In this study, we prepared 3-aminopropyl-triethoxysilane (APTEOS) functionalized sodium alginate (SA) porous membrane adsorbent (APTEOS/SA) and tested its adsorption performance for removing of Cr(III) ions. The physico-chemical properties of the pristine and Cr(III) ions loaded APTEOS/SA were investigated by FT-IR, SEM-EDX, TG, AFM, and contact angle goniometer methods. To investigate the adso...

Background: Environmental contamination by chromium (Cr) has become an important issue due to its adverse effects on human health and environment. This study was done to evaluate the application of modified bentonite using sulfuric acid as an adsorbent in the removal of hexavalent Cr from aqueous solution. Methods: Adsorbent features were determined using x-ray diffraction (XRD), fourier transf...

This study is focused on the possible use of Ceratocystis paradoxa MSR2 native biomass for Cr(VI) biosorption. The influence of experimental parameters such as initial pH, temperature, biomass dosage, initial Cr(VI) concentration and contact time were optimized using batch systems as well as response surface methodology (RSM). Maximum Cr(VI) removal of 68.72% was achieved, at an optimal conditi...

the effective removal of dyes from aqueous wastewaters is among the most important issues formany industrialized countries. removal of congo red (cr) dye from aqueous solutions was studiedusing nickel oxide nanoparticles. the operating variables studied were initial ph of solution,adsorbents dosage, temperature and contact time. the morphological information of nickel oxidenanoparticles were ch...

Let S be a smooth real surface in C and let p ∈ S be a point at which the tangent plane is a complex line. Many problems in function theory depend on knowing whether S is locally polynomially convex at such a p — i.e. at a CR singularity. Even when the order of contact of Tp(S) with S at p equals 2, no clean characterisation exists; difficulties are posed by parabolic points. Hence, we study no...

We investigated the metal-diamond interface formation and the growth of chromium thin films as contact material on diamonds, which should help to improve single-crystal diamond (SCD) particle detectors. As shown previously [1], we are able to derive information about metal film conductivity by means of infrared spectroscopy (IRS) and analysing the data with a Drude type dielectric function. In ...

BACKGROUND Streptococcus mutans (ATCC25175) has a profound effect on the incidence of dental decay in the human population. Many studies have been performed to assess the antimicrobial activity of different cements. However, little or no information is available about the antibacterial properties of Type II glass ionomer cement (GIC), Type IX GIC, and AMALGOMER™ ceramic reinforcement (CR). AI...

the potential of heat inactivated saccharomyces cerevisiae in the bioremoval and reduction ofcr (vi) ions from wastewaters was evaluated in terms of metal uptake in time and at equilibrium, andbiosorption efficiency, by varying ph, biosorbent doses, contact time and temperature, in batch mode. during the sorption process, the heat inactivated biomass of the yeast saccharomyces cerevisiae is cap...

We construct some natural metric connections on metric contact manifolds compatible with the contact structure and characterized by the Dirac operators they determine. In the case of CR manifolds these are invariants of a fixed pseudo-hermitian structure, and one of them coincides with the Tanaka–Webster connection.  2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. MSC: 53B05; 53C15; 53D10; 53D15

A fungus, Aspergillus niger was chemically treated with 0.1 M H2SO4 and 0.1 N NaOH to form biosorbent and it was immobilized in calcium alginate beads. The biosorption capacity of immobilized biosorbents for Cr (VI) was found to depend on pH, contact time, biosorbent dose and initial concentration of Cr (VI). The maximum uptake of Cr (VI) was 92.5, 95.9 and 98.4 mg respectively at a pH of 1.5 a...