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Simple synthesis of ZnSe nanoparticles by thermal treatment and their characterization


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Salem, Aeshah Nizar and Saion, Elias and Al-Hada, Naif Mohammed and Mohamed Kamari, Halimah and Shaari, Abdul Halim and Radiman, Shahidan (2017) Simple synthesis of ZnSe nanoparticles by thermal treatment and their characterization. Results in Physics, 7. pp. 1175-1180. ISSN 2211-3797

Abstract

A simple thermal treatment was used to synthesize ZnSe nanoparticles at different calcination temperatures in a nitrogen flowing. The samples of ZnSe nanoparticles were prepared by reacting zinc nitrate (source of zinc) and selenium powder with Polyvinylpyrrolidone (capping agent). Analysis of their X-ray diffraction patterns suggested the formation of an amorphous phase of the unheated material before calcination, which then transformed into a cubic crystalline structure of ZnSe nanoparticles after calcination. The phase analyses using energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy and Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy confirmed the presence of Zn and Se as the original compounds of prepared ZnSe nanoparticle samples. The average particle size of the samples increased from 7 ± 5 to 18 ± 3 nm as the calcination temperature was increased from 450 to 700 °C, which is also supported by the transmission electron microscopy results. Diffuse UV–visible reflectance spectra were used to determine the optical band gap through the Kubelka–Munk equation; the energy band gap was found to decrease from 4.24 to 3.95 eV with increasing calcination temperature.


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Item Type: Article
Divisions: Faculty of Science
DOI Number: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rinp.2017.03.011
Publisher: Elsevier
Keywords: Metals; Calcination; Differential thermal analysis (DTA); Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR)
Depositing User: Nabilah Mustapa
Date Deposited: 05 Jun 2017 05:41
Last Modified: 05 Jun 2017 05:41
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URI: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/52298
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