Nanotubes with their unique mechanical, electronical and optical properties are suitable replacements for most of used materials in industries. So far, various kinds of nanotubes including carbon, gallium nitride, carbide silicon, zink oxide, born nitride and aluminium nitride have been made. Mo...

Manganese titanate (MnTiO3) powders have been synthesized by a sol–gel–hydrothermal method at low temperature below to 473 K through using NaOH as mineralizer. The structural character of as-synthesized powders were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscope (SEM), ...

The start/stop technology requires the battery to provide high cold cranking power at low temperatures. In this report, the low temperature performance of LMO/LTO (lithium manganese oxide/lithium titanate) lithium ion batteries with three different electrolytes were studied on pouch cells incorp...

The nanosized manganese titanate (pyrophanite) MnTiO3 was prepared by oxidation of Mn(OH)2 with TiO2 (P-25) powder in cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) micelle solutions and the calcinations of the produced powders. The nanostructure of pyrophanite was characterized with X-ray powder diffrac...

Hydrothermal synthesis of Mn2+ doped titanate nanotubes (TNTs), which exhibited room temperature ferromagnetism (RTFM), is reported. Dispersions of 1 and 5 at.% Mn2+ doped anatase TiO2 nanocrystals were used as precursors. Size and shape of Mn2+ doped TNTs and precursor nanocrystals were studied...

Semiconducting microporous solids were prepared by pillaring layer structured manganese titanate, RbxMnxTi2−xO4 (x=0.75) with silica. These solids were then chemically modified by loading various kinds of metals by cation exchange and impregnation methods. The samples with copper loaded by the i...

This study reports the synthesis and characterization of a novel nanostructure-based electrode for electrochemical studies and determination of captopril (CP). At first manganese titanate nanoceramics were synthesized by the sol–gel method. The structural evaluations of the pure nanopowders wer...

Manganese is deposited at high temperature on (001) oriented ferroelectric lead zirco-titanate prepared in two different ways: sputter-annealed or just simply annealed in ultrahigh vacuum. Room temperature ferromagnetism (FM) is obtained for Mn deposited on sputter-annealed substrates, while for...

Homogeneous Mn2+ and Gd3+ intercalation of scroll-type trititanate nanotubes using a post-synthesis ion exchange method is reported. Compared to Mn2+, Gd3+ ion-exchange shows larger saturation intercalation levels. Upon co-doping, weak interactions between the dopant ions were found to modify th...

In this work, the synthesis of novel manganese-modified titanate nanowires, with enhanced photocatalytic activity for pollutants degradation, is described. Distinct modified titanate nanowires samples were produced by manganese doping (Mn-TNT) and by Mn ion-exchange (TNW/Mn). The characterizatio...

The synthesis of the two-armed amine precursor 2,6-di[N-(3′-aminopropyl)aminomethyl]-4-methylphenol (1) is detailed. Zinc(II) and nickel(II) templated Schiff base condensation reactions of 1 and 2,6-diformyl-4-methylthiophenolate (obtained by base hydrolysis of S-(2,6-diformyl-4-methylphenyl)di...

The hybrid magnesium-lithium-ion batteries (MLIBs) are promising alternatives in large-scale energy storage field owing to low cost and high safety of magnesium batteries and fast diffusion rate of Li-ion in the electrode. Herein, a free-standing and binder-free copper sulfide/Multi-walled carbo...

Herein, we report magnesium sulphide (MgS) as an anode for lithium ion batteries. Magnesium sulphide-carbon composite is directly synthesized by mechanically milling the elemental mixture. A possible lithiation and delithiation mechanism for MgS is proposed based on electrochemical and ex-situ X...

Diethyldithiocarbamate metal complexes [M(S2CN(Et)2)n] (M = Mg, Cu) were fabricated as precursors to deposit pure as well as copper sulfide doped-magnesium sulfide thin film on a glass substrates by Physical Vapor Deposition Technique (PVD). X-ray diffraction (XRD) and Fourier Transform Infrared...

The basic direction of the development of thermal barrier coatings (TBC) systems is connected with new materials solutions dedicated for bond-coats and ceramic insulating layers. The present article shows the synthesis and thermal properties of different types of insulating ceramic materials bas...

The following paper presents study on synthesis and thermal diffusivity of europium zirconate, cerate and hafnate as a new types of materials with pyrochlore or fluorite type of lattice, dedicated to replacement of conventional 8YSZ (yttria stabilized zirconia) in TBC (thermal barrier coatings) ...

A heterogeneous catalyst, magnesium zirconate (Mg2Zr5O12) was synthesized by co-precipitation and was used for biodiesel production via transesterification. Kusum oil was used as a feedstock. Catalyst characterization was accomplished by TGA, XRD, ATR FTIR, SEM, and EDX. The parameters viz. part...

Solar energy is an important renewable source of energy with many advantages: it is unlimited, clean and free. The main objective of this work was to sinter magnesium titanate ceramics in a solar furnace using concentrated solar energy, which is a novel and original process. The direct conversio...

Silicon nitride-based composite ceramics with different contents of magnesium titanate have been fabricated via gas pressure sintering method. The phase compositions, microstructure, mechanical performances and dielectric properties of the composite ceramics were investigated. The density of the...

Magnesium titanates (including three main phases, Mg2TiO4, MgTiO3 and MgTi2O5) and Mn4+ doped magnesium titanates were successfully prepared in a simple route. Mn4+ occupied octahedral positions to substitute Ti4+ in the magnesium titanates host lattice. The absorption bands at 400–600 nm assig...