Synthesis and characterization of multipod zinc oxide whiskers synthesized via a modified self-propagating high-temperature synthesis method

Facile and ultra-rapid synthesis of multi-pod ZnO nanostructures through thermal heating using the flame of a portable gas torch

“…Such XRD patterns have also been observed for ZnO nanoparticles including nanowires, nano-tetrapods and nano-multipods, whose wires or pods are aligned along the [002] direction (c-axis) and have a wurtzite structure. [8][9][10] In the wurtzite structure of ZnO, the zinc and oxygen centers are tetrahedral. Each anion is surrounded by four cations at the corners of a tetrahedron, and vice versa.…”