Surfactant-Mediated Synthesis of Functional Metal Oxide Nanostructures Via Microwave Irradiation-Assisted Chemical Synthesis

Brahma, Sanjaya and Shivashankar, SA (2009) Surfactant-Mediated Synthesis of Functional Metal Oxide Nanostructures Via Microwave Irradiation-Assisted Chemical Synthesis. In: Symposium on Functional Metal-Oxide Nanostructures held at the 2009 MRS Spring Meeting, APR 14-17, 2009, San Francisco, CA, pp. 75-80.

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Abstract

In the present work we report a rapid microwave irradiation-assisted chemical synthesis technique for the growth of nanoparticles, nanorods, and nanotubes of a variety of metal oxides in the presence of an appropriate surfactant (cationic, anionic, non ionic and polymeric), without the use of any templates. The method is simple, inexpensive, and helps one to prepare nanostructures in quick time, measured in seconds and minutes. This method has been applied successfully to synthesize nanostructures of a variety of binary and ternary metal oxides such as ZnO, CdO, Fe2O3, CuO, Ga2O3, Gd2O3, ZnFe2O4, etc. There is an observed variation in the morphology of the nanostructures with changes in different process parameters, such as microwave power, irradiation time, identity of solvent, type of surfactant, and its concentration.

Item Type:	Conference Paper
Series.:	Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings
Publisher:	Materials Research Society
Additional Information:	Symposium on Functional Metal-Oxide Nanostructures held at the 2009 MRS Spring Meeting, San Francisco, CA, APR 14-17, 2009
Department/Centre:	Division of Chemical Sciences > Materials Research Centre
Date Deposited:	27 Jan 2010 09:52
Last Modified:	19 Sep 2010 05:54
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/25381

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