Effect of Mechanochemical Activation Conditions on the Physicochemical Properties of Zinc Oxide

Monitoring the process of formation of ZnO from ZnO2 using in situ combined XRD/XAS technique

“…The defects present in zinc oxide have been proposed to be a key factor for its performance [3,11,12] . Nano sized ZnO materials have been synthesised in a variety of ways including hydrothermal [13] , mechanochemical [14] , spray pyrolysis [15] , chemical bath techniques etc [11,[16][17][18][19] . In addition to the above, ZnO can be conveniently prepared using a two-stage approach by first making zinc peroxide (ZnO2) and subsequently decomposing this in a controlled way to produce zinc oxide, the method of our choice reported in this work.…”