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STABILITY OF ZN AND CU NANOPARTICLES STUDIED IN AQUEOUS MEDIUM BY SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY

1 SVEC Pavel
Co-authors:
1 BYTESNIKOVA Zuzana 1,2 RICHTERA Lukas 1,2 ADAM Vojtech
Institutions:
1 Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Mendel University in Brno, Zemedelska 1, CZ-61300 Brno, Czech Republic, EU
2 Central European Institute of Technology, Brno University of Technology, Purkynova 123, CZ-61200 Brno, Czech Republic, EU
Conference:
11th International Conference on Nanomaterials - Research & Application, Hotel Voronez I, Brno, Czech Republic, EU, October 16th - 18th 2019
Proceedings:
Proceedings 11th International Conference on Nanomaterials - Research & Application
Pages:
531-535
ISBN:
978-80-87294-95-6
ISSN:
2694-930X
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.37904/nanocon.2019.8752
Published:
1st April 2020
Proceedings of the conference were published in Web of Science and Scopus.
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Abstract

The stability of nanoparticles in aquatic environment plays an important role for their environmental and biological application. The storage time has strong impact on the stability of zinc and copper nanoparticles (ZnONPs and CuNPs). The effect of the storage time was studied over time and the results showed a change in morphology of synthesized NPs. The time stability study was divided into three parts: short-term (0 – 72 h), medium-term (16 days) and long-term (5 months). In the case of CuNPs the SEM picture revealed the presence of crystal structure. This can be explained as the CuNPs surface layer was oxidized and the crystals on surface are copper oxides. Similar study was conducted on ZnONPs, but in shorter time scale (1 - 3 days). As in the case of CuNPs, ZnONPs showed the same tendency to crystalize. We can conclude that storage time and conditions have a strong impact on the NPs stability.

Keywords: time stability, ZnO nanoparticles, Cu nanoparticles, SEM

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