The work in our laboratory has been involved in the implementation of a number of viable environmentally friendly synthetic methodologies in the fabrication of a range of ternary metal oxides such as: titanates, vanadates, zirconates, and ferrites.
We expended a lot of effort on applying sol-gel syntheses of nanoscale formulations (including flakes, wires, and rhombohedra as well as aggregates) of perovskite oxide materials.
Moreover, sol-gel routes are generally cost-effective; use mainly nontoxic precursors; limit the numbers of reagents and reaction steps; minimize waste, reagent use, and power consumption; and involve the development of high-yield processes with a relative absence of volatile and toxic byproducts.
In particular, we have made important advances in the use of sol-gel synthetic methods such as: coloidal gels and hydrothermal protocols to generate monodisperse nanostructures with precise size and shape control without sacrificing on sample quality, purity, and crystallinity.
Our as-prepared nanomaterials maintain fundamentally interesting size-dependent electronic, optical, and magnetic properties. In terms of applications, these nanostructures have wide-ranging utility in areas as diverse as catalysis, energy storage, biomedicine, computation, power generation, photonics, remediation, and sensing.
We have investigated the use of various morphologies, including nanoparticles and nanowires,. The structural morphology of powders of these nanostructured materials has been directly characterized using SEM. Furthermore, the surfaces of these nanomaterials were studied using TEM in order to visualize their structure,
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