you can measure the UV.vis diffuse reflectance for you nan powder and use the K-Mnuk equation to find the absorption and you can compare between the tow result for absorption curve
You can analyse cobalt nano-particles using UV-visible spectroscopy (around 400-500 nm), for further characterization you need to perform XRD, Elemental analysis, HR-TEM etc.
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