Journal des nanomatériaux et de la nanotechnologie moléculaire

Synthesis and Characterization of Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles by Sol Gel Method

Monis Bin Abid, Aisha Shamim, Tariq Mahmood, Jahangeer Khan, Zaheer Ahmad

The under-consideration study focuses on synthesis and characterization of Zinc Oxide (ZnO) nanoparticles. Nanosized zinc oxide powder was successfully synthesized using a simple and low cast sol-gel method. This method is environment friendly requiring no expensive chemicals and is time saving. The sol-gel method was accompanied by the formation of precipitates which were dried and calcined at 550? to get zinc oxide nanoparticles. The synthesized nanopowder was characterized by X-Ray Diffraction (XRD), Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) and Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy (EDX)