Abstract
A facile chemical precipitation route has been developed to control synthesis of α-cobalt hydroxide nanostructures with rod-like and plate-like morphologies. The α-Co(OH) 2 nanorods were achieved in large quantity when the experiments were carried out in the presence of a suitable shape-controlling reagent polyvinyl pyrrolidone (PVP), while the α-Co(OH) 2 nanoplates were obtained when the experiments were conducted in the absence of PVP, whilst keeping other experimental conditions constant. The chemical composition and morphologies of the as-prepared α-Co(OH) 2 nanoparticles were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). The effect of polymer PVP on the morphologies of α-Co(OH) 2 nanoparticles were discussed in detail. The results indicated that PVP played a key role for the formation of α-Co(OH) 2 nanorods. The growth mechanism of the as-synthesized nanorods and nanoplates were discussed in detail based on the experimental results. A possible growth mechanism has been proposed to illustrate the growth of α-Co(OH) 2 nanorods.
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