Sara Masoudi Nejad - Department of chemistry, Arak University, Arak, ۳۸۱۵۶۸۸۳۴۹, Iran
Vahid Mahdavi - Department of chemistry, Arak University, Arak, ۳۸۱۵۶۸۸۳۴۹, Iran

In this paper, the synthesis of vanadium oxide by hydrothermal method and in the presence of Template molecules, which are different carboxylic acids (malonic acid, succinic acid, adipic acid and glutaric acid) of chain length, have been reported. The effect of the type of carboxylic acid on the structure and morphology of the catalysts were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscope (SEM) and FT-IR analysis. The results revealed that the morphologies of the vanadium pentoxide Nano crystals could be controlled by template molecules. This facile method to fabricate V2O5 Nano particle with well-defined morphologies would be of great significance to design other complicated micro-architectures with advanced functions.

Ammonium metavanadate; Hydrothermal; Carboxylic acid