Mechanism of Generation of ZnO Microstructures by Microwave-Assisted Hydrothermal Approach
Ravish Majithia1, Jeffrey Speich2, Kenith E Meissner3,2
1Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA. ravishmajithia@tamu.edu.
Materials (Basel, Switzerland)
|August 16, 2017
Abstract:
In this report, a technique for rapid synthesis of ZnO microstructures by microwave-assisted heating of precursors at hydrothermal conditions is demonstrated. Further, the reaction mechanism for the growth of ZnO microstructures is analyzed. An accelerated rate of reaction obtained using microwaves enables a dissolution-recrystallization mechanism for generation of one dimensional (1D) rod-like structures, thereby showing that time of reaction can be used to dictate ZnO microstructure morphology.
