Modified chitosan as a polymeric nanoreactor for fabrication of pure ZnO nano particles |
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| Authors: | Pedram Jajarmi Shahram Barzegar Ali Pourjavadi |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Material Science and Engineering, Sabzevar Tarbiat Moallem University, Sabzevar, Iran;2. Basic Science Department, Jundi Shapur University of Technology, Dezful, Iran;3. Polymer Research Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran |
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| Abstract: | ZnO nanoparticles have been prepared successfully by hydrogel decomposition method (HDM). Synthesized ZnO nanoparticles were characterized by X‐ray diffraction (XRD), fourier transforms infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), and transition electron microscopy (TEM) techniques. Narrow distribution of sizes with a 20–30 nm diameter and regular distribution of ZnO nanoparticles are attributed to the application of poly(acrylic acid‐co‐acrylamide) grafted chitosan hydrogel as coating agent. The results show that the polymer thermal decomposition technique is a perfect method for the synthesis of ZnO nanoparticles. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Appl Polym Sci, 2010 |
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| Keywords: | hydrogel ZnO nanoparticles radical polymerization thermal decomposition chitosan |
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