Ceria-terbia solid solution nanobelts were prepared by an electrochemical route and tested as catalysts of high activity for CO oxidation.

The present work evaluates the performance of solar collector using Al2O3-C2H6O2-H2O nanofluid as a working fluid through both experimental and CFD analysis. Ethylene-glycol water mixture (40:60 v/v) is used as base fluid, where α-Al2O3 nanoparticle of 20 nm average size is dispersed for the preparation of nanofluid of four different volumetric concentration (vol. conc.) of 0.05, 0.075, 0.1 and...

High-resolution electron microscopy was employed to characterize the interface structure of a cast Al-Mg-Si-Bi-Pb aluminium(6262)-based composite reinforced by alpha alumina particles with a trace of beta alumina in order to investigate the behaviour of alloying elements in cast composites. Except for a few primary Mg2Si particles, few reaction products were detected at the interface of Al/alph...

Abstract Hyperthermia has been in use for many years, as a potential alternative modality cancer treatment. In this paper, an experimental investigation of microwave-assisted thermal heating (MWATH) tissue phantom using domestic microwave oven reported. Computer simulations finite element method-based tools were also carried out to support the observations and probe insight into transport aspec...

An efficient methodology for the preparation of 2-aminothiazoles is achieved by one-pot reaction of methylcarbonyls, thiourea and iodine in the presence of an aluminum oxide nanoparticle as an active nanocatalyst at 85 °C in DMSO solvent. Al2O3 nanoparticles have been prepared via co-precipitation method and their structures were confirmed using Fourier transform infrared radiation (FT-TR), X-r...

This project is an extension of TEM work conducted on a previous AINSE funded project AINGRA08066, and aims to use the TEM, STEM/HAADF, EDS and plasmon imaging facilities at ANSTO to structurally characterize novel supported silver nanoparticle catalysts for ozone abatement, and supported gold catalysts for low temperature CO oxidation. The catalysts, fabricated at the University of Auckland, c...

Highly ordered self-assembled silver nanoparticle (NP) arrays have been produced by glancing angle deposition on faceted c-plane Al2O3 templates. The NP shape can be tuned by changing the substrate temperature during deposition. Reflectance anisotropy spectroscopy has been used to monitor the plasmonic evolution of the sample during the growth. The structures showed a strong dichroic response r...

Gap-plasmon-enhanced gold nanoparticle photoluminescence is studied experimentally at the single-particle level. The photoluminescence spectra of gold nanoparticles on an Al2O3-coated gold film under both 532 and 633 nm excitation show a clear peak near the measured gap-plasmon resonance wavelength. Comparing the collected emission spectrum with that from a gold reference film under 633 nm exci...

In this paper, we report a new method to prepare the polymer/inorganic nanoparticle composites using electron irradiation-induced polymerization. The mixture of nanoparticles and MMA solution were co-irradiated by 1.6 MeV electron beam to a dose of 10, 20 and 30 kGy at a dose-rate of 60 kGy/h in air at room temperature. The products after irradiation were extracted using a soxhlet extractor wit...

Nanofluid, the fluid suspensions of a metallic nanoparticle, became coolant that is used when promising enhancement in heat transfer required. In current study, characteristics flow and are numerically investigated using different nanofluids (Al2O3–H2O, TiO2–H2O, SiO2–H2O) micro-channel sink (MCHS) configurations (rectangular, triangular, trapezoidal, circular). this numerical investigation, ef...