Polyol-Mediated Synthesis of Zinc Oxide Nanorods and Nanocomposites with Poly(methyl methacrylate)

Table 3

UV light transmittances of PMMA/ZnO nanorod composites in dependence on the UV wavelength and on the ZnO concentration.

Sample designation	Concentration of ZnO [%]	Transmittance at various UV wavelengths (nm) [%]
		290	300	320	340	360	380
PMMA	—	10.2	51.5	72.1	72.6	79.0	90.8
PMMA/ZnO-1	0.01	19.4	26.5	29.9	32.4	33.9	48.8
PMMA/ZnO-2	0.1	0.16	0.14	0.17	0.042	0.077	0.40
PMMA/ZnO-3	1.0	0.19	0.20	0.31	0.072	0.15	0.047