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Recent Progress on Doped ZnO Nanostructures and Its Photocatalytic Applications

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Metal oxide semiconductors are promising photocatalysts due to their unique optoelectronic properties which can be tuned by several ways for multifunctional applications. Doping is one of such method to modify the semiconductor photocatalysts. Doped ZnO nanostructures have been extensively used as excellent photocatalysts in the wastewater treatment due to their improved optoelectronic and photocatalytic properties resulting into the visible light-active materials. This chapter reports on the recent advancement carried out in the field of doped ZnO nanostructures as photocatalyst for wastewater treatment. Detailed mechanism of various doping strategies of metals and nonmetals in ZnO nanostructures followed by their photocatalytic applications in wastewater treatment has been discussed with emphasis on doping-induced improved optoelectronic and photocatalytic properties.

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  1. Department of Chemistry, National Institute of Technology Hamirpur, Hamirpur, HP, India

    Samriti, Ashish Upadhyay & Jai Prakash

  2. Department of Physics, School of Engineering, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India

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  3. Department of Natural and Mathematic Sciences, Turin Polytechnic University in Tashkent, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

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Samriti, Upadhyay, A., Gupta, R., Ruzimuradov, O., Prakash, J. (2023). Recent Progress on Doped ZnO Nanostructures and Its Photocatalytic Applications. In: Shanker, U., Hussain, C.M., Rani, M. (eds) Handbook of Green and Sustainable Nanotechnology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16101-8_59

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