Firing temperature Ancient Potteries are among the oldest and most significant technological innovations in the history of human achievement, and were the first truly synthetic material. Spectroscopic techniques are very useful tools to achieve a detailed knowledge of the art works. In the present study thermogravimetry (TG) and differential thermal analysis was carried out for pottery samples ...

Commercially available silica gel is chemically modified for carbon dioxide capture. Calcinated silica gel of certain particle size functionalized with amine using two different methods, wet impregnation and grafting via silane chemistry has been employed as a porous media. The prepared material is characterized by Fourier transform infrared, scanning electron microscopy, energy dispersive anal...

A chiral two-dimensional (2D) coordination polymer {[Zn(cmmb)(1,4-bbi)]·H2O}n (1) has been synthesized by a hydrothermal reaction of Zn(NO3)2·6H2O with 4(carboxymethoxy)-2-methylbenzoic acid (H2cmmb) and 1,1′-(1,4-butanediyl)bis(imidazole) (1,4-bbi). It has been characterized by elemental analysis, X-ray crystallography, IR spectroscopy and thermogravimetry, and also by its fluorescence propert...

Microfabricated cantilever sensors have attracted much interest in recent years as devices for the fast and reliable detection of small concentrations of molecules in air and solution. In addition to application of such sensors for gas and chemicalvapor sensing, for example as an artificial nose, they have also been employed to measure physical properties of tiny amounts of materials in miniatu...

Non-isothermal thermogravimetry/derivative thermogravimetry (TG/DTG) measurements are used to determine pyrolytic characteristics and kinetics of lignocellulose. TG/DTG experiments at different heating rates with corn stover pretreated with monocultures of Irpex lacteus CD2 and Auricularia polytricha AP and their cocultures were conducted. Heating rates had little effect on the pyrolysis proces...