SOFCs running on jet fuel reformates are attractive to NASA for its uninhabited aerial vehicle and low emission alternative power missions. The US military has interest in fuel cells due to their lightweight, zero emission and low acoustic signatures in strategic zones. Jet fuels, such as Jet-A and JP-8 are already on board in many applications. If they can be reformed and used in fuel cells, m...

The most common approach in the search for the optimal low temperature fuel cell catalyst remains "trial and error". Therefore, large numbers of different potential catalytic materials need to be screened. The well-established and most commonly used method for testing catalytic electrochemical activity under well-defined hydrodynamics is still thin film rotating disc electrode (TF-RDE). Typical...

In this paper, the dispersion of a solute in the peristaltic flow of a Jeffrey fluid in the presence of magnetic field with both homogeneous and heterogeneous chemical reactions has been discussed. The average effective dispersion coefficient has been found using Taylor's limiting condition under long wavelength approximation. It is observed that the average dispersion co-efficient decreases wi...

A novel magnetically recoverable and recyclable nanocatalyst, Cu 2 O-Fe 3 O 4 @TNT, has been developed for the synthesis of 1,4-disubstituted 1,2,3-triazoles at room temperature in aqueous medium.

A greener approach to synthesize the chitosan (Cs) supported palladium (Pd) magnetic (Fe3O4) nanoparticles (NPs) using Epiphyllum oxypetalum (Eo) leaf extract under ultrasound-assisted extraction was carried out. The reduction of Pd (II) (0) accomplished by phytochemical present in whereas used as core wall material. presences phytochemicals were confirmed liquid chromatography with mass spectr...

Aqueous Mizoroki-Heck coupling reactions under microwave irradiation (MW) were carried out with a colloidal Pd nanocatalyst stabilized with poly(N-vinylpyrrolidone) (PVP). Many stilbenes and novel heterostilbenes were achieved in good to excellent yields starting from aryl bromides and different olefins. The reaction was carried out in a short reaction time and with low catalyst loading, leadin...

Hydrotalcite nanoparticles were synthesized by co-precipitation of aqueous Mg(NO(3))(2)·6H(2)O and Al(NO(3))(3)·9H(2)O in the presence of urea and subsequent microwave-hydrothermal treatment. The nanoparticles were activated with saturated aqueous Ca(OH)(2), and used to hydrolyze cellulose. A maximum hydrolysis yield of 47.4% with high glucose selectivity (85.8%) was achieved at 423 K. The nano...

Dye sewage is dangerous problem in our environmental aquatics that cause generation of harmful effects for living organism. In this work, because of simplicity, easy operation, high efficiency and no creating secondary pollutants, ultra sound radiation applied for degradation of a synthetic dye, methyl orange using zinc sulfide nano particles decorated on carbon nanotubes as nanocatalyst. ZnS/C...