Direct Fabrication of Cobalt Oxide Nano-particles Employing Glycine as a Combustion Fuel

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (6) ◽  
pp. 86-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Th. Makhlouf ◽  
B. M. Abu-Zied ◽  
T. H. Mansoure
RSC Advances ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (83) ◽  
pp. 44065-44072 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jalal Ahmed ◽  
Hyung Joo Kim ◽  
Sunghyun Kim

The increasing cost of precious metals, especially platinum, as oxygen reduction catalysts has hindered their widespread use in microbial fuel cells (MFCs).


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
RATHIKA GOVINDASAMY ◽  
SUBA VELU ◽  
SANTHANA LAKSHMI DURAIKKANNU ◽  
ROOPALA RANI SEKAR

Abstract In recent decades, the analysis of nanoparticles is of greater importance for their applications in various fields. This present work also focuses the novel biological green material to synthesize the copper and cobalt oxide nanoparticles. The copper oxide (CuO) and cobalt oxide (Co3O4) nanoparticles (nps)have been synthesized by biological strategy utilizing AH (Araucaria heterophylla) gum extract. The characterization techniques, i.e. UV, GC-MS, FT-IR, XRD, SEM, HR-TEM provide concrete information about the morphology, crystalline nature and structure of the synthesized nanoparticles. The high resolution TEM and SAED images confirm the formation of spherical shaped (Co3O4) and oval shaped (CuO) isolated nanoparticles. The catalytic adequacy of the developed catalyst, copper oxide (CuO) and cobalt oxide (Co3O4) nanoparticles was analyzed for the degradation of dyes: Methylene Blue (MB), Congo Red (CR), Acid Violet (AV).The kinetic investigations for the reduction of synthetic dyes by the nanoparticles were assessed and the reduction contemplates are very much fitted with the pseudo second order kinetic model with less time.The antibacterial and antifungal activity of the prepared nanoparticles have been evaluated against Escherichiacoli, Staphylococcus aureus, Bacillus subtilis, Aspergillusniger and Candida albicans.


Author(s):  
A. K. Datye ◽  
D. S. Kalakkad ◽  
L. F. Allard ◽  
E. Völkl

The active phase in heterogeneous catalysts consists of nanometer-sized metal or oxide particles dispersed within the tortuous pore structure of a high surface area matrix. Such catalysts are extensively used for controlling emissions from automobile exhausts or in industrial processes such as the refining of crude oil to produce gasoline. The morphology of these nano-particles is of great interest to catalytic chemists since it affects the activity and selectivity for a class of reactions known as structure-sensitive reactions. In this paper, we describe some of the challenges in the study of heterogeneous catalysts, and provide examples of how electron holography can help in extracting details of particle structure and morphology on an atomic scale.Conventional high-resolution TEM imaging methods permit the image intensity to be recorded, but the phase information in the complex image wave is lost. However, it is the phase information which is sensitive at the atomic scale to changes in specimen thickness and composition, and thus analysis of the phase image can yield important information on morphological details at the nanometer level.


Author(s):  
J. Liu ◽  
M. Pan ◽  
G. E. Spinnler

Small metal particles have peculiar chemical and physical properties as compared to bulk materials. They are especially important in catalysis since metal particles are common constituents of supported catalysts. The structural characterization of small particles is of primary importance for the understanding of structure-catalytic activity relationships. The shape and size of metal particles larger than approximately 5 nm in diameter can be determined by several imaging techniques. It is difficult, however, to deduce the shape of smaller metal particles. Coherent electron nanodiffraction (CEND) patterns from nano particles contain information about the particle size, shape, structure and defects etc. As part of an on-going program of STEM characterization of supported catalysts we report some preliminary results of CEND study of Ag nano particles, deposited in situ in a UHV STEM instrument, and compare the experimental results with full dynamical simulations in order to extract information about the shape of Ag nano particles.


2020 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 588-592 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fusheng Li ◽  
Ziqi Zhao ◽  
Hao Yang ◽  
Dinghua Zhou ◽  
Yilong Zhao ◽  
...  

A cobalt oxide catalyst prepared by a flame-assisted deposition method on the surface of FTO and hematite for electrochemical and photoelectrochemical water oxidation, respectively.


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