Aqueous sodium borohydride (NaBH4) is well known for its reducing property and well-established for the development of metal nanoparticles through reduction method. In contrary, this research paper discloses the importance of aqueous NaBH4 as a precipitating agent towards development of porous zirconium oxide. The boron species present in aqueous NaBH4 play an active role during gelation as wel...

The physicochemical qualities of a refinery effluent and water and sediment of an effluent receiving water body were investigated. The treated refinery effluent contained very high concentrations of phenol (11.06 mg/l), oil and grease (7.52 mg/l), ammonia (8.52 mg/l), COD (91.76 mg/l), TDS (390.6 mg/l) and phosphate (6.2 mg/l), but low in sulphide, nickel, lead, copper and chromium, which were ...

The microstructure evolution of Zr-1.1Nb-1.51Fe-0.26Cu-0.72Ni zirconium alloy, irradiated by 800 keV Kr2+ ions at 585 K using the IVEM-Tandem Facility at Argonne National Laboratory, was observed by in situ transmission electron microscopy. A number of β-Nb precipitates with a body-centered cubic (BCC) structure were distributed in the as-received zirconium alloy with micrometer-size grains. Kr...

Metal phosphates represent an important group of materials with established industrial applications that are still attracting special scientific interest, owing to their outstanding physical and chemical properties. In this review, we account on the different synthetic routes zirconium titanium phosphates, a focus application in medicinal field. While phosphate has been extensively studied expl...

Lithium ion conductors 5. Lithium Nitride Li3N 6. Lithium Lanthanum Titanium Oxide, Li3xLa0.67-xTiO3 7. Lithium Titanium Phosphate, LiTi2(PO4)3 Sodium ion conductors 8. Sodium β-Alumina, Na2O)1+x(Al2O3)11 9. Sodium β”-Alumina, Li-stabilized, Na1.5(Li0.25Al10.75)O17 10. Sodium β-Gallate, (Na2O)*n(Ga2O3) 11. Sodium β”-Gallate, Na1.98Ga10.673 O17 12. Sodium Yttrium Silicate, Na5YSi4O12 13. Sodium ...

A novel method for the preparation of α-zirconium phosphate (ZrP) nanoparticles as an eco-friendly and recyclable heterogeneous catalyst was studied. Polyethylene glycol (PEG) was used as the organic matrix which produced a better dispersion of ZrP nanoparticles. The catalyst was characterized by several physico-chemical techniques such as ICP-OES, XRD, TPD-NH3, pyridine-FTIR, BET, FTIR, TGA, S...

To evaluate the feasibility of nickel–aluminum (the Ni2+:Al3+ molar ratios 1.0:1.0 and 1.0:2.0 are denoted as NA11 NA12, respectively) nickel–aluminum–zirconium type Ni2+:Al3+:Zr4+ 0.9:1.0:0.09 0.9:2.0:0.09 NAZ1 NAZ2, hydroxides for Cr(VI) removal from aqueous media, adsorption capability mechanism using above-mentioned adsorbents were investigated in this study. The quantity adsorbed onto NA11...

Single-crystal X-ray studies of a manganese(II) derivative of guanosine 5'-monophosphate, [Mn(5'-GMP)(H(2)O)(5)],3H(2)O, have shown that it is isostructural with its nickel analogue. The manganese atom therefore is bonded to five water molecules with the remaining octahedral co-ordination site being occupied by N-7 of the nucleotide base. No direct metal-phosphate bonding is involved, but there...

Microscopic theory of the nuclear response based on relativistic meson-nucleon Lagrangian is applied to description isoscalar giant monopole resonance (ISGMR) in a variety systems. It shown that parameter-free inclusion beyond-mean-field correlations quasiparticle-vibration coupling (qPVC) type leading approximation allows for simultaneous realistic ISGMR nuclei lead, tin, zirconium, and nickel...

A simple and efficient procedure for the synthesis of 2-amino-3-cyanopyridines from aldehydes, ketones, malononitrile, and ammonium acetate via one-pot reaction is reported. Zinc zirconium phosphate (ZPZn) nanoparticles were used as a convenient and efficient catalyst for this multicomponent reaction (MCR) under solvent-free conditions, and fair to excellent yields were achieved. The catalyst w...