Co (3%)-doped ZnO and Co, Cu (Co = 3% 2 to 4%) dual-doped nanostructures were prepared using chemical co-precipitation route. The structural analysis indicated no alteration in the structure of hexagonal absence secondary/impurity phases induced by Co/Cu addition into ZnO. reduction crystallite size (≈ 25 nm) at 2% is due suppression growth rate dissimilarities between Co2+/Cu2+ Zn2+ ions, enha...

Incorporation of Zn atoms into a nanosize Cu lattice is known to alter the electronic properties of Cu, improving catalytic performance in a number of industrially important reactions. However the structural influence of Zn on the Cu phase is not well studied. Here, we show that Cu nano-clusters modified with increasing concentration of Zn, derived from ZnO support doped with Ga(3+), can dramat...

a Instruments The as-prepared nanostructures on the substrate were sent to characterizations on a CAMSCAN APOLLO 300 field-emission scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM) at 15KV. The crystal structure of the products was studied using a Bruker D8 X-ray diffractometer with Cu K irradiation at λ = 1.5406 Å. For high-resolution TEM measurements, one drop of the alcohol dispersed suspension of sam...

RESUMO A produção de álcoois pela hidrogenação do CO na presença um catalisador, normalmente Cu/ZnO/Al2O3, em pressões 50-100 bar e temperaturas faixa 220 a 300 °C, é uma importante rota metanol. Neste cenário, novo catalisador foi sintetizado substituindo o ZnO por Nb2O5, que sua vez, trata-se matéria prima nacional com propriedades semicondutoras semelhantes ao óxido zinco, sendo pouco invest...

CuZnO (CZO) films have attracted increasing amounts of attention due to their promising potential applications in semiconductor devices. ZnO shows n-type conductivity, and attempts have been made to dope several elements in ZnO to improve the electrical properties. This study investigated the electrical property transitions of CZO films and determined the copper concentration at which the condu...

Within EU FP7 project NANOVALID, the (eco)toxicity of 7 well-characterized engineered nanomaterials (NMs) was evaluated by 15 bioassays in 4 laboratories. The highest tested nominal concentration of NMs was 100 mg/l. The panel of the bioassays yielded the following toxicity order: Ag > ZnO > CuO > TiO2 > MWCNTs > SiO2 > Au. Ag, ZnO and CuO proved very toxic in the majority of assays, assumingly...

Novel chitosan-zinc copper oxide (Zn1-xCuxO) composites were electrochemically synthesized through galvanostatic deposition. The prepared chitosan-based composite thin films were elaborately investigated to determine their structural, morphological, compositional, impedance, and corrosion properties. X-ray diffraction analysis was performed to reveal their structural orientation of composite th...

A solution-grown subwavelength antireflection coating has been investigated for enhancing the photovoltaic efficiency of thin film solar cells. The 100-nm-height ZnO nanorods coating benefited the photocurrent of Cu(In,Ga)Se2 solar cells from 31.7 to 34.5 mA/cm2 via the decrease of surface light reflectance from 14.5% to 7.0%, contributed by the gradual refractive index profile between air and ...

Methanol steam reforming is a promising reaction in terms of hydrogen production for use in PEM fuel cells. Catalyst research has focused mainly on Cu/ZnO formulations, because of their superior selectivity to CO2 and H2. The common byproduct CO is problematic due to its poisoning effect on the anode of a downstream fuel cell. Some years ago it was shown that palladium supported on certain redu...