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Properties and Synthesis of Metal Oxide Nanoparticles in Electrochemistry

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The synthesis and study of “metal oxide nanoparticles”, has gain greater attention over the past 10 years among interdisciplinary researchers. The major interest may be as a result of their unique physical and chemical properties, which gives rise to their various industrial usage in the field of catalysis, electronics, solar energy conversion, and others. As the particle size diminishes, the ratio of surface atoms to those inherent rises, enabling the surface properties to dictate the overall properties of the nano-materials. Also, metal oxide nanoparticles manifest different optical and electrical properties in proportion to that of the bulk material. Hence, as the size of the solid becomes smaller, the band gap becomes larger. This, therefore, gave scientists the unique opportunity of nanofabrication synthesizing highly complex nanostructure with different electronic and optical properties just by manipulating its particle size.

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  1. Department of Chemical Engineering, Vaal University of Technology, Private Mail Bag X021, Vanderbijlpark, 1900, South Africa

    Ikenna Chibuzor Emeji, Onoyivwe Monday Ama & Peter Ogbemudia Osifo

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    Onoyivwe Monday Ama & Suprakas Sinha Ray

  3. DST/CSIR National Centre for Nano-Structured Materials, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Pretoria, 0001, South Africa

    Onoyivwe Monday Ama & Suprakas Sinha Ray

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    Uyiosa Osagie Aigbe

  5. Department of Chemical, Metallurgy and Material Engineering, Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria, South Africa

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Emeji, I.C., Ama, O.M., Aigbe, U.O., Khoele, K., Osifo, P.O., Ray, S.S. (2020). Properties and Synthesis of Metal Oxide Nanoparticles in Electrochemistry. In: Ama, O., Ray, S. (eds) Nanostructured Metal-Oxide Electrode Materials for Water Purification. Engineering Materials. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43346-8_5

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