A MINI REVIEW ON COPPER OXIDE NANOMATERIALS (original) (raw)

Copper is one of the useful materials in our day to day life. It has diverse applications in electronics, medicaland jewellery. Copper oxide nanostructures are in different morphologies such as nano ribbons, nano wires,spindles, nanoplates.It is low cost, chemical stability, high theoretical capacity. CuO nanostructures are also considered as electrode materials for the next-generation rechargeable lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). It form electron hole pair to conduct electricity. It has unique properties such as photocatalytic that can be used in optoelectronics. It has applications in sensors, super capacitors, solar cells etc., many techniques were used to investigate the size and shapes such as: scanning electron microscope (SEM) and X-ray diffraction (XRD). The research is going on to purify the water. In this paper, a review of synthesizing methods of copper oxide nanoparticles, characterisation and applications were studied.