Journal of Nanotechnology and Materials ScienceJournal of Nanotechnology and Materials ScienceJournal of Nanotechnology and Materials ScienceJournal of Nanotechnology and Materials Science2377-1372Ommega Online PublishersNew Jersey, USA80810.15436/2377-1372.16.020Research ArticleCuO nanoparticles synthesis and characterization for humiditysensor applicationCuO nanoparticles synthesis and characterization for humiditysensor applicationVenkateswaraRao 1Department of Physics Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University College of Engineering Hyderabad Kukatpally Hyderabad Telangana-500085 India 2Department of S Science amp Humanities Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering Tirupathi 3Department of Physics JNTU College of Engineering Ananthapuramu 4Centre for Nano Science and Technology Institute of Science and Technology Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad Kukatpally Telangana-500085 India Editor* E-mail: kalagadda2003@gmail.com
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20162704201631JNMS-16-RA-80813022016210420162016Creative Commons Attribution LicenseThis is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. nbsp emsp emsp Copper oxide nanoparticles were prepared by chemical combustion and co-precipitation method and observed the humidity sensing property The CuO nanoparticles were characterized under X-Ray Diffractometer XRD Particle Size Analyser PSA Thermo Gravimetric And Differential Thermal Analyser TGDTA Scanning Electron Microscope SEM and Transmission Electron Microscope TEM XRD results with JCPDS card numbers confirmed that obtained nanoparticles are CuO nanoparticles and the average crystallite size of CuO nanoparticles are in nano meter range The weight losses of the sample and phase transformation details were obtained by TGA SEM images inferred that the nanoparticles are in cubic shape nearly uniform in size amp crystallinity in nature The humidity sensing property is exhibited by the copper nanoparticles 10