We have performed density functional theory investigations on the adsorption properties of ammonia molecule on the undoped and N-doped TiO2 anatase nanoparticles. We have geometrically optimized the constructed undoped and N-doped nanoparticles in order to fully understand the adsorption behaviors of ammonia molecule. For TiO2 anatase nanoparticles, the binding site is preferentially located on...

Imaging of non-fluorescent nanoparticles in complex biological environments, such as the cell cytosol, is a challenging problem. For metal nanoparticles, Rayleigh scattering methods can be used, but for organic nanoparticles, such as dye-doped polymer beads or lipid nanoparticles, light scattering does not provide good contrast. In this paper, spatial modulation spectroscopy (SMS) is used to im...

FeCe nanoparticles were synthesized by simple co-precipitation method using Iron chloride hexahydrate (FeCl3.6H2O) and cerium chloride (CeCl2•5H2O) as precursors in the presence of cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) surfactant. The samples were characterized by high resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM), field emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM), X-ray diffraction (XR...

In this work the development of gold catalysts, essentially based on γ-alumina with small superficial fraction of Ce-Fe mixed oxides as support for the low temperature CO oxidation is proposed. Characterization results obtained by means of TEM, OSC, XPS, UV-Vis spectroscopy and H2-TPR are employed to correlate the activity data with the catalysts composition. The bare γ-alumina supported gold c...

The catalytic transformation of renewable biomass oil (mainly comprising fatty acids and triglycerides) into high-value alkanes is a versatile technique, Ni-based catalysts are considered to be the most suitable substitutes for precious metals. Ni nanoparticles supported on CeO2 carriers, prepared by hydrothermal synthesis (Ni/H-CeO2) with abundant oxygen vacancies, exhibited superior activity ...

Films of cerium-doped LaMnO3, which has been intensively discussed as an electron-doped counterpart to hole-doped mixed-valence lanthanum manganites during the past decade, were analyzed by x-ray photoemission spectroscopy with respect to their manganese valence under photoexcitation. The comparative analysis of the Mn 3s exchange splitting of La0.7Ce0.3MnO3 (LCeMO) films in the dark and under ...

The awareness of environmental factors, limited energy resources, and increasing energy demands have driven the search for both improved utilization of our fossil energy and new alternative energy resources. These new energy technologies are preferably cleaner, cheaper, smaller and more efficient than those currently being employed, for instance fuel cells, lithium-ion batteries, thermoelectric...

We have studied the electronic states in three different ceria thin film surfaces prepared on a Cu(111) single-crystal surface by vapor deposition at different conditions: at 250 °C, at room temperature and finally Au-doped ceria film obtained by simultaneous deposition of Au and CeO2 at room temperature (RT). Electronic properties of the layers and interaction of gold with CeO2 were investigat...

Coherent potential approximation is used to study the effect of adding doped spherical nanoparticles inside a host matrix on the thermoelectric properties. This takes into account electron multiple scatterings that are important in samples with relatively high volume fraction of nanoparticles (>1%). We show that with large fraction of uniform small size nanoparticles (∼1 nm), the power factor c...

We investigated whether Aluminum (Al) doping tunes band gap energy level as well as selective cytotoxicity of ZnO nanoparticles in human breast cancer cells (MCF-7). Pure and Al-doped ZnO nanoparticles were prepared by a simple sol-gel method. Characterization study confirmed the formation of single phase of Al(x)Zn(1-x)O nanocrystals with the size range of 33-55 nm. Al-doping increased the ban...