Bera, Susanta and Pal, Moumita and Sarkar, Saswati and Jana, Sunirmal (2017) Hierarchically Structured Macro with Nested Mesoporous Zinc Indium Oxide Conducting Film. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 9 (5). pp. 4420-4424. ISSN 1944-8244

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Abstract

Fabrication of homogeneously distributed (HD) macropores by breath figure process is an active research area. Adopting the process, for the first time, we report the fabrication of HD macro with nested meso (hierarchical) porous nanocrystalline zinc indium oxide conducting sol gel thin film on glass by dip-coating at 45-50% room relative humidity (RH) from a solution in ethanol-2-butanol (1:1, w/w) medium with a 1:1, Zn:In ratio. In this process, solution composition and RH are found to play key roles on HD macropore generation. The film is highly promising toward visible-light-driven photoelectrochemical water splitting.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: Engineering Materials
Divisions: Sol Gel
Depositing User: Bidhan Chaudhuri
Date Deposited: 19 Jan 2018 07:03
Last Modified: 19 Jan 2018 07:03
URI: http://cgcri.csircentral.net/id/eprint/3990

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