Intensity tunable optical limiting behaviour of an organic material 2-aminopyridinium succinate succinic acid single crystal

Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics - A mixed solution of 2-aminopyridine and succinic acid, with a 1:1 molar ratio, was kept at room temperature to develop a 2-aminopridinium...     

Developing pressure sensors from impregnated textile sandwiched in inkjet-printed electrodes

Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics - This work presents an interesting fabrication route toward development of pressure sensing patch by utilizing electrically conductive cotton...     

Biopolymer-based trimetallic nanocomposite synthesis,characterization and its application in the catalytic degradation of 4-nitrophenol

Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics - Gum kondagogu (GK), a natural biopolymer was successfully employed in the synthesis of trimetallic (AgAuPd) nanocomposites and characterized...     

Growth and physiochemical characterization studies on 4-chloro-2-nitroaniline nonlinear optical single crystals

The non-centrosymmetric space group organic nonlinear optical single crystal of 4-chloro-2-nitroaniline (4Cl2NA) was developed by slow evaporation method at 40 °C. Grown 4Cl2NA was monoclinic structure with Pc space group which was recognized by single-crystal XRD analysis. An intermolecular contact of 4Cl2NA was visually analysed by Hirshfeld surface analysis. Active functional groups and their respective vibrations were identified by FTIR and FT-Raman spectral analysis. Optical properties were evaluated by UV–Visible spectral analysis. Thermal TG/DTA thermogram analysis and mechanical Vickers hardness analysis revealed that the synthesis material was thermally stable up to 115 °C and mechanical work hardness coefficient (n?=?2.98) confirmed the grown crystal was soft material. Laser beam-irradiated LDT analysis expressed the laser utility limitation of the 4Cl2NA crystal. The NLO second harmonic generation efficiency was tested by Kurtz Perry powder method.

     

Influence of selenium growth condition on the photovoltaic conversion efficiency of Sb2Se3 as the solar cell absorption layer

Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics - The influences of the selenium (Se) growth condition on the electronic level structure including deep defects and further on the...     

Dielectric performance and conductive mechanism of KNN-based ceramics prepared via sol–gel core–shell process

Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics - 0.95(Li0.02Na0.50K0.48)(Nb0.95Sb0.05)O3–0.05AgTaO3@BaZrO3 (LNKNbSAT@BZ) lead-free ceramics were prepared via a sol–gel...     

MoSe2 nanoflowers as a counter electrode for quantum dots sensitized solar cells

Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics - Layered transition metal dichalcogenides hold tunable and promising photoelectrochemical properties. MoSe2 is a potential candidate of the...     

The structural,morphological, optical and gas-sensing properties of Mn3O4 thin films grown by successive ionic layer adsorption and reaction technique

Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics - In this study, Mn3O4 thin films were grown by Successive Ionic Layer Adsorption and Reaction Technique (SILAR) with 20 and 50...     

Co-precipitation synthesis of ZnAl2O4: Cr3+ phosphor for better light penetration in pc-LED

Cr doped ZnAl₂O₄ spinel samples were prepared by the traditional solid state reaction and co-precipitation synthetic route, and the results suggest that the co-precipitation method has some superiority in contrast to the solid state reaction method. XRD, FT-IR, and XPS spectra confirmed that the well-crystallized spinel cubic phase of ZnAl₂O₄: Cr³⁺ samples were successfully formed. The morphology of the samples was investigated by FE-SEM and FE-TEM, and the results show that the samples by the co-precipitation route can generate a smaller size of particles compared to the solid state reaction. Photoluminescence excitation spectra monitored at 686 nm are comprised of two broad excitation bands near 530 nm and 395 nm, and the emission spectra show emissions ranging from 640 to 780 nm, due to the ²E?→?⁴A₂ spin-forbidden transition of Cr³⁺ ions in spinel lattices. The optimized concentration monitored at 686 nm is 1%, while at 693 nm is 3.5%. Compared with the samples by solid state reaction method, the samples by co-precipitation method show preferable luminescent properties, such as the higher photoluminescence intensity and higher quantum efficiency. Several phosphor-converted LEDs were to investigate the applicability of the prepared samples. The results confirm that the phosphor has potential applications in plant growth and supplementing the red region in white-LEDs and the phosphors prepared by co-precipitation are more suitable to be used in phosphor-converted LED devices due to their preferable luminescent properties.

     

Highly enhanced energy storage properties of H2O2-hydroxylated rare earth ferrites (LaFeO3 and GdFeO3) nanofillers in poly(vinylidene fluoride)-based nanocomposite films

Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics - Pure PVDF has higher breakdown strength but low dielectric and ferroelectric properties. Thus, we synthesized the LaFeO3 and GdFeO3...