modification of natural polymers like protein by graft co-polymerization is an important method to incorporate the desired properties into the backbone. soy protein concentrate (spc) was grafted with ethylmethacrylate (ema) using ascorbic acid /potassium persulphate as redox initiator system under pressure. different reaction parameters such as reaction time, reaction pressure, solvent amount, ...

As chitosan’s solubility represents a drawback for further applications, the functionalization of chitosan became attractive by a variety of chemical methods. The present study deals with the chemical modification of chitosan by using click chemistry technique as versatile tool being easy to perform with high yields and no additional by products. The approach used herein was to attach a respons...

The aim of this research is preparation of SnO2 nanowires by means of Thermal chemical reaction vapor transport deposition (TCRVTD) method from SnO powders. The morphology, chemical composition and microstructure properties of the nanowires are characterized using field emission scanning electron microscope (FE-SEM), EDS, and XRD. The XRD diffraction patterns reveal that the SnO2 nanowires have...

A solution containing a reacting, autocatalytic and bistable chemical system can spontaneously form patterns and structure from erstwhile homogenous aqueous reaction solutions. Among some of the patterns formed are concentric rings and thermal plumes. The exothermic chemical reaction fuels the pattern-formation through a coupling of Marangoni and Rayleigh±BeÂnard-type thermogravitatioal effects...

Rapid continuous thermal control of chemical reactions such as those for chemical vapor deposition (CVD) growth of nanotubes and nanowires cannot be studied using traditional reactors such as tube furnaces, which have large thermal masses. We present the design, modeling, and verification of a simple, low-cost reactor based on resistive heating of a suspended silicon platform. This system achie...

Ceria is an interesting material for high temperature redox applications like solar-thermal splitting of CO2 and H2O. Technical implementation and reactor design for solar-thermal redox-based fuel generation requires reliable data for the chemical surface exchange coefficient and the chemical diffusivity of oxygen. The results of thermogravimetric relaxation experiments and equilibrium oxygen i...

The initial growth kinetics for SiH, chemical vapor deposition of Si on SiO, at low temperature (500-600 “C) have been revealed using rapid thermal UHV-CVD, together with in situ H2 thermal desorption spectroscopy to titrate the amount of exposed Si surface. In the few mTorr pressure range, the reaction is heterogeneous, i.e., dominated by surface reaction. Below -0.7 monolayer Si coverage, the...

An analysis is performed to study the unsteady flow past an exponentially accelerated infinite vertical plate with variable temperature and uniform mass diffusion, in the presence of a homogeneous chemical reaction of first-order. The plate temperature is raised linearly with time and the concentration level near the plate is raised uniformly. The dimensionless governing equations are solved us...