Abstract
ABSTRACT Herein, we report the phase evolution of perovskite-type copper zirconate nanoparticles synthesized via the coprecipitation method. The XRD investigations confirm the dominant orthorhombic CuZrO3 phase formation at 700 °C along with frail tetragonal ZrO2 and monoclinic CuO phases. XRD analysis confirms the presence of orthorhombic perovskite type CuZrO3 in the sample annealed at 700 °C with cell parameters: a = 6.4552 Å, b = 7.4008 Å, and c = 8.4013 Å whose crystallite sizes is 54 nm. Higher calcination temperatures (above 700 °C) induce the crystallinity deterioration in the CuZrO3 phase. The XPS studies substantiate the chemical state of constituent elements present in the sample annealed at 700 °C. The chemical bonding and optical features of the samples were probed using FTIR and UV-Vis-NIR spectroscopy, respectively. The optical bandgap energies for the synthesized samples that were annealed at various temperatures ranged from 3.36–3.08 eV.
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