Synthesis and characterization of zinc oxide nanoparticles

The research is aimed at synthesis and characterization of nanoscaled zinc oxide particles and their application on linen fibrous supports, for thermal properties. To impart thermal activity to the fibrous nanocomposites, nanoparticles as well as fibrous nanocomposites were produced in different hydrothermal conditions of temperature (90 °C). To characterize the nanoparticles composition, their shape, size, and crystallinity, investigations technique, such as Fourier transformed infrared spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy, and X-ray powder diffractometry were used. Differential scanning calorimetry analysis profiles were also revealed. The thermal treatment of linen fabrics with nanosized ZnO does not modify significantly their thermal stability.     

Lattice defects and magnetic ordering in plutonium oxides: a hybrid density-functional-theory study of strongly correlated materials

Experimental studies of actinide oxides are challenging, and conventional electronic structure calculations fail to qualitatively reproduce the scarce data. We employ a new generation of hybrid density functionals to model a defective plutonium dioxide lattice. The procedure is first tested against stoichiometric bulk PuO2 and Pu2O3, for which predictions agree well with experiment where known. The interstitial oxygen in PuO2.25 is found to be singly charged, consistent with experimental observations and contrary to the O2- previously proposed theoretically.     

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