@article { ISI:000303281500046,
	title = {Confinement of zinc oxide nanoparticles in ordered mesoporous silica MCM-41},
	journal = {Materials Chemistry and Physics},
	volume = {133},
	number = {2-3},
	year = {2012},
	month = {APR},
	pages = {850-856},
	publisher = {ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA},
	address = {PO BOX 564, 1001 LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND},
	abstract = {<p>Mesoporous silica (MS) and zinc loaded MS composites have been synthesized and characterized using high resolution transmission electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction, UV-visible spectroscopy, photoluminescence spectroscopy, N-2 adsorption-desorption isotherms, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. Thermal treatment of the zinc loaded MS composite lead to the formation of ZnO-MS composite. The well ordered uniform pore structure of MS (pore size similar to 3.4 nm) is found to remain stable even after 30\% Zn loading albeit decrease in the pore size 1.2 nm indicates the formation of ZnO inside the pores. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.</p>},
	keywords = {Defect, Energy spectroscopy for chemical analysis (ESCA), Mesoporous, Photoluminescence spectroscopy, Surface properties},
	issn = {0254-0584},
	doi = {10.1016/j.matchemphys.2012.01.106},
	author = {Lihitkar, P. B. and Violet, Samuel and Shirolkar, Mandar and Singh, Jai and Srivastava, O. N. and Naik, R. H. and Kulkarni, S. K.}
}
@article { ISI:000369679500020,
	title = {Synthesis and self-assembly of dumbbell shaped ZnO sub-micron structures using low temperature chemical bath deposition technique},
	journal = {Materials Chemistry and Physics},
	volume = {169},
	year = {2016},
	month = {FEB},
	pages = {152-157},
	publisher = {ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA},
	address = {PO BOX 564, 1001 LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND},
	abstract = {<p>We report well dispersed horizontal growth of ZnO sub-micron structures using simplest technique ever known i.e. chemical bath deposition (CBD). A set of samples were prepared under two different cases A) dumbbell shaped ZnO grown in CBD bath and B) tubular ZnO structures evolved from dumbbell shaped structures by dissolution mechanism. Single phase wurtzite ZnO formation is confirmed using X-ray diffraction (XRD) technique in both cases. From the morphological investigations performed using scanning electron microscopy (SEM), sample prepared under case A indicate formation of hex bit tool (HBT) shaped ZnO crystals, which observed to self-organize to form dumbbell structures. Further these microstructures are then converted into tubular structures as a fragment of post CBD process. The possible mechanism responsible for the self-assembly of HBT units to form dumbbell structures is discussed. Observed free excitonic peak located at 370 nm in photoluminescence (PL) spectra recorded at 18 K indicate that the micro/nanostructures synthesized using CBD are of high optical quality. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.</p>},
	keywords = {Electron microscopy (STEM, Microstructure, Nanostructures, Optical properties, Photoluminescence spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy and scattering, TEM and SEM)},
	issn = {0254-0584},
	doi = {10.1016/j.matchemphys.2015.11.042},
	author = {Borade, P. and Joshi, K. U. and Gokarna, A. and Lerondel, G. and Walke, P. and Late, Dattatray J. and Jejurikar, S. M.}
}
