Journal of Nanomaterials
Volume 2008 (2008), Article ID 610541, 5 pages
doi:10.1155/2008/610541
Research Article
Growth of ZnO Nanowires in Aqueous Solution by a Dissolution-Growth Mechanism
School of Materials Science and Engineering, Hebei University of Technology, Dingzigu, Hongqiao District, Tianjin 300130, China
Received 22 May 2007; Revised 5 December 2007; Accepted 18 December 2007
Academic Editor: Junlan Wang
Copyright © 2008 Shaojing Bu et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
A novel methodology based on the dissolution-growth mechanism was developed to prepare ZnO nanowires films. The film morphology and structure were investigated by using field emission scanning electron microscopy, high-resolution transmission electron microscopy and X-ray diffraction analysis methods. The results show that the ZnO nanowires are single crystalline c-oriented wurtzite. The ZnO rod crystals were eroded to provide the growth primitive of ZnO nanowires, which formed on top of the rod crystals when the erosion reaction got the equilibrium. The length of the resultant nanowires is rather large because the successive erosion of the rod crystals maintains the low concentration of Zn2O(OH)2n−2 in the aqueous solution.