Study of Volumetric and Optical Properties of Cerium Oxide Nano-Fluid

Abstract

Abstract The study of volumetric and optical properties for cerium oxide nanoflakes dispersed in folic acid and water have been reported for entire concentration range (25 to 150 µM) at room temperature. Cerium oxide nanoflakes have unique properties and emerged in biomedical science field applications. The synthesized nanoflakes was investigated by various spectroscopic, structural and morphological techniques. Volumetric properties including density, apparent molar volume and excess molar volume, optical properties such as refractive index, molar refraction and electronic polarizability have been obtained for the nano-fluid system undertaken and optical absorbance spectra were recorded using UV-vis spectrophotometer for fresh sample and after one week suspension at room temperature. The study of volumetric behaviour of solutions may provide useful information about intermolecular interactions that take place in nano-fluids such as solute–solute, solute–solvent, dipole-dipole interactions and other dispersive forces and help to improve industrial productions and medical applications.