Author:
Xaba T., ,Shumbula P. M.,Nyembe S.,Tetyana P., , ,
Abstract
A primary amine, salicylaldehyde and copper salt were combined to prepare the bis(Nbenzyl-salicydenaminato)copper (II) complex. The copper (II) complex was then used as a precursor to synthesize mixed phase morphological copper oxide nanoparticles via thermal decomposition method using trioctylphosphine oxide as a capping molecule at different temperatures of 120, 180, and 240 ºC. The XRD patterns of copper oxide nanoparticles synthesized at lower temperatures exhibit a mixture of monoclinic structure of CuO whereas the nanoparticles synthesized at higher temperature reveals the peaks that are attributed to mainly face-centered-cubic metallic Cu. The TEM images showed spherical particles that were increasing in sizes when the temperature was raised.
Publisher
Virtual Company of Physics
Subject
Physical and Theoretical Chemistry,Condensed Matter Physics,General Materials Science,Biomedical Engineering,Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics,Structural Biology