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Clay-Humic Substance Composites for Removal of Pharmaceuticals from Water

2020

Humic substances are the main component of soil organic matter and they actively interact with substances in soils, including pollutants. Humic acid-clay mineral composite materials can be considered as prospective and low-cost sorbents for contaminant removal. The aim of this study is to develop clay mineral and humic acid composite materials and to characterise their possible applications. For this research, montmorillonite, kaolinite and bentonite were saturated with three types of humic substances: technical humic acid from lignite, humic substances extracted from raised bog peat (Latvia) and technical K humate from lignite. Obtained sorbents were characterized using FTIR. The sorption …

Evaluation of Aspects Controlling Crystallization of Nitrofurantoin

2019

Nitrofurantoin was crystallized from multiple mixtures of water and organic solvents with and without additives to try to find and identify factors affecting phase obtained in crystallization and provide possible information on crystallization control. Obtained crystals were identified with powder X-ray diffractometry. Crystallization control possibilities were evaluated by using polymer additives and crystallization additives, by also using quantum chemical calculations to investigate the association of nitrofurantoin and additive molecules and calculate Gibbs energy of association.

Chemical kinetics of solids. ByHermann Schmalzried, VCH, Weinheim 1995, XVI, 433 pp., hardcover, DM 298.00, ISBN 3-527-29094-X

1996

The MOF-driven synthesis of supported palladium clusters with catalytic activity for carbene-mediated chemistry

2016

The development of catalysts able to assist industrially important chemical processes is a topic of high importance. In view of the catalytic capabilities of small metal clusters, research efforts are being focused on the synthesis of novel catalysts bearing such active sites. Here we report a heterogeneous catalyst consisting of Pd4 clusters with mixed-valence 0/+1 oxidation states, stabilized and homogeneously organized within the walls of a metal-organic framework (MOF). The resulting solid catalyst outperforms state-of-the-art metal catalysts in carbene-mediated reactions of diazoacetates, with high yields (>90%) and turnover numbers (up to 100,000). In addition, the MOF-supported Pd4 c…

Mechanical, Kinetic and Morphological Correlations during the Scale Growth of Niobium and Zirconium Oxides

2001

Oxidation of niobium at 700°C and zirconium at 850°C, in air or oxygen pressures from 20 to I 000 hPa, lead to the formation in one case of a stratified Nb 2 O 5 oxide scale and in the other case a more compact ZrO 2 oxide scale. Analyses of the evolutions of phases, crystalline textures and mechanical stresses during oxidation are determined by X-ray diffraction techniques. Interactions between chemical processes, crystalline building and mechanical processes constitute together the driving force of the reaction and can explain the differences in morphologies of oxide scales.

Giant Mechanocaloric Effects in Fluorite-Structured Superionic Materials

2016

Mechanocaloric materials experience a change in temperature when a mechanical stress is applied on them adiabatically. Thus, far, only ferroelectrics and superelastic metallic alloys have been considered as potential mechanocaloric compounds to be exploited in solid-state cooling applications. Here we show that giant mechanocaloric effects occur in hitherto overlooked fast ion conductors (FIC), a class of multicomponent materials in which above a critical temperature, Ts, a constituent ionic species undergoes a sudden increase in mobility. Using first-principles and molecular dynamics simulations, we found that the superionic transition in fluorite-structured FIC, which is characterized by …

Using regression analysis method to model and optimize the quality of chip-removing processed metal surfaces

2017

The paper aim is to identify based on regression analysis, the quantitative relationship between the cutting process parameters (cutting speed, cutting depth and feed per tooth) and the arithmetic mean deviation of the surface profile, measured longitudinally and transversely on the cutting feed direction, which describe the system at any point in the chosen experimentally studied range. The equations coefficients means the influence of the variables on the pursued answer.

Soluble oligo(phenylenevinylene)s with electron withdrawing substituents for the use in light emitting diodes

2000

Poly(p-phenylenevinylene) (PPV) and its derivatives are one of the most widely used classes of phosphors in light emitting diodes. Central problems are the imbalanced charge carrier injection and transport properties due to the high lying conduction band. A series of good soluble oligo(phenylenevinylene)s (OPV) with five benzene rings and a variety of electron withdrawing and accepting substituents have been prepared and may serve as model compounds for PPV with increased electron affinity. The central ring of the OPVs is substituted with two octyloxy groups to ensure good solubility and the lateral styrene units carry further chromophoric groups of different electronic character. The synth…

Calculations on solvents and co-solvents of single-wall carbon nanotubes:cyclopyranoses

2005

The (10, 10) single-wall carbon nanotube (SWNT) presents consistency between relatively small solubility, and large partition coefficients and kinetic stability. The solubility of SWNTs is investigated in a variety of solvents, finding a class of non-hydrogen-bonding Lewis bases that provides good solubility. The organic solvent–water partition and hydrophobic moment of lysozyme show that the main contribution to the water-accessible surface area of helices is the hydrophobic term, while the hydrophilic part dominates in the sheet, which is related to the 1-octanol–, cyclohexane– and chloroform–water partition coefficients Po−ch−cf of helices, which are greater than those of the sheet. The …

Effects of pressure, temperature and atomic exchanges on phase separation dynamics in Au/Ni(111) surface alloy: Kinetic Monte Carlo study

2015

Abstract Instability of the Au/Ni(111) surface alloy is studied in different CO gas pressure, p , and temperature limits using kinetic Monte Carlo simulations. We analyze the reaction front dynamics and formation of Au clusters using the model which takes into account surface adatom pair and three-body interactions, CO adsorption and desorption, catalytic carbonyl formation reaction, Au and Ni adatom diffusion and their concerted exchange. Variation of interaction parameters allows us to identify three possible reaction front propagation limits with different pressure dependencies: (i) slow channel-like flow in agreement with experimental data [1] (step flow rate, R , increases with p ), (i…