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Fly ash, generated in thermal power plants, is energy storage, energy conversion, solar cells,
recognized as an environmental pollutant. Thus, pharmaceuticals, life science applications,
measures are required to be undertaken to dispose it in optoelectronics, sensing and actuation nanosystems,
an environmentally friendly method. In this paper an catalysis, and composite materials.
attempt is made to coat zinc oxide nano
nano-particles on
the surface of fly ash by a simple and environmentally The techniques
iques that can be used to characterize
friendly facile chemical method, at room temperature
temperature. nanomaterials include electron microscopy, scanning
Zinc oxide may serve as effective corrosion inhibitor probe microscopies especially, atomic for
by providing sacrificial protection. Concentration of cemicroscopy, x-ray
ray diffraction, neutron diffraction,
fly ash was varied as 5, 10 and 15 (w/w) % of zinc x-ray scattering, x-ray
ray fluorescence spectrometry,
oxide. It was found that crystallinity increased, acoustic wave technique,
nique, contact angle measurements,
whereas particle size, specific gravity and ooil and various spectroscopies. The following articles
absorption value decreased with increased describe the production and characterization of
concentration of fly ash in zinc oxide, which is different types of nanomaterials, where the
attributed to the uniform distribution of zinc oxide on morphological,, structural, and mechanical properties
the surface of fly ash. These nanocomposites can are determined and discussed.
potentially be used in commercial applications as
additive for anticorrosion coatings. The synthesis and characterization of new and novel
nanomaterials with well--controlled structures,
Keywords: Fly ash, Zinc oxide, Pollutant, Inhibitor crystalline phases, shapes, sizes, and porosities are
Specific gravity very important for breakthroughs in several
technologies.. The challenge for the so-called
so
I. INTRODUCTION nanotechnologies
anotechnologies is to achieve perfect control of
Nanomaterials have attracted attention because of nanoscale-related
related properties. This obviously requires
their unique physical, chemical, and mechanical correlating the parameters of the synthesis process
properties that differ from those of bulk solids and with the resulting nanostructure.
molecules. Nanomaterials exhibit distinct size
dependent properties in the 1–100 100 nm range where Zinc oxide occurs in nature as the mineral zincite
quantum phenomena are involved. That is, when the Crystalline zincc oxide exhibits piezoelectric effect and
particle radius approaches the asymptoticexciton Bohr is thermo chromic,, changing from white to yellow
radius, the influence of quantum confinement when heated [1–3].Nano
3].Nano zinc oxide are prepared by
becomes apparent. The very large surface area of methods like aerosol, micro emulsion,
emulsion ultrasonic, sol-
nanomaterials is one of the reasons for their novel gel method, conventional ceramic fabrication,
properties and the high surface-to-volume
volume ratio results evaporation of solutions and suspensions, evaporative
in high significant effects of surface properties on decomposition of solution, solid state reaction, wet
their structure. Intensive research is being done for the chamber synthesis and spray pyrolysis method [4, [4 5].
use of nanomaterials in many applications such as It has been known that zinc oxide is a considerable
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Fig. 1 – X-ray
ray diffractograms obtained for the Fig. 2 – SEM micrographs obtained for ZnO and the
prepared nano ZnO coated fly ash nanocomposites prepared nano ZnO coated fly ash nanocomposites
nanoco
Nano ZnO was found to have diameter size ranging FTIR spectra obtained for ZnO, fly ash, A1, A2 and
between 80 and 110 nm (Fig. 2A), while SEM A3are shown in Fig. 3. FTIR spectra of ZnO show
micrographs for A1, A2 and A3 were shown in Fig. distinct Zn–Oabsorption
Oabsorption band at 458.9 cm−1,
cm while in
2B–D, respectively. It is clearly evident of nano ZnO the FTIR of fly ash, distinct Si–O–Si
Si peak is obtained
deposition on the surface of fly ash. As the at about 1100 cm−1. Peak at about 3600 cm−1 is due
concentration of fly ash increased, more surface area to the moisture adsorbed on the surface of the
of it became available for ZnO to deposit upon. This composite. It was found that the characteristic peak of
led to the decrease in the thickness as well as the ZnO decreased in intensity with increased
surface roughness of the nano ZnO coatings on the concentration of fly ash in the composite. It can also
surface of fly ash. However, surfaceface roughness is be seen that the characteristic peaks of ZnO and fly
uniform for particular concentration of fly ash. Also, ash shifted toward right with increased concentration
the particle size of the composite decreased with of fly ash in the composite, which can be attributed to
increased concentration of fly ash. the interactions happening between ZnO and fly ash.
Specific gravity of fly ash is 2.93 and that of nano
ZnO is5.5. Specific gravity values
valu obtained for A1,
A2 and A3 were5.2, 4.8 and 4.6, respectively. It was
found that the specific gravity of the composite
decreased with increased concentration of fly ash.
This was attributed to the low density of fly ash as
compared to ZnO, leading to the th decrease in the
specific gravity of the composite. These specific
gravity values were useful in primer formulation
calculations.