Abstract

Spherical zinc oxide (ZnO) nanoparticles had been successfully synthesized through decomposing zinc borate nanoplatelets at high temperature. The resulted ZnO nanospheres were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), which indicated that ZnO had the hexagonal structure. Field-emission-scanning electron micrographs (SEM) revealed that ZnO nanoparticles had perfect spherical shape with narrow size distribution (average diameters 50 nm). These nanoparticles showed a broad emission band centered at 438 nm using an excitation wave of 325 nm at room temperature. Moreover, the sample was characterized by N 2 adsorption–desorption and the pore size distribution showed a sharp peak at 3.1 nm.

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