Advanced Functional Materials for Optical and Hazardous Sensing
Synthesis and Applications
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Effective charge separation and use of hot charge carriers are considered to be the most essential factors affecting the activity of an excellent energy harvester. Herein, we have successfully decorated 3 nm o...
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The effect of In incorporation is studied on the, micro-hardness compactness and elastic properties of glassy Se–Te–Cd alloys. The micro-hardness of glassy Se75Te15 – xCd10Inx (x = 0, 5, 10 and 15) alloys is calc...
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In this twenty-first century, world’s ecosystem has been heavily contaminated with various hazardous gas molecules via anthropogenic activities and naturally occurring unbalanced processes. Therefore, it is quite...
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Nanotechnology-adapted sensing technologies or sensing devices could detect environmental changes with the help of computer processors where signal can be readout. With the evolution in advancement of nanotech...
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Owing to the necessity for sensitive, fast-responding, and robust sensors in industries, environmental monitoring, biomedicine, and other fields, gas sensors have gained a lot of research attention. Nanotechno...
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In this paper, Co-doped molybdenum disulfide anchored on the surface reduced graphene oxide (Co@MoS2/rGO) has been successfully synthesized using a simple and effective hydrothermal approach to measure their micr...
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Control over the magnetic interactions in magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) is a crucial issue to the future development of nanometer-sized integrated “spintronic” applications. Here, we have developed a nanohybri...
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Semiconductor core/shell quantum dots (QDs) are composed of at least two semiconducting materials having a structure like an onion. In the recent past, the synthesis of these systems impelled significant progr...
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In this paper, Ni–Cu nanoparticles with diameter ~ 5–7 nm decorated onto the surface molybdenum disulfide/reduced graphene oxide (Ni–Cu@MoS2/rGO) were prepared using a simple two-step hydrothermal route. The elec...
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Glassy Se100−x(Ge2Sb2Te5)x (x = 5, 10, 15 and 20) bulk alloys were prepared by melt-quenched technique and studied by using differential scanning calorimetry at different heating rates under non-isothermal condit...
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Herein, a first report on the formation of high-quality CdSe/V2O5 core/shell quantum dots (QDs). A single-source cluster approach has been adopted to synthesize highly luminescent CdSe and CdSe/V2O5 core/shell QD...
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The present manuscript describes a simple, facile and effective solvothermal route to synthesize Fe3O4 nanoparticles (Fe3O4 NPs), reduced graphene oxide nanosheets (rGO NSs) and Fe3O4/reduced graphene oxide nanoh...
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In this article, we proposed a facile one-step synthesis of Fe3O4 nanoparticles of different shapes and sizes by co-precipitation of FeCl2 with piperidine. A careful investigation of TEM micrographs shows that th...
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The calorimetric parameters of glassy Se98−xCd2Inx (x = 0, 2, 6 and 10) alloys were investigated using differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) under non-isothermal conditions at different heating rates of 5, 10, ...
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Carbon nanotube (CNT) additive glassy composites [(Se85Te10Ag5)100−X(CNT)X] (X = 0, 3 and 5) have been prepared by melt-quenching technique. The purpose of the present work was to investigate the upshot of 3 and ...
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Glass-transition kinetics of \(\mathrm{Se}_{80}\mathrm{In}_{20-\mathrm{x}}\mathrm{Pb}_{\mathrm{x}}\) ...
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A general surfactant-assisted wet chemical route has been developed for the synthesis of a variety of bismuth telluride (Bi2Te3) single-crystalline nanostructures with varied morphologies at different temperature...
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Dielectric nanoflakes of Sb2Te3 represent an important advance in science and technology due to their extraordinary properties. Polycrystalline layered Sb2Te3 nanoflakes have been successfully synthesized via a h...