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Plasma-Induced Synthesis of CuO Nanofibers and ZnO Nanoflowers in Water

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Fiber-shaped cupric oxide (CuO) nanoparticles and flower-shaped ZnO nanoparticles were facilely synthesized by plasma-induced technique directly from copper and zinc electrode pair in water, respectively. The phase composition, morphologies and optical property of nanoparticles have been investigated by energy dispersive X-ray analysis, X-ray powder diffraction, transmission electron microscopy and UV–vis. The in situ analysis by an optical emission spectroscopy clarified the formation mechanism. Plasma was generated from the discharge between a metal electrode pair in water by a pulse direct current power. CuO and ZnO nanoparticles were synthesized via almost the same formation mechanism, which were prepared via the rapid energetic radicals’ bombardment to electrodes’ surface, atom vapour diffusion, plasma expansion, solution medium condensation, and in situ oxygen reaction and further growth. This novel plasma-induced technique will become a potential application in nanomaterials synthesis.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University (NCET-12-0733, China), Specially-Appointed Professors by Universities in Jiangsu Province (SPUJP-2012, China), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51372113), and the Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions Natural Science Research Project (Grant No. 12KJB430008).

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  1. College of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanjing Tech University, Xin-Mo-Fan Road No. 5, Nanjing, 210009, Jiangsu, China

    Xiulan Hu, Xiaodong Shen & Hongtao Li

  2. College of Automation and Electrical Engineering, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing, China

    Xin Zhang

  3. Materials and Surface Engineering Research Institute, Kanto Gakuin University, Yokohama, Japan

    Osamu Takai

  4. Green Mobility Collaborative Research Center, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan

    Nagahiro Saito

  5. Department of Materials, Physics and Energy Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan

    Nagahiro Saito

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Hu, X., Zhang, X., Shen, X. et al. Plasma-Induced Synthesis of CuO Nanofibers and ZnO Nanoflowers in Water. Plasma Chem Plasma Process 34, 1129–1139 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11090-014-9546-0

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