we report the development of different types of oxygen sensors based on yittria-stabilized zirconia (ysz) as a solid electrolyte. the conventional oxygen sensor is a concentration cell with two porous pt electrodes, one of which is exposed to air as a constant (reference) oxygen concentration and the other is exposed to automobile exhaust gas of variable oxygen concentration, depending on the a...

Recently, porous materials on the base of semiconductor crystals arouse greater interest as photon crystals in terms of opto-electronic applications and formation of arrays of nano-elements with oneand zero-dimensionality. The crystals of porous silicon have been developed best to date. The obvious trends in this field now are towards using other materials for electrolytic etching, decreasing t...

Novel applications of nanostructures in catalysis, electronics, photonics, and bionanotechnology are driving the exploration of synthetic approaches to control and manipulate their chemical composition, structure, and morphology. As well as the design of synthetic strategies to produce a new class of nanoscale materials, recent developments have enabled the chemical transformation of one crysta...

nanoparticles classified in 4 overall groups containing: metallic nanoparticles, ceramic nanoparticles, polymeric nanoparticles and semiconductor nanoparticles. these nanoparticles are used in some biomedical applications such as carrying medicine and photographing agents. with attention to different criteria which are both qualitative and quantitative, selecting the most suitable nanoparticles...

a method for the degradation of pyrrolidine in water is described. the method relaies on the photocatalytic degradation of pyrrolidine to co2 and nh3 by uv irradiation and using titanium dixide semiconductor as a photocatalyst. compared with direct photolysis, the semiconductor catalytic photolysis gave consistently higher degradation yields for pyrrolidine in water. the effects of variable par...