Nano particles have a wide range of applications such as electronics, catalysis, chemistry energy and medicine and have thus gained commercial acceptance [1]. Besides improving their functionality, the use of nano technology can result in the production of textiles with completely novel properties or the combination of various functions [2]. Such multifunctional textiles include antistatic text...

The coordination chemistry of chiral NHC-oxazoline bidentate ligands was investigated with silver(I) and gold(I), yielding stable dinuclear cationic complexes in good yields via N-coordination the oxazoline heterocycle. After full characterization these complexes, reactivity homogeneous catalysis under oxidative conditions studied.

Reactions proceeding through cationic intermediates that lack a Lewis or Brønsted basic site present a challenge for traditional asymmetric catalysis based on chiral metals or organocatalysts. We present an enantioselective ring opening of tetrasubstituted meso-aziridinium ions with alcohol nucleophiles proceeding through a chiral ion pair with a binaphthol-phosphate anion. The reaction is init...

Nano structured noble metals have very important applications in diverse fields as photovoltaics, catalysis, electronic and magnetic devices, etc. Here, we report the application of dual beam thermal lens technique for the determination of the effect of silver sol on the absolute fluorescence quantum yield (FQY) of the laser dye rhodamine 6G. A 532 nm radiation from a diode pumped solid state l...

Preparation of silver immobilized TiO2-Hectorite and its application in phenol photooxidation and Eschericia coli bacteria desinfection has been conducted. Material was obtained by two steps of synthesis: preparation of TiO2-Hectorite and silver immobilization into TiO2-Hectorite. Physico-chemical characterization to the prepared material compared to raw hectorite was conducted by X-ray Diffrac...

Silver–copper alloys have been proposed as catalysts for ethylene epoxidation due to their superior selectivity compared to pure silver, the predominant catalyst for this reaction. Under reaction conditions it has been previously shown that, rather than a two-dimensional (2D) Ag–Cu alloy, a thin copper oxide-like layer forms on top of silver, and several possible surface structures were identif...

Bioreactors In article number 2109973, Liping Zhong, Kun Zhang, Yongxiang Zhao, and co-workers describe how a tumor-microenvironment-enabled in situ silver-based electrochemical oncolytic bioreactor (SEOB) unlocks antitumor Ag+ prodrugs for highly efficient subcutaneous orthotopic tumor recession via activating production of reactive oxygen species (ROS). Reduced graphene oxide (rGO), featuring...

Synthesis of nanoparticles is central to research and applications in nanotechnology. Silver nanoparticle is one of the most commercially successful nanoparticles due to their wide applicability in various areas such as electronics, catalysis, energy and medicine etc. Although,variety of physicaland chemical based synthetic methods of silver nanoparticles have been reported, these are either no...

The exceptional catalytic activity of silver for a number of partial oxidation reactions has been known for nearly a century. Despite the wid espread use of silver in heterogeneous catalysis, there still remain unresolved questions about the mechanistic details of reaction. The ethylene epoxidation and formaldehyde synthesis reactions are the two industrially-relevant reactions which have recei...