Nano Express
Hydrothermally Grown ZnO Micro/Nanotube Arrays and Their Properties
Author affiliations
1 College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Harbin Normal University, 150025, Harbin, People’s Republic of China
2 Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics and College of Optoelectronic Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 430074, Wuhan, People’s Republic of China
Citation and License
Nanoscale Research Letters 2009, 5:570-575 doi:10.1007/s11671-009-9506-4
Published: 16 December 2009Abstract
We reported the optical and wettability properties of aligned zinc oxide micro/nanotube arrays, which were synthesized on zinc foil via a simple hydrothermal method. As-synthesized ZnO micro/nanotubes have uniform growth directions along the [0001] orientations with diameters in the range of 100–700 nm. These micro/nanotubes showed a strong emission peak at 387 nm and two weak emission peaks at 422 and 485 nm, respectively, and have the hydrophobic properties with a contact angle of 121°. Single ZnO micro/nanotube-based field-effect transistor was also fabricated, which shows typical n-type semiconducting behavior.
