Effect of Mineralizer Concentration on ZnO Crystals Synthesized by Hydrothermal Method

Abstract:

In this paper, the ZnO crystal was synthesized using hydrothermal method through 24 hours reaction with 35 % filling factor at 430°C. When the mineralizer concentration is rather low (eg. lmol/L NaOH), only ZnO microcrystal is produced. The mineralizer concentration increases, the larger crystal was present. When 5 mol/L NaOH served as mineralizer, the extent of the synthesized crystal was nearly 500m. The ZnO cryslals with length of 1500m were present when 3ml/L KOH served as mineralizer. Respectively when 3mol/L NaOH and lmol/L KBr were used as mineralizer, the extent of the synthesized crystal was nearly 700m , the diameter was 200m and the exposed faces m { 100}, p { 101 } was complete , so we obtained the higher quality crystals. Besides the larger crystal, a great deal of microcrystal and nanocrystallites cluster was also present in the product.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 886)
• Pages: 7-11
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.886.7
• Online since: January 2014
• Authors: Wen Li Zheng*, Wei Yang
• Keywords: Crystal Morphology, Hydrothermal Synthesis, Mineralizer, ZNO

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