The voltammetric behaviour of methylmercury at Nafion coated glassy carbon electrodes is examined. Cyclic voltammograms recorded at coated electrodes show a dramatic increase of peak currents with respect to bare electrodes, this effect being more evident in perchlorate supporting electrolytes rather than in chloride containing media. Experimental evidence indicates that ion-exchange preconcent...

In the present study, Composite materials based on perfluorinated cation-exchange membrane incorporating particles of Zirconium and Nafion is synthesized .With this membrane the performance of the electrolysis cell improved considerably at room temperature and atmospheric pressure. In addition, by using catalysts and membranes, the performance of this Composite membrane is studied by varying vo...

Immobilization of [Mn(bpy)(CO)3Br], (1) and [Mn(bpy((t)Bu)2)(CO)3Br] (2, where (bpy((t)Bu)2) = 4,4'-di-tert-butyl-2,2'-bipyridine) in Nafion/multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNT) on glassy carbon yielded highly active electrodes for the reduction of CO2 to CO in aqueous solutions at pH 7. Films incorporating have significantly improved selectivity towards CO2, with CO : H2 ∼ 1 at -1.4 V vs. SCE...

"Carbon-based material" has demonstrated a great potential on water purification due to its strong physical adsorption to organic pollutants in the water. Three-dimensional cubic ordered mesoporous carbon (CMK-8), one of the well-known ordered mesoporous carbons, was prepared by using nanocasting method with mesoporous silica (KIT-6) as the template. In this study, CMK-8 blended with Nafion pol...

A Nafion-modified glassy carbon electrode incorporated with tobramycin for the voltammetric stripping determination of Cu2+ has been explored. The electrode was fabricated by tobramycin containing Nafion on the glassy carbon electrode surface. The modified electrode exhibited a significantly increased sensitivity and selectivity for Cu2+ compared with a bare glassy carbon electrode and the Nafi...

Composite membranes composed of highly conductive and selective layer-by-layer (LbL) films and electrospun fiber mats were fabricated and characterized for mechanical strength and electrochemical selectivity. The LbL component consists of a proton-conducting, methanol-blocking poly(diallyl dimethyl ammonium chloride)/sulfonated poly(2,6-dimethyl-1,4-phenylene oxide) (PDAC/sPPO) thin film. The e...

A new, simple and sensitive adsorptive stripping voltammetric procedure for determination of paracetamol at a lead film glassy carbon electrode modified with Nafion film (Nafion/PbF/GCE) in pharmaceutical formulations was described. Deposition of lead film on a glassy carbon electrode from 0.1 mol L-1 HNO3 at the potential of -1.4 V was performed. The Nafion film coating was carried out by appl...

Investigating the dehydration process of a Nafion membrane helps to understand the mechanism of the decrease in its proton conductivity under high-temperature and low-humidity conditions. Herein, the influence of thermal treatment on a H2O-saturated Nafion membrane was in situ studied by FTIR spectroscopy. With the aid of generalized two-dimensional correlation spectroscopy (2Dcos), the microst...

Molecular-sieve zeolites, Nafion membranes, low-density polyethylene films, and mixed surfactant vesicles have been used as microreactors to carry out organic photochemical reactions. The photo-cycloadditions of diaryl compounds with long flexible chains included in NaY zeolite or low-density polyethylene films yield intramolecular photocyclomers to the exclusion of intermolecular products. The...

The single ion transport of transition metal ions like Cu(2+), Co(2+), Ni(2+) and Zn(2+) were carried out through the H(+) and alkali metal ion forms of Nafion membrane. These studies showed that the ion exchange selectivity coefficient of the permeating ion had an effect on its transport process. It was found that the diffusion coefficient values (D) were directly proportional to the selectivi...