In the synthesis of the disordered lyotropic liquid crystalline L3 sponge phase prepared with the cosurfactants cetylpyridinium chloride and hexanol, aqueous NaCl solution is used as the solvent. When this sponge phase is used as the template for L3 silica-phase processing, we replace NaCl with HCl to facilitate the acid catalysis of tetramethoxysilane in forming a templated silica gel, assumin...

. The absorbances of five concentrations of potassium dichromate in 0.001 ]l.f perchloric aCid have been determined at eight wavelengths in the ultraviolet on the National Bureau of Standards Institute for Materials Research high-accuracy spectrophotometer. Four of the wavelengths-235, 257, 313, and 3.50 nm-correspond to absorbance maxima or minima in the HCrO,spectrum and are useful wavelength...

The electrochemical reduction of H2O2 on SIMFUEL was investigated over the pH range 1 to 4. The mechanism at pH 4 is known to occur on U species incorporated into a surface layer of U1-2xU2xO2+x. However, below pH 3, reduction occurs on an adsorbed UO2(OH) state which is unstable and oxidizes to insulating U before dissolving as UO2. Both schemes are observed at intermediate pH’s. The presence ...

High aspect ratio gold nanowires with single crystalline surface have long been a missing piece in the toolbox of plasmonics metal nanostructures. Such wires are now made with a room temperature, surfactant assisted chemical synthesis in acidic aqueous solution. The diameters and lengths of the multiply twinned gold nanowires can be tuned by varying the amount of seed particles and acid in the ...