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Controlled Synthesis and Characterization of ZnO Microcrystals with Rod-like Sphere-like Morphologies by Emulsion-solvothermal Method

CHEN You-Cun1; ZHANG Yuan-Guang1; ZHOU Gen-Tao1,2   

  1. 1.Department of Chemistry; Anqing Teachers Colledge; Anqing 246011; China; 2.Department of Chemistry; University of Science & Technology of China; Hefei 230026; China
  • Received:2003-09-01 Revised:2003-11-11 Published:2004-09-20 Online:2004-09-20

Abstract: ZnO microcrystals with rod-like and sphere-like morphologies were successfully synthesized by a emulsion-solvothermal method using Zn(CH3COO)2·2H2O and CO(NH2)2 as raw
materials and oleic acid and n-hexadecan as solution. The obtained ZnO microcrystals were characterized by XRD, TEM, FTIR and SAED. The rod-like ZnO microcrystals with an average size of 50nm×320nm
were prepared when the volume ratio of oleic acid and n-hexadecan was 1:6. The sphere-like ones with an average size of 200nm were obtained when the volume ratio of oleic acid and n-hexadecan
was 3:1. The method of this paper is simple, which may be a promising approach for the preparation of oxides with controlled morphologies.

Key words: ZnO, synthesis, characteriztion

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