iron, cobalt and copper are metals, which appear together in many real samples, both natural and artificial. recently a classical univariate micellar colorimetric method has been developed for determination of these metal ions. the organized molecular assemblies such as micelles are used in spectroscopic measurements due to their possible effects on the systems of interest. the ability of micel...

Copper nanoparticles encapsulated by multi-layer graphene have been produced in large quantity (in grams) by metal-organic chemical vapor deposition at 600 C with copper(II) acetylacetonate powders as precursor. The obtained graphene/copper shell/core nanoparticles were found to be formed by a novel coalescence mechanism that is quite different from the well-known dissolution–precipitation mech...

A new, improved sensor for the electrocatalytic determination of ascorbate has been developed that has both a low applied operating potential and a low detection limit. The sensor was constructed by depositing copper hexacyanoferrate film either electrochemically or chemically onto carbon film electrode, and it was then characterised by cyclic voltammetry and electrochemical impedance spectrosc...

Cobalt ferrite, Copper ferrite and cobalt doped copper nanoparticles have been synthesized characterized using different characterization methods (XRD, FTIR FESEM). The prepared used as promising fillers of the polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) polymer. PVDF/(Cu–CoFe2O4, CoFe2O4, CuFe2O4) nanocomposites films via a simple solution casting technique. optical properties piezoelectric response nanoco...

New types of energy storage are needed in conjunction with the deployment of solar, wind and other volatile renewable energy sources and their integration with the electric grid. No existing energy storage technology can economically provide the power, cycle life and energy efficiency needed to respond to the costly short-term transients that arise from renewables and other aspects of grid oper...

New types of energy storage are needed in conjunction with the deployment of renewable energy sources and their integration with the electrical grid. We have recently introduced a family of cathodes involving the reversible insertion of cations into materials with the Prussian Blue open-framework crystal structure. Here we report a newly developed manganese hexacyanomanganate open-framework ano...

Flow injection-solid phase spectrometry (FI-SPS) has been applied to the determination of cobalt(II) in water samples. The complex formed between cobalt and 5-Br-PADAB was on-line protonated and concentrated on an AG 50W-X2 cation-exchanger in a flow-through cell. The increase in absorbance caused by the accumulation of the complex in the resin was continuously measured. The interference by cop...