In this work, post-consumer polypropylene and wood flour from Pinus elliottii were used to produce wood plastic composites. The effect of polypropylene grafted with itaconic acid used as a coupling agent on mechanical properties, thermal stability and morphology of the composites was investigated and compared with the composite developed with polypropylene grafted with maleic anhydride, commonl...

Polypropylene is extensively used for varied applications due to its low cost, low density, high thermal stability and resistance to corrosion. Enhanced mechanical properties of Polypropylene can be achieved by mixing it with clays to form nanocomposites which increases its utility. Polypropylene Nano composites are formed by mixing polypropylene with calcium carbonate nano particles. This resu...

We report the thermal degradation of a solid film of polypropylene carbonate, driven by the photothermal effect of gold nanoparticles. We provide characterization of the products of this chemical reaction and use the known activation barrier for this chemical reaction to discuss the temperatures obtained in the film. In addition, we report the efficiency of the reaction as a function of nanopar...

The formation of Pd(0) in the absence of any classical reducing agent in a medium containing Mg(2+)/Al(3+) layered double hydroxide (LDH) and N,N-dimethylformamide was evidenced. XRD analysis showed the presence of crystalline phases of palladium in the Pd/LDH composite. Suzuki-Miyaura reactions in aqueous medium were carried out at room temperature, and good yields were obtained with bromoaren...

This paper describes the synthesis of silver nanoparticles using an aqueous silver nitrate solution in the presence of glucose as a reducing agent, sodium hydroxide as a reaction catalyst and β-CD as a stabilizer. The structure and the morphology associated to the stabilizing layer around the silver nanoparticles were investigated. Raman spectroscopy confirmed the nanoparticle surface modificat...

A high-throughput screening (HTS) method based on fluorescence imaging (FI) was implemented to evaluate the catalytic performance of selenide-modified nano-TiO2. Chemical ink-jet printing (IJP) technology was reformed to fabricate a catalyst library comprising 1405 (Ni(a)Cu(b)Cd(c)Ce(d)In(e)Y(f))Se(x)/TiO2 (M6Se/Ti) composite photocatalysts. Nineteen M6Se/Tis were screened out from the 1405 can...

Crystallization behavior of melt-blended polypropylene (PP)/single wall carbon nanotube (SWNT) composites has been studied using optical microscopy and differential scanning calorimetry. Polypropylene containing 0.8 wt% SWNT exhibits faster crystallization rate as compared to pure polypropylene. PP/SWNT fibers have been spun using typical polypropylene melt spinning conditions. The PP crystalli...

Density functional theory (DFT) was used to study the regioselectivity of copolymerization propylene and bis-styrenic molecules (DVB BVPE) using a zirconocene catalyst. This reveals following: when hydrogen is introduced reactivate catalyst on vinyl bonds containing DVB or BVPE, second bond inserted into polymer in regio-irregular 1,2-way. (I) The 1,2-insertion mode forms more thermodynamically...

Fe single-atom catalysts (Fe-SACs) have been extensively studied as a highly efficient electrocatalyst toward the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR). Nonetheless, they suffer from stability issue induced by dissolution of metal center and OH− blocking. Herein, surface molecular engineering strategy is developed using β-cyclodextrins (CDs) localized encapsulation. The CD-modified Fe-SAC (Fe-SNC-β-C...