Synthesis of zinc oxide by sol-gel method and to study it’s structural properties
Gunja Singh, Satya Pal Singh
Abstract
Zinc oxide plays an important role in current industry due to its special characteristics. Therefore, the objective of this study is to synthesize zinc oxide nanostructures with the most practical ways by using sol-gel method and characterize the nanostructures. The sol-gel method is the simplest method and has the ability to control the particle size and morphology through systematic monitoring of reaction parameters. ZnO nanoparticles were synthesized via sol-gel method using Zinc acetate dehydrate (Zn (CH3COO)22H2O) as a precursor and ethanol (CH2COOH) was used as a solvent, Sodium hydroxide (NaOH) and distilled water were used as a medium. ZnO nanoparticles were characterized by using XRD, SEM, TEM and nano-particles analyzer.XRD result spectrum displays mainly oxygen and zinc peaks, which indicate the crystallinity in nature as exhibited. SEM micrographs show that synthesized ZnO have a rod-like structure.TEM images agreement with the XRD data shown that the average size of the nanoparticles. The obtained ZnO nanoparticles are homogenous and consistent in size which corresponds to the XRD result that exhibits good crystallinity. ZnO nanoparticles were successfully synthesized by the sol-gel method in nano-size range within 81.28 nm to 84.98. We represent a review of the above and explore the properties n-ZnO.