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In the past few years with increase in population and global warming the requirement to store energy from various sources has increased. Recent research have been focused on oxide materials as energy storage device due to their unique structure and interesting properties. Perovskites materials such as La0.5Sr0.5CoO3-δ and SrRuO3 shows capacitive behavior. In previous studies perovskite with different A and B sites have been studied. In this report we have chosen Ca2Fe2O5 perovskite material due to its interesting properties, structure and morphology which changes on introducing cobalt as dopant material. Further we investigated the performance of cobalt doping on the electrochemical behavior of Ca2Fe2-xCoxO5 (x=0, 0.01 and 0.03) using electrochemical characterization such as Cyclic voltammetry (CV), Galvanostatic charge-discharge (GCD) and Electrochemical impedance spectra (EIS). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

ZnO:GaN (oxy)nitride solid solution has been established as the most efficient non-oxide photocatalyst for water splitting under visible irradiation with one step photoexcitation and also boasts a band gap tunability from 2.8 eV to 2.5 eV[1]. The solid solution of GaN in ZnO is formed by the intersubstitution of few of Zn/O ions by Ga/N ions, and this results in the introduction of new defect levels above the valence band which narrows the effective band gap enabling activity under visible region of spectra. In this work, we report the synthesis of ZnO:GaN solid solution by a solution combustion technique where metal nitrates and urea are used as precursors. The Zn/Ga ratio was varied from 16 to 1 in the precursors. The as synthesized samples were characterized as phase pure by X-ray diffraction, where the wurtzite structure was retained up to Zn/Ga ratio of 5. The Diffuse reflectance spectroscopy studies revealed that as the Ga content in the solid solution increases there is a reduction in band gap, from 2.9 eV to 2.4 eV. The reduced band gap of the samples facilitates its photocatalytic activity under visible region of the spectra as evaluated by photoelectrochemical measurements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]