Processo de obtenção e caracterização de ZnO por decomposição térmica de 8-hidroxiquinolinatos

Abstract

This work proposes chemical precipitation method for the zinc oxide (ZnO) production, by decomposition of an organometallic precursor, obtained with zinc nitrate and 8-hydroxyquinoline reaction. Therefore, zinc 8-hydroxyquinolinates were synthesized in four conditions, at pH 5.0 and 9.0, in acetic acid or acetone conditions, obtaining four samples, with an average yield of 92.98% dry matter. The compounds were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), ultraviolet-visible (UV-Vis) spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), elemental analysis and atomic absorption spectroscopy (AAS). The thermal behavior of the complexes was performed by thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) and differential thermal analysis (DTA) in a dynamic synthetic air atmosphere, which revealed the mass loss in three stages for samples obtained in acetic acid and four stages for samples synthesized in acetone due to the co-precipitation of 8-hydroxyquinoline. In dynamic nitrogen atmosphere (N2), the decomposition occurs in two steps, but without mass stabilization up to 800 °C. From the samples submitted to thermal decomposition in three different heating ratios and from the obtained curves, the activation energies of the dehydration and recrystallization processes of the complexes had been determined. The data indicate that the synthesis generated complexes in the dihydrate form and the final residue of thermal decomposition zinc oxide. The conditions in the study of the behavior thermal were used to produce the ZnO at temperatures of 700 and 900 ° C, with calcination times of 2 and 4 h. XRD characterization showed that the structure of the zinc oxide was hexagonal structure and increasing temperature calcination and residence time, there was an increase in the crystallite size, whose range were 27.87 to 58.49 nm in estimates by Williamson-Hall method and Scherrer's equation. FTIR spectra of ZnO showed a single band at approximately 400 cm-1 for metal-oxygen bonding. UV-Vis spectra were used to estimate the band-gap values, that varied between 3.22 and 3.46 eV. Therefore, chemical precipitation method proposed, was demonstrated technically practicable for ZnO production.