Growth of significantly low dimensional zinc orthotitanate (Zn2TiO4) nanoparticles by solid state reaction method
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Kumar Sahoo Pratap; Debabrata Pradhan; Arpan Nayak Kumar; Pravakar Satapathy; Avanendra Singh; S.K.S. Parashar; Kumar Das Susanta; Lizina Khatua; Rudrashish Panda
- Source
- Science of Sintering, Vol 50, Iss 1, Pp 133-138 (2018)
- Subject
- Diffraction
Work (thermodynamics)
Materials science
Analytical chemistry
Nanoparticle
chemistry.chemical_element
02 engineering and technology
Zinc
010501 environmental sciences
lcsh:Chemical technology
01 natural sciences
Solid state reaction method
Specific surface area
Phase (matter)
Materials Chemistry
Zinc orthotitanate
lcsh:TP1-1185
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
solid state reaction
Metals and Alloys
021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology
Condensed Matter Physics
chemistry
Ceramics and Composites
Particle size
0210 nano-technology
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 1820-7413
In this work, the ZnO-TiO2 mixed phase nanoparticles were prepared by solid state reaction method by using ZnO and TiO2 powder as precursors. The X-ray diffraction pattern shows a dominant phase of Zinc Orthotitanate (Zn2TiO4). The average particle size (58?18 nm) calculated by the analysing FESEM data closely matches with the particle size calculated by Scherrer?s equation. The calculated average particle size is significantly smaller than the previously published results of nanoparticles, prepared by same method. In the Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET) study the specific surface area of the nanoparticles was found as 8.78 m2/g which is similar to the surface area reported in this material prepared by mechanochemical method. The method which we report is simpler and cost effective unlike the previous reported.