Abstract

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS WITH ELECTRODEPOSITION– A REVIEW

Renu Rastogi*

Abstract

Materials with size of few nanometers are known as Nanostructured materials. Electrochemical techniques play an important role in the modern concept of nanotechnology. When it comes to fabrication of nanostructured materials, offering control over the structure, composition and properties, electrodeposition is used which in turn facilitates the preparation of novel materials with enhanced properties which are unattainable by the help of any other techniques. Electrodeposition has an immense potential to grow premium quality ultrathin magnetic layers equipped with magnetic properties. It plays a major role in the development of new magnetic materials while contributing to the micro and nano scaled research of magnetism. Electrodeposition technique was used successfully to synthesize nanostructured electrodes of ZnxCd1-x (O) on ITO glass substrate in an aqueous medium containing Zinc and Cadmium ions for energy generating photovoltaic cell. This process of photovoltaic conversion of solar energy is deemed to be the most promising source of renewable energy, this being the need of the hour.

Keywords: Electrodeposition, Fabrication, Nanostructured, materials.