Nanostructured carbon-based materials, such as nitrogen-doped carbon nanotube arrays, Co3O4/nitrogen-doped graphene hybrids and carbon nanotube-graphene complexes have shown respectable oxygen reduction reaction activity in alkaline media. Although certainly promising, the performance of these materials does not yet warrant implementation in the energy conversion/storage devices utilizing basic...

Nanosized photocatalysts have been shown to be important to many modern photocatalytic reactions. Control of the microstructure of the nanocrystals enables regulation of their optical properties and enhancement of specific reactions. Here, Cu(2+)-doped ZnS nanosphere photocatalysts with hierarchical nanostructures and controllable sizes were synthesized via a facile wet-chemical reaction. We de...

We unraveled the mechanisms of transition metal-doped mechanoluminescent materials through a case study of CaZnOS. We found that the native point defect levels in Cu or Mn-doped CaZnOS system acted as energy relay centers for luminescence energy transfer. In combination with native point defect levels, discussed in a previous study [Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2016, 18, 25946], we found that phosp...

in the . The Two-sourced evaporation technique is used to prepare hard ZnSe films by controlling the evaporation rates o Zn and Se at substrate temperature of 400 1C. The films are doped with Cu by immersion in the Cu(NO3)2 solution for different periods of time. The XRD has not shown a drastic change in the film structure while the ele resistivity of the deposited film dropped from 10O-cm to a...

in this study, the elemental powders of aluminum and copper were initially subjected to mechanical alloying using an attrition ball mill under argon atmosphere to produce an al-4.5 wt% cu powder alloy. the wc nanoparticles were then added to the powder alloy and milled in a planetary ball mill to explore the role of the wc nanoparticles on the mechanical properties of the fabricated composite p...

Copper nanoparticles/fluorine-doped tin oxide (FTO) nanocomposites were successfully prepared by a simple hydrothermal method. The synthesized nanocomposites were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), UV-visible diffuse-reflectance spectrum (UV-VIS DRS), energy dispersive X-ray (EDX), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), Raman spectra, and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). The obta...

A deposition technology of amorphous carbon coating (a-C), doped with copper (C-$$$Cu), has been developed. The C-Cu was performed the simultaneous operation arc- and pulse-arc sources graphite cathodes, respectively. There studied antibacterial activity a-C against E. coli, S. aureus P. aeruginosa. copper-doped bactericidal number bacterial colonies is five times lower in compare Ti.

The surface of lanthanide(III)-doped LaPO4 nanoparticles was modified by reaction with an alcohol, leading to a covalent bond between the ligand and the particle surface. The surface of lanthanide(III)-doped LaF3 nanoparticles was modified to alter the solubility of the nanoparticles and study the influence of surface effects on the luminescence of lanthanide ions doped in the nanoparticles. Th...