The feasibility of identifying habitat of sulfur fumigated Radix Astragali and of determining its sulfur dioxide residue using UV-vis and short wave near-infrared diffuse reflectance spectra coupled with chemometrics was first investigated. The results show that by using UV-vis-SWNIR DRS combined with PCA, the habitat of Radix Astragali is identified definitely, whether it is sulfur-fumigated, ...

Reduced graphene oxide (rGO) was applied to prepare various composites of rGO/photocatalyst of G/TiO2, G/ZnO and G/Ta2O5, using titanium (IV) isopropoxide, Zn powder and commercial Ta2O5 powder as photocatalyst precursors, respectively. X-ray diffraction (XRD), field emission scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), thermogravimetric-differential t...

Two preparation methods (wet saturation impregnation with vanadyl acetylacetonate and ball-milling of γ-Al2O3 with crystalline V2O5) were applied to produce two sets of VOx/γ-Al2O3 catalysts with increasing vanadium loadings. Materials from both sets were characterized by XRD, SEM, Raman, TPR and UV/Vis-DRS to elucidate the influence of the preparation method on the morphology of VOx species an...

BACKGROUND PURPOSE Photocatalytic water splitting for hydrogen evolution is a potential way to solve many energy and environmental issues. Developing visible-light-active photocatalysts to efficiently utilize sunlight and finding proper ways to improve photocatalytic activity for H2 evolution have always been hot topics for research. This study attempts to expand the use of sunlight and to enha...

A series of tetrabutyl ammonium (TBA) salts V-included Keggin-type polyoxoanions with W (TBA4PW11V1O40 and TBA5PW10V2O40) Mo (TBA4PMo11V1O40 TBA5PMo10V2O40) as addenda atoms were prepared using a hydrothermal method. These synthesized materials characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), UV-Vis diffuse reflectance (DRS UV-Vis), thermogravimetric an...

lamno3 and lamno3/zsm-5 nano catalysts were synthesized by pechini method and their physical-chemical properties were characterized using xrd, ftir, sem-edx, uv-vis drs, bet surface area and tpr. the correlation between characteristic properties and activity of catalysts were investigated. the catalytic performance of the catalysts was evaluated in combustion of 2-propanol and compared with 1% ...

our aim in this work is the synthesis and study optical and structural properties of gold nanoparticles.gold (iii) chloride trihydratewas taken as metal precursor, ascorbic acid at the presence of an appropriate amount of naoh as reducing agent and polyvinylpyrrolidonek-30 (pvp k-30) as a stabilizing and capping agent. the reaction was performed in high-speed stirring rate at room temperature.s...

In this study the optimum conditions for preparing the iron-doped TiO2 nanoparticles were investigated. Samples were synthesized by sol-gel impregnation method. Three effective parameters were optimized using Taguchi method, consisted of: (i) atomic ratios of Fe to Ti; (ii) sintering temperature; (iii) sintering time. The characterization of samples was determined using X-ray diffraction, BET- ...

The highly efficient Vanadium doped ZnO nano-rod supported with MWCNT (V@ZnO/MWCNT) has been fabricated using a convenient sol-gel impregnation method. techniques such as FTIR, XRD, UV-Vis DRS, TEM, and...