One-minute synthesis of crystalline binary and ternary metal oxide nanoparticles

Idalia Bilecka; Igor Djerdj; Markus Niederberger

doi:10.1039/b717334b

One-minute synthesis of crystalline binary and ternary metal oxide nanoparticles

Chem Commun (Camb). 2008 Feb 21:(7):886-8. doi: 10.1039/b717334b. Epub 2007 Dec 19.

Authors

Idalia Bilecka¹, Igor Djerdj, Markus Niederberger

Affiliation

¹ Laboratory for Multifunctional Materials, Department of Materials, ETH Zürich, Wolfgang-Pauli Strasse 10, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland.

PMID: 18253537
DOI: 10.1039/b717334b

Abstract

Highly crystalline metal oxide nanoparticles such as CoO, ZnO, Fe(3)O(4), MnO, Mn(3)O(4), and BaTiO(3) were synthesized in just a few minutes by reacting metal alkoxides, acetates or acetylacetonates with benzyl alcohol under microwave heating.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Barium / chemistry*
Crystallization
Nanoparticles / chemistry*
Oxides / chemical synthesis*
Oxides / chemistry
Particle Size
Powder Diffraction
Transition Elements / chemistry*

Substances

Oxides
Transition Elements
Barium