Tyrosinase-based biosensors containing a phthalocyanine as electron mediator have been prepared by two different methods. In the first approach, the enzyme and the electron mediator have been immobilized in carbon paste electrodes. In the second method, they have been introduced in an arachidic acid Langmuir-Blodgett nanostructured film that provides a biomimetic environment. The sensing proper...

Vanadium-based catalysts are considered the most promising materials to replace cobalt-based for activation of peroxymonosulfate (PMS) degrade organic pollutants. However, these traditional vanadium species easily leak out metal ions that can affect environment, even though is much less than cobalt. Compared other vanadium-based catalysts, e.g., V2O3, fluorinated V2AlC shows a high and constant...

Intercalation-electrode materials are electroactive and serve as host solids into which guest species are reversibly intercalated from an electrolyte. Currently there are three intercalation materials that are used commercially as positive-electrode materials in lithium-ion rechargeable batteries: LiCoO2, LiNiO2, and LiMn2O4. LiCoO2 is the most popular among the possible cathode materials becau...

The chemistry of Schiff base has received remarkable attention in different applications, both organic synthesis and industries. Over the past few years many reports have been on synthesis, characterization application vanadium complexes. However, heterogeneous catalysts are active for various oxidation reactions, making catalytic hydrocarbons a great interest. This review summarizes recent dev...

Nanostructured Cu(x)Zn(1-x)Al(2)O(4) with a Cu:Zn ratio of ¼:¾ has been prepared by a microwave-assisted hydrothermal synthesis at 150 °C and used as a precursor for Cu/ZnO/Al(2)O(3)-based catalysts. The spinel nanoparticles exhibit an average size of approximately 5 nm and a high specific surface area (above 250 m(2) g(-1)). Cu nanoparticles of an average size of 3.3 nm can be formed by reduct...

Photoconductivities of monocrystalline vanadium pentoxide (V2O5) nanowires (NWs) with layered orthorhombic structure grown by physical vapor deposition (PVD) have been investigated from the points of view of device and material. Optimal responsivity and gain for single-NW photodetector are at 7,900 A W-1 and 30,000, respectively. Intrinsic photoconduction (PC) efficiency (i.e., normalized gain)...

A technique for high spatial resolution three dimensional reconstruction from STEM HAADF images using electron tomography is presented. ‘Z-contrast’ images are shown to be ideal projections for tomography and examples are shown from nanostructured catalysts and magnetotactic bacteria crystallites. Results prove that accurate reconstruction is possible of both internal positions and exterior sha...

Vanadium(V) and copper(II) were co-deposited into AlPO-5 and H-ZSM-5 three-dimensional microporous carriers to yield VCu:AlPO-5 and VCu:ZSM-5. The materials, along with copper analogues were tested for the selective oxidation of propene, and the catalysts perform in the following order: VCu:AlPO-5 > Cu:AlPO-5 > VCu:ZSM-5 > Cu:ZSM-5. Acrolein was selectively formed over VCu:AlPO-5 and Cu:AlPO-5 ...