CuS nano/submicro materials with different morphologies were synthesized with spherical, tubular, leaflike and strip type structures in a simple aqueous system under microwave irradiation and sunlight and employing Cu (CH 3 COO) 2 , CuSO 4 Á5H 2 O, CuCl 2 , and as copper source and H 2 NCSNH 2 , Na 2 S 2 O 3 Á5H 2 O and CH 3 CSNH 2 as sulfur sources. The starting materials were used without assistance of any surfactant or template. An X-ray powder diffraction pattern confirms that the product was CuS with hexagonal phase. Scanning electron microscopy was used to observe the morphologies of the product. Different Phase transitions in CuS with respect to temperature are studied by DSC/TGA. The dependence of morphologies of product on different experimental conditions was also discussed.

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Controlled conduction of magnetic spins is desired for data processing in modern spintronic devices. Transition metal-doped ZnO is a potential candidate for this purpose. We studied the effects of cobalt doping on structural, absorbance, and magnetic properties of ZnO nano-particles. Different compositions (Zn 0.99 Co 0.1 O, Zn 0.97 Co 0.3 O, and Zn 0.95 Co 0.5 O) of cobalt-doped ZnO were fabricated using metallic chlorides by co-precipitation method. XRD revealed standard ZnO wurtzite crystal structure without lattice distortion due to impurities but showed presence of additional phases at higher doping ratios. Fourier transformed infrared spectroscopy also confirmed the standard ZnO profiles at lower doping ratios but additional phases at higher doping. Vibrating sample magnetometer showed soft ferromagnetic behavior for low impurity samples and harder ferromagnetic behavior for higher doping at room temperature. A simultaneous differential scanning calorimetry/thermo gravimetric analysis was performed to study the phase variations during crystallization.

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