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Development of renewable energy production from sun and wind and the development of hybrid electric vehicles seem to be integral components in modern societies in order to overcome the environmental pollution and reduce the use of fossil fuel sources. In such devices energy storage plays an important role and supercapacitor is one the important energy storage devices. Structure of supercapacitor electrodes has considerable effect on supercapacitor performance. Graphene as a 2D carbon structure can improve electrochemical properties of electrodes. Here three different hybrid structure of graphene have been realized. The high capacitance and cyclic stability of graphene nanosheets decorated... 

Since the discovery of fullerene C60, its chemical and physical properties have been a hot topic in the field of research. For the past two decades remarkable developments achieved in the field of fullerenes chemistry. The aim of this study is comparative study of antioxidant property of fullerene C60 and its amine derivatives and the effect of transition metal complexes. At the outset the anti-oxidative property of fullerene C60 and its amine derivatives explored and it was found that by increasing the chain length of amines, the anti-oxidative property of aminofullerenes increased respectively. In next step the effect of CoSALEN complex on anti-oxidative property of fullerene was... 

Recent research suggests that the electrochemical deposition of cobalt-based binary alloys, such as cobalt-tungsten and cobalt-iron, can lead to the formation of amorphous structures in the coatings. Theoretical studies suggest that these structures are equivalent to structures created by the melt cooling of the alloy at speeds of about 〖10〗^10 Kelvin per second. The formation of a glass phase can significantly increase the abrasion resistance and corrosion resistance of these coatings. Empirical studies show that the ability of the glass to become glassy, or more precisely, the transition from crystalline to amorphous, is largely a function of the chemical composition. Simulation of... 

In recent years, there are continuous researches on replacing new dielectrics with suitable dielectric properties (including high dielectric coefficient, low loss factor, high breakdown voltage, and high nonlinear coefficient simultaneously). One of these new materials is co-doped titanium oxide with donor and acceptor of electron, which in spite of having high dielectric coefficient and low loss factor. it has low breakdown voltage and researches on improving the disadvantages of this dielectric are ongoing. Due to the structural similarities between tin oxide and titanium oxide, the tin oxide can be an interesting system for studying and improving disadvantages in this field. In this study... 

Electrodeposition of composite coatings containing nano particles is very important because this technique is simple and economic. In this research, in order to produce a coating with high hardness and wear resistance, Ni-Co/WC nano composite was co-deposited. Watt’s based bath containing cobalt and tungsten carbide was used and parameters such as preparation of solution, concentration of ingredients and current density were controlled and adjusted. Surface morphology, microstructure and mechanical properties of coatings were studied by SEM and AFM microscopes. Mechanism of electrodeposition was investigated by cyclic voltametry, cronoamperometry and cronopotentiometry techniques and... 

Today, due to the decreasing of fossil fuel reserves and the need to use clean fuels, hydrogen is a suitable alternative, and hydrogen production has received considerable attention. One of the best methods of hydrogen production is water splitting. Overall water splitting can be divided into two half reactions including the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER), which selecting the appropriate electrocatalyst for these half reactions plays an important role. The four-electron transfer process in OER leads to slow kinetics of the reaction and a large overpotential. The noble metal-based oxides, including IrO2 and RuO2, are known as outstanding OER... 

One of the pillars of reaching a steady development is to utilize sustainable energies. In order to make use of these modern means of energy, appropriate energy storage devices are inevitable. One of the families of these devices is the supercapacitors. Moving toward the 4th industrial revolution, we are encountering modern technologies such as internet of things and wearable electronics. Therefore, designing and fabricating microsupercapacitors is of paramount importance in order to reduce the weight and size of these devices. Cobalt and nickel are considered as two important elements to be used in synthesizing supercapacitive materials and composites, because of their good electrochemical... 

In this work hydrometallurgical route for processing spent commercial catalysts (Co/Al2O3) are investigated for leaching the Cobalt component. The used catalysts were initially pre-oxidized at 500 °C and 5 h in order to eliminate coke and other volatile species present. Pre-oxidized catalysts were dissolved in solvents such as H2SO4, HNO3, HCl and H2O at 80-90 °C, and the remaining residues separated from the solution. These experiments were performed at different concentrations, presence and absence H2O2 solution. Also effect of reflux on leaching process investigated. The result show the yield of the pre-oxidized catalysts extracted with highly concentration of extractant is higher than... 

LM13 Aluminum alloys contain Silicon, Copper, magnesium and Nickel. This alloys have been widely used in automobile pistons. For this application thermal expansion coefficient is one important characteristics other than mechanical properties. In this project replacing Cobalt with Nickel to improve alloy thermal and mechanical properties in piston applications by different cobalt contents. Cobalt contents is 0, 0.15, 0.55 and 0.77 Wt%. Because of oxidation magnesium content decrease into 0.98, 0.74, 0.61 and 0.48 Wt%. Thermal expansion coefficient and UTS first increase and after 0.55 Cobalt Wt% show decrease But yield strength and hardness increase as cobalt content increase. Microscopic... 

The ability of Ferro spinels to catalyze the reactions, along with their ability to become easily separated, has attracted many attentions. These Ferro spinels are synthesized in an efficient way and are used as a catalyst for carbon-carbon bond formation. Nanoparticles of Spinel ferrites, for instance three-metal ferrites, have unique characteristics and have very interesting and important applications in synthetic organic chemistry. In the first section of this thesis, synthesis and analysis of copper cobalt ferrite is considered. In the second section, several organic chemical reactions are investigated to evaluate the catalytic activity of these nanoparticles. Finally, the catalytic role...