyNanophotonics and Applications (NPA) Laboratory, Physics Department, Faculty of Science, Beni-Suef University, Beni-Suef 62514, Egypt.
Ashour M AhmedNanophotonics and Applications (NPA) Laboratory, Physics Department, Faculty of Science, Beni-Suef University, Beni-Suef 62514, Egypt.ORCID 0000-0002-1971-341X

Funding

Science and Technology Development Fund 44992
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

To improve photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting, various ZnO nanostructures (nanorods (NRs), nanodiscs (NDs), NRs/NDs, and ZnO NRs decorated with gold nanoparticles) have been manufactured. The pure ZnO nanostructures have been synthesized using the successive ionic-layer adsorption and reaction (SILAR) combined with the chemical bath deposition (CBD) process at various deposition times. The structural, chemical composition, nanomorphological, and optical characteristics have been examined by various techniques. The SEM analysis shows that by varying the deposition time of CBD from 2 to 12 h, the morphology of ZnO nanostructures changed from NRs to NDs. All samples exhibit hexagonal phase wurtzite ZnO with polycrystalline nature and preferred orientation alongside (002). The crystallite size along (002) decreased from approximately 79 to 77 nm as deposition time increased from 2 to 12 h. The bandgap of ZnO NRs was tuned from 3.19 to 2.07 eV after optimizing the DC sputtering time of gold to 4 min. Via regulated time-dependent ZnO growth and Au sputtering time, the PEC performance of the nanostructures was optimized. Among the studied ZnO nanostructures, the highest photocurrent density (J

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Au Surface plasmonicphotoelectrochemicalwater splittingZnO nanostructures

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PMID34578652
PMCPMC8471190

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