The requirements for new materials are increasing with each application, which, in most cases, means an enhancement the complexity of development process. Nanoporous sol-gel-based materials, especially aerogels, promising candidates thermal superinsulation, electrodes energy conversion and storage or high-end adsorbers. Their synthesis processing route is complex, relationship between material/...

Hydrogen production from dry reforming of methane (DRM) over chief Ni-based catalyst is cutting edge research area due to environmental consciousness about reducing global warming gases (CH4 and CO2) greener route synthesis. Herein, ceria promoted lanthanum-zirconia supported Ni system (5NixCe/LaZr; x = 0, 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5, 3, 5 wt.%) prepared by the wet impregnation method. It further characteri...

OBJECTIVES The efficacy of rifampicin-loaded polymeric microspheres (RPLGA) delivered to guinea pigs infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (H37Rv) was compared with a daily dose of nebulized rifampicin suspension. METHODS Aerosol-infected animals were subjected to multiple dose or single dose treatment with RPLGA, PLGA microspheres or micronized rifampicin suspension aerosols. For comparis...

Atmospheric transport is an important route by which pollutants are conveyed from the continents to both coastal and open sea. The role of aerosol deposition in the transport of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), polychlorobiphenyls (PCBs) and polybromodiphenyls ethers (PBDEs) to water and soil systems has been evaluated by measuring their concentrations in wet and dry depositions to the ...

Metallic aluminum (Al) is of interest as a reducing agent because of its low standard reduction potential. However, its surface is invariably covered with a dense aluminum oxide film, which prevents its effective use as a reducing agent in wet-chemical synthesis. Pitting corrosion, known as an undesired reaction destroying Al and is enhanced by anions such as F⁻, Cl⁻, and Br⁻ in aqueous solutio...

In this research, a single-stage low-temperature hydrothermal synthesis route was successfully developed for preparation of Iron Disulfide. The prepared powder was characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). These analyses showed that nanoparticles were well crystallized, pyrite was the main product and the shape of crystals was nanorod. Also, the influences...