Panorama of biogenic nano-fertilizers: A road to sustainable agriculture

A Jha, D Pathania, B Damathia, P Raizada… - Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
The ever-increasing demand for food from the growing population has augmented the
consumption of fertilizers in global agricultural practices. However, the excessive usage of …

Nanotechnology applications in pollution sensing and degradation in agriculture: a review

S Baruah, J Dutta - Environmental Chemistry Letters, 2009 - Springer
With the rise in the global population, the demand for increased supply of food has
motivated scientists and engineers to design new methods to boost agricultural production …

Photocatalytic degradation of organic dyes with manganese-doped ZnO nanoparticles

R Ullah, J Dutta - Journal of Hazardous materials, 2008 - Elsevier
Manganese-doped and undoped ZnO photocatalysts were synthesized via wet-chemical
techniques. Do** of ZnO with manganese (Mn2+) was intended to create tail states within …

Nanoparticles of zinc sulfide doped with manganese, nickel and copper as nanophotocatalyst in the degradation of organic dyes

HR Pouretedal, A Norozi, MH Keshavarz… - Journal of hazardous …, 2009 - Elsevier
Nanoparticles of zinc sulfide as undoped and doped with manganese, nickel and copper
were used as photocatalyst in the photodegradation of methylene blue and safranin as color …

Electrical and magnetic properties of sulfides

CI Pearce, RAD Pattrick… - Reviews in Mineralogy …, 2006 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The metal sulfides exhibit a great diversity of electrical and magnetic properties with both
scientific interest and practical applications. These properties apply major constraints on …

Synthesis and characterization of Mn2+-doped ZnS nanoparticles

BS Rema Devi, R Raveendran, AV Vaidyan - Pramana, 2007 - Springer
Mn 2+-doped ZnS nanoparticles were prepared by chemical arrested precipitation method.
The samples were heated at 300, 500, 700 and 900° C. The average particle size was …

Synthesis and study of optical properties of transition metals doped ZnS nanoparticles

V Ramasamy, K Praba, G Murugadoss - Spectrochimica Acta Part A …, 2012 - Elsevier
ZnS and transition metal (Mn, Co, Ni, Cu, Ag and Cd) doped ZnS were synthesized using
chemical precipitation method in an air atmosphere. The structural and optical properties …

Structural analysis and dielectric investigations of pure and rare earth elements (Y and Gd) doped NiO nanoparticles

J Al Boukhari, A Khalaf, R Awad - Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2020 - Elsevier
In this work, pure and 2% rare earth elements RE (RE= Y and Gd) doped NiO nanoparticles,
capped with polyvinyl alcohol PVA, were prepared by coprecipitation technique. X-ray …

Synthesis, structural, and optical properties of stable ZnS: Cu, Cl nanocrystals

C Corrado, Y Jiang, F Oba, M Kozina… - The Journal of …, 2009 - ACS Publications
Stable water-suspendable Cu+-doped ZnS nanocrystals (NCs) have been synthesized with
mercaptopropionic acid (MPA) as a cap** molecule. The nanocrystals have been …

Sonochemically synthesized Ni-doped ZnS nanoparticles: structural, optical, and photocatalytic properties

AA Othman, MA Osman, MA Ali, WS Mohamed… - Journal of Materials …, 2020 - Springer
In the present work, we investigate the effect of Ni do** on the crystallite size (D hkl),
optical band gap (E_ g^ opt E g opt), Photoluminescence emission (PL) behavior, as well as …