A new approach is described for the recovery of precious metals (PMs: Au, Pd and Ag) with >99% efficiency from aqueous solution utilising biogas produced during the aerobic growth of Klebsiella pneumoniae. Gold was recovered from electronic scrap leachate ( approximately 95%) by this method, with some selectivity against Cu. The recovered PM solids all contained metal and sulphur as determined ...

Oil palm ash (OPA), a bio-agricultural waste from oil palm mills, was subjected to high-energy ball milling for 30 h and was converted into a nano-structured material. The nano-structured OPA was characterized for its particle size and crystallinity index by using Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) and X-ray Diffraction (XRD) analysis. The crystallite size obtained from TEM and XRD was foun...

Nonlinear optical (NLO) instrumentation has been integrated with synchrotron X-ray diffraction (XRD) for combined single-platform analysis, initially targeting applications for automated crystal centering. Second-harmonic-generation microscopy and two-photon-excited ultraviolet fluorescence microscopy were evaluated for crystal detection and assessed by X-ray raster scanning. Two optical design...

This study examined the local structural properties of CuI at low temperatures of 10-300 K by x-ray diffraction (XRD) and extended x-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS) measurements at the Cu K edge. The XRD data were refined using two models, split (distorted zinc-blende structure) and non-split (zinc-blende structure), using a conventional Rietveld refinement combined with a maximum entropy...

an aqueous extract of pimpinella anisum was used for green synthesis of silver nanoparticles by bio reduction of an aqueous solution of silver nitrate. silver nanoparticles were characterized by uv–vis spectrometry, fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (ftir), x-ray diffraction (xrd) analysis, scanning electron microscopy (sem) and energy-dispersive x-ray analysis (edax). the increase in abs...

nano-zeolite coapo-5 as a member of afi family, was synthesized via a hydrothermal treatment, and structurally characterized using x-ray diffraction (xrd), scanning electron microscope (sem), and energy dispersive x-ray analysis (edax). the effects of crystallization temperature and time on the structure of these powder products were studied. xrd patterns of the synthesized powders revealed a h...

The crystallographic structural parameters were analyzed using X’Pert-MPD XRD a laboratory X-ray source having BraggBrentano parafocusing optics. The line profile characteristics was obtained using ProFit -software based on Pseudo-Voigt profile function and is applicable for the study of interplaner spacing d, crystallite size Dhkl, percent crystallinity %C, macromolecular orientation and other...

Depth sensitivities: Research into the initial stages of hydrogenation in a material necessitates the use of a variety of methods that provide the capabilities for characterization of structure and bonding with distinct depth sensitivities. This study makes extensive use of Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy, x-ray diffraction (XRD), x-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS), and soft x-r...

The thermal decomposition of hydrotalcites (HTs) with different interlayer anions in the 298-523 K region has been investigated by using transmission electron microscopy (TEM), thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), X-ray diffraction (XRD), and IR, 27Al MAS-NMR and X-ray absorption near-edge structure (XANES) spectroscopy. The thermal stability of the HT with interlayer oxalate was remarkably higher...

undoped and mn-doped zno nanoparticles were successfully prepared by the hydrothermal method with different annealing temperature conditions. structural, chemical and optical properties of the samples were studied by x-ray diffraction (xrd), field emission scanning electron microscopy (fesem), uv-vis spectrophotometry and fourier transform infrared (ft-ir) spectroscopy. the phase purity was con...