“…The 2θ peaks observed for the calcined sample indicate a hexagonal wurtzite structure attributed to the peaks at 31.90°, 34.58°, 36.38°, 47.67°, 56.72°, 63.01°, 68.09°, 77.0°, and 78.15° can be identified as the (100), (002), ( 101), (110), ( 103), ( 200), (212), and (201) crystalline planes respectively. Moreover, the peak observed at 29.6° for the calcined ZnO sample is likely due to the presence of potassium chloride or potassium perchlorate crystals [12,13]. The effect of calcination is very obvious in the case of ZnO, where it changes from an amorphous nature to highly crystalline as the BET specific surface area, pore diameter and pore volume for uncalcined and calcined ZnO are also tabulated in table 1.…”