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In this article, a novel Co3O4@TiO2 composite is synthesized by applying two-step methods. ZIF-67 is synthesized and used as a template for the synthesis of the composite. The composite is designed by using the effective photocatalytic properties of Co3O4 and TiO2. The resulting synthesized composite is supposed to offer superior properties compared to their counterparts. The synthesized Co3O4@TiO2 composite is characterized by powder X-ray diffraction (PXRD), Brunauer–Emmet–Teller (BET), atomic force microscopy (AFM), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). Electrochemical water splitting, including hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER) studies on the Co3O4@TiO2 composite, is evaluated by cyclic voltammetry (CV) and linear sweep voltammetry (LSV) analysis in a 2M aqueous KOH electrolyte. The current generation stability of these samples is deliberated by chronoamperometric measurements. It is observed, from LSV results at a 1 mV/s scan rate, that metal oxides incorporated on other metal oxides have a higher current density and lower onset potential as compared to pure metal oxides. From the obtained results, it has become evident that synthesized studies on the Co3O4@TiO2 composite possess significant potential for electrochemical water splitting with the lowest onset potential, highest current density, better OER, and HER activity.

The left-handed features of Sr doped manganite lanthanum ceramics La0.775Sr0.225MnO3 in the vicinity of its Curie temperature are studied. The left-handed features are responsible for appearance of the additional transparency peak in the forbidden band of the photonic crystal bounded with the above manganite. The magnitude of the critical exponent β (β ∼ 0.50) determined in the work agrees with results reported in the literature and allows supposing that long-range interactions play an important role in the phase transition from conductive ferromagnetic to nonconductive dielectric paramagnetic state of the manganite in its Curie point.

Magnetoresonance (in the frequency range 22–80 GHz) and magnetostatic studies of the La1−xSrxMnO3 compound with strontium impurity concentrations x = 0.15; 0.225; 0.3; 0.45; 0.6, performed at room and liquid helium temperatures. A splitting of the electron magnetic resonance curve is detected for x = 0.3, which serves as evidence of mixed magnetic phases. The samples' concentration dependences of saturation magnetization are determined based on the obtained experimental data.

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