Theoretical and Experimental Investigate for the Magnetic and Optical Properties of Mn-ZnO Nanowire Microspheres

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

In this article, the authors prepared and characterized Mn-ZnO nanowire microspheres and demonstrated theoretically significantly strong hybridization effects between Mn 3d and O 2p. This work is quite interesting from the point of view of applications. The manuscript is clear and detailed, the conclusions are in accordance with results, therefore, it can be considered of the following minor revisions are considered:

• Please indicate in the abstract the main interest of such research.
• In the second paragraph of the introduction the authors use capital letter after a comma. Please correct it and verify in whole similar situations.
• Please add a table which allow to compare the achieved properties with other materials and/or in the literature.

Author Response

Dear Mr. Mateusz Kurzawa M.Sc. Editor and Reviewer#1,

Thanks for your letter and for the reviewer#1’s comments concerning our manuscript entitled “Theoretical and Experimental Investigate for the Magnetic and Optical Properties of Mn-ZnO Nanowire Microspheres” (Manuscript ID: coatings-1553934). Those comments are all valuable and very helpful for revising and improving this manuscript, as well as the important guiding significance to our researches. We have made changes one by one according to reviewer#1’s comments and suggestions in this revised version. Revised portion are marked in red in the revised manuscript. The details of responding to the reviewer#1’s comments are as following word file.

Author Response File: Author Response.pdf

Reviewer 2 Report

The paper "Theoretical and Experimental Investigate for the Magnetic and Optical Properties of Mn-ZnO Nanowire Microspheres", by Lei Zhang et al. presents the properties of the Mn-ZnO nanowire microspheres. The topic is timely and will be of interest.

In general, the structure of this paper and the quality of figures are good. Conclusions are adequately supported by the data presented.

It is a good study on this subject. The manuscript is well written and the reviewer has no major comments.

The "Abstract" section is very poor. This section is focused on the results and does not properly represent the content of the article.

1) Background: Place the question addressed in a broad context and highlight the purpose of the study; 2) Methods: Describe briefly the main methods or treatments applied. Include any relevant preregistration numbers, and species and strains of any animals used. 3) Results: Summarize the article's main findings; and 4) Conclusion: Indicate the main conclusions or interpretations.

The introduction has not enough information. Only four papers were published in last 5 years. Replace unnecessary references with the newest papers or add actual articles.

The whole manuscript: Many literature items are wrongly referenced. FOR EXAMPLE, "Dietl [1] should be references as "Dietl et al. [1]".

The values of process parameters used to synthesize of Mn-ZnO nanowire have not been justified.

section 3.2: Paper by "Fabbiyola et al." should be included in list of references.

section 3.4: Abbreviation "DOS" is not defined.

List of references is not formatted according to the "Instructions for authors".

Author Response

Dear Mr. Mateusz Kurzawa M.Sc. Editor and Reviewer#2,

Thanks for your letter and for the reviewer#2’s comments concerning our manuscript entitled “Theoretical and Experimental Investigate for the Magnetic and Optical Properties of Mn-ZnO Nanowire Microspheres” (Manuscript ID: coatings-1553934). Those comments are all valuable and very helpful for revising and improving this manuscript, as well as the important guiding significance to our researches. We have made changes one by one according to reviewer#2’s comments and suggestions in this revised version. Revised portion are marked in red in the revised manuscript. The details of responding to the reviewer#2’s comments are as following word file.

Author Response File: Author Response.pdf

Reviewer 3 Report

The manuscript describes the experimental and theoretical studies of magnetic and optical properties of Mn-ZnO nanowires microspheres produced by the hydrothermal method. Despite the topic being well-studied authors were able to present some interesting and significant findings. In my opinion, the manuscript could be accepted after some revisions listed below:

• the introduction should be improved: (I) more recent references relating to the topic should be added (e.g.  DOI: 10.3390/coatings10121199), (ii) the novelty of the proposed research should be stressed in the introduction.
• materials (classification etc.) used in the synthesis should be described;
• more discussions for theoretical calculation should be provided. I would advise authors to compare their results with other works.
• future perspectives should be included to the conclusions.

Author Response

Dear Mr. Mateusz Kurzawa M.Sc. Editor and Reviewer#3,

Thanks for your letter and for the reviewer#3’s comments concerning our manuscript entitled “Theoretical and Experimental Investigate for the Magnetic and Optical Properties of Mn-ZnO Nanowire Microspheres” (Manuscript ID: coatings-1553934). Those comments are all valuable and very helpful for revising and improving this manuscript, as well as the important guiding significance to our researches. We have made changes one by one according to reviewer#3’s comments and suggestions in this revised version. Revised portion are marked in red in the revised manuscript. The details of responding to the reviewer#3’s comments are as following word file.

Author Response File: Author Response.pdf