Journal
NANOTECHNOLOGY
Volume 21, Issue 32, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/21/32/325601
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- US Department of the ARMY [W911NF-08-1-0460]
- National Science Foundation [0653986]
- European Commission [EXT-0023899-NanoHeaters]
- Cyprus Research Promotion Foundation [KY-GammaA/0907/09-NanoSens]
- US Department of Energy [DE-FG02-07ER46453, DE-FG02-07ER46471]
- Div Of Civil, Mechanical, & Manufact Inn
- Directorate For Engineering [0653986] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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We report the room temperature (RT) synthesis of silver vanadate nanorods (consisting of mainly beta-AgVO3) by a simple wet chemical route and their frictional study at high temperatures (HT). The sudden mixing of ammonium vanadate with silver nitrate solution under constant magnetic stirring resulted in a pale yellow coloured precipitate. Structural/microstructural characterization of the precipitate through x-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) revealed the high yield and homogeneous formation of silver vanadate nanorods. The length of the nanorods was 20-40 mu m and the thickness 100-600 nm. The pH variation with respect to time was thoroughly studied to understand the formation mechanism of the silver vanadate nanorods. This synthesis process neither demands HT, surfactants nor long reaction time. The silver vanadate nanomaterial showed good lubrication behaviour at HT (700 degrees C) and the friction coefficient was between 0.2 and 0.3. HT-XRD revealed that AgVO3 completely transformed into silver vanadium oxide (Ag2V4O11) and silver with an increase in temperature from RT to 700 degrees C.
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