Uma Shankar Sharma

Study of polyaniline coated CuFe2O4 nanoparticles and their application in biosensor

Polyaniline coated with nanoferrite particles has attractive application in enzyme less biosensor. In this paper, we have reported the synthesis of copper ferrite by Chemical Coprecipitation method and polymerization of polyaniline by oxidation method. The polyaniline-ferrite composite was characterized by different techniques such as XRD and VSM. The XRD pattern confirmed the presence of cubic phase and particles size in nano scale. The magnetic properties were studied by vibrating sample magnetometer (VSM) technique at room temperature. The higher values of saturation magnetization attributed to the cation distribution change from normal to spinel structure. Some Fe3+ ions drifted from octahedral site to tetrahedral site through the conversion of some Fe2+ ions to Fe3+ ions with super-exchange interactions and gives rise to saturation magnetization.The saturation magnetization of polyaniline coated CuFe2O4 using ammonium nitrate is much less than by polyaniline coated CuFe2O4 using ammonium peroxidisulp...

Electronic structure and transport properties of zigzag MoS2 nanoribbons

In present study, electronic and transport properties of the 8zigzag MoS2 nanoribbons (8ZMoS2NRs) are investigated using ab-initio density functional theory [DFT]. The calculations were performed u...

Study of electronic transport properties of doped 8AGNR

The electronic and transport properties of 8-armchair graphene nanoribbon (8AGNR) with defect at different sites are investigated by performing first-principles calculations based on density functional theory (DFT). The calculated results show that the 8AGNR are semiconductor. The introduction of 3d transition metals, creates the nondegenerate states in the conduction band, makes 8AGNR metallic. The computed transmission spectrum confirms that AGNR are semiconducting in nature and their band gap remain unchanged and localized states appear when there is vacancy in their structures, and the conductance decreases due to defects compared with the pristine nanoribbon.