Published in Sādhanā
In the present work, an experimental investigation and characterization of Functionally Graded Materials (FGMs) is carried out. The Nickel (Ni) and Titanium dioxide (TiO2) materials are taken as principal materials and the powder metallurgy technique is used for the preparation of specimens. The Nickel powder has a particle size of 20 μm with more ...
Published in Journal of Earth System Science
The production of nanoparticles (NPs) has increased significantly, given that they have numerous commercial and medical applications. There might have some risk associated with the release of these NPs in the environment. To assess the possible risk of releases of NPs in the groundwater, it is important to evaluate the fate and transport behaviour ...
Hydrothermal crystallization was used to synthesize an advanced hybrid system containing titania and molybdenum disulfide (with a TiO2:MoS2 molar ratio of 1:1). The way in which the conditions of hydrothermal treatment (180 and 200 ° / C) and thermal treatment (500 ° / C) affect the physicochemical properties of the products was determined. A...
Published in Journal of Chemical Sciences
AbstractThe synthesis of new porphyrin complexes that can absorb light in a broad range of the spectrum is very important for getting a high efficiency in dye-sensitized solar cells. The primary reason for using these complexes is good photophysical characteristic like good absorption and high quantum efficiency. Most of the metal porphyrin shows g...
A series of highly robust nano-micro hybrid materials based on meso-tetra(4-hydroxyphenyl) porphyrins (M = H, Pd, Zn) and titanium dioxide (denoted as THPP-TiO2, THPP-Pd-TiO2, and THPP-Zn-TiO2) have been prepared by a facile sol-gel method for the first time. When Pt nanoparticles are incorporated in these hybrids, Pt/THPP-Pd-TiO2 achieves good H2 ...
Layered Double Hydroxide (LDH)/TiO2 nanocomposites with photocatalytic properties were synthesized by both impregnation and the direct coprecipitation of LDH matrices using a colloidal suspension of TiO2 nanoparticles. While the two methods led to an efficient TiO2 nanoparticle immobilization, the direct coprecipitation allowed us to tune the amoun...
Published in International Journal of Minerals, Metallurgy and Materials
A simple and novel technique for the preparation of anatase TiO2 nanopowders using natural ilmenite (FeTiO3) as the starting material is reported. Digesting ilmenite with concentrated H3PO4 under refluxing conditions yields a white α-titanium bismonohydrogen orthophosphate monohydrate (TOP), Ti(HPO4)2·H2O, which can be easily isolated via gravity s...
TiO2-MoO3 composite systems were successfully prepared using a template-assisted microwave method at molar ratios TiO2:MoO3 = 8:2, 5:5 and 2:8. The synthesized material systems were comprehensively characterized, in terms of their crystalline structure (XRD and Raman spectroscopy), morphology (SEM, TEM and HRTEM analysis) and parameters of the poro...
In this study, six solvents (water, diiodomethane, bromonaphthalene, formamide, ethanol and ethylene glycol) were examined for three nanoparticle substrates, zinc oxide and titanium dioxide (21 nm and 100 nm), with the goal of assessing the suitability of a modified drop penetration method (DPM) for orders of magnitude smaller particles. Nanopartic...
Through this Special Issue, you will discover the potentiality of inorganic polymerization (sol-gel process) which is a unique and versatile way for the preparation of materials [...]
