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Fascinating Physic-Chemical Properties and Resourceful Applications of Selected Cadmium Nanomaterials

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Nanomaterials are the leading edge for the rapid development of fascinating nanotechnology. The design of nanostructures with favoured shape, particle size and structure are the most important and interesting fields of nanoscience. Recently inorganic nanomaterials have attracted much interest for their novel physical, chemical, optical, electrical and magnetic properties etc, and also showed their wide variety of potential applications in nanoscale devices. In the past decade, nano semiconductors of groups II–VI have defined wide interest in many areas of physical, chemical and biochemical sciences etc. They possess high chemical stability, along luminescence life time and offered the possibility of controlling the surface functionality. This review deals with cadmium sulfide and cadmium oxide nanoparticles with different kinds of synthesis methods, crystallinity–morphology–shape, compositions, functional groups and stretching vibrations of CdS and CdO. Owing to its properties cadmium nanoparticles have showed tremendous vibrational applications in photodetectors, sensors, photocatalysts, solar cells etc.

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Nivetha, A., Mangala Devi, S. & Prabha, I. Fascinating Physic-Chemical Properties and Resourceful Applications of Selected Cadmium Nanomaterials. J Inorg Organomet Polym 29, 1423–1438 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10904-019-01141-z

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