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A facile hydrothermal preparation and photoluminescence study of ZnO micro/nanostructures on Zn foils

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ZnO micro/nanostructures with various morphologies were grown via hydrothermal etching of Zn foil. Controlling the reaction temperature and time, rod-like, pencil-like, tube-like and flowerlike ZnO micro/nanostructures could be prepared directly on the Zn foil surface at temperatures 100–180 °C with excellent reproducibility. X-ray diffraction patterns indicated that these ZnO micro/nanostructures were hexagonal. Possible mechanisms for the variation of morphology are discussed. Moreover, photoluminescence spectra of the as-grown samples revealed that all of them consist of UV emission band at around 392 nm.

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    MingZai Wu, XiangHua Lu, YanMei Liu, YongQing Ma, ZhaoQi Sun & XianSong Liu

  2. CAS Key Laboratory of Materials Physics, Institute of Solid State Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, 230031, China

    MingZai Wu & LiDe Zhang

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Wu, M., Lu, X., Liu, Y. et al. A facile hydrothermal preparation and photoluminescence study of ZnO micro/nanostructures on Zn foils. Sci. China Chem. 54, 1547–1551 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11426-011-4322-y

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