Influence Applied Potential on the Formation of Self-Organized ZnO Nanorod Film and Its Photoelectrochemical Response

Table 1

The revolution of ZnO nanorod formation.

Researchers	Synthesis method	Research findings	References
Azam and Babkair	Low temperature wet chemical method	ZnO nanorod with diameter ~80–90 nm and length ~350–400 nm.	[33]
Abbasi et al.	Hydrothermal growth method	ZnO nanorod with diameter ~150 nm and length ~4 m on silicon substrate.	[34]
Alvi et al.	Low temperature aqueous chemical growth (ACG) method	Nanowalls, nanorod and nanotubes (diameter ~160 nm, length ~1.2 m), and nanoflowers. Different precursor and supporting electrolyte produced different nanorod. Pretreated p-GaN substrate.	[35]
Chen et al.	Metalorganic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD)	ZnO nanorod with diameter ~100 nm on sapphire substrate.	[36]
Badre et al.	Electrochemical deposition method	ZnO nanorod with diameter ~180 nm and length ~1.2 m on F-doped SnO2-coated glass substrate.	[37]