Micellar-enhanced ultrafiltration was considered from the viewpoint of trace analysis, by taking copper(II) as an example. Copper(II) cations were collected electrostatically on micelles of sodium dodecyl sulfate, and separated from the mother liquor by ultrafiltration. However, the final solution contained a large amount of surfactant, which caused serious interference in the determination. Th...

Synthesis of nano-crystalline alumina powder by a chemical pyrophoric reaction using citric acid and ammonia was investigated by varying the pH of the precursor solution, which played an important role in controlling the morphology of the synthesised powder. The flaky morphology obtained at pH = 2 could be modified to fine desegregated particulate form by varying the pH of the solution to 10. T...

A liquid chromatographic method with comfirmation by capillary electrophoresis was used to determine 12 sulfonylurea herbicides in agricultural water. Analysis of 3 different water matrixes fortified at 2 levels gave good recoveries with adequate sensitivity at the 0.1 ppb level. A portion of the water was acidified with acetic acid and loaded onto an RP-102 solid-phase extraction (SPE) cartrid...

This study evaluated the effect of porcelain surface treatment on the shear bond strength of composite resin to various porcelains and porcelain combinations. A variety of feldspathic porcelains with low and medium alumina content were tested. Porcelain/composite resin samples were stored in 37 degrees C water, thermocycled 1,000 times, and tested in shear. A 3-minute etching using hydrofluoric...

A detailed study of the pore-widening rate of nanoporous anodic alumina layers as a function of the anodization voltage was carried out. The study focuses on samples produced under the same electrolyte and concentration but different anodization voltages within the self-ordering regime. By means of ellipsometry-based optical characterization, it is shown that in the pore-widening process, the p...

Abstract. Acid–base clusters and stable salt formation are critical drivers of new particle events in the atmosphere. In this study, we explore heterodimer (a cluster one acid base) stability as a function gas-phase acidity, aqueous-phase proton transference, vapor pressure, dipole moment polarizability for salts comprised sulfuric acid, methanesulfonic nitric with nine bases. The best predicto...

Dehydration of glycerol was performed over heteropoly acids (HPA), viz., silicotungstic acid (H-SiW), phosphotungstic acid (H-PW), and phosphomolybdic acid (H-PMo), supported high surface area γ-alumina (HSAI-S25) catalysts. Various physico-chemical studies of these supported catalysts indicate high dispersion of the active (HPA) species on the support surface. It was observed that the catalyst...

Highly self-ordered alumina nanopore arrays were fabricated using hard anodization technique in different mixtures of oxalic/phosphoric acid. The phosphoric acid concentration was varied from 0.05 to 0.3 M while the oxalic acid concentration was changed between 0.3 and 0.4 M. The self ordered nanoporous arrays were obtained in anodization voltage changing from 130 to 200 V. The interpore distan...

Single crystals of ScOH(CH3SO3)2 were obtained from a solution of Sc2(CO3)3 in methanesulfonic acid at pH 7. According to the X-ray single crystal structure determination, the compound crystallizes with the non-centrosymmetric orthorhombic space group Pmc21 (Z = 8, a = 743.92(8), b = 1497.7(3), c = 1540.1(2) pm, Rall = 0.0925) and contains the Sc3+ ions in octahedral coordination of oxygen atom...

A method for producing high surface area nano-sized mesoporous alumina from inexpensive Iranian kaolin as raw material is proposed. In this method, first, kaolin was purified for purifying Kaolin, High Grade Magnetic Separation and leaching with HCl and chemical bleaching treatment by using sodium dithionite (Na 2 S 2O4 ) as reducing agent in acidic media (H 2SO 4 ) were used. Pur...