iron oxide (fe2o3) nanoparticles were synthesized by a simple approach using sodium borohydride (nabh4) and iron chloride hexahydrate (fecl3.6h2o). their physicochemical properties were characterized by high resolution transmission electron microscopy (hrtem), scanning electron microscopy (sem), x-ray diffraction (xrd) and electron dispersive spectroscopy (eds). xrd pattern showed that the iron...

Uniform metal iron ellipsoidal particles of around 200 nm in length were obtained by reduction and passivation of alumina-coated a – Fe2O3 ~hematite! particles under different conditions of temperature and hydrogen flow rate. The monodispersed hematite particles were prepared by the controlled hydrolysis of ferric sulfate and further coated with a homogeneous thin layer of Al2O3 by careful sele...

Developing cheap electrocatalysts for cathodic oxygen reduction in neutral medium is a key factor for practical applications of microbial fuel cells (MFCs). Natural hematite was investigated as a low-cost cathode to improve the performance of microbial fuel cells (MFCs). With hematite-coated cathode, the cell current density stabilized at 330.66 ± 3.1 mA·m−2 (with a 1000 Ω load) over 10 days un...

Abstract Suspension reduction kinetics of hematite ore particles at 1710 K to 1785 was described by the Johnson-Mehl-Avrami-Kolmogorov model with Avrami exponent 1.405. The apparent activation energy is 105.5 kJ mol −1 rate determining step nucleation and growth. degree endpoint a linear function temperature logarithmic oxygen potential reacting gas. A peak reaction constant particle size has b...