Cellulose is the most abundant and renewable natural semi-crystalline polysaccharide. This biopolymer an inexhaustible source of fibers (NFs), valuable raw material for production microparticles microcrystalline (MCC) powdered cellulose (PC), as well other micro-products, which are widely used in biomedicine, food additives, plastics, materials. In addition, has a nano-fibrillar architecture th...

zno and zro2 photo catalysts were synthesized by sol-gel auto combustion method. the products were characterized by x-ray diffraction (xrd) and scanning electron microscopy (sem). structural and morphological properties of nano particles were investigated and the average crystalline size of zno and zro2 was obtained 44 and 51 nm, respectively. also, photo catalytic degradation of nitro phenol f...

New organic dyes that contain variable lengths of conjugation featuring alternating thiophene and fluorene segments have been synthesized and efficient nano-crystalline TiO2 based dye-sensitized solar cells were fabricated using these molecules as light-harvesting sensitizers.

Novel approaches to the collection and treatment of total x-ray scattering using high energy (> 65 keV) x-ray beams and area detectors allow in situ studies of unprecedented precision to be performed on nano-crystalline (n) and glassy materials at extremes of pressure (p) and temperature (T). Gradual structural transitions in glasses, liquids and nano-materials occurring via continuous changes ...

Copper oxide (CuO) nanostructures are of particular interest because of their interesting properties and promising applications in batteries, super capacitors, solar cells, gas sensors, bio sensors, nano fluids and catalysis. In Recent past, more efforts have been received to design materials with different properties which is dependent on morphology.  In this work cupric oxide nano flakes were...

Tungsten oxide (WO3) nanostructure were synthesized by a facile hydrothermal method at 150° C using tungstate dehydrates (Na2WO4.2H2O) as the precursor. Without any additive, scanning electron microscopy revealed a rhombus shaped WO3 nanostructures while with the addition of sodium chloride, the morphology changes to nano-dagger bundles that formed flower-like structure. Furthermore, the size o...

Copper oxide (CuO) nanostructures are of particular interest because of their interesting properties and promising applications in batteries, super capacitors, solar cells, gas sensors, bio sensors, nano fluids and catalysis. In Recent past, more efforts have been received to design materials with different properties which is dependent on morphology.  In this work cupric oxide nano flakes were...

The research and development of solid state gas sensors with low cost and reduced size for the monitoring of the gaseous species is rapidly increasing in the last years [1]. Many technological approaches have been proposed regarding the different materials and the detecting principles. The currently available sensors use several transduction principles: thermal, mass, potentiometric, amperometr...

The recent development of materials for organic field effect transistors (OFETs), including small-molecule and polymer materials, are briefly reviewed, and the problems that remain to be solved prior to practical application and use are discussed. Liquid crystalline materials are good candidates for OFETs because of their advantageous properties over soluble small-molecule materials. Liquid cry...

The challenge of estimating the crystalline-fraction of dense randomly-oriented nano-particles, contained in a (less-dense) amorphous support, is increasingly important in fields as diverse as heterogeneous-catalyst design and electronic-data storage. Lattice-fringe visibility-analysis [1,2] is a potential tool in this context, but of course interfering contrast from the amorphous support (as w...