Synthesis of KTiOPO4 nanoparticles by hydrothermal and coprecipitation methods and studies on their properties

Abstract

In this work, KTiOPO4 nanoparticles were synthesized by both hydrothermal and coprecipitation methods and studies were carried out on their structural and optical properties. To study the physical properties of samples, XRD, FT-IR, UV-Vis and FE-SEM analyses were used. Hydrothermal method, using different starting materials, resulted to the production of finner particles (9.6 nm and 12.54 nm) compared with nanoparticles (34.65 nm) produced by coprecipitation method.

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