Abstract
Mn-3(PO4)(2) nanoparticles were synthesized by microemulsion method, the synthesized nanoparticles were characterized using various analytical techniques such as Thermogravimetric Analysis, X-ray Diffraction, Scanning Electron Microscopy and Brunauer-Emmet-Teller surface area. In addition to this the whole synthesis procedure of Mn-3(PO4)(2) nanopartides was optimized using the Taguchi design method with L-8 (2(7)) orthogonal array using water-in-oil microemulsion method with pentanol as oil and sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) as surfactant. Effective parameters such as type and concentration of precursors, temperature and time of calcination, stirring rate and amount of surfactant and product used for calcination were optimized using the above said method. On optimizing parameters it was noticed that the amount of surfactant was the main effective factor which alters the size of Mn-3(PO4)(2) nanoparticles and the optimized average particle size for microemulsion method was 72 nm. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.