Summary: | Metal oxides have been widely studied, due to the many applications they are useful for. Their diverse properties, for example supercapacitance, piezoelectricity, semiconductivity and superconductivity have meant that research into metal oxides for application has been vast. Within this body of work, synthesis routes to manipulate the structure of several metal oxides were studied. These oxides were: Dy2Ti2O7, Gd2Ti2O7, CuBi2O4, CO3O4, NiO, α-Fe2O3 and several phases of strontium niobate. Utilising a biotemplated approach, morphology control and application was the key focus of the project.
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