Eco-friendly mixed metal (Mg-Ni) ferrite nanosheets for efficient electrocatalytic water splitting.

Eco-friendly and cost-effective catalysts with multiple active sites, large surface area, high stability and catalytic activity are highly desired for efficient water splitting as a sustainable green energy source. Within this line, a facile synthetic approach based on solventless thermolysis was employed for the simple and tunable synthesis of NiMgFeO (0 ≤ x ≤ 1) nanosheets. The characterization of nanosheets (via p-XRD, EDX, SEM, TEM, HRTEM, and SAED) revealed that the pristine ferrites (NiFeO and MgFeO), and their solid solutions maintain the same cubic symmetry throughout the composition regulation.

Precursor Engineering for the Synthesis of Mixed Anionic Metal (Cu, Mn) Chalcogenide Nanomaterials via Solvent-Less Synthesis.

Metal-organic ligands with mixed chalcogenides are potential compounds for the preparation of mixed anionic metal chalcogenide alloys. However, only a few of such ligands are known, and their complexes are not well explored. We have prepared homo- and hetero-dichalcogenoimidodiphosphinate [(EE'PPrNH)] (E, E' = Se, Se; S, S; S, Se) complexes of manganese and copper through metathetical reactions.