BACKGROUND Water filtration units have been faced problems in water turbidity removal related to their media, which is determined by qualitative indices. Moreover, Current qualitative indices such as turbidity and escaping particle number could not precisely determine the efficiency of the media in water filtration, so defining new indices is essential. In this study, the efficiency of Anthraci...

the preparation and characterization of the vinyltriethoxysilane-modified silica nanoparticles were investigated. also the surface tension of polystyrene, native (hydrophilic) silica and silane-modified (hydrophobic) silica were determined. two kinds of polystyrene/silica (treated and non-treated) nanocomposites were prepared with different filler loadings by solution method. their viscoelastic...

Drug-containing nanoparticles (NPs) with monodisperse, controlled particle sizes are highly desirable for drug delivery. Accumulating evidence suggests that NPs with sizes less than 50 nm demonstrate superior performance in vitro and in vivo. However, it is difficult to fabricate monodisperse, drug-containing NPs with discrete sizes required for studying and characterizing existing relationship...

We report on the synthesis, microstructure and mass transport properties of a colloidal hydrogel self-assembled from a mixture of colloidal silica and nontronite clay plates at different particle concentrations. The gel-structure had uniaxial long-range anisotropy caused by alignment of the clay particles in a strong external magnetic field. After gelation the colloidal silica covered the clay ...

In this study, SiO2 nanoparticles were successfully synthesized via sol-gel precipitation method and the effects of different parameters such as temperature, ethanol, ammonia and tetraethylorthosilicate (TEOS) contents based on water were investigated in a systematic way applying Taguchi experimental design method. It was found that, among all the investigated parameters, ethanol as a co-solven...

Monodisperse spherical silica particles were synthesized by mixing 40 ml of aqueous ammonia (NH4OH, 28 wt%) with a solution containing 1000 ml of absolute ethanol (EtOH) and 80 ml of deionized water (H2O). After stirring for 30 min, 60 ml of TEOS (98%, Aldrich) was added to the solution and stirred for 6 h at room temperature. The as-synthesized silica particle suspension was centrifuged and wa...

Coagulation is presented as an efficient alternative to reduce the silica content in 14 effluents from recovered-paper mills that are intended to be recycled by a final reverse15 osmosis (RO) step. Coagulation pretreatment by several polyaluminum chlorides 16 (PACls) or FeCl3 was optimized prior to the RO process. PACls with low alumina 17 content and high basicity achieved almost a 100% remova...

Toxicity of commercial nanoparticles of titania, silica, and zinc oxides is being investigated in this in vitro study. Particles of these compositions are found in many food items, and thus this study is directed toward particle behavior in simulated digestion media and their interaction with intestinal epithelial cell line C2BBe1, a clone of Caco-2 cells, originally isolated from a human colon...

A monolithic silica column has recently been widely used for HPLC separation analysis. Compared with the particle−packed column (conventional column), the monolithic silica column eluted the analyte with a smaller retention factor (k), lower pressure and satisfactory separation [1]. However, the monolithic silica column has not been widely used for the HPLC or LC/MS analysis of steroids. These ...