A chemical and a physical method have been applied for the preparation of chromium-nickel alloy nanoparticles. These particles were designed to be used for controlled magnetic hyperthermia applications. Microemulsions with Ni2+ and Cr3+ and/or NaBH4 as precursors were prepared using the isooctane/CTAB, n-butanol/H2O system. The samples of CrxNi1-x nanoparticles with the desired composition were...

Bu çalışmada, Spirulina platensis mikroalg ve Microcystis aeruginosa makroalg türleri kullanılarak NaBH4’den metanoliz yoluyla hidrojen üretimi gerçekleştirilmiştir. Mikroalg türleri, çeşitli asitlerle muamele edilmiş katalitik performansları karşılaştırmalı olarak incelenmiştir. En verimli katalizör türünün belirlenmesinin ardından farklı reaksiyon parametrelerinin üretimine etkisi araştırılmı...

one-pot reaction of aldehydes or ketons with aniline derivatives was performed using nabh4 and fe3o4 magnetic nanoparticles (mnps). the optimum amount of fe3o4 mnps was 5 mol% under solvent free condition. the corresponding products were obtained in good to excellent yields. the magnetically recoverable iron oxide nanoparticles are found to be efficient for synthesis of amine derivatives. these...

Correction statement In the Methods section of our published article [1], we mentioned that “we developed a novel in situ means of preparing stabilized Au or Ag NPs...”. However, we have recently noticed that the similar process has been reported by Moreno et al. [2]. Hence, we correct the statement in our manuscript by crediting the work by Moreno et al. [2]: [Before Correction] “We developed ...

As the first step to understand the reaction mechanism and diastereoselectivity of sodium borohydride reduction of ketones, ab initio Car-Parrinello molecular dynamics simulation has been performed on a solution of NaBH4 in liquid methanol. According to pointwise thermodynamic integration involving constrained molecular dynamics simulations, it was strongly suggested that Na+ and BH4(-) are ass...

Water-soluble gold nanoparticles (Au NPs) stabilized by a nitrogen-rich PEG-tagged substrate have been prepared by reduction of HAuCl4 with NaBH4 in water at room temperature. The morphology and size of the nanoparticles can be controlled by simply varying the gold/stabilizer ratio. The nanoparticles have been fully characterized by TEM, HRTEM, ED, EDS, UV-vis, p-XRD and elemental analysis. The...

Background With gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) is possible to develop nanoscale devices that can interact with chemical and biological systems. The phenomenon explored in these nanosystems is called Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance (LSPR), which promotes electromagnetic wave oscillation electronics on these small metallic structures. It is interesting to note that this resonance is directly link...

Herein we report the covalent grafting of chitosan on graphene oxide (GO) followed by a simple approach for anchoring silver (AgNPs) and gold (AuNPs) nanoparticles onto a chitosan grafted graphene oxide surface by a NaBH4 reduction method. Catalytic activity of prepared heterogeneous GO grafted chitosan stabilized silver and gold nanocatalysts (GO-Chit-Ag/AuNPs) was explored for the reduction o...

Sodium borohydride (NaBH4) hydrogen storage systems offer many advantages for hydrogen storage applications. The physical processes nside a NaBH4 packed bed reactor involve multi-component and multi-phase flow and multi-mode heat and mass transfer. These processes are lso coupled with reaction kinetics. To guide reactor design and optimization, a reactor model involving all of these processes i...