Barium zirconate is an interesting material for refractory applications as well as a good substrate for the manufacturing of high temperature superconductors. However, its solid state synthesis requires high temperature and provides inhomogeneous powder with a broad particle size distribution. In order to avoid these disadvantages, soft solution routes are of growing importance in the ceramic p...

Nanophase of Ga2O3 has potentially important applications in photocatalysis. We report the synthesis of nanophase of the metastable cand stable b-Ga2O3 and demonstrate that it is possible to prepare a continuously varying mixture starting from the pure metastable cto the pure b-phase. This is achieved by employing a facile and reliable combustion route, using urea as a fuel. Typical grain sizes...

Nanocrystalline complex oxides have been synthesized by combination of sol–gel auto combustion and ultrasonic irradiation techniques using copper nitrate, zinc nitrate as metallic nitrates and glycine, urea and thiourea as fuels. Sol-gel combustion (combination of the chemical sol–gel process and the combustion process) as a proper synthesized technique is used to synthesize ZnO/CuO nanocomposi...

Combustion, while being part of our everyday experience, is a complex phenomenon involving a multitude of reactions and dynamics. There is great value in understanding combustion through mathematical modelling, not only for its own sake, but also because of the applications of the developed model to combustion-based industrial processes or to that perennial environmental threat to populace, pro...

A modified solution combustion approach was used for the first time in the preparation of nanosize zirconia toughened alumina (ZTA) composite. ZTA-1 with an average particle size of 37 nm was prepared using corresponding metal nitrates and urea. ZTA-2 with an average particle size of <10 nm was prepared by using mixture of fuels such as ammonium acetate, urea and glycine. The products formed we...