The exploration of earth-abundant and high-efficiency electrocatalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is of great significant for sustainable energy conversion and storage applications. Although spinel-type binary transition metal oxides (AB2O4, A, B = metal) represent a class of promising candidates for water oxidation catalysis, their intrinsically inferior electrical conductivity ex...

Triply doped Y3Al5O12: Ce3+, Pr3+, Cr3+ phosphors are prepared by solid state reaction. The emission spectra are enriched in the red region with the luminescence of both Pr3+ and Cr3+ through Ce3+ → Cr3+ and Ce3+ → Pr3+ → Cr3+ energy transfers. The properties of photoluminescence and fluorescence decay indicates larger macroscopic Ce3+ → Cr3+ transfer rates in the triply doped phosphors in comp...

Cobalt ferrite, Copper ferrite and cobalt doped copper nanoparticles have been synthesized characterized using different characterization methods (XRD, FTIR FESEM). The prepared used as promising fillers of the polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) polymer. PVDF/(Cu–CoFe2O4, CoFe2O4, CuFe2O4) nanocomposites films via a simple solution casting technique. optical properties piezoelectric response nanoco...

A magnetic NG@CoFe2O4 photocatalyst was developed via a facile hydrothermal method and characterized by X-ray powder diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), and vibrating sample magnetometry (VSM) techniques. The CoFe2O4 nanoparticles were found to have a size between 100-150 nm and were unifo...

A facile and highly efficient one-pot synthesis of multisubstituted pyrrole derivatives is reported via a four-component reaction of amines, aldehydes, acetylacetone and nitromethane using Pr3+ doped CoFe2O4 as a catalyst in solvent free conditions at 90°C. The catalyst is easily recoverable using magnet and could be reused without a significant loss of catalyti...

A facile and highly efficient one-pot synthesis of multisubstituted pyrrole derivatives is reported via a four-component reaction of amines, aldehydes, acetylacetone and nitromethane using Pr3+ doped CoFe2O4 as a catalyst in solvent free conditions at 90°C. The catalyst is easily recoverable using magnet and could be reused without a significant loss of catalyti...

Single crystals of Tb3+ single-doped and Tb3+/Pr3+ co-doped CaYAlO4 were produced by the Czochralski method. The room-temperature polarized absorption spectra, emission decay curves recorded analyzed in detail. cross-section around 487 nm was found to be 1.53 × 10−22 cm2 for π polarization Tb3+:CaYAlO4 crystal increased 5.23 Tb3+/Pr3+:CaYAlO4 crystal. spectroscopic parameters calculated through...

Downconversion processes which include visible and near-infrared luminescence at high energy excitation have been investigated in Yb3+/Pr3+ doped TeO2-ZnO-BaO glasses. The decrease of the DC emission intensities Pr3+ ions with increasing mole % amount is attributed to concentration quenching. CIE chromaticity coordinates perceived shifted from orange red region depending on increase pump power....

In this study, we report on the evolution of the microstructure and photoluminescence properties of Pr3+-doped hafnium silicate thin films as a function of annealing temperature (TA). The composition and microstructure of the films were characterized by means of Rutherford backscattering spectrometry, spectroscopic ellipsometry, Fourier transform infrared absorption, and X-ray diffraction, whil...