We have developed a new green chemical approach for the shape-controlled synthesis of single-crystalline hematite nanocrystals in aqueous medium. FESEM, HRTEM and SAED techniques were used to determine the morphology and crystallographic orientations of each nanocrystal and its exposed facets. PXRD and HRTEM techniques revealed that the nanocrystals are single crystalline in nature; twins and s...

Hydrothermally assisted magnetic ZnO/Carbon nanocomposites were prepared using the selective biowaste of pomelo orange. Initially, carbon aerogel (CA) was hydrothermally followed by a freeze-drying method. Furthermore, iron oxide nanoparticles deposited onto surface co-precipitation method and we obtained nanocomposite, i.e., Fe3O4/C (MNC). Moreover, ZnO photocatalysts incorporated MNC composit...

Magnetron sputtering is a widely used physical vapor deposition technique for deposition and formation of nanocatalyst thin films and clusters. Nevertheless, so far only few studies investigated this formation process at the fundamental level. We here review atomic scale molecular dynamics simulations aimed at elucidating the nanocatalyst growth process through magnetron sputtering. We first in...

Adsorption characteristics of the antibiotic meropenem on a novel magnetic material synthesized by surface coating cobalt iron oxide (CFO) with gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) were systematically investigated. The AuNPs can enhance adsorption capacity having high affinity towards thioether and amine groups in structure. Au coverage CFO decreased saturation magnetization from 55.8 emu/g to 48.8 emu/g...