Morphologies of Nanostuctured ZnO prepared by matrix-assisted method and its effects on photocatalytic activity

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Nordin, S. N. M. and Abdullah, Abdul Halim and Zainal, Zulkarnain (2013) Morphologies of Nanostuctured ZnO prepared by matrix-assisted method and its effects on photocatalytic activity. Asian Journal of Chemistry, 25 (18). pp. 10230-10232. ISSN 0970-7077; ESSN: 0975-427X

Abstract

Zinc oxide nanoparticles have been successfully synthesized by matrix-assisted method using activated carbon as a matrix and zinc nitrate and zinc acetate as ZnO precursors. Different weight percentages (10-40 wt %) of Zn precursor were loaded onto activated carbon and calcined in air at 500 and 600 ºC, producing highly crystallined ZnO particles with a wurtzite structure. Nanospherical ZnO and a mixture of nanosphere and nanorod ZnO were produced from zinc nitrate and zinc acetate, respectively. The efficiency study of the synthesized ZnO in the photodegradation of rhodamine 6G indicated that ZnO produced from zinc acetate is more effective than that from zinc nitrate, possibly due to the differences in the morphology of the synthesized ZnO.

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Item Type:	Article
Divisions:	Faculty of Science Institute of Advanced Technology
Publisher:	Chemic Publishing Company
Keywords:	Activated carbon; Dyes; Photodegradation; Zinc oxide.
Depositing User:	Umikalthom Abdullah
Date Deposited:	12 Sep 2014 03:28
Last Modified:	08 Dec 2015 03:02
URI:	http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/30313
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