Granular aerogel agglomerates obtain their unique mechanical and functional properties from underlying mesoporous structure intergranular interactions. In this presentation, we focus on the acoustical of granular layers present experimental results characterizing absorption behavior silica aerogels with average particle sizes ranging 5 μm to 2 mm. Our show that strongly depends size. To better ...

Welding fume is a complex mixture containing ultra-fine particles in the nanometer range. Rather than being in the form of a singular sphere, due to the high particle concentration, welding fume particles agglomerate into long straight chains, branches, or other forms of compact shapes. Understanding the transport and deposition of these nano-agglomerates in human respiratory systems is of grea...

The following study deals with the characteristics of the reaction to form BaSO4 and BaCO3 from Na2SO4 and Na2CO3, respectively, using BaS as the other reactant. These reactions would theoretically increase the efficiency of the chemical recovery process in papermaking to near 100% by completely converting Na2SO4 to Na2S and Na2CO3 to NaOH. Kinetic data were collected, and it was determined tha...

felodipine is a second generation calcium channel blocker widely used as antihypertensive and antianginal drug which belongs to bcs class ii category. hence, its low water solubility limits the pharmacological effect. the aim of this study was to improve the dissolution rate of felodipine using spherical agglomeration technique with acetone, water and dichloromethane as good solvent, poor solve...

BACKGROUND A new type of superparamagnetic nanoparticles with chemical formula Fe7C3@C (MNPs) showed higher value of magnetization compared to traditionally used iron oxide-based nanoparticles as was shown in our previous studies. The in vitro biocompatibility tests demonstrated that the MNPs display high efficiency of cellular uptake and do not affect cyto-physiological parameters of cultured ...

There is an increasing need to develop biosensor methods that are highly sensitive and that can be combined with low-cost consumables. The use of magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) is attractive because their detection is compatible with low-cost disposables and because application of a magnetic field can be used to accelerate assay kinetics. We present the first study and comparison of the performa...

OBJECTIVE We examined the pulmonary toxicity of nickel oxide nanoparticle agglomerates in the rat lung following an intratracheal instillation. METHODS The weighted average surface primary diameter of nickel oxide nanoparticles was 8.41 nm, and the count median diameter of nickel oxide nanoparticle agglomerates suspended in saline was 1.34 µm. Male Wistar rats were exposed to 1 mg (3.3 mg/kg)...

Efficient nanopowder processing requires knowledge of the powder's mechanical properties. Due to the large surface area to volume ratio, nanoparticles experience relatively strong attractive interactions, leading to the formation of micron-size porous structures called agglomerates. Significant effort has been directed towards the development of models and experimental procedures to estimate th...