Seedless growth of zinc oxide flower-shaped structures on multilayer graphene by electrochemical deposition

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-9

  Aziz, Nur Suhaili Abd ^a   Nishiyama, Tomoya ^b   Rusli, Nurul Izni ^c   Mahmood, Mohamad Rusop ^d   Yasui, Kanji ^b   Hashim, Abdul Manaf ^a,e  

^a MALAYSIA JAPAN INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Malaysia)

^b NAGAOKA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA PERLIS   (Malaysia)

^d UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA   (Malaysia)

^e TECHNOLOGY PARK MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Electrochemical deposition; Flower shaped structure; Graphene; Rod; Zinc oxide

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; CATALYSTS; CRYSTALLINITY; CURRENT DENSITY; GRAPHENE; II-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; MULTILAYERS; NUCLEATION; REDUCTION; ZINC OXIDE;

FLOWER-SHAPED; GROWTH MECHANISMS; HIGH ASPECT RATIO; HYBRID STRUCTURE; MULTILAYER GRAPHENE; VERTICALLY ALIGNED; ZINC OXIDE (ZNO); ZNO SEED LAYERS;

ELECTROCHEMICAL DEPOSITION;

EID: 84940314555     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-9-337     Document Type: Article

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