Here we present a combined theoretical and experimental study of hydrogen adsorption on Zn-functionalized MgO surface. We have systematically compared infrared spectra recorded at increasing pressure (10–5–100 mbar) rock-salt Zn0.05Mg0.95O nanocubes. The interpretation vibrations involving was supported by ab initio calculations following the same strategy as for pure MgO. Despite small Zn conc...

the bone mineral consists of tiny hydroxyapatite (ha) crystals in the nanoregime. nanostructured ha is also expected to have better bioactivity than coarser crystals. this paper reports on the in vitro evaluation of bone like ha nanopowders. the prepared ha nanopowder was characterized for its phase purity, chemical homogeneity and bioactivity. fourier transform infrared (ft-ir) spectroscopy wa...

An investigation was carried out on the synthesis of titanium dioxide nanopowders via the hydrothermal method, examining the influence of temperature (150oC and 200oC) and reaction time (6 to 36 h). The resulting powders were characterized by X-ray diffraction, infrared absorption spectrophotometry, transmission electron micrographs and surface area. The X-ray diffraction revealed that there wa...

This paper reports on the ferromagnetic properties of aged Ti(1-x)CoxO(2-delta) anatase nanopowders with different Co contents (0.03 < or = x < or = 0.10). It is shown for the first time that aged Co:TiO2 anatase samples retain rather high values of magnetization (M), remanence (Mr) and coercivity (Hc) which provide strong evidence for a preserved long-range ferromagnetic order. Room temperatur...

In this paper, we demonstrate the seeded growth of graphene under a plasma chemical vapor deposition condition. First, we fabricate graphene nanopowders (~5 nm) by ball-milling commercial multi-wall carbon nanotubes. The graphene nanoparticles were subsequently subject to a direct current plasma generated in a 100 Torr 10%CH4 - 90%H2 gas mixture. The plasma growth enlarged, over one hour, the n...

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