A new zinc hydroxy acetate hydrogen carbonate lamellar phase for growing large and clean ZnO nanorod arrays

Laurent Schlur; Anne Carton; Geneviève Pourroy

doi:10.1039/c4cc09982f

A new zinc hydroxy acetate hydrogen carbonate lamellar phase for growing large and clean ZnO nanorod arrays

Chem Commun (Camb). 2015 Feb 25;51(16):3367-70. doi: 10.1039/c4cc09982f.

Authors

Laurent Schlur¹, Anne Carton, Geneviève Pourroy

Affiliation

¹ IPCMS-CNRS-Université de Strasbourg UMR 7504, 23 rue du Loess, BP 43, 67034 Strasbourg Cedex 2, France. pourroy@ipcms.unistra.fr.

PMID: 25621919
DOI: 10.1039/c4cc09982f

Abstract

A novel zinc hydroxy acetate hydrogen carbonate Zn5(OH)8.2(CH3COO)(HCO3)0.8·1.9H2O, isomorphous to Zn5(OH)8(CH3COO)2·xH2O, has been obtained by the reaction of zinc acetate dihydrate in aged ethylenediamine. This phase allows the growth of large arrays of oriented and crystallized nanorods up to 8 μm in length on a substrate, without crystallization of additional particles.