Fabrication of CuO nanoparticles coated bacterial nanowire film for a high-performance electrochemical conductivity

• Published in: Journal of materials science Vol. 52; no. 18; pp. 10766 - 10778
• Main Authors: Maruthupandy, Muthuchamy, Anand, Muthusamy, Maduraiveeran, Govindhan, Hameedha Beevi, Akbar Sait, Jeeva Priya, Radhakrishnan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer US 01.09.2017; Springer; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: acetates; Atomic force microscopy; Bacteria; Characterization and Evaluation of Materials; Chemical Routes to Materials; Chemistry and Materials Science; Classical Mechanics; Coated electrodes; Conductivity; Copper acetate; Copper oxides; Crystal structure; Crystallography and Scattering Methods; cupric oxide; dielectric spectroscopy; Electric properties; Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy; Electrochemical reactions; electrochemistry; Electrode polarization; Electron microscopes; Electron microscopy; Fourier transforms; Infrared spectrophotometers; Materials Science; Microscopy; Nanoparticles; Nanotechnology devices; Nanowires; Polymer Sciences; Scanning electron microscopy; Solid Mechanics; spectrophotometers; Structural analysis; Transmission electron microscopes; transmission electron microscopy; X-ray diffraction; Electrochemical Conductivity; Bacterial Nanowires; High-resolution Transmission Electron Microscope (HRTEM); Polarization Resistance; Simple Precipitation Method

Highly dispersed copper oxide nanoparticles (CuO NPs) with the dimensions from 3 to 5 nm have been effectively synthesized by simple precipitation method of copper acetate precursor at 80 °C. UV–visible spectrophotometer, fourier transform infrared, X-ray diffraction, atomic force microscopy, scanni...