Nano Wires / Nano Rods

Zinc Oxide Nanorods have recently attracted considerable attention towards the scientific community because of their novel properties and potential technological applications. Zinc Oxide nanorods is widely used in the field of catalyst ,gas sensor , solar cell materials, antimicrobial materials , optoelectronics devices etc.

Zinc oxide nanorods is considered to be the best, it is clearly demonstrated in many studies that nanorods of ZnO have significantly higher antimicrobial effects then other metal oxide nanorods . Zinc oxide nanorods have potential applications in fabricating functional advanced Nano electronics devices.

Zinc oxide nanorods a semiconductor material with a direct wide band gap energy (3.37 eV) and a large exciton binding energy (60 meV) at room temperature . ZnO nanorods is also biocompatible, biodegradable, and biosafe for medical and environmental applications.

Zinc oxide nanorods is one of the earliest discovered and most widely used oxide gas sensing materials. Zinc oxide nanorods are functions as a gas sensitive material due to its electrical conductivity that can be dramatically affected by the adsorption or desorption of gas molecules on its surface.

UV detection is another promising optical application of Zinc oxide nanorods. The UV detector utilizes the electric potential of the ZnO nanorods changed under UV irradiation. constructed a UV photodetector by contacting a circular spiral structure Zinc oxide nanorods with 30 nm IrO2 electrodes.