Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1526866 | Materials Chemistry and Physics | 2008 | 5 Pages |
Abstract
Using sodium thiosulfate (Na2S2O3) and zinc nitrate hexahydrate as initial materials, ZnS nanospheres were prepared under natural lights at room temperature. The ZnS nanospheres as a preformed building block were further assembled into hierarchical nanospheres by microwave (MW) irradiation in a high pure nitrogen-protected atmosphere. X-ray diffraction (XRD), transmission electron microscope (TEM) and X-ray photoelectron spectra (XPS) analytical techniques were used to characterize as-prepared products, revealing that the monodisperse ZnS nanoshperes were assembled with the smaller nanoparticles with a mean diameter of 5 nm. As a result, a novel microwave-induced assembly mechanism was proposed and highlighted.
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Authors
Qi-Zhi Yao, Gu Jin, Gen-Tao Zhou,