The solubility of luminescent quantum dots in solvents from hexane to water can be finely tuned by the choice of the countercations associated with carboxylate residues present on the nanocrystal surface. The resulting nanocrystals exhibit long term colloidal and chemical stability and maintain their photophysical properties.

Hydrogen bonding heavily influences conformations, rate of reactions, and chemical equilibria. The development of a method to monitor hydrogen bonding interactions independent of polarity is challenging as both are linked. We have developed two solvatochromic dyes that detect hydrogen-bond-donating solvents. The unique solvatochromism of the triazine architecture has allowed the development of ...

The objective of this study was to model the critical micelle concentration (cmc) of nonionic surfactants in nonaqueous systems using the UNIFAC group contribution method. For the prediction of the cmc the phase separation approach was used, where the micellar phase is approximated as a second liquid phase resulting from the liquid-liquid equilibrium between the solvent and the surfactant, with...

Workers are commonly exposed to mixtures or combinations of chemical agents, and these mixtures often consist of solvents. One group of solvents that has been extensively studied for its neurotoxic properties has been the ketones. However, previous research has focused on neuropathies produced by extended exposures and not on the simple pharmacokinetics or the reversible central nervous system ...

In the previous paper expressions for the partial molar energy and entropy at infinite dilution have been derived based on the inhomogeneous forms of the energy equation and the correlation expansion for the entropy. These expressions are here applied to a series of solutes of varying size in dense hard-sphere and Lennard-Jones solvents, some of which serve as reference systems for comparison w...

During past few years, ionic liquids have kept attracting much attention as “green and designer” media for chemical reactions. Room-temperature ionic liquids have emerged as a potential replacement for organic solvents in catalytic processes on both laboratory and industrial scales (Holbrey & Seddon, 1999b). Literature reports on a wide range of reactions including advances in alkylation reacti...

   In this research, the classical phase inversion method was used to produce the polysulfone (PSF) membrane by using three different solvents: N, N-dimethylformamide (DMF), chloroform (CHCL3) and tetrahydrofuran (THF). Furthermore, different concentrations of functionalized multi – walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) were added to PSF membranes by the classical phase inversion method...

Enzymes are very effective and biodegradable catalysts, and act under mild conditions such as room temperature, atmospheric pressure, and around pH 7. Consequently, the applications of enzymes to the organic synthesis have extensively been studied from the standpoint of the development of sustainable synthetic processes (Truesdell, 2005). Enzymes exhibit the high activity and specificity not on...