Development of ZnO Films and Nanostructures for Application in Sensors and Nanogenerator.

• Grant number: 11/19561-7
• Support type: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Effective date (Start): March 01, 2012
• Effective date (End): November 30, 2012
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Chemistry - Physical-Chemistry
• Principal Investigator: Maria Aparecida Zaghete Bertochi
• Grantee: Glenda Biasotto
• Home Institution: Instituto de Química (IQ). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Araraquara. Araraquara , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 98/14324-0 - Multidisciplinary Center for Development of Ceramic Materials, AP.CEPID

Abstract

This proposal aims at studying nanostructures and thin films of oxide semiconductors grown via hydrothermal synthesis assisted by microwave and deposited on different substrates in order to have great technological applications as biosensors, gas sensors, and nanogenerators. The synthesized materials have their morphological and structural properties characterized by atomic force microscopy (AFM), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD) and transmission electron microscopy. The material is zinc oxide (ZnO) due to the functional properties of this oxide, in addition to being biocompatible. Movies of the nanostructures are grown directly on glass substrates, diamond and langasite during the synthesis process or will be synthesized and subsequently deposited by spin coating. The performance of live sensors (sensitivity, response speed, selectivity, stability) will be evaluated for sensitivity, biocompatible, conversion capacity (piezoelectric parameters).

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

BIASOTTO, GLENDA; COSTA, JOAO PAULO C.; COSTA, I, PAULO; ZAGHETE, MARIA A. ZnO nanorods-gold nanoparticle-based biosensor for detecting hepatitis C. APPLIED PHYSICS A-MATERIALS SCIENCE & PROCESSING, v. 125, n. 12 DEC 2019. Web of Science Citations: 0.