journal article·2025-08

The impact of gallium dopant on the structure, surface morphology, optical band gap and photoluminescence properties of ZnO-polystyrene nanocomposites

Sajjad Ali Ameen, Mahmood Salim Karim, Adel H. Omran Alkhayatt

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