Papers by Author: J. Jesús Velázquez-Salazar

Abstract: Single crystalline zinc oxide (ZnO) nanorods have been grown on Si (100) substrates by a hydrothermal method at 65 °C. In order to show the habit of crystalline growth and applied these ZnO 1D to the electron radiation. The ZnO nanorods grown on Si (100) have been characterized in detail using X-ray diffraction (XRD) and field emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM). The XRD studies revealed that the ZnO nanowires showed the wurtzite structure (hexagonal). The Secondary Electron SEM image showed different morphology of the ZnO nanorods as a function of the reagents concentration. These nanorods have uneven tops and showed an apparent screw growth pattern with a typical hexagonal facets structure on the (0001) surface. The spiral growth step morphology strongly suggests that screw dislocations can play a significant role in promoting the ZnO nanorods growth and that the screw dislocation is growing in the polar axis of the ZnO nanorods. The ZnO nanorods were irradiated with electron beam (30 kV) for 100 minutes. We observed that the one-dimensional (1-D) ZnO nanorods were resistant to the electron radiation. This finding is interesting because, we can use these 1-D ZnO nanorods to development materials which can be resistant to radiation.

Abstract: Nanoparticle research disciplines—chemical synthesis, applied physics and devices based on their physical-chemical properties, and computational physics—have been very active fields for the last 15 years or so, because of the potential and current applications in medicine, catalysis, energy storage, environment and electronics applications. This wide spectrum of disciplines and their applications keep metallic nanoparticles as one of the most promising nanostructures and their research as one of the cornerstones of nanotechnology. In this contribution we present a comprehensive and extended geometrical description for the most common shapes and structures for metallic nanoparticles, as well as experimental results for these geometries with some variations given by truncations.