A very novel phenomenon of morphological variations of cadmium sulfide (CdS) nanorods under the transmission electron microscopy (TEM) beam was observed without structural phase transformation. Environmentally stable and highly crystalline CdS nanorods have been obtained via a chemical bath method. The energy of the TEM beam is believed to have a significant influence on CdS nanorods and may me...

Surfactant based aqueous foams provide a very efficient and simple chemical route for the synthesis of various nanomaterials with controllable structure, size and shape. In this present work, a one-step process for the synthesis of morphologically controlled CdS nanoclusters has been described. Aqueous soluble CdCl2 and the surfactant AOT are homogeneously mixed together to produce a stable aqu...

In response to a range of Cd concentrations, the root tips of Cdtolerant plants of Silene vulgaris exhibit a lower rate of PC production accompanied by a lower rate of longer chain PC synthesis than those of Cd-sensitive plants. At the same Cd exposure level, stable PC-Cd complexes are more rapidly formed in the roots of Cd-sensitive plants than in those of tolerant plants. At an equal PC conce...

This study aims to determine the current status of lake water quality in Gelanggang Expo area using Pollution Index (IP) method. It is found that there has been pollution Lake Sentani with high concentrations certain pollutants, such as Nitrite NO2-N (0.06 - 0.15 mg/L), Phosphate PO4-P (0.2 0.45 Sulfide S-H2S (0.002 4.26 Cadmium (0.01 0.3 Chromium valence 6 (0.05 0.26 Copper (0.02 2.15 Zinc 0.5...

We investigated the physiological and biochemical mechanisms by which H2S mitigates the cadmium stress in rice. Results revealed that cadmium exposure resulted in growth inhibition and biomass reduction, which is correlated with the increased uptake of cadmium and depletion of the photosynthetic pigments, leaf water contents, essential minerals, water-soluble proteins, and enzymatic and non-enz...

Phenols exert a great influence on the dynamic process of Cd in the soil-plant interface. We investigated the influence of phenols on the biogeochemical behavior of cadmium in the rhizosphere of Avicennia marina (Forsk) Vierh. All combinations of four levels of cadmium (0, 1, 2 and 4 mg/kg DW) and two levels of phenol (0 and 15 mg/kg DW) were included in the experimental design. We found that p...