Oxide-supported metals play an important role in a wide variety of industrial chemical processes such as the catalytic treatment of automotive exhaust. The ability to exercise greater control over the interactions of molecules on metal surfaces will create new possibilities for pollution control and the provision of novel power sources. Furthermore, a deeper understanding of molecule surface in...

this study deals with bioleaching of the low grade uranium ore of saghand mine in iran using a mixed culture of mesophilic bacteria (acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans, acidithiobacillus thiooxidans and leptospirillum ferrooxidans). experiments were carried out in shaking flask examining the effect of temperature, initial ferrous ion concentration, pulp density and particle size. variations of ph, ...

Particle grain size is an important indicator for the variability in physical characteristics and pollutants composition of road-deposited sediments (RDS). Quantitative assessment of the grain-size variability in RDS amount, metal concentration, metal load and GSFLoad is essential to elimination of the uncertainty it causes in estimation of RDS emission load and formulation of control strategie...

in suspension polymerization, particle size distribution of polymer is the outcome of dynamic equilibrium between the break up and coalescence phenomena. the rates of break up and coalescence and consequently polymerization stability depend on several parameters, the most important of which are type and concentration of stabilizer. in this study, the effects of type and concentration of stabili...

Objective(s): CuO is one of the most important transition metal oxides due to its captivating properties. It is used in various technological applications such as high critical temperature superconductors, gas sensors, in photoconductive applications, and so on. Recently, it has been used as an antimicrobial agent against various bacterial species. Materials and Methods: Here, we synthesized Cu...

the nanoparticles of ni–si mixed oxides were prepared by co-precipitation method using nickel nitrate; ni(no3)2 6h2o and tetraethylorthosilicate (teos). the products were characterized by x-ray diffraction (xrd), transmission electron microscopy (tem), and hydrogen temperature program reduction (h2-tpr). the results revealed that ni–si mixed oxides particles were obtained with average particle ...

introduction with the rapid development of industries such as metal plating facilities, mining, fertilizer producing industries, tanneries and paper industries heavy metals enriched wastewaters are directly or indirectly discharged into the environment. zinc is a trace element that is essential for human health. it is important for the physiological functions of living tissues and regulates man...

The past few decades have witnessed significant advances in the development of functionalized metal/metal oxide nanoparticles including those of inorganic noble metals and magnetic materials stabilized by various polymeric ligands. Recent applications of such functionalized nanoparticles, including those in bio-imaging, sensing, catalysis, drug delivery, and other biomedical applications have t...

We demonstrated the self-assembly of transition metal carbide nanoparticles coated with atomically thin noble metal monolayers by carburizing mixtures of noble metal salts and transition metal oxides encapsulated in removable silica templates. This approach allows for control of the final core-shell architecture, including particle size, monolayer coverage, and heterometallic composition. Carbo...

In this study, commercial zinc oxide nanoparticles were used. Various techniques such as AFM, XRD, and FTIR employed to characterize their surface studies. From the XRD analysis, each reflection peak with relative intensity of different planes determined presence ZnO spectrum revealed that particle size was about (27.43 nm), which is in good agreement those estimated from AFM analysis. It showe...