Flower-like CdSe architectures composed of ultrathin nanosheets were prepared via a facile solvothermal method. A relationship was established between the solvothermal temperature and the product structure, and thus the photocatalytic activity. When compared with well-studied CdSe quantum dots, the ultrathin nanosheet assemblies exhibited a better photocatalytic H2 evolution activity under visi...

Lithium nickel oxide (LiNiO2) powders with an R3 m structure are successfully synthesized via a developed reverse microemulsion process. This method can effectively reduce the calcination temperature for synthesizing monophasic LiNiO2 powders to 700 C, which is much lower than that in the solid-state process. Nanosized LiNiO2 powders with narrow particle size distribution are obtained via the m...

A detailed characterization of the microemulsion composition is necessary to make the phosphorimetry suitable as powerful analytical methodology. Four microemulsion systems (hexane/n-butanol/SDS/water, hexane/n-pentanol/SDS/water, hexane/3-pentanol/SDS/ water, and hexane/n-hexanol/SDS/water) were studied, establishing the oil/water (O/W) microemulsion composition with best phosphorimetric chara...

Recently helical nanostructures such as nanosprings and nanocoils have drawn great interests in nanotechnology, due to their unique morphologies and physical properties, and they may be potential building blocks in sorts of electromechanical, magnetic, photoelectronic and plasmonic devices at micro/nanoscales. In this report, multi-turns copper nanocoils were synthesized through a modified solv...

Monoclinic monazite-type EuPO4 and LaPO4:Eu nanorods were synthesized by a microemulsion-assisted solvothermal method. Their morphologies, structures, and fluorescent properties were characterized by SEM, XRD, and photoluminescence (PL) modern analytic means, respectively. The aspect ratios of EuPO4 and LaPO4:Eu nanorods have a decreasing tendency with increasing carbon chain length of assisted...

The aim of this study is to develop a microemulsion product from a plant essential oil having the highest anti-tyrosinase activity. The in vitro anti-tyrosinase activity of six essential oils extracted from six edible plants was compared. The oil of Cymbopogon citratus demonstrated the highest activity which was significantly nontoxic to normal human cells. The GC-MS data indicated that gerania...

the behavior of nanoscale energetic materials is quite different from micronsized energetic materials inmany ways. recently, some techniques such as sol-gel method, high speed air impaction and vacuum codeposition have been employed to obtain nanoscale energetic materials. however, only few attentionswere paid to nanoscale energetic materials because of the fabrication difficulty. in this paper...

magnetite (fe3o4) nanoparticles have been successfully prepared by a novel one-step and surfactant-free approach utilizing ferrous ion, as a single iron source. in this manner, the reaction occurs between two aqueous solutions via the spontaneous transfer of ammonia gas from one to another in room temperature. no ferric source or oxidizing specie, oxidation controlling and capping agents are ne...

We have developed a solvothermal reduction method that affords more effective reduction of chemically derived graphene sheets and graphite oxide than low-temperature reduction methods. Solvothermal reduction removed oxygen and defects from graphene sheets, increased the size of sp(2) domains, and produced materials that were as conducting as pristine graphene and exhibited clear intrinsic Dirac...