Cucurbitaceae, Cucurbita maxima, Tracer Experiments, Potash Fusion, Sporopollenin The results of tracer experiments performed with anthers of Tulipa cv. Apeldoorn have already shown that a high level of incorporation into the sporopollenin fraction was achieved, when [14C]phenylalanine was applicated as a precursor. In order to investigate whether the substantial incorporation of [14C]phenylala...

Terephthalic acid on metal surfaces is a system of high interest for interfacial layers as well as for use in generating surface nanostructures by supramolecular self-assembly. Here we demonstrate structural transitions upon compression of the first layer as well as a significant transition from a flat lying chemisorbed first monolayer to a standing second layer. The second layer structure is s...

Poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) powder was hydrolyzed at atmospheric pressure in 5-10 wt% aqueous NaOH at 95°C for 100 min using some phase transfer catalysts (PTC) with an intention to recover the starting monomers from the waste PET. The intent behind attempting new PTC was to carry out the reaction at milder conditions than those reported in the literature. One of the monomers, terephthal...

We propose a systematic decision procedure which helps us identified vital few causes (VFCs) of variation in an industrial large-scale chemical process. The previous process improvement strategies require significant time of analysis when applied to a large-scale chemical process with complex causal relationships because they are just provide various tools or simple heuristics to identify VFCs....

Please cite this article in press as: R. Adams et Mixed matrix membranes (MMMs) for gas separations are traditionally comprised of zeolites dispersed in a polymer matrix in order to improve desired penetrant permeability and selectivity. Zeolites have a variety of drawbacks for this application – chiefly, a limited number of possible zeolite structures – that limit their potential for use in MM...