Daley, T;
Opuni, K;
Raj, E;
Dent, AJ;
Cibin, G;
Hyde, TI;
Sankar, G;
(2021)
Monitoring the process of formation of ZnO from ZnO2 using in situ combined XRD/XAS technique.
Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter
10.1088/1361-648X/abfb91.
(In press).
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Abstract
Use of in situ combined X-ray diffraction and X-ray absorption spectroscopy for the study of the thermal decomposition of zinc peroxide to zinc oxide is reported here. Comparison of data extracted from both X-ray diffraction (XRD) and X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) with thermo gravimetric analysis (TGA) enabled us to follow the nature of the conversion of ZnO2 to ZnO. A temperature range between 230 and 350oC appears to show a very poorly crystalline ZnO is formed prior to the formation of ordered ZnO material. Both the decrease in white line intensity in the Zn K-edge XANES and resulting lower coordination numbers estimated from analysis of Zn K-edge data of ZnO heated at 500oC, in comparison to bulk ZnO, suggest that that the ZnO produced by this method has significant defects in the system.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Monitoring the process of formation of ZnO from ZnO2 using in situ combined XRD/XAS technique |
| Location: | England |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1088/1361-648X/abfb91 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-648X/abfb91 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | As the Version of Record of this article is going to be/has been published on a gold open access basis under a CC BY 3.0 licence, this Accepted Manuscript is available for reuse under a CC BY 3.0 licence immediately. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Chemistry |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10127257 |
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