The utilisation of industrial residual products to develop new value-added materials and reduce their environmental footprint is one the critical challenges science industry. Development multifunctional bio-based composite an excellent opportunity for effective a right step in Green Deal’s direction as approved by European Commission. Keeping various issues mind, we describe manufacturing chara...

Metal-organic frameworks are a class of crystalline porous materials with potential applications in catalysis, gas separation and storage, and so on. Of great importance is the development of innovative synthetic strategies to optimize porosity, composition and functionality to target specific applications. Here we show a platform for the development of metal-organic materials and control of th...

A bis(phosphonatemonoester) is employed as a linker in a Zn(II) metal organic framework. The complex is a layered structure pillared only by vdW interactions between alkyl groups. Nonetheless, permanent pores are formed as confirmed by PXRD and gas sorption analysis.

Nanoporous frameworks are polymeric materials built from rigid molecules, which give rise to their nanoporous structures with applications in gas sorption and storage, catalysis and others. Conceptually new applications could emerge, should these beneficial properties be manipulated by external stimuli in a reversible manner. One approach to render nanoporous frameworks responsive to external s...

Nature has always inspired innovative minds for development of new designs. Animals and plants provide various structures with lower density, more strength high energy sorption abilities that can incite the designs significant properties. By observing important functions biological found in nature, scientists have fabricated by bio-inspiration been proved to exhibit a improvement over tradition...

The extraction of uranium from seawater has been successfully performed in batch mode on 15 selected biomaterials, including fruit, green vegetable and tuber samples. Theses biomaterial samples were contacted static batches with Irish (2.8 ppb U) for periods 1–2 months. After sorption, both supernatants HNO3 digests the sorbed biomass analysed by inductively coupled plasma mass spectroscopy (IC...

Sorbents derived from roots of Tephrosia purpurea, leaves and stems of Terminalia Arjuna and Bivalve snail shells have been explored for their sorption abilities towards Methylene Blue using synthetically prepared simulated waste waters. It is found that at high pHs, these bio-materials have shown strong affinity towards Methylene Blue. The physicochemical properties such as pH, sorbent concent...

Sorption characteristics of phenanthrene (PHE) were studied on eight soils with organic carbon contents spanning over an order of magnitude using phase distribution relationships (PDRs) at 1 h, 48 h, and 720 h contact times. A new algebraic method was employed to describe the sorption characteristics at different time intervals (between 1 h and 48 h, and 1 h and 720 h). It was found that nonlin...