Calcium oxalate and silica minerals are common components of a variety of plant leaves. These minerals are found at different locations within the leaf, and there is little conclusive evidence about the functions they perform. Here tools are used from the fields of biology, optics, and imaging to investigate the distributions of calcium oxalate, silica minerals, and chloroplasts in okra leaves,...

A three-dimensional micromechanical finite element model is developed to study the viscoelastic behavior of the silica nanoparticle/polyimide nanocomposites. The representative volume element (RVE) of the model consists of three phases including silica nanoparticle, polyimide matrix and interphase which surrounds the nanoparticle. The interphase region is created due to the interaction between ...

The silica supported platinum nanoparticles was synthesized by using the sol-gel method. The possibility of using diamminedinitro platinum (II) as Pt precursor and effect of metal precursor concentration on the final Pt nanoparticle size was investigated. A stable silica sol was prepared via hydrolysis of tetraethyl orthosilicate (TEOS) as a metal alcoxide and condensation reaction. Subsequentl...

Using template-containing silica microspheres as a precursor, novel ordered mesoporous silica nanoparticles with a narrow pore size distribution and high crystallinity have been synthesized by various hydrothermal merging processes. Several architectures like chains, dumbbells, triangles, squares and flowers have been discovered. The linking mechanisms of these interacting silica spheres leadin...

Scanning electron microscopy demonstrates that crystalline silica destroys liver Kupffer cells but has no other obvious deleterious effects on the liver. Silica-treated livers still retain the ability to trap large numbers of bacteria perfused through the portal vein even though the rate of clearance is well below normal. In vivo, silica treatment decreases the rate of bacterial clearance from ...

Inclusion complexes of cyclodextrins with organometallic coordination compounds of Pd, Pt, Rh, Fe, Ni, and Ru have been used to produce porous metal-silica hybrid materials. The cyclodextrins are templates for the structure of the silica and lead to a uniform “wormtype” pore system. After the templating step the organometallic compounds can be employed as in situ precursors for the preparation ...

Silica sol nano-abrasives with large particle are prepared and characterized by TEM, PCS and Zeta potential in this paper. Results show that the silica sol nano-abrasives about 100nm are of higher stability (Zeta potential: -65mV) and narrow distribution of particle size. And then alkali CMP slurries for tungsten containing self-made silica sol nanoabrasives are prepared and applied. CMP result...

Aminopropylalkoxysilanes are frequently used for the functionalization of mesoporous silica. The analysis of amino group distributions on arrays of silica nanochannels by a combination of nitrogen sorption and confocal laser scanning microscopy provides valuable insight into the mechanisms underlying the interaction of these silanes with mesoporous silica surfaces. Tendencies towards external s...

spherical mesoporous silica mcm-41 was synthesized for adsorptive removal of sulfur compounds from fossil fuels using 1mm solution of dibenzothiophene (dbt) in dodecane as model oil. the prepared silica adsorbent has been characterized by nitrogen adsorption-desorption analysis as well as small angle x-ray scattering (saxs), and transmission and scanning electron microscopy (sem) methods. resul...