A general organometallic route has been developed to synthesize Co(x)Ni(1-x) and Co(x)Fe(1-x) alloy nanoparticles with a fully tunable composition and a size of 4-10 nm with high yield. In contrast to previously reported synthesis methods using dicobalt octacarbonyl (Co(2)(CO)(8)), here the cobalt-cobalt bond in the carbonyl complex is first broken with anhydrous acetone. The acetonated compoun...

sphere-like shaped cobalt oxide nanoparticles (co3o4) were synthesized by a simple wet chemical method using cobalt chloride as precursor and cetyl trimethylammonium bromide (ctab) as surfactant. their structural and surface morphologial properties were characterized by high resolution transmission electron microscopy (hrtem), field emission scanning electron microscopy (fesem) and x-ray diffra...

Physical synthesis, the integration of logic synthesis with physical design information, was born in the mid to late 1990s, which means it is about to enter its teenage years. Today, physical synthesis tools are a major part of the EDA industry, accounting for hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue. This work looks at how technology and design trends have affected physical synthesis over th...

A solution based economically low cost, eco-friendly, and energetically advantageous alternative route for the fabrication of ultrafine LiFe0.95Ti0.05PO4 (LFTP) LiFePO4 (LFP) polycrystalline materials by semi-wet combustion sol–gel synthesis is presented in this chapter. The energy dispersive X-ray (EDX) spectra LFP LFTP material were observed with high-resolution transmission electron microsco...

Materials synthesis in the liquid phase, or wet-chemical synthesis, utilizes a solution medium in which the target materials are generated from a series of chemical and physical transformations. Although this route is central in organic chemistry, for materials synthesis the low operational temperature range of the solvent (usually below 200 °C, in extreme 350 °C) is a serious restriction. Here...

A novel procedure for the synthesis of both hydroxyapatite (HAP) and palladium doped HAP via a wet chemical precipitation method is described herein. X-ray Diffraction (XRD), Raman Spectroscopy, Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) with Energy Dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy (EDS) and Fourier Transform Infrared (FT-IR) Spectroscopy are utilised to characterise the synthesised material’s morphology,...

Normal hepatic glycogen levels are in the range 300-400 pmol/g of tissue wet weight [ 11. Starvation for periods longer than 12 h severely depletes the hepatic glycogen store, as it is rapidly mobilized to provide glucose for extrahepatic tissue metabolism [ 11. Typical levels remaining after mild starvation of 24-48 h are reported as being less than 40 pmol/g of tissue wet weight for the rat a...