Lead Zirconate Titanate oxide (PZT) thick films with thicknesses of up to 10 μm were developed using a modified sol-gel technique. Usually, the film thickness is less than 1 μm by conventional sol-gel processing, while the electrical charge accumulation which reveals the direct effect of piezoelectricity is proportional to the film thickness and therefore restricted. Two approaches were adopted...

Cost-effective and controllable synthesis of M0.25Ni0.15Cu0.25Co0.35Fe2O4 (M2+ = Mg2+, Mn2+, Cd2+) ferrites via the sol–gel auto-combustion technique. The impact divalent cations on structural, dielectric, optoelectrical properties was examined by XRD, FTIR, Raman, LCR, UV–Vis, two probe I-V measurement techniques. crystallite size 52.66 nm, minimum specific surface area observed 5.1507 m2/g fo...

The application of Fe–TiO2 photocatalysis using sol–gel method by hot–dipping technique was investigated. Then, the influences of fabrication parameters, molar ratios of Fe to TiO2, the sol temperature, poly ethylene glycol (PEG) content and the number of dipping cycles on the photocatalytic activity in visible light region were mainly studied. The experimental results revealed the sample with ...

Recent observations [1, 2] around the critical point showed that the critical exponents differed drastically for pure hydrogel systems depending on monomer concentration. To investigate hydrogels, the sol-gel phase transition during free radical crosslinking copolymerization the various amounts of acrylamide (AAm) and N-isopropylacrylamide (NIPA) mixtures was studied by using steady state fluor...

hydroxyapatite nanocrystals were synthesized by sol-gel combustion method for the sorption ofhg(ii) ions from aqueous solutions. the effects of varying parameters such as ph, temperature, initialmetal concentration, and contact time on the adsorption process were examined. adsorptionequilibrium was established in 360 minutes and the maximum adsorption of hg(ii) on thehydroxyapatite was observed...