Three ZnAl2O4 samples were prepared via a modified polyacrylamide gel method using a citric acid solution with different aluminum salt starting materials, including AlCl3 ∙ 6H2O, Al2(SO4)3 ∙ 18H2O, and Al(NO3)3 ∙ 9H2O under identical conditions. The influence of different aluminum salts on the morphologies, phase purity, and optical and fluorescence properties of the as-prepared ZnAl2O4 nanopar...

The catalytic decomposition of N2O was investigated over Cu-Zn/ZnAl2O4 catalysts in the temperature range of 400–650 ◦C Catalytic samples have been prepared by wet impregnation method. Prepared catalysts were characterized using several techniques like BET surface area, X-ray diffraction (XRD), and Scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The Cu-Zn/ZnAl2O4 showed higher catalytic performance along w...

Stoichiometric zinc aluminate (ZnAl2O4) and zinc gallate (ZnGa2O4) are simulated in the framework of the shell model, for which a new set of two-body interatomic potential parameters has been developed. Using these parameters, a reasonable prediction is made for elastic and dielectric constants of ZnAl2O4 and ZnGa2O4. Both oxides are stable against decomposition to the component oxides. The fit...

ZnO/Al2O3 multilayers were prepared by alternating atomic layer deposition (ALD) at 150°C using diethylzinc, trimethylaluminum, and water. The growth process, crystallinity, and electrical and optical properties of the multilayers were studied with a variety of the cycle ratios of ZnO and Al2O3 sublayers. Transparent conductive Al-doped ZnO films were prepared with the minimum resistivity of 2....

The electronic structure of zinc aluminate (ZnAl2O4) and that of zinc gallate (ZnGa2O4) were studied by the self-consistent tight-binding linearized muffin-tin orbital method with the atomic sphere approximation. The calculated results predict these zinc-based spinel oxides to be direct-gap materials. The direct gap at 0 is found to be 4.11 eV for ZnAl2O4 and 2.79 eV for ZnGa2O4. With reference...

In this investigation, special consideration was given to observe the influence of the acquired ultra-fine-grain (UFG) structure through friction stir processing (FSP) on mechanical and damping properties. As the mechanical behaviour of the composites are intensely related to their microstructure. For deeply understanding the possible mechanism and detailed microstructural observations at a lon...

The phase formation processes in 0.25ZnO–0.25Al2O3–0.25WO3–0.25Bi2O3 ceramics with variation the thermal annealing temperature were evaluated this study. According to obtained data on composition dependent temperature, transformation dynamics, which can be written form of ZnO/Bi2O3/WO3/Al2O3 → ZnBi38O60/ZnO/Bi2WO6/WO3 Bi2Al4O9/ZnBi38O60/Bi2WO6/ZnO/WO3 ZnWO4/Bi2WO6/ZnAl2O4/ZnO ZnWO4/Bi2WO6/ZnAl2...

Photoactive Cu-doped ZnO–ZnAl2O4 ceramic nanocomposites and coatings were prepared by polymer-salt method. The luminescent spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy (SEM) X-ray diffraction methods used for the study structure, morphology materials properties. consist of small hexagonal ZnO cubic ZnAl2O4 nanocrystals having size about 10 nm. luminescence properties shows that can be as light do...