TY - CHAP
T1 - Properties and Synthesis of Metal Oxide Nanoparticles in Electrochemistry
AU - Emeji, Ikenna Chibuzor
AU - Ama, Onoyivwe Monday
AU - Aigbe, Uyiosa Osagie
AU - Khoele, Khotso
AU - Osifo, Peter Ogbemudia
AU - Ray, Suprakas Sinha
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - The synthesis and study of “metal oxide nanoparticles”, has gain greater attention over the past 10 years among interdisciplinary researchers. The major interest may be as a result of their unique physical and chemical properties, which gives rise to their various industrial usage in the field of catalysis, electronics, solar energy conversion, and others. As the particle size diminishes, the ratio of surface atoms to those inherent rises, enabling the surface properties to dictate the overall properties of the nano-materials. Also, metal oxide nanoparticles manifest different optical and electrical properties in proportion to that of the bulk material. Hence, as the size of the solid becomes smaller, the band gap becomes larger. This, therefore, gave scientists the unique opportunity of nanofabrication synthesizing highly complex nanostructure with different electronic and optical properties just by manipulating its particle size.
AB - The synthesis and study of “metal oxide nanoparticles”, has gain greater attention over the past 10 years among interdisciplinary researchers. The major interest may be as a result of their unique physical and chemical properties, which gives rise to their various industrial usage in the field of catalysis, electronics, solar energy conversion, and others. As the particle size diminishes, the ratio of surface atoms to those inherent rises, enabling the surface properties to dictate the overall properties of the nano-materials. Also, metal oxide nanoparticles manifest different optical and electrical properties in proportion to that of the bulk material. Hence, as the size of the solid becomes smaller, the band gap becomes larger. This, therefore, gave scientists the unique opportunity of nanofabrication synthesizing highly complex nanostructure with different electronic and optical properties just by manipulating its particle size.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-43346-8_5
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-43346-8_5
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85113514581
T3 - Engineering Materials
SP - 85
EP - 96
BT - Engineering Materials
PB - Springer Science and Business Media B.V.
ER -