Nanoparticles of tin oxide, doped with Ce and Y, were prepared using the polymeric precursor method. The structural variations of the tin oxide nanoparticles were characterized by means of nitrogen physisorption, carbon dioxide chemisorption, X-ray diffraction, and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. The synthesized samples, undoped and doped with the rare earths, were used to promote the ethanol...

TiO2 and ZnO nanoparticles are probably the first ones that have gained entrance to the market for their photocatalytic and UV-absorbent properties. As large volumes of these nanoparticles are required by the industry, the search for environmentally gentle processes for the synthesis of the same is also growing strong. Continuing our quest with the microorganism based synthesis of nanomaterials...

A hydrothermal procedure was used to synthesis flower-like 0–0.5 wt% Ni-doped SnS2, oxidation extent of which tuned in air at 350 °C for various times. Photocatalysts were dip-coated on coiled wire-meshes including a light source 500 ppm trichloroethylene air. FE-SEM revealed that the SnS2 structure integrity preserved after partial oxidation, while surface areas dramatically enhanced. XRD, HR-...

Current status of nanoscience research is briefly surveyed with special emphasis on monodisperse metal nanocrystals. Tunneling spectroscopy measurements on polymer protected magic nuclearity Pd561 nanocrystals have revealed single electron charging effects. Mesoscopic organizations resulting from self-assembly of these nanocrystals have been investigated. Giant clusters containing magic numbers...

Undoped Zinc oxide (ZnO) nanoparticles as well as ZnO nanoparticles doped with Magnesium (Mg) were synthesized by wet chemical precipitation method using Zinc acetate and Magnesium acetate in Ethylene glycol and distilled water medium. The prepared nanoparticles were characterized with X-ray diffraction (XRD). The XRD patterns show the pattern of typical ZnO nanoparticles and correspond with st...

Yttrium aluminum garnet nanoparticles both undoped and doped with lanthanide ions (Ce, Eu, Dy and Tb) having average size around 30 (73nm) nm were prepared by glycine nitrate combustion method followed by annealing at a relatively low temperature of 800 1C. Increase in the annealing temperature has been found to improve the luminescence intensity and for 1200 1C heated samples there exists stro...

Kaub, T., Felfer, P., Cairney, J., Thompson, G. (2016). Influence of Ni Solute segregation on the intrinsic growth stresses in Cu(Ni) thin films. Scripta Materialia, 113, 131-134. [Mor e Information] He, M., Samudrala, S., Kim, G., Felfer, P., Breen, A., Cairney, J., Gianola, D. (2016). Linking stress-driven microstructural evolut...

Ni based catalysts are wildly used in catalytic industrial processes due to their low costs and high activities. The design of highly hierarchical core-shell structured Ni/HBEA is achieved using a sustainable, simple, and easy-tunable hydrothermal synthesis approach using combined NH4Cl and NH3·H2O as a co-precipitation agent at 120 °C. Starting from a single-crystalline hierarchical H+-exchang...

Addressed herein, functionalized multi-walled carbon nanotube (MWCNT) supported highly monodisperse nickel nanoparticles modified on glassy carbon electrode (Ni@f-MWCNT/GCE) were synthesized through microwave assisted method and examined for non-enzymatic glucose sensing in ionic liquids by cyclic voltammetry and chronoamperometry. The results of Ni@f-MWCNT/GCE electrode were compared with Ni N...

We describe the use of surface-deposited nickel nanoparticles to enhance the fluorescence signatures of fluorophores. Different density Ni nanoparticulate substrates were fabricated and characterized using both AFM and optical absorption techniques. When fluorophores were placed in close proximity to the substrates, metal-enhanced fluorescence (MEF) was observed. The wavelength dependence of th...