Nowadays, fabrication of electronic devices using nanostructured materials has been important since it does provide a way of improving devices efficiency. Nanostructured materials have been known to have high surface area per volume and also exhibit unique properties such as visible light transparency and quantum confinement effect. Such characteristics produce excellent reaction area in the de...

We have demonstrated an extremely facile procedure for the preparation of 1D porous Ni@C nanostructures by pyrolysis of Ni-based coordination polymer nanorods. The highly aligned Ni-based polymer nanorods were prepared using nitrilotriacetic acid (NTA) as a chelating agent by a one-step solvothermal approach. The obtained precursors are demonstrated to have a well-designed 1D nanostructure and ...

For a full estimation of the risk related with the presence of engineered nanoparticles (ENPs) in the environment, the use of the current ecotoxicological methods may prove insufficient. In the study presented herein, various methods of assessment of ecotoxicity were applied to compare the phytotoxicity of three ENPs: nano-ZnO, nano-TiO2 and nano-Ni. The toxicity was assayed both for aqueous so...

Core-shell carbon nanotube (CNT)-Si heterogeneous nanowires have been identified as one of the most promising candidates for future anode materials in lithium ion batteries. However, stress in these nanostructures, is the long-existing bottleneck, rendering severe fading of the capacities and even failure of the batteries. We prove that the interfaces between CNT cores and Si shells play a crit...

PPY, PANI and PPY-PANI-ZnO ternary nanocomposites were synthesized in the laboratory via chemical oxidative polymerization method. The formation of corresponding change nanostructure with incorporation ZnO was examined by X-ray diffraction technique (XRD). Nano-flakes like structure formed PPY-PANI polymeric matrix embodiment nanoparticles, as surface topology images. Optical transmittance spec...

ZnO nano-particles is synthesized using hydrated zinc chloride (ZnCl2.2H2O) as main raw components. It calcined at different temperatures (i.e., 200 ⁰C, 400 ºC, 600 ⁰C and 800 ⁰C). Synthesized characterized by XRD, SEM/EDS, HRTEM, UV Visible, Band Gap. XRD result showed pure wurtzite-structure crystalline nature. Both results SAED obtained from pattern HRTEM studies are indicated similar inform...

We present an approach to control the magnetic structure of adatoms adsorbed on a substrate having a high magnetic susceptibility. Using finite Ni-Pt and Fe-Pt nanowires and nanostructures on Pt(111) surfaces, our ab initio results show that it is possible to tune the exchange interaction and magnetic configuration of magnetic adatoms (Fe or Ni) by introducing different numbers of Pt atoms to l...