Microwave-assisted sol-gel synthesis of metal oxide nanomaterials

초록

The main goal of this chapter is to fill the gap in contemporary literature on the basic scientific aspects of microwave-assisted sol-gel technique. In this chapter, we shall briefly consider the microwave-assisted sol-gel method adopted for the preparation of metal oxide nanoparticles with controlled particle size, morphology, and crystal structure. Now a days researchers are motivated by an advantages of microwave-assisted technique such as facile, fast, secure, controllable and energy-saving characteristics as compared to other traditional ceramic methods. Hence, microwave-assisted technique has achieved rapid development in the field of materials science. In this chapter, we also mainly covered the basic principles of the microwave heating and mechanism based on interactions between dipoles in the material and the electromagnetic microwave. For the microwave-assisted synthesis of nanostructured materials, we will focus on metal oxides owing to very important functional materials both for the fundamental research and for practical applications in photocatalysis and gas sensors. This chapter also explores the potential application in photocatalysis. ? Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018.