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A technique for synthesizing catalytically active zinc oxide-based nanostructures is described. The synthesis product represents a blue-gray powder. When it is introduced into a water solution of methyl orange the latter bleaches out both under daylight and in the dark. The activity of the material is measured by the Kubelka-Munk formula in the wavelength range 0.3–1.8 μm. As follows from X-ray phase analysis data, the synthesized material is a composite consisting of hexagonal structures with the parameters ZnO [a: 3.2491, c: 5.2046] and Zn [a: 2.6639, c: 4.9397]. A mechanism underlying the formation of a ZnO-Zn nanocomposite is suggested.
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Original Russian Text © M.M. Kasumov, 2012, published in Zhurnal Tekhnicheskoi Fiziki, 2012, Vol. 82, No. 9, pp. 123–125.
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Kasumov, M.M. Synthesis of zinc oxide nanostructures catalytically active in the optical range without irradiation. Tech. Phys. 57, 1304–1306 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063784212090137
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