In recent years fluorinated polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxanes (POSS) have been established as useful for the fabrication of superhydrophobic surfaces, however little attention has been paid to their use for making ultrathin coatings by the Langmuir–Blodgett method. On the other hand, recently POSS compounds have been recognized as a new group of film-forming materials. In this study the int...

The new synthesized thiomacrocyclic ionophore 4-phenyl-4-sulfide-11-(1-oxodecyl)-1,7-dithia-11-aza-4-phosphacyclotetradecane has proven to form Langmuir and Langmuir-Blodgett (LB) films. This ionophore shows a large affinity for copper(II) ions. Thus, the influence of the subphase composition on the surface pressure-area isotherms has been studied. The LB films have been observed by AFM and the...

It has recently published that graphene oxide (GO) obtained from graphite by Hummers’ oxidation is composed by nanoplatelets, named as GOP and oxidative debris (OD). OD seems to be composed by highly oxidative aromatic molecules coming from rupture of the sheets and they are adsorbed on the top of the nanoplatelets. The existence of OD modifies the physical and chemical properties of the materi...

the present study was carried out to investigate three different adsorbents; dry cells of thebacterium exiguobacterium sp. 27, polyaniline and a mixture of both in different ratios for removal of ni(ii)from aqueous solution. the results showed that the adsorption of ni(ii) using dry cells of exiguobacteriumsp. 27 was very fast and the equilibrium time was 15 min, while the equilibrium time for ...

in this work, electrochemical methods such as tafel polarization and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (eis) were used to study the inhibition efficiency of nettle leaves hydroalcoholic extract as a green corrosion inhibitor of api 5l carbon steel in 0.5 m h2so4 solution. the results showed that the inhibition efficiency was increased with increasing the concentration of the extract and th...