A hydrometallurgical process for recycling spent Zn-MnO2 batteries was developed, involving leaching with sulfuric acid, purification by precipitation and metals separation for further recovery. Leaching of zinc oxide was easily attained while for manganese oxide was rather difficult depending on temperature and acid concentration. At 90oC and with the liquid/solid ratio of 20 L/kg, more than 9...

Low levels of cobalt doping (1 wt%) of copper manganese oxide enhances its activity for carbon monoxide oxidation under ambient conditions and the doped catalyst can display higher activity than current commercial catalysts.

The modification of carbon powder with manganese dioxide using a wet impregnation procedure with electrochemical characterisation of the modified powder is described. The process involves saturation of the carbon powder with manganese(II) nitrate followed by thermal treatment at ca. 773 K leading to formation of manganese(IV) oxide on the surface of the carbon powder. The construction of compos...

Ribonucleotide reductase (RNR) catalyzes the rate limiting step in DNA synthesis where ribonucleotides are reduced to the corresponding deoxyribonucleotides. Class Ib RNRs consist of two homodimeric subunits: R1E, which houses the active site; and R2F, which contains a metallo cofactor and a tyrosyl radical that initiates the ribonucleotide reduction reaction. We studied the R2F subunit of B. c...

by MUSHTAQUE AHMAD, M.S. Washington State University December 2008 Chair: Richard J. Watts Oxidant interaction with subsurface materials is a major factor influencing the effective application of in situ chemical oxidation (ISCO) for contaminant destruction. The newest and least explored ISCO oxidant source is persulfate. Persulfate interaction with subsurface minerals was investigated as a bas...

Nano-sized materials are new substances quickly developed and generally measured as 1 to 100 nm size in one dimension. At a nanometer scale, the surface area increases hastily as particle size decreases, as a result, the electromagnetic, thermal, optical, and mechanical properties of nanomaterials modify. In recent years, manganese oxides (MnO2) have concerned considerable research interest due...

Manganese oxide octahedral molecular sieves (OMS-2) could act as an efficient, reusable heterogeneous catalyst for transformation of various primary amines to the corresponding primary amides through the sequence of oxidative dehydrogenation and successive hydration.

Atomic layer deposition method was used to grow thin films consisting of ZrO2 and MnOx layers. All depositions were carried out at 300 oC. Some characteristics the manganese(III)acetylacetonate ozone process investigated, such as crystallinity dependence growth rate on temperature. partly crystalline in their as-deposited state. Zirconium oxide contained cubic tetragonal phases ZrO2, while mang...

A low-concentration cobalt (∼6 at%) and manganese (∼3 at%) bimetallic oxide catalyst supported on ceria nanorods (CoMnOx/CeO2), as well as its related single metal oxide counterparts (CoOx/CeO2 and MnOx/CeO2) was synthesized via a deposition-precipitation approach. The fresh samples after air-calcination at 400 °C were tested under the reaction conditions of CO oxidation, and showed the followi...