toluene and benzene were eliminated using multi-walled carbon nanotubes (mwcnts). in order to investigate influence of acid treatment on the mwcnts adsorption capacities, the mwcnts were functionalized by nitric acid (10 m) under reflux conditions for 2 h. fourier transform infrared (ftir) and raman spectroscopy were employed to confirm the formation of functional groups on the nanotubes surfac...

mgcl2/c2h5oh adducts with constant relative ratio of 1/3 were prepared and kept at 120oc for different lengths of times of 5, 10, 20, 30, 50, 90,120 and 220 h. then the samples were quenched and analyzed by xrd and bet. no meaningful changes were observed in the specific surface area of the samples, while xrd spectra showed 3 peaks at 2θ<15o for samples kept at 120oc for 5 h. these 3 peaks were...

In this work, SiO2 –ZrO2 mixed oxides was prepared by the polymeric sol–gel route. The characterization of pore structure, which determines the permeation process of membrane, is of great importance. So far, most investigations have focused on such pore structure as specific surface area and pore size distribution, but the surface fractal, the important parameter reflecting the roughness of por...

the leishmania major parasite surface antigen-2 (psa-2) is a family of glycoinositol phospholipids anchored glycoprotoins expressed in both promastigotes and amastigotes. promastigote psa-2 comprises three polypeptides with approximate molecular weight of 96, 80 and 50 kda. amastigote express a distinct but closely psa-2 polypeptide with molecular weight of 50 kda. in this study fusion of sp2/0...

The phase transformation of aluminum hydrates yields various forms of alumina (d, q, K) and eventually alpha-alumina. The decrease in the specific surface area of alumina upon heat treatment is due to changes in crystalline structure and hence a decrease in the porosity of the material, Although the conversion of gamma-alumina to alpha-structure takes place with a lowering in surface area and p...

We present a search-based approach to automatic surface realization given a corpus of domain sentences. Using heuristic search based on a statistical language model and a structure we introduce called an inheritance table we overgenerate a set of complete syntactic-semantic trees that are consistent with the given semantic structure and have high likelihood relative to the language model. These...

Neuronal cell-surface molecules are an important group of membrane structures which include neurotransmitter receptor proteins [ 1 , 21, neurotransmitter transporters [3, 41 and a heterogeneous group of proteins involved in neuronal development [ 5, 61 and in the formation and maintenance of synaptic contacts [7]. The use of antibodies has provided a successful approach to the identification an...