The effects of water temperature on the characteristics of ZnO nanoparticles produced by laser ablation method in water were investigated experimentally. The nanoparticles were prepared by pulsed laser ablation of a zinc metal target in distilled water at different temperatures. The synthesized ZnO nanoparticles were characterized using X-ray diffraction analysis and transmission electron microscopy. The results show that the produced samples are crystalline with a hexagonal wurtzite phase. Transmission electron microscopy has revealed that the ZnO nanoparticles are spherical. The strain and the crystallite size of the nanoparticles were investigated by X-ray peak broadening. The mean crystallite size of the ZnO nanoparticles estimated from the TEM images is in good agreement with three models of the Williamson–Hall method. According to the results, the size distribution of the produced ZnO nanoparticles depends strongly on the temperature of the ablation environment.
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Published in Zhurnal Prikladnoi Spektroskopii, Vol. 84, No. 3, pp. 475–482, May–June, 2017.
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Solati, E., Dorranian, D. Estimation of Lattice Strain in ZnO Nanoparticles Produced by Laser Ablation at Different Temperatures. J Appl Spectrosc 84, 490–497 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10812-017-0497-0
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