Preparation and Characterization of CuO Nanostructures through simple precipitation method in the presence of thioglycolic acid

The nanosized copper oxides (CuO) were synthesized via a simple chemical precipitation method by using thioglycolic acid (TGA) as a capping agent. By using different concentration of capping agent we could get different sizes of CuO nanostructures. The characterization of the prepared samples was performed by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and UV-vis diffuse reflectance spectroscopy (DRS).