We studied the influence of using different powders and several additives on the shaping process and critical current density of sintered bulk YBa2Cu30x' It was found that all additives used facilitated the shaping process. Silver and most organic additives influenced the critical current density only little, Zinc reduced it to zero, but an ethylenebisstearoylamide compound doubled the critical...

Propane/propene separation by cryogenic distillation is one of the most energy and cost intensive industrial processes. Adsorptive separation is a more energy-efficient alternative. Three isostructural zinc imidazolate zeolitic framework materials are found, for the first time, to be very promising in the separation of propene and propane based on their different diffusion rates. Fine-tuning of...

A simple methodology for encapsulating ca. 10 nm-sized superparamagnetic Fe3O4 nanoparticles in zeolitic imidazolate frameworks (ZIF-8) crystals was developed. The corresponding Fe3O4@ZIF-8 heterostructured material exhibits bifunctional properties with both high magnetization (Fe3O4) and high thermal stability, large specific surface, and catalytic properties (ZIF-8). The Fe3O4@ZIF-8 catalyst ...

An ionic liquid assisted strategy for the synthesis of zeolitic material is reported. This strategy is a solid state synthetic method and the ionic liquid is employed as structure directing agent. A TON-type zeolite, which contains one-dimensional 10-member-ring, is successfully synthesized with the assistance of the ionic liquid, 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium bromide. This finding improves our u...

This paper reviews various types of heterogeneous acid-base catalysts for fragrances preparation. Catalytic activities of the various types of heterogeneous acid and base catalysts in fragrances preparation, i.e. nonzeolitic, zeolitic, and mesoporous molecular sieves, have been reported. Generally, heterogeneous acid catalysts are more commonly used in fragrance synthesis as compared to heterog...