Oxide Nanopowder

Vanadium pentoxide nanoparticles are an inorganic compound and its chemical formula is V2O5. It is amphoteric in nature. It is used as an excellent catalyst for industrial purposes. In the metal-semiconductor transition, there is an abrupt change in optical and electrical properties. It is thermodynamically stable and also shows electrochromic properties. It is also used in the form of thin films and thin-films can be utilized in smart windows, optical filters, and reflectance mirrors.

Vanadium pentoxide nanoparticles are widely used in thermal sensing and switching. This compound based material is exhibited different types of chromogenic effects and also utilized in nanomedicines, automotive. It exhibits multi-colored electrochromism and this permits the utilization in electrochromic displays color filters. It creates many compounds with oxygen and an oxide compound shows various structural, optical and chemical properties.

Due to its high coefficient of thermal resistance, vanadium (V) oxide finds use as a detector material in bolometers and microbolometer arrays for thermal imaging. It also finds application as an ethanol sensor in ppm levels (up to 0.1 ppm). Vanadium redox batteries are a type of flow battery used for energy storage, including large power facilities such as wind farms.

Vanadium pentoxide nanoparticles are an ideal material platform for study how the electronic structure influences the electronic structure of a material undergoing slight structural change. Moreover, electrical properties, such as the electrical conductivity, carrier concentrations, and electrical switching, have a great influence on employing the functional materials in many fascinating applications, including electrochemical applications, energy storage processes, thermoelectric devices and smart windows based on metal-insulator transition (MIT) and so forth.

Vanadium pentoxide nanoparticles do have small scale direct use in ultra-high capacity vanadium redox batteries used for storage at grid levels. The batteries make use of the flexibility of vanadium, changing the oxidation states of two separate electrolytes to produce a flow of electrons.