Recently, a cellulose-based composite material with a thin ZnO nanolayer-namely, ZnO nanocoated cellulose film (ZONCE)-was fabricated to increase its piezoelectric charge constant. However, the fabrication method has limitations to its application in mass production. In this paper, a hydrothermal synthesis method suitable for the mass production of ZONCE (HZONCE) is proposed. A simple hydrother...

A carbon nanotube (CNT) is a miniature cylindrical carbon structure that has hexagonalgraphite molecules attached at the edges. Nanotubes look like a powder or black soot, but they'reactually rolled-up sheets of graphene that form hollow strands with walls that are only one atom thick.Carbon nanotube has been one of the most actively explored materials in recent year(s) due to...

in the present investigation efforts have been made to synthesis polyvinyl pyridine (pvpy) /c60 conjugatesthrough 2, 2-azobisisobutyronitrile (aibn) initiated insitu polymerization of pvpy in scco2.the processof synthesis was monitored under different reaction conditions ranging 1200-1800psi, 60-90 oc over 6hours. the progress of polymerization was monitored rheoviscometrically. the concentrati...

Iron selenide obtained by mild hydrothermal reaction is not superconducting and exhibits a triclinic crystal structure below 60 K unlike superconducting FeSe from conventional solid state synthesis which is orthorhombic. In contrast, tetragonal iron sulphide FeS from hydrothermal synthesis is superconducting but undergoes no structural change on cooling.

The use of reactors working with a hydrothermal flame as a heat source contributes to overcome many of the challenges presented by supercritical water oxidation (SCWO). Injection of the reagents over a hydrothermal flame can avoid the reagents preheating as the feed can be injected into the reactor at room temperatures, avoiding plugging and corrosion problems in a preheating system. Also the k...

In recent years, the use of supercritical fluids (SCFs) for the synthesis and processing of nanomaterials has proven to be a rapid, direct, and clean approach to develop nanomaterials and nanocomposites. The application of supercritical fluid technology can result in products (and processes) that are cleaner, less expensive, and of higher quality than those that are produced using conventional ...

Needle-like ZnO nanostructures were synthesized by an organic-free hydrothermal process. Thehydrothermal synthesis was performed at very low pressure (~20 kPa) with duration of process only 10min. The products were characterized by X-ray powder diffraction (XRD)and transmission electronmicroscopy (TEM).The XRD pattern indicated that the needle –like ZnO nanostructures were hexag...