Synthesis of crystalline metal nitride and metal carbide nanostructures by sol–gel chemistry

Light-Emitting Devices – Luminescence from Low-Dimensional Nanostructures

“…Various methods have been used for the fabrication of nanostructures, like molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) [31,32], sol-gel [33,34], chemical vapor deposition (CVD) [35,36], lithography [37,38], physical vapor deposition (PVD) [39], and chemical methods [40][41]. Among these methods, the low cost and high efficiency technologies have attracted more attention.…”

Improvement of TiN nanoparticles EPD inducing steric stabilization in non-aqueous suspensions

“…Up to our knowledge the TiN films prepared by those techniques hardly reach 3-5 min thickness [3], exhibiting large crystallites sizes, for example 100 nm from films prepared by low voltage-high current PVD, 60 nm from plasma enhanced magnetron PVD, 200 nm from cathodic arc PVD and 500 nm from high temperature CVD [7]. In this sense, a num-ber of techniques, i.e., electrodeposition or sol-gel, have been also considered with the objective to design a new method of synthesis and deposition of TiN nanoparticles at low temperature [11,12,13].…”

Synthesis and characterization of novel ZrO2-SiO2 mixed oxides

“…In particular, those materials which exhibit catalytic activity have attracted attention due to their broad and growing applicability in many industrial processes 3 , from the petrochemical industry to the food sector [4][5][6][7] . Numerous studies can be found in the literature [8][9][10][11][12][13] regarding the development of new materials with catalytic properties. Among the various solids with industrial applications, the mixed oxides are capable of combining the chemical and mechanical properties of their constituting oxides 5 .…”