Synthesis and Nanostructure Characterization of Azo-Polymer, Modified with Trichloroethylene, Containing Metal-Oxide Nanoparticles for Improved Optoelectronic Properties
نویسندگان
1 Department of Chemistry, College of Education for Pure Science (Ibn Al- Haitham), University of Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq
2 Department of Chemistry, College of Sciences, University of AL-Qadisiyah, Iraq
doi
10.22052/JNS.2026.02.005چکیده
This research article discusses the preparation of metal-oxide nanoparticles, namely, TiO2 and ZnO, through a modified Pechini method, in which citric acid was employed as fuel and capping agent. To determine the TiO2 and ZnO nanoparticles, a various analyses including X-ray Diffraction (XRD), Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) and Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscopy (FESEM) was carried out. The XRD patterns confirmed that TiO2 crystallizes in the anatase phase and ZnO crystallizes in the hexagonal wurtzite structure. Morphological analysis showed a homogeneous nanostructure of well dispersed particles with mean size of 94.22 nm for TiO2 and 55.19 nm for ZnO. The results of structural and morphological clearly support a fact that structure stability and function performance in different applications is strongly supported by metal oxide’s properties.
