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Low Field Magnetoelectric Studies on Sol–Gel Grown Nanostructured YMnO3 Manganites 10.1016/j.progsolidstchem.2017.12.001 2017-12-22 Single phasic nanostructured YMnO3 manganites were successfully synthesized by employing acetate precursor based modified sol–gel technique followed by their sintering at different temperatures. Structural studies were carried out by performing X–ray diffract...
CO2 reduction using oxynitrides and nitrides under visible light 10.1016/j.progsolidstchem.2017.11.003 2017-11-22 Reduction of CO2 using a heterogeneous photocatalyst under visible light has been studied as a potential means to address the problems of global warming and the depletion of fossil fuels. Recently, hybrid photocatalysts constructed with a metal complex and a ...
Nitride and oxynitride phosphors for white LEDs: Synthesis, new phosphor discovery, crystal structure 10.1016/j.progsolidstchem.2017.11.002 2017-11-14 Si,Al containing nitride and oxynitride phosphors have been applied to white LEDs. Phosphors play important roles to produce high color rendering in lighting and wide color gamut in display. Si,Al containing nitrides and oxynitrides have been studied as high-...
Synthetic approaches in oxynitride chemistry 10.1016/j.progsolidstchem.2017.11.001 2017-11-03 Mixed anion oxides are emerging materials showing a variety of physical and chemical properties. Among them oxynitrides are widely investigated because of notable photocatalytic, dielectric, luminescent and electronic properties. Nitrides show more positive f...
Molecular structure of Se-rich amorphous films 10.1016/j.progsolidstchem.2017.10.001 2017-10-20 Structure and its transformation are examined for amorphous Se-rich AsxSe1-x (0 ≤ x ≤ 0.2) alloys by employment of diffraction and non-diffraction structural probes. It is shown that the molecular structure of amorphous Se (a-Se) on the scale of short-range o...
Mass spectrometry drives stoichiometric GaAs formation from single-source precursors 10.1016/j.progsolidstchem.2017.10.002 2017-10-18 Evolved gas analysis (EGA) mass-spectrometry (MS) is used to characterize the solid state pyrolysis decomposition pathways of air- and moisture-sensitive organometallic compounds. In this study, the single-source GaAs compounds (Et2AsGaEt2)3 (1), (t-Bu2AsGaEt...
Carboxylated fullerenes: Physico-chemical properties and potential applications 10.1016/j.progsolidstchem.2017.09.001 2017-09-22 Carboxylated fullerenes may have wide applications in science and technology. Therefore, there is particular interest in investigating the physico-chemical and biological properties and the applications of these compounds. This review systematizes the current...
Sodium flux synthesis of nitrides 10.1016/j.progsolidstchem.2017.08.002 2017-09-14 Studies of the synthesis of solid state nitrides using a Na flux are reviewed. The role and effect of Na is to solubilize polyatomic species containing nitrogen, and to lower the crystal growth temperature below the decomposition temperature of the obtained p...
Remarkable effects of local structure in tantalum and niobium oxynitrides 10.1016/j.progsolidstchem.2017.08.001 2017-08-24 Compounds that contain two types of anion are attracting attention as a new field of solid state chemistry. The nitride anion is similar to the oxide anion in size and nature. They coordinate together to cations in oxynitrides to form characteristic local str...
Stereochemistry and ab initio topology analyses of electron lone pair triplets and twins in interhalogen compounds and halogen suboxides 10.1016/j.progsolidstchem.2017.06.002 2017-06-16 The paper reports a thorough investigation of little inspected two classes of group VIIA based crystals: interhalogen compounds ClF, ClF3, BrF3 and IF3 on one hand and halogen suboxides F2O, Cl2O and Br2O on the other hand, as well as rare gas fluorides (here...

Low Field Magnetoelectric Studies on Sol–Gel Grown Nanostructured YMnO3 Manganites

10.1016/j.progsolidstchem.2017.12.001

2017-12-22

Single phasic nanostructured YMnO3 manganites were successfully synthesized by employing acetate precursor based modified sol–gel technique followed by their sintering at different temperatures. Structural studies were carried out by performing X–ray diffract...

CO2 reduction using oxynitrides and nitrides under visible light

10.1016/j.progsolidstchem.2017.11.003

2017-11-22

Reduction of CO2 using a heterogeneous photocatalyst under visible light has been studied as a potential means to address the problems of global warming and the depletion of fossil fuels. Recently, hybrid photocatalysts constructed with a metal complex and a ...

Nitride and oxynitride phosphors for white LEDs: Synthesis, new phosphor discovery, crystal structure

10.1016/j.progsolidstchem.2017.11.002

2017-11-14

Si,Al containing nitride and oxynitride phosphors have been applied to white LEDs. Phosphors play important roles to produce high color rendering in lighting and wide color gamut in display. Si,Al containing nitrides and oxynitrides have been studied as high-...

Synthetic approaches in oxynitride chemistry

10.1016/j.progsolidstchem.2017.11.001

2017-11-03

Mixed anion oxides are emerging materials showing a variety of physical and chemical properties. Among them oxynitrides are widely investigated because of notable photocatalytic, dielectric, luminescent and electronic properties. Nitrides show more positive f...

Molecular structure of Se-rich amorphous films

10.1016/j.progsolidstchem.2017.10.001

2017-10-20

Structure and its transformation are examined for amorphous Se-rich AsxSe1-x (0 ≤ x ≤ 0.2) alloys by employment of diffraction and non-diffraction structural probes. It is shown that the molecular structure of amorphous Se (a-Se) on the scale of short-range o...

Mass spectrometry drives stoichiometric GaAs formation from single-source precursors

10.1016/j.progsolidstchem.2017.10.002

2017-10-18

Evolved gas analysis (EGA) mass-spectrometry (MS) is used to characterize the solid state pyrolysis decomposition pathways of air- and moisture-sensitive organometallic compounds. In this study, the single-source GaAs compounds (Et2AsGaEt2)3 (1), (t-Bu2AsGaEt...

Carboxylated fullerenes: Physico-chemical properties and potential applications

10.1016/j.progsolidstchem.2017.09.001

2017-09-22

Carboxylated fullerenes may have wide applications in science and technology. Therefore, there is particular interest in investigating the physico-chemical and biological properties and the applications of these compounds. This review systematizes the current...

Sodium flux synthesis of nitrides

10.1016/j.progsolidstchem.2017.08.002

2017-09-14

Studies of the synthesis of solid state nitrides using a Na flux are reviewed. The role and effect of Na is to solubilize polyatomic species containing nitrogen, and to lower the crystal growth temperature below the decomposition temperature of the obtained p...

Remarkable effects of local structure in tantalum and niobium oxynitrides

10.1016/j.progsolidstchem.2017.08.001

2017-08-24

Compounds that contain two types of anion are attracting attention as a new field of solid state chemistry. The nitride anion is similar to the oxide anion in size and nature. They coordinate together to cations in oxynitrides to form characteristic local str...

Stereochemistry and ab initio topology analyses of electron lone pair triplets and twins in interhalogen compounds and halogen suboxides

10.1016/j.progsolidstchem.2017.06.002

2017-06-16

The paper reports a thorough investigation of little inspected two classes of group VIIA based crystals: interhalogen compounds ClF, ClF3, BrF3 and IF3 on one hand and halogen suboxides F2O, Cl2O and Br2O on the other hand, as well as rare gas fluorides (here...