Hydrothermal synthesis of ZnO nanorods: A statistical determination of the significant parameters in view of reducingthe diameter

Nanotechnology

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Elen, Ken ^a,b   Van Den Rul, Heidi ^a,c   Hardy, An ^a,b,c   Van Bael, Marlies K ^a,c,d   D'Haen, Jan ^d   Peeters, Roos ^b   Franco, Dirk ^b   Mullens, Jules ^a  

^a HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b PHL University College   (Belgium)

^c IMEC   (Belgium)

^d HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE DIAMETERS; CONCENTRATION OF; FRACTIONAL FACTORIAL DESIGNS; HYDROTHERMAL PROCEDURES; MEAN DIAMETERS; MOLAR RATIOS; ONE-DIMENSIONAL; OPTIMAL VALUES; ORGANIC ADDITIVES; PRE TREATMENTS; PRECURSOR SOLUTIONS; REACTION TIME; SIGNIFICANT FACTORS; TEM; WATER-BASED; X-RAY DIFFRACTIONS; ZINC ACETATES; ZINC CHLORIDES; ZINC CONCENTRATIONS; ZINC IONS; ZNO NANORODS; ZNO PARTICLES; ZNO RODS;

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; HYDROTHERMAL SYNTHESIS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SEMICONDUCTING ZINC COMPOUNDS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASONICS; ZINC OXIDE;

ZINC;

NANOROD; ZINC OXIDE; NANOTUBE; WATER;

ARTICLE; FACTORIAL DESIGN; HEATING; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYNTHESIS; TEMPERATURE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COLLOID; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; HEAT; MACROMOLECULE; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COLLOIDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; HOT TEMPERATURE; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MATERIALS TESTING; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTIES; WATER; ZINC OXIDE;

EID: 64549105178     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/20/5/055608     Document Type: Article

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