MnO2 and Co3O4 are identified as two highly MW active catalysts for the degradation and eventual mineralization of trace amounts of the toxic pollutant dye IC in water. The degradation is much faster compared to identical conventional heating conditions suggesting that the MW effect is not just thermal. ‘Specific effects’ and ‘athermal effects’ of MW also contribute to the degradation of the po...

Highly sensitive, selective, reliable and inexpensive cholesterol biosensors are highly demanded for the routine monitoring of cholesterol molecules in order to prevent the heart failure incidents. In this study, Co3O4 nanostructures are synthesized using polyvinyl pyrrolidone surfactant as a growth template by a low temperature aqueous chemical growth method. The morphology of nanostructures w...

The use of transition metals as bifunctional catalysts for rechargeable zinc-air batteries has recently attracted much attention. Due to their multiple chemical valence states, the cobalt oxides are considered be promising oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and evolution (OER). In this work, Ag-decorated Co3O4-nitrogen doped porous carbon composite (Co3O4-NC&Ag) were synthesized by annealing Z...

Co3O4/NiO@GQDs@SO3H nanocatalyst has been used as an effective catalyst for the preparation of benzopyranopyridines through a four-component reaction of salicylaldehydes, thiols and 2 equiv of malononitrile under reflux condition in ethanol. The catalyst has been characterized by FT-IR, XRD, SEM, EDS, BET, XPS, TGA and VSM. Atom economy, reusable catalyst, low catalyst loading, applicability to...

novel ceramic oxides have been increasingly focused in recent years because of their potentialapplications in environmental purification especially to treat organic contaminants present in water. in thisresearch work, a set of nio-co3o4 nano-ceramic composite materials were prepared by a simple refluxcondensation method using nickel acetate / cobalt acetate as precursor salts, sodium monododecy...

In this research work, we report a simple method called reflux condensation method for synthesizing Co3O4 nanoparticles using cheap chemicals such as, cobalt acetate (precursor salt), sodium monododecyl sulphate - SDS (surfactant) and N, N - Dimethylformamide - DMF (solvent). The prepared materials were heat treated at 200, 400, 600 and 800 oC for each 2 h to get phase pure product. The calcine...

In this study, spinel-type cobalt oxide (Co3O4) and Co3-xDyxO4 (x = 0.04 and 0.05 molar ratio) nanoparticles were synthesized via combustion method at 700 °C. Crystallite nature, phase purity and thermal analysis of the prepared compounds were investigated by PXRD, FT-IR and TGA techniques. Structural analyses were performed by the FullProf program employing profile matching with constant scale...

Substitution of ionic platinum is carried out in Co3O4 host synthesized by solution combustion strategy. These Pt substituted spinels characterized XRD show pure crystalline phase without any separated peaks related to Pt/PtOx. Electrochemical OER activities these are investigated cyclic voltammetry, linear sweep voltammetry and chronoamperometry neutral, alkaline neutral buffer electrolytes. L...

Cobalt oxide has good catalytic activity for peroxydisulfate (PDS) activation but poor stability and is vulnerable to inactivation because of agglomeration. In this work, the chlortetracycline (CTC) degradation by catalysis using reduced graphene support cobalt (Co3O4/rGO) composite catalyst was investigated. It found that 86.3% CTC degraded within 120 min in Co3O4/rGO-800/PDS system. The influ...

Cobalt oxide/graphene oxide (Co3O4/GO) nanocomposites were synthesised using the co-precipitation synthesis process. The polycrystalline nature of Co3O4 nanoparticles onto GO sheets is studied by X-ray diffraction (XRD) pattern where found in with a particle size 35 nm. structural and morphological field emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM) EDX, distribution on nanosheets was observed....