Composition, morphology, and structure of ultrafine ZnS-ZnO powders alloyes with transition metal oxides

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Ultrafine ZnO–ZnS powders with additions of d-metal oxides additions, namely, V2O5, MnO, Fe2O3, CoO, NiO, CuO are studied. The alloying the ZnO–ZnS system with d-metals changes the morphology of the synthesized powders. The particle size distribution obeys the lognormal law. The addition of d-metal oxide upon the synthesis of ZnO–ZnS composites shifts the maximum of the particle-size distribution to the larger sizes. The most probable particle size for samples alloyed with iron and cobalt (530 nm) exceeds that of unalloyed sample (320 nm) by more than 1.6 times. All the synthesized samples are found to be characterized by excess oxygen. The zinc, sulfur and oxygen contents in the unalloyed ZnO–ZnS compositions is 48.0, 12.8 and 39.2 at%, respectively. The synthesis of the ZnO–ZnS composition together with transition metal oxides does not change the hexagonal and cubic symmetry of the sulfide and hexagonal symmetry of zinc oxide. The presence of iron leads to an increase in the coherent domain size of the cubic ZnS phase.

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R. V. S. S. N. Ravikumar

Acharya Nagarjuna University

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Department of Physics

India, 522510, Nagarjuna Nagar

B. R. Nemallapudi

Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin

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Russian Federation, 620002, Ekaterinburg

S. Gundala

Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin

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Russian Federation, 620002, Ekaterinburg

V. F. Markov

Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin; Ural Institute of the State Fire Service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia

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Russian Federation, 620002, Ekaterinburg; 620062, Ekaterinburg

L. N. Maskaeva

Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin; Ural Institute of the State Fire Service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia

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Russian Federation, 620002, Ekaterinburg; 620062, Ekaterinburg

A. V. Ishchenko

Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin

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Russian Federation, 620002, Ekaterinburg

L. G. Skornyakov

Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin

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A. V. Chukin

Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin

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Russian Federation, 620002, Ekaterinburg

I. S. Kovalev

Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin

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Russian Federation, 620002, Ekaterinburg

G. V. Zyryanov

Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin; Institute of Organic Synthesis, Ural Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences

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Russian Federation, 620002, Ekaterinburg; 620137, Ekaterinburg

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2. Fig. 1. Micrographs of pure ultrafine powders ZnO–ZnS (a) and powders synthesized with additives of oxides V2O5 (b), MnO (c), Fe2O3 (d), CoO (e), NiO (e) and CuO (g).

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3. Fig. 2. Particle size distribution in ZnO–ZnS powders synthesized without admixture (a) and with oxides V2O5 (b), MnO (c), Fe2O3(d), CoO (e), NiO (e) and CuO (g). Bar charts – experimental histograms, solid The line is an approximating curve in the form of a lognormal distribution. For CuO (g), the dashed line is the lognormal dependence; the dashed line is the Gaussian distribution; the solid line is the total curve.

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4. 3. Diffractograms of ZnO–ZnS (a) powders synthesized with oxides V2O5 (b), MnO (c), Fe2O3 (d), CoO (e), NiO (e) and CuO (g).

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