Fabrication and study of Nickel oxide nanoparticles via low combustion synthesis method using different fuels

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Chemistry Department, Faculty of science, Benha University, Benha, Egypt

Abstract

Nickel oxide nanoparticles have been successfully synthesized by using low combustion synthesis method followed by
calcination at 500 oC for 30 minutes. The calcined Nickel oxide nanoparticles were investigated by various tools such as
XRD, FT-IR and FE-SEM. The average crystallite size of the calcined Nickel oxide was determined to be 6.5, 8.2 and
16.7 nm according to various fuels. The characteristic absorption peak at 429 corresponds to Ni-O stretching vibration
mode of Nickel oxide. The FE-SEM photograph displayed that the calcined Nickel oxide nanoparticles are agglomerated
in network shapes and the average agglomerated particle Nickel in the range 1 µm.