Polymer-Controlled Crystallization of Zinc Oxide Hexagonal Nanorings and Disks
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Abstract
In this study, we have developed a novel route to the synthesis of ZnO nanorings, disks, and diskoidlike crystals on a large scale by a facile solution-based method by using polymers as crystal growth modifiers. The crystals precipitated with polyacrylamide (PAM) as the additive show ringlike morphology. A possible growth mechanism of the ZnO nanostructures based on typical polymer−crystals interactions in a mild aqueous solution is given. The polymer contains in the side chain a large number of amide ligands that are able to coordinate with Zn2+ ions, that is, the otherwise just weakly exposed (001) face, leading to a lowering of surface energy and inhibition of growth along this direction and the formation of ringlike morphologies. While in the presence of carboxyl-functionalized polyacrylamide (PAM-COOH), nearly monodispersed disklike crystals were observed and finally evolved into diskoidlike microstructures with the reaction time prolonged. Polymer-directed crystal growth and mediated self-assembly of nanocrystals may provide promising routes to rational synthesis of various ordered inorganic and inorganic−organic hybrid materials with complex form and structural specialization.
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