A new 2xVDD-tolerant mixed-voltage I/O buffer circuit, realized with only 1xVDD devices in deep-submicron CMOS technology, to prevent transistors against gate-oxide reliability and hot-carrier degradation is proposed. The new proposed 2xVDD-tolerant I/O buffer has been designed and fabricated in a 0.13-lm CMOS process with only 1.2-V devices to serve a 2.5-V/1.2-V mixed-voltage interface, witho...

The present study focuses on effects of operational parameters on electrochemical wastewater treatment for synthetic wastewater. Electro-oxidation has emerged as one of the advanced oxidation processes gaining more attention because it offers many distinctive advantages over other conventional methods such as versatility, high treatment efficiency, safety, amenability of automation and cost eff...

This work reports on the investigation of nanosized CeO2-ZnO systems prepared by Pechini ́s method. The structural and morphological characterization of CeO2-ZnO systems as well as the characterization of CeO2 and ZnO separately, showed that the employed method result in powders with spheroidal particles whose size are in the range 30 200 nm, which is appropriate to provide homogeneous suspensio...

The oxidation of bimetallic alloy nanoparticles comprising a noble and a nonnoble metal is expected to cause the formation of a single-component surface oxide of the nonnoble metal, surrounding a core enriched with the noble metal. Studying the room temperature oxidation of Au-In nanoparticles, we show that this simple picture does not apply to an important class of bimetallic alloys, in which ...

Recently, the Al2O3–TiO2–ZrO2 system has found valuable applications, particularly, as a support for NOx storage–reduction (NSR) catalysts. Nanocomposite powders were prepared from the co-precipitation method in inorganic precursors. The behaviors of mixed oxide nanoparticles under ultrasonic irradiation, such as dispersion, and crushing were studied. Phase transformations, crystallite size, an...

α-fe2o3 (hematite) is the most stable iron oxide under ambient conditions. this transition metal oxide has been extensively investigated because it has unique electrical and catalytic properties. in this report, a novel microwave method for preparation of α-fe2o3 nanoparticles has been developed. the process contained two steps: first, precursor were obtained from a mixed solution of 50 ml of 0...

In this study, magnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (Fe3O4) with the size range of 20-30 nm were prepared by the modified controlled chemical co-precipitation method from the solution of ferrous/ferric mixed salt-solution in alkaline medium. In this process polyethylene glycol was used as a surfactant to prevent the solution from agglomeration. The prepared magnetic nanoparticles were characterize...

The mixed-valent cerium(III/IV) oxide clusters {Ce(10)} and {Ce(22)}, derived from condensation reactions of cerium carboxylate coordination polymers, exhibit molecular growth tendencies similar to those of 'classical' group V and VI polyoxometalates, but with increasing nuclearity approach the structure of the parental oxide, CeO(2).

in this work, magnetically separable zno-znfe2o4-ppy nanocomposite as an efficient adsorbent was synthesized by two steps. at first, zinc oxide (zno) and znfe2o4 nanoparticles were synthesized using simple and facile precipitation method. then, zno-znfe2o4 mixed oxide was modified by polypyrrole (ppy). the adsorbent was characterized by x-ray diffraction (xrd), fourier transform infrared (ft-ir...

in this study, a mixed matrix polyethersulfone/iron-nickel oxide nanoparticle nanofiltration membrane was prepared by the solution casting technique. polyvinylpyrrolidone was also used as a membrane pore former in membrane fabrication. the effect of iron-nickel oxide nanoparticles concentration in the casting solution on the membrane structure and performance was investigated. scanning optical ...