In this study, an FeS2@carbon fiber electrode is developed with FeS2 nanoparticles either embedded in or attached to carbon fibers by using an electrospinning method. By applying this binder-free, metal-current-collector-free FeS2@carbon fiber electrode, both the redox reaction and capacity decay mechanisms for the Li-FeS2 system are revealed by changing the electrolyte (conventional carbonate ...

Biginelli-type reaction was developed by means of a three-component condensation of analdehyde, ethyl acetoacetate, urea or thiourea and nano alumina sulfonic acid (Al2O3-SO3H)(NASA) as catalyzed. It is carried out under different conditions. In all conditions, the desiredproducts are obtained in high yields after relatively short reaction times. Nevertheless, thereactions proceeded faster and ...

A simple, accurate and fast vortex-assisted dispersive liquid-liquid microextraction procedure has been developed for the extractive spectrophotometric determination of niflumic acid in biological samples. The method is based on the formation of an ion association complex between niflumic acid and methylene blue. The resulting ion-pair was extracted into dichloromethane and its absorbance was m...

Absorptive characteristics of polyaniline synthesized in different solvents were studied. Water and mixture of water with other solvents were implemented for polyaniline synthesis. Synthesized polyanilines in powder shape is used as an adsorbent to remove toxic hexavalent chromium from aqueous solutions. Experiments were conducted in batch mode. Removal mechanism involving polyanil...

This research demonstrated the microbial treatment of concentrated phenol wastes using a two-phase partitioning bioreactor (TPPB). TPPBs are characterized by a cell-containing aqueous phase and an immiscible and biocompatible organic phase that partitions toxic substrates to the cells on the basis of their metabolic demand and the thermodynamic equilibrium of the system. Process limitations imp...

Processes for the biotechnological production of kerosene and diesel blendstocks are often economically unattractive due to low yields and product titers. Recently, Clostridium acetobutylicum fermentation products acetone, butanol, and ethanol (ABE) were shown to serve as precursors for catalytic upgrading to higher chain-length molecules that can be used as fuel substitutes. To produce suitabl...

A newly synthesized dipyrrinone derivative bearing an ethoxycarbonyl group at the pyrrolic-α position exhibited solvent-dependent dual-mode photochromism between T- and P-types. While this molecule underwent thermally reversible (T-type) photoresponsive reaction in chloroform, it became a thermally irreversible (P-type) system in methanol.

The molecular framework [Fe(NCS)(2)(tmbpz)(2)](tmbpz = 3,3',5,5'-tetramethyl-4,4'-bipyrazolyl) consists of a robust doubly interpenetrated NbO-type network that remains stable on the removal of solvent guest molecules.