Cobalt oxide（C0304） with different morphologies was achieved by a simple solution-based method. Various parallel experiments show that several experimental parameters, such as the concentrations of NaOH and ethylene...Cobalt oxide（C0304） with different morphologies was achieved by a simple solution-based method. Various parallel experiments show that several experimental parameters, such as the concentrations of NaOH and ethylene glyeol（EG）, play important roles in the morphological controlling of C0304 nanoparticles. A lower concen- tration of NaOH favors quasi-spherical product with a uniform size of about 15 nm, whereas a higher concentration of NaOH generally leads to the formation of nanoplates with wide size distribution. In addition, C0304 nanorods were also obtained partially by introducing a certain amount of EG. A possible mechanism was proposed for the selective formation of C0304 with various morphologies. X-Ray diffraction（XRD）, infrared（IR） spectrometry, scanning elec- tron microscopy（SEM）, transmission electron microscopy（TEM） and UV-Vis spectrometry were used to characterize the samples.展开更多
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China，the Science and Technology Project of Changsha City,China，the Scientific Research Foundation of Henan Institute of Science and Technology,China
文摘Cobalt oxide（C0304） with different morphologies was achieved by a simple solution-based method. Various parallel experiments show that several experimental parameters, such as the concentrations of NaOH and ethylene glyeol（EG）, play important roles in the morphological controlling of C0304 nanoparticles. A lower concen- tration of NaOH favors quasi-spherical product with a uniform size of about 15 nm, whereas a higher concentration of NaOH generally leads to the formation of nanoplates with wide size distribution. In addition, C0304 nanorods were also obtained partially by introducing a certain amount of EG. A possible mechanism was proposed for the selective formation of C0304 with various morphologies. X-Ray diffraction（XRD）, infrared（IR） spectrometry, scanning elec- tron microscopy（SEM）, transmission electron microscopy（TEM） and UV-Vis spectrometry were used to characterize the samples.
