scholarly journals Preparation of Super-Hydrophobic 3D Porous Nanocomposites by One Step Reaction at Room Temperature for Water Treatment

Coatings ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 521
Author(s):  
Liping Ding ◽  
Jianmin Su ◽  
Zeyu Cao ◽  
Peng Zhu ◽  
Yuan Liu

Melamine sponge (MS) has the characteristics of multilayer network structure, high porosity, adjustable pore structure, and low price, which is considered to be an ideal material for oil leakage treatment. Here, a facile, economical, environmental friendly, and one step reaction was developed to fabricate Ag nanoparticles (NPs) decorated MS composite with tannic acid (TA) as a reducing agent. By reduction reaction, the super-hydrophobic and super-oleophylic surface of the MS–TA–Ag composite was formed, demonstrating a single selectivity for oil and water. Thus, the adsorption capacity of MS–TA–Ag composites for various oils/organic solvents can reach 48~129 times its own weight and and display superior efficiency to separate oil/organic solvent from the water. In addition, the MS–TA–Ag composite has stable super-hydrophobicity and reusability. It is exciting that modified MS exhibits excellent chemical stability properties after a long processing time with strong alkali, strong acids, and salt solutions. The simple strategy provides a method for the preparation of large-scale oil spill cleaning and recovery materials.

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 63
Author(s):  
Henri Perez ◽  
Mathieu Frégnaux ◽  
Emeline Charon ◽  
Arnaud Etcheberry ◽  
Olivier Sublemontier

Recently, we reported the use of CO2 laser pyrolysis for the synthesis of promising Fe/C/N electrocatalysts for Oxygen Reduction Reaction (ORR) in fuel cells. The set-up used single laser pyrolysis of an aerosolized solution of iron acetylacetonate in toluene with ammonia, both as laser energy transfer agent and nitrogen source. In the present paper, we investigate the effect of a second ammonia promoted CO2 laser pyrolysis on the feature and ORR activity of Fe/C/N electrocatalysts. Indeed, compared to single pyrolysis, the second ammonia promoted CO2 laser pyrolysis could be an interesting way to synthesize in one-step performing ORR electrocatalysts on a large scale. For this comparison, a two-stage reactor was built, allowing both single ammonia-induced CO2 laser pyrolysis as reported previously or double ammonia-induced CO2 laser pyrolysis. In the latter configuration, the catalyst nanopowder flow is formed at the first stage of the reactor, then mixed with a second ammonia flow and allowed to cross a second CO2 laser beam, thus undergoing a second ammonia-induced CO2 laser pyrolysis before being collected on filters. It is found that the second ammonia-induced CO2 laser pyrolysis significantly improves the ORR performances of the materials prepared by single CO2 laser pyrolysis. The effect is demonstrated for three different catalysts for which the onset potentials for the ORR from single-stage to double-stage configuration increase from 625 mV to 845 mV, 790 mV to 860 mV, and 800 mV to 885 mV, respectively. The selectivity of the ORR was determined at 600 mV/SHE and lie between 3.41 and 3.72. These promising performances suggesting potentialities for the one-step formation of highly active Fe/C/N ORR electrocatalysts are discussed, based on results of surface analysis by XPS, specific surface area measurements, and Raman spectroscopy.


2013 ◽  
Vol 06 (01) ◽  
pp. 1350005 ◽  
Author(s):  
BINGWEI LUO ◽  
YUAN DENG ◽  
YAO WANG ◽  
YONGMING SHI ◽  
LILI CAO ◽  
...  

Large-scale CdS nanorod arrays have been prepared directly by a simple one-step and non-template magnetron sputtering method on different substrates. Parallel and uniform CdS nanorods with diameters ∼ 70 nm were self-assembled with (00l) orientation regardless of the substrate. The CdS nanorod arrays showed high open-circuit photovoltage, short-circuit photocurrent intensity and excellent photosensitivity properties with a switching "ON/OFF" ratio as high as 60. This study provides a simple strategy to grow CdS nanorod arrays without the constraints introduced by the substrate and opens a new potential for the application of CdS nanorod arrays in photodetectors and nanostructured solar energy conversion devices.


2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (18) ◽  
pp. 9972-9981 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gasidit Panomsuwan ◽  
Nagahiro Saito ◽  
Takahiro Ishizaki

Fluorine-doped carbon nanoparticles were successfully synthesized via a simple one-step solution plasma process at room temperature and atmospheric pressure without the addition of a metal catalyst.


RSC Advances ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (75) ◽  
pp. 71507-71516 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natarajan Karikalan ◽  
Murugan Velmurugan ◽  
Shen-Ming Chen ◽  
Chelladurai Karuppiah ◽  
K. M. Al-Anazi ◽  
...  

We report nitrogen-doped carbon nanoparticles from a one-step flame synthesis by directly burning pyrrole at room temperature and in an air atmosphere.


Nanoscale ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 1478-1483 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jia Wang ◽  
Haeseong Jang ◽  
Guangkai Li ◽  
Min Gyu Kim ◽  
Zexing Wu ◽  
...  

NiWO4 was prepared through a facile and large-scale strategy, and exhibited superior electrocatalytic performance, relative to NiO and WO3, for the nitrogen reduction reaction in both acidic and alkaline media at room temperature.


2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 465-471 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zita Rádai ◽  
Réka Szabó ◽  
Áron Szigetvári ◽  
Nóra Zsuzsa Kiss ◽  
Zoltán Mucsi ◽  
...  

The phospha-Brook rearrangement of dialkyl 1-aryl-1-hydroxymethylphosphonates (HPs) to the corresponding benzyl phosphates (BPs) has been elaborated under solid-liquid phase transfer catalytic conditions. The best procedure involved the use of triethylbenzylammonium chloride as the catalyst and Cs2CO3 as the base in acetonitrile as the solvent at room temperature. The substrate dependence of the rearrangement has been studied, and the mechanism of the transformation under discussion was explored by quantum chemical calculations. The key intermediate is an oxaphosphirane. The one-pot version starting with the Pudovik reaction has also been developed. The conditions of this tandem transformation were the same, as those for the one-step HP→BP conversion.


2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (8) ◽  
pp. 628-630
Author(s):  
Vu Binh Duong ◽  
Pham Van Hien ◽  
Tran Thai Ngoc ◽  
Phan Dinh Chau ◽  
Tran Khac Vu

A simple and practical method for the synthesis on a large scale of altretamine (1), a wellknown antitumor drug, has been successfully developed. The synthesis method involves the conversion of cyanuric chloride (2) into altretamine (1) by dimethylamination of 2 with an aqueous solution of 40% dimethylamine and potassium hydroxide in 1, -dioxan 4in one step to give altretamine (1) in high yield.


Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (7) ◽  
pp. 1940
Author(s):  
Muhammad Usman Naseer ◽  
Ants Kallaste ◽  
Bilal Asad ◽  
Toomas Vaimann ◽  
Anton Rassõlkin

This paper presents current research trends and prospects of utilizing additive manufacturing (AM) techniques to manufacture electrical machines. Modern-day machine applications require extraordinary performance parameters such as high power-density, integrated functionalities, improved thermal, mechanical & electromagnetic properties. AM offers a higher degree of design flexibility to achieve these performance parameters, which is impossible to realize through conventional manufacturing techniques. AM has a lot to offer in every aspect of machine fabrication, such that from size/weight reduction to the realization of complex geometric designs. However, some practical limitations of existing AM techniques restrict their utilization in large scale production industry. The introduction of three-dimensional asymmetry in machine design is an aspect that can be exploited most with the prevalent level of research in AM. In order to take one step further towards the enablement of large-scale production of AM-built electrical machines, this paper also discusses some machine types which can best utilize existing developments in the field of AM.


Crystals ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 885
Author(s):  
Nicole Knoblauch ◽  
Peter Mechnich

Zirconium-Yttrium-co-doped ceria (Ce0.85Zr0.13Y0.02O1.99) compacts consisting of fibers with diameters in the range of 8–10 µm have been successfully prepared by direct infiltration of commercial YSZ fibers with a cerium oxide matrix and subsequent sintering. The resulting chemically homogeneous fiber-compacts are sinter-resistant up to 1923 K and retain a high porosity of around 58 vol% and a permeability of 1.6–3.3 × 10−10 m² at a pressure gradient of 100–500 kPa. The fiber-compacts show a high potential for the application in thermochemical redox cycling due its fast redox kinetics. The first evaluation of redox kinetics shows that the relaxation time of oxidation is five times faster than that of dense samples of the same composition. The improved gas exchange due to the high porosity also allows higher reduction rates, which enable higher hydrogen yields in thermochemical water-splitting redox cycles. The presented cost-effective fiber-compact preparation method is considered very promising for manufacturing large-scale functional components for solar-thermal high-temperature reactors.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiao-Ya Zhai ◽  
Yifan Zhao ◽  
Guo-Ying Zhang ◽  
Bing-Yu Wang ◽  
Qi-Yun Mao

In the work, a direct Z-scheme AgBr/α-Ag2WO4 heterojunction was prepared by in-situ anion exchange at room temperature. The construction strategy is energy- and time-saving for large scale synthesis. The α-Ag2WO4...


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