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Structural and morphological characterizations of ZnO nanopowder synthesized by hydrothermal route using inorganic reactants

D. Djouadi, M. Meddouri, A. Chelouche, L. Hammiche and A. Aksas

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 Corresponding author: D. Djouadi, Email:djameldjouadi@yahoo.fr

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Abstract: Zinc oxide nanoscale powder has been synthesized by a hydrothermal route using zinc sulfate and sodium hydroxide. The as-prepared powder was annealed at 600℃ for 2 h and then characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy and infra-red Fourier transformed spectroscopy. XRD measurements have shown a ZnO hexagonal wurtzite polycrystalline structure with good crystallinity and the formation of a new sodium pyrosulfate phase in the as-prepared powder. The annealing improves the crystalline quality of the powder and transforms the sodium pyrosulfate phase to a sodium sulfate one. The thermal treatment does not affect the lattice parameters and the Zn-O bond length but improves the random orientation of the ZnO crystallites growth. ZnO crystallites have an interconnected-nano-needles morphology forming irregular shaped aggregates. The size of the crystallites is about 20 nm. EDX analysis has shown the presence of C and S in addition to Zn and O. FTIR spectra confirm the formation of ZnO and sodium sulfate. The synthesized ZnO powder has a very high crystalline quality and the used method is a very advantageous one for the fabrication of nanosized metal oxides from inorganic reactants for photo-catalysis applications.

Key words: ZnO, hydrothermal method, zinc sulfate, nanoneedles, DRX, SEM, FTIR



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Fig. 1.  XRD spectra of as-prepared (1) and annealed (2) ZnO powders.

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Fig. 2.  SEM images of ZnO powder.

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Fig. 3.  EDS spectrum of ZnO powder.

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Fig. 4.  FTIR spectra of as-prepared and annealed ZnO powder.

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Table 1.   Relative intensities and calculated TC$_{(hkl)}$ for the ZnO aerogel 7 mean peaks.

Table 2.   Lattice parameters ($a$ and $c)$, crystallite size ($D$) and Zn-O bond length ($L$) of the prepared ZnO powder.
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Zak A K, Abdol Majid W H, Darroudi M, et al. Synthesis and characterization of ZnO nanoparticles prepared in gelatin media. Mater Lett, 2011, 65:70 doi: 10.1016/j.matlet.2010.09.029
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      D. Djouadi, M. Meddouri, A. Chelouche, L. Hammiche, A. Aksas. Structural and morphological characterizations of ZnO nanopowder synthesized by hydrothermal route using inorganic reactants[J]. Journal of Semiconductors, 2014, 35(12): 123001. doi: 10.1088/1674-4926/35/12/123001 D. Djouadi, M. Meddouri, A. Chelouche, L. Hammiche, A. Aksas. Structural and morphological characterizations of ZnO nanopowder synthesized by hydrothermal route using inorganic reactants[J]. J. Semicond., 2014, 35(12): 123001. doi: 10.1088/1674-4926/35/12/123001.Export: BibTex EndNote
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