The lack of high-efficient, low-cost, and durable bifunctional electrocatalysts that act simultaneously for the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is currently one of the major obstacles to commercializing the electrical rechargeability of zinc-air batteries. A nanocomposite CoO-NiO-NiCo bifunctional electrocatalyst supported by nitrogen-doped multiwall carb...

Nickel oxide (NiO) nanopowder was obtained during a sonochemical method. Nickel hydroxide precursor, prepared by addition of sodium hydroxide (NaOH) to nickel nitrate Ni(NO3)2 solution and vigorously stirring until the pH becomes 7.2. Ultrasounds waves were applied during precipitation period and after drying in oven nanopowder NiO was achieved. Transient and scanning electron microscopy showed...

La0.8Sr0.2CoO3 was coated on NiO (LSC–NiO) cathodes using a sol–gel method. Dissolution studies in molten Li2CO3 and K2CO3 (62:38 mol%) at 650 8C showed lower Ni dissolution than that of the conventional nickel oxide cathode. Impedance analysis showed that the behavior of the developed cathode is similar to that of nickel oxide. The LSC coated Ni cathode has an over potential of 109 mVat an app...

Porous nickel oxide (NiO) and zinc oxide (ZnO) submicro- and nanofibers were synthesized by impregnating electrospun polyacrylonitrile (PAN) fiber templates with corresponding metal nitrate aqueous solutions and subsequent calcination. The diameter of the NiO and ZnO fibers was closely related to that of the template fibers and larger diameters were obtained when using the template fibers with ...

We report the Ni 2p x-ray photoelectron spectra of NiO thin films grown on different oxide substrates, namely, SiO2, Al2O3, and MgO. The main line of the Ni 2p spectra is attributed to the bulk component, and the shoulder at 1.5 eV higher binding energies to the surface component. The spectra of the NiO thin films show strong differences with respect to that of bulk NiO. The energy separation b...

We investigated a range of different mesoporous NiO electrodes prepared by different research groups and private firms in Europe to determine the parameters which influence good quality photoelectrochemical devices. This benchmarking study aims to solve some of the discrepancies in the literature regarding the performance of p-DSCs due to differences in the quality of the device fabrication. Th...

Aerosol-assisted chemical vapor deposition (AACVD) was used for the first time in the preparation of thin-film electrochromic nickel(II) oxide (NiO). The as-deposited films were cubic NiO, with an octahedral-like grain structure, and an optical band gap that decreased from 3.61 to 3.48 eV on increase in film thickness (in the range 500-1000 nm). On oxidative voltammetric cycling in aqueous KOH ...

This work was stimulated by the large shape changes of ion-bombarded NiO layers found by Bolse [1]. His observations were somewhat reminiscent of ion-hammering of amorphous materials, an effect of shear stress relaxation in liquid ion tracks [2]. Schattat et al. [3] provided evidence for liquid ion tracks in NiO. On the other hand, first x-ray diffraction measurements revealed that NiO remained...

We present a study of the prototypical NiO(111) antiferromagnet by nonresonant surface x-ray magnetic scattering. Direct access to the antiferromagnetic surface and bulk spin ordering is demonstrated. Our data support a first order antiferromagnetic to paramagnetic transition. A quantitative determination of the magnetization profile is proposed. It is shown that the NiO(111) surface spins rema...

The insulator-metal transition was observed experimentally in nickel monoxide (NiO) at very high pressures of ~240 GPa. The sample resistance becomes measurable at about 130 GPa and decreases substantially with the pressure increase to ~240 GPa. A sharp drop in resistance by about 3 orders of magnitude has been observed at ~240 GPa with a concomitant change of the resistance type from semicondu...