Supersaturation Control Growth of Nanoparticle ZnO and Size Distribution Control

"Nanoparticle ZnO was synthesized in non-aqueous medium. UV adsorption spectra were measured and effective mass model was used to calculate particle size in situ. A technique method named as supersaturation control growth was developed, which dealt with addition of nanoparticle suspension with small size to another suspension with big size. As a result, those small particles completely dissolved and those big ones totally grew because of dissolution degree difference between small particles and the big ones. The particle number of big particle suspension kept being a constant and the growth rate was much higher than Ostwald ripening. Main characteristic of this technique is that size distribution of nanoparticles can be narrowed provided original size difference of two suspension is big enough and original size distribution is not too broad."