The use of plant extract is generating interest of researchers toward cost effective and eco-friendly green synthesis of nanoparticles. In the present work, Cupric oxide nanoparticles were synthesized using coffee powder extracts by the sol-gel method at different calcination temperatures. The synthesized nanoparticles were characterized by X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy , ultr...

in this research work the solid-solutions of (bi2o3)1-x (co2o3)x, [x= 0.05, 0.1] (1), (bi2o3)1-x (ho2o3) x, [x= 0.025, 0.05] (2), and (bi2o3)1-x-y (co2o3)x (ho2o3)y, [x=0.05] ; [y= 0.01, 0.02] (3) have been synthesized  using sol-gel method. the effects of transition metal oxides doping on the crystallization and phase transition of the bi2o3 were discussed by x-ray diffraction (xrd). the xrd p...

in this work, sol-gel processing was used to synthesize the fluorohydroxyapatite (nano-fha, ca10(po4)6(oh)2−xfx) nanopowders. the advantages of the sol-gel method over other methods are precise control of composition, low processing temperature, and better homogeneity. calcium nitrate tetrahydrate, phosphorous pentoxide and tetrabuthylammonium fluoride were used, respectively, as p, ca, and f p...

X-ray Computed Tomography (CT) is a non-destructive imaging technique originally designed for diagnostic medicine, which was adopted for rhizosphere and soil science applications in the early 1980s. X-ray CT enables researchers to simultaneously visualise and quantify the heterogeneous soil matrix of mineral grains, organic matter, air-filled pores and water-filled pores. Additionally, X-ray CT...

cotio3-clay nano-composites were synthesized via a conventional sol-gel method; the gel was calcinated at 500 - 800°c for 2 hours. the presence of rhombohedra phase of cotio3 in clay matrix was confirmed by xrd, ftir, sem. cobalt titanate-clay nano-composites were prepared with 5-20%(w/w) by sol-gel method. the spectra results were investigated at 20% (w/w) concentration .the optimum condition ...

three high-silica mordenite zeolites differing in sio440, ratio were prepared by direct synthesis without using any template. the products si02/a120, ratio is influenced by the starting gel composition. this ratio is increased upon ion-exchange with nh,cl and subsequent calcination to prepare protonic mordenite. the protonic mordenites with si02/a1203ra tios of 14.6,29.2 and 34.6 were character...

zro2 nanopowder was prepared by the sol-gel auto-combustion method. the product was characterized by x-ray diffraction (xrd), energy dispersive analysis of x-ray (edx) and scanning electron microscopy (sem). the average crystalline size of zro2 was obtained 62 nm. also, photocatalytic removal of nitrophenol from aqueous solution by using nanoscale zro2 under uv light irradiation was studied. th...

X-ray computed tomography (CT) is a non-destructive, radiographic scanning technique that enables the visualisation of both the internal geometry and the composition of a workpiece; X-ray CT is therefore well suited for non-destructive inspection tasks. Several physical processes reduce the quality of CT images, and therefore influence both qualitative and quantitative analyses made from CT dat...