ZnO and TiO2 Based Nanostructures / / Andrea Lamberti.

• VerfasserIn: Lamberti, Andrea,
• Place / Publishing House: Basel, Switzerland : : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute,, 2018.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (380 pages)

About the Special Issue Editor -- ZnO- and TiO2-Based Nanostructures -- ZnO Nanowire Application in Chemoresistive Sensing: A Review -- Fabrication of Semiconductor ZnO Nanostructures for Versatile SERS Application -- Engineering the Surface/Interface Structures of Titanium Dioxide Micro and Nano Architectures towards Environmental and Electrochemical Applications -- Wet-Chemical Preparation of TiO2-Based Composites with Different Morphologies and Photocatalytic Properties -- Oxygen Partial Pressure Impact on Characteristics of Indium Titanium Zinc Oxide Thin Film Transistor Fabricated via RF Sputtering -- Growth Mechanism Studies of ZnO Nanowires: Experimental Observations and Short-Circuit Diffusion Analysis -- The Critical Role of Thioacetamide Concentration in the Formation of ZnO/ZnS Heterostructures by Sol-Gel Process -- Preparation and Characterization of ZnO Nanoparticles Supported on Amorphous SiO2 -- Growth Method-Dependent and Defect Density-Oriented Structural, Optical, Conductive, and Physical Properties of Solution-Grown ZnO Nanostructures -- Tuning the Electronic Conductivity in Hydrothermally Grown Rutile TiO2 Nanowires: Effect of Heat Treatment in Different Environments -- TiO2 Nanowire Networks Prepared by Titanium Corrosion and Their Application to Bendable Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells -- Periodic TiO2 Nanostructures with Improved Aspect and Line/Space Ratio Realized by Colloidal Photolithography Technique -- Organozinc Precursor-Derived Crystalline ZnO Nanoparticles: Synthesis, Characterization and Their Spectroscopic Properties -- Enhanced UV-Visible Light Photocatalytic Activity by Constructing Appropriate Heterostructures between Mesopore TiO2 Nanospheres and Sn3O4 Nanoparticles -- Study of the Photodynamic Activity of N-Doped TiO2 Nanoparticles Conjugated with Aluminum Phthalocyanine -- Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting Properties of Ti-Ni-Si-O Nanostructures on Ti-Ni-Si Alloy -- Microstructuring of Mesoporous Titania Films Loaded with Silver Salts to Enhance the Photocatalytic Degradation of Methyl Blue under Visible Light -- Piezoelectric Potential in Single-Crystalline ZnO Nanohelices Based on Finite Element Analysis -- Preparation of Nano-TiO2-Coated SiO2 Microsphere Composite Material and Evaluation of Its Self-Cleaning Property -- Resistive Switching of Sub-10 nm TiO2 Nanoparticle Self-Assembled Monolayers -- Thermally Stimulated Currents in Nanocrystalline Titania -- In Vitro Sonodynamic Therapeutic Effect of Polyion Complex Micelles Incorporating Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles -- Lipid-Coated Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles as Innovative ROS-Generators for Photodynamic Therapy in Cancer Cells -- Ti-Based Biomedical Material Modified with TiOx/TiNx Duplex Bioactivity Film via Micro-Arc Oxidation and Nitrogen Ion Implantation -- ZnO Nanoparticles Protect RNA from Degradation Better than DNA -- ZnO Interactions with Biomatrices: Effect of Particle Size on ZnO-Protein Corona -- Crystallization of TiO2 Nanotubes by In Situ Heating TEM.

Nowadays, transition metal-oxides can be considered the most investigated materials especially in their nanostructured forms thanks to their intrinsic smart properties and to the positive effects induced by scaling their dimension down to the nanoscale. Among them, ZnO and TiO2 have attracted particular interest mainly because of their multi-functionality applicable in an enormous range of research fields. The present Special Issue - composed by twenty-seven papers, both reviews and research articles - covers the most recent advances in ZnO and TiO2 nanostructures, concerning not only their synthesis and characterization, but also reports of the manner(s) in which their functional and smart properties can be applied in working devices. Applications of such nanostructures can range widely, from biomedical and drug delivery devices to piezoelectric and chemical sensors, and energy harvesting, conversion, and storage devices.