A Simple Sonochemical Synthesis of Nanosized ZnO from Zinc Acetate and Sodium Hydroxide

Authors M.I. Zakirov, M.P. Semen’ko , O.A. Korotchenkov
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Faculty of Physics, Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University, 01601 Kyiv, Ukraine

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Issue Volume 10, Year 2018, Number 5
Dates Received 21 July 2018; revised manuscript received 22 October 2018; published online 29 October 2018
Citation M.I. Zakirov, M.P. Semen’ko, O.A. Korotchenkov, J. Nano- Electron. Phys. 10 No 5, 05023 (2018)
DOI https://doi.org/10.21272/jnep.10(5).05023
PACS Number(s) 63.20. – e, 81.20
Keywords Semiconductors (25) , Chemical synthesis (5) , Phosphors (2) , X-ray diffraction (19) .
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An efficient sonochemical route for synthesis of nano sized zinc oxide is reported. The method employs zinc acetate and sodium hydroxide as precursors with isopropyl alcohol as a solvent. As prepared powders were characterized by XRD, SEM and FTIR. These show that the resulting powder is composed of multi-domain crystallites of ZnO wurtzite, zincite and Zn(OH)2. The XRD-measured coherent domain size varies from about 20 to 30 nm, whereas SEM exhibits 200 nm crystallites. The wurtzite phase is found to dominate at sonication times smaller than  30 min. It is also found that the powders produced sonochemically exhibit smaller and narrower size-distributed particles compared to that in hydrothermally prepared powders.

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