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DOI: 10.1055/a-2722-9831
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Tracking the functional groups responsible for the synthesis of zinc-oxide nanoparticles from zinc nitrate hexahydrate

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  • Alain Krief

    1   Chimie, Université de Namur Département de Chimie, Namur, Belgium (Ringgold ID: RIN480786)

  • Hamza Mohamed

    2   Materials reserach department, iThemba Laboratory for Accelerator Based Sciences, Somerset West, South Africa (Ringgold ID: RIN61808)

  • Malik Maaza

    3   Materials research department, iThemba Laboratory for Accelerator Based Sciences, Somerset West, South Africa (Ringgold ID: RIN61808)

  • Alain Gibaud

    4   Physics, IMMM, Le Mans, France (Ringgold ID: RIN131894)

Supported by: EU Marie Curie 101148965,889,890
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Heating 1,2-, 1,3- and 1,4-diols with zinc nitrate hexahydrate at 120 °C, delivers explosively, after few minutes, zinc oxide nanoparticles as well as gaseous products such as hydrogen, nitrogen and carbon oxides. They are suspected of being responsible for the formation of nanoparticles. The observed reactivity is dependent upon the alkyl substitution on the diols that leads to suspect but does not prove the formation of organometallic intermediates.



Publication History

Received: 03 September 2025

Accepted after revision: 14 October 2025

Accepted Manuscript online:
14 October 2025

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