Synthesis of Spherical Zinc Oxide Micro-Flower via an Electric Field-Assisted Homogeneous Precipitation Method

Abstract:

This paper presents the experimental results on electric field-assisted synthesis of spherical Zinc Oxide (ZnO) micro-flower in an homogeneous precipitation method. The synthesis processes with and without an electric field were compared. The products were characterized via SEM, XRD, TGA and FT-IR spectrum. The results show that the spherical ZnO micro-flower composed of ZnO single crystalline nanoparticles have thickness of about 10nm, width of about 50nm.The SEM results show that the application of an electric field caused the morphology transformation from flake-like to flower-like. It was found that an electric field had an effect on the crystal structure,the particle size and morphology.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 328-330)
• Pages: 1541-1544
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.328-330.1541
• Online since: September 2011
• Authors: Xiu Juan Liang, Xiao Fang Hu, Xing Xing Weng, Da Wei Hu, Hai Xu Ji
• Keywords: Electric Field, Homogeneous Precipitation, Nanoparticle, Zinc Oxide (ZnO)

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