The dehydration of gypsum CaSO4.2H20 has been studied, at negligible water vapour pressure, by in situ infrared (IR) spectroscopy and by thermogravimetry to determine whether intermediate phases (CaSO4.nH20) exist, other than the hemihydrate with n=0.5, and also to compare the mechanism of the dehydration process when measured by two techniques with very different correlation lengths. Thermogra...

Very recently, the hydroxyl-functionalized ionic liquids have gained immense interest and were developed for a number of interesting applications. In this work first time new namely; 1-(hydroxyethyl)-3-methylimidazolium dihydrogenophosphate liquid [EtOHMIM+][H2PO4?] was synthesized in our laboratory. The synthesis is based on an alkylation reaction 1-methylimidazole followed by anion exchange. ...

The synthesis characterization and conductivities of polyaniline/expanded vermiculite intercalated nanocomposite are presented in this paper. The conductive emeraldine salt form of polyaniline is inserted into the interlayer of expanded vermiculite to produce the nanocomposite with high conductivity. The structures and properties are characterized by transmission electron microscopy x-ray diffr...

Hydrothermal reaction of Cd(NO3)2 · 4H2O with a flexible asymmetrical bridging ligand, 4-(2pyrazinylthiomethyl)benzoic acid (Hpztmb), at 120 ◦C yielded a novel one-dimensional Cd(II) coordination polymer [Cd(pztmb)2(H2O)2]n (1), which has been characterized by IR spectroscopy, elemental analysis, thermogravimetry, and X-ray crystallography. The metal-organic chain of the complex is held togethe...

we evaluated the effect of fe/alumina catalyst contained different cadmium contents and two synthesis temperatures on producing carbon nanotubes by chemical vapor deposition of methane as a feedstock.  x-ray powder diffraction (xrd), n2 adsorption-desorption, scanning electron microscopy (sem), transmission electron microscopy (tem), raman spectroscopy and thermogravimetry analysis (tga) were u...

The kinetics of thermal decomposition of AlIII -, CrIII -, FeIII ,CeIII and LaIII -alginate complexes have been studied using thermogravimetry (TG) and differential thermogravimetry (DTG) techniques in static air. However, the TG curves showed three distinct stages of weight loss, the DTG curves indicated the presence of a series of thermal peaks associated with the TG curves. The results revea...

During temperature cycles, metallic alloys for high temperature applications are usually oxidized with formation of an external protective oxide scale, but they loose it during the cooling. This problem of oxide spallation can be studied by specific tests of cyclic oxidation but first indications can be provided by analyzing the cooling parts of thermogravimetry curves. This possibility was stu...