This work reports a simple, novel, cost effective and eco-friendly electrolytic synthesis of silver nanoparticles using AgNO 3 as metal precursor. The synthesis rate is much faster than other methods and this approach is suitable for large scale production. They are characterized by XRD, SEM and FT-IR techniques to analyze size, morphology and functional groups. XRD studies reveal a high degree of crystallinity and monophasic Ag nanoparticles.Their particle size is found to be 24 nm and specific surface area (SSA) is 24 m 2 g -1 . Analysis of Ag nanoparticles SSA reports that increasing their SSA improves their antibacterial actions. Microbiology assay founds that Ag nanoparticles are effective against E.coli and B.megaterium bacteria.SSA of bacteria analysis reveals that it plays a major role while reacting with antimicrobial agents.

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Nanocellulose prepared from the natural material has a promising wide range of opportunities to obtain the superior material properties towards various end-products. In this research, commercially available natural cotton was treated with aqueous sodium hydroxide solution to eliminate the hemicellulose and lignin, then cellulose was collected. The collected cellulose was subjected to acid hydrolysis using sulfuric acid to obtain nanocellulose. The prepared nanocellulose was further characterized with the aid of Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction and Scanning Electron Microscopy to elucidate the chemical structure, crystallinity and the morphology.

The preparation of biodegradable nanomaterials by blending starch nanocrystals with various polymer matrices are the most active research. This work reports aspect related to nano-sized particles of jackfruit seed. This approach is simple, faster, eco-friendly, cost effective and suitable for large scale production. X-Ray Diffraction studies analyze particles size, morphology, type of starch and degree of crystallinity. The particle size is found to be 12nm, specific surface area is 625 m 2 g -1 , contains A-type starch and 32% degree of crystallinity. A morphology index (MI) is developed from FWHM of XRD data to understand interrelationship of particle size and specific surface area. MI range is from 0.50 to 0.74. It is correlated with the particle size and specific surface area. It is observed that MI has direct relationship with particle size and an inverse relationship with specific surface area. __________________________________________________________________________________________

This work reports, some of the features related to the room temperature superparamagnetic behaviours of lead nanoparticles. Such behaviours have not been discussed elaborately, in any literatures, so far. It is obvious from our studies that the superparamagnetic behaviours of Pb nanoparticles are surprising behaviours, since bulk Pb has diamagnetic behaviours. Hysteresis curve from Vibrating Sample Magnetometer study of Pb nanopowder (metal) serves some new observations. The successful calculations of values like magnetic size, saturation magnetization, coercive field, and remanent magnetism confirm its superparamagnetic nature and explore its potential application in various industries. This work throws some light on and helps further research.

This work reports aspect related to chemical capping synthesis of nano-sized particles of nickel o xide. It is a simp le, novel and cost effective method. The average particle size, specific surface area, crystallin ity index are estimated fro m XRD analysis. The structural, functional groups and optical characters are analyzed with using of SEM, FTIR and UV-visib le techniques. XRD studies confirm the p resence of high degree of crystallin ity nature of nickel o xide nanoparticles. Their particle size is found to be 12 n m and specific surface area (SSA) is 74m2 g-1. The optical band gap energy value 3.83ev has also been determined fro m UV-Vis spectrum.

Synthesis and structural characterization of Pb nanoparticles by electrolysis using a bioactive compound-konjac aqueous extract is the main aim of this study. This method is a unique, novel, low cost and double-step procedure with good reproducibility and has not been used for nanoparticles preparation so far. Konjac extract has been added to prevent the oxidation of Pb nanoparticles. Also the synthesized nanoparticles have been dried in open air to observe their stability. Various types of characterization tools have been utilized to study characters of the end product. Anti-bacterial Studies has also been done. After completion of synthesis process that we have made an attempt to change the shape of the synthesized nanoparticles by the influence of sunbeams and to find the effects of the sunlight on nanomaterials.Keywords: XRD, Lead nanopowder, Konjac, Electrolysis, Debye-Scherer Citation: T. Theivasanthi and M. Alagar. Konjac biomolecules assisted-rod/spherical shaped lead nano powder synthesized by electrolytic process and its characterization Studies.

The quantum dots of semiconductor display novel and interesting phenomena that have not been in the bulk material. The color tunability is one of the most attractive characteristics in II-VI semiconductor nanoparticles such as CdS, ZnS, CdSe, ZnSe and PbO. In this work, the semiconductor lead oxide nanoparticles are prepared by chemical method. The average particle size, specific surface area, crystallinity index are estimated from XRD analysis. The structural, functional groups and optical characters are analyzed with using of SEM, FTIR and UV-Visible techniques. The optical band gap value has also been determined.