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Growth and characterization of ZnO nanowire arrays electrodeposited into anodic alumina templates in DMSO solution

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ZnO nanowire arrays were grown by potentiostatic cathodic electrodeposition on aluminum anodic oxide template (AAO) from dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) solutions containing zinc chloride and molecular oxygen as precursors. The nanowires presented high aspect ratio and exhibited a very high crystallinity with a wurtzite crystal structure with preferential orientation along the (0001) crystallographic axis. Chronoamperometric experiments were performed on gold bulk electrodes in order to model this preferential mode growth of ZnO nanowires, which has not been previously reported for similar precursors in DMSO solution. The analysis of the corresponding chronoamperograms revealed that chloride ions influence the oxide nucleation and growth mechanism. It was found that in the absence of KCl as a supporting electrolyte, the data fitted an instantaneous three-dimensional diffusion-controlled (IN-3D)diff nucleation and growth mechanism (NGM). The presence of KCl, instead favored a progressive three-dimensional (PN-3D)diff NGM. With these results, a model for the more complex nanowire’s growth inside the pores of the AAO template is proposed.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by FONDECYT (Chile) project 1080195 and DII, PUCV, project 037.108/2008. D. Ramirez thanks MECESUP UVA0604. EAD thanks PEDECIBA-Física and CSIC-UDELAR, Uruguay.

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  1. Departamento de Química y Bioquímica, Instituto de Física, Facultad de Ingeniería, Avenida Gran Bretaña 1111 Playa Ancha, Valparaíso, Chile

    Gonzalo Riveros & Daniel Ramirez

  2. Instituto de Química, Facultad de Ciencias, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Casilla 4059, Valparaíso, Chile

    Humberto Gomez, Rodrigo Henriquez & Ricardo Schrebler

  3. Departamento de Química y Bioquímica, Instituto de Física, Facultad de Ingeniería, Herrera y Reissig 565, C.C. 30, 11000, Montevideo, Uruguay

    Ricardo Marotti & Enrique Dalchiele

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Gomez, H., Riveros, G., Ramirez, D. et al. Growth and characterization of ZnO nanowire arrays electrodeposited into anodic alumina templates in DMSO solution. J Solid State Electrochem 16, 197–204 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10008-011-1309-8

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