The problem of controlling fluid flow on the microand nanolength scales is important in microanalysis, nanoparticle assembly, and other emerging applications. We and others have demonstrated autonomous nanoparticle movement and micrometer-scale fluid flow driven by the asymmetric catalytic decomposition of hydrogen peroxide over bimetallic surfaces.1-7 Movement on larger length scales has also ...

Ceria (CeO2) nanorods with well-defined surface planes can be synthesized and utilized for the hydrogenation of nitroaromatics. The CeO2 nanorods containing a {110} plane can efficiently and selectively catalyse the hydrogenation of nitroaromatics with N2H4 as a reducing agent, while nano-ceria with a {100} or {111} plane shows poor performance for the reaction.

The interaction of hydrazine vapors with single-crystal germanium was studied by using the thermogravimetric method. article considers processes taking place on surface Ge up to formation Ge3N4 nitride, in particular, accumulation N2H4+H2O and their etching water vapor contained hydrazine.

Ammonia electro-oxidation is an extremely significant reaction with regards to the nitrogen cycle, hydrogen economy, and wastewater remediation. The design of efficient electrocatalysts for use in ammonia (AOR) requires comprehensive understanding mechanism intermediates involved. In this study, aggregation-induced emission (AIE), a robust fluorescence sensing platform, employed sensitive quali...

Compared with their isoelectronic system ethane, both hydrogen peroxide and hydrazine exhibit a double well torsional energy curve where skew conformers are favored over trans conformers and cis conformers are energy-maximum states. Clearly, the involvement of the lone oxygen and nitrogen pairs, or more specifically, the enhanced stabilizing n→σ* negative hyperconjugation effect and destabilizi...