Question: How long does it take for you to grow a zinc oxide nanorod?

Kieren Bradley answered on 19 Mar 2014:

It involves a few different steps, firstly cleaning glass (30 minutes), dropping zinc acetate onto the glass (1 to 2 hours for 4 to 12 samples), heating the glass (35 minutes to get to 350 degrees, then 5 hours at 350 degrees and then a couple of hours to cool down – all done overnight usually), the actual growth is done when the rods are heated up in a chemical bath (1 to 4 hours depending on how long I want them), they then might go back into the oven for another 5 hours/over night. So to answer, the whole process can start on a Monday morning and be finished by Tuesday afternoon or Wednesday morning, the time I put into making them is probably about 3 hours with the rest of the time being waiting for them to heat/grow, but the growth time itself is between 1 and 4 hours.