Review on Multi-dimensional Zinc Oxide Nanostructures

Nanostructured materials are being widely investigated due to their versatile properties leading to promising applications in various areas starting from electronics to environment and medical science. Amongst the various investigated nanostructures, Zinc Oxide (ZnO) is very important because of its versatile properties like high and direct band gap, optical transparency, room temperature ferromagnetism, piezoelectric property and gas sensing property. This mini review article is focused on the morphological study of various ZnO nanostructures starting from hierarchical nanostructures to quantum dots