Copper Oxide is an extensively studied group II-VI semiconductor with optical properties. It exhibits a wide variety of morphologies in the nano regime that can be grown by tuning the growth habit of the CuO crystal. CuO nano materials with an average particle size of 15-27 nm are synthesized by chemical route. XRD, SEM, FTIR UV-Vis and EDS characterize the samples. The percentage of doping material is confirmed from the EDS spectra. The average crystal size of the prepared CuO: La nanopowder is determined by XRD. The UV absorption spectra revealed the absorption edge at wavelength 389 nm indicating the smaller size of CuO:La nano particle. The optical direct band gap energy of doped CuO nanoparticle is found to be in the range 3.149 eV. The increasing red shift with decreasing particle size suggests that the defects responsible for the intra gap states are primarily surface defect. The La doped CuO is highly effective and can significantly enhance the photo catalytic degradation.

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The double sulfate family (ABSO 4 ), where A and B are alkali metal cations, is the object of great interest owing to the complexity and richness of its sequence of phase transition induced by temperature variation. A new sulfate salt characterized by the presence of water molecule in the unit cell with the chemical formula, Li 2 Na 3 (SO 4 ) 2 ⋅6H 2 O (LSSW), was obtained. The ultrasonic velocity measurement was done with pulse echo overlap technique [PEO]. All the six second order elastic stiffness constants, C 11 = C 22 , C 33 , C 44 = C 55 , C 12 , C 14 and C 13 = C 23 are reported for the first time. The anisotropy in the elastic properties of the crystal are well explained by the pictorial representation of the polar plots of phase velocity, slowness, Young's modulus and linear compressibility in a-b and a-c planes.

Single crystals of potassium sulfamate are grown by the method of slow evaporation at constant temperature. AC electrical conductivity of potassium sulfamate is measured in the temperature range 300-430 K and in the frequency region between 100 Hz and 3 MHz along the a, b and c-axes. Complex impedance spectroscopy is used to investigate the frequency response of the electrical properties of the potassium sulfamate single crystal. Temperature variation of AC conductivity and dielectric measurements show a slope change around 345 K for both heating and cooling run and this anomaly is attributed as phase transition, which is well supported by the DSC measurements. Value of loss tangent in the temperature region 330-400 K is found to be very low. Activation energies for the conduction process are calculated along the a, b and c-axes.