Herein, we suggest a novel chemical precipitation method to prepare different concentrations (0.05–0.25 M) of cobalt doped Bi2O3 nanoparticles. The prepared products exhibit excellent structural and optical properties. The influence of doping on the morphology of Bi2O3 was analyzed by FE-SEM and confirmed by HR-TEM. Furthermore, the photocatalytic activities of the samples were studied in the d...

We report the mechanisms for reversible and repeatable spin transition in a Prussian blue analog crystal, KCo[Fe(CN)6], derived from first-principles calculations. The forward and reverse transitions are initiated by metal-to-metal charge transfer, followed by the d-electron rearrangement at the Co center. Further, these transitions are strongly correlated with bond lengths within the crystal l...

Green hydrogen: Cyanide-bound cobalt hydroxides in-situ grown from Prussian blue analogue Co3[Co(CN)6]2 in alkaline solution deliver excellent activity with low anodic onset potential for biomass oxidation. The performance is attributed to the cyanide group and adjacent unsaturated Co sites cooperatively promoting oxidation associated stabilization.

Humidity indicators based on composite polyamide 66/cobalt chloride (PA66/CoCl2) nanofibrous membranes (NFMs) were successfully fabricated by electrospinning. A series of NFMs with various weight percentage of CoCl2 to PA66 were prepared, and their humidity sensitivity based on color changing and quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) were studied. Due to the color change property of cobalt chloride...

Abstract Thermomicroscopy, or hot-stage microscopy, is primarily used in the analysis of organic materials such as pharmaceuticals and polymers. However, its potential application to study inorganic systems remains largely unexplored. A thermomicroscope was developed utilising red, green, blue (RGB) colour profiles individual micrographs taken at fixed temperatures follow temperature programmed...

The family of dehydrated nanoporous Prussian Blue analogues, M(II)3[Co(III)(CN)6]2 (M(II) = Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, Cd), which contain coordinatively unsaturated divalent metal cations, undergoes reversible sorption of hydrogen gas up to 1.2 wt% (at 77 K, 101.3 kPa), the capacity of which depends on the metal ion.

Metallic nanoparticles have been increasingly suggested as prospective therapeutic nanoplatforms, yet their long-term fate and cellular processing in the body is poorly understood. Here we examined the role of an endogenous iron storage protein - namely the ferritin - in the remediation of biodegradable cobalt ferrite magnetic nanoparticles. Structural and elemental analysis of ferritins close ...

We have obtained sensitive upper limits on the CO J=2-1 and CO J=3-2 emission lines for five faint blue galaxies with redshifts z ∼ 0.5 using the IRAM 30 m telescope. These observations would have been able to detect the luminous infrared galaxy IRAS F10214+4724 if it were located at this redshift and unlensed. However, they are not sensitive enough to detect the prototype starburst galaxy M82 ...