%0 Journal Article %T Sonochemical Synthesis and Characterization of a Nano-Sized Lead (II) Coordination Polymer; A New Precursor for the Preparation of PbO Nanoparticles %J International Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology %I Iranian Nanotechnology Society %Z 1735-7004 %A Ranjbar, M. %A Yousefi, M. %D 2016 %\ 06/01/2016 %V 12 %N 2 %P 109-118 %! Sonochemical Synthesis and Characterization of a Nano-Sized Lead (II) Coordination Polymer; A New Precursor for the Preparation of PbO Nanoparticles %K Lead (II) oxide nanoparticles %K Nano-sized coordination polymer %K Sonochemical method %R %X Development of components that can form large molecular aggregates through non–covalent interactions, in nano size structures, has been an active area of research. In current study, a nano-sized Pb(II) coordination polymer, {[Pb(pydc)(pydc.H2)(H2O)2]2}n (1), where [pydc.H2= 2,6-pyridinedicarboxylic acid), were synthesized by sonochemical method and characterized by field emission scanning electron microscope (FESEM), X-ray powder diffraction (XRD), FT-IR spectroscopy and elemental analyses. The sizes of the nano-structures were approximately 90 nm. The thermal stability of compound 1 has been studied by thermal gravimetric (TG) and differential thermal analyses (DTA). The crystal structure of compound 1, based on an X-ray structural analysis has been reported before, in which the crystal dimensions was in millimeter range. Pure phase PbO nanoparticles were simply obtained by calcination of nano-sized compound 1 at 600 °C under argon atmosphere and the particles size of the PbO were about 26 nm. This study demonstrates that the coordination polymers may be suitable precursors for the simple one-pot preparation of nanoscale metal oxide materials with different and interesting morphologies. %U https://www.ijnnonline.net/article_20407_5763d20ec7257d88810ece0ec367f169.pdf