A CON-type zeolite underwent bead-milling, recrystallisation and defect-healing treatments to yield highly crystalline nanoparticles, showing prolonged lifetime in MTO reactions.

Background: Volatile organic compounds (VOC) are considered as major environmental contaminants that have a harmful effect on human and ecosystem health, so much effort has been focused on their removal. The aim of this study was to investigate the removal efficiency of styrene by Zeolite Socony Mobil-5 (ZSM-5) after immobilization of nanoparticles of zinc oxide (ZnO) on it. Materials and Meth...

Discharge of dye effluents into the natural streams may be toxic to the aquatic lives as well as human being. In the present studies, zeolite was synthesized from coal fly ash by alkaline hydrothermal treatment and mixed with magnetite nanoparticles in suspension to produce zeolite-iron oxide magnetic nanocomposite. It was used as adsorbent for the removal of malachite green dye from aqueous so...

Here, we report on a new zeolite-based silicalite nanoparticle that can enhance the transfection efficiencies generated by poly ethylene imine-plasmid DNA (PEI-pDNA) complexes via a sedimentation mechanism and can enhance the transfection efficiencies of pDNA alone when surface functionalized with amine groups. The silicalite nanoparticles have a mean size of 55 nm. Functionalizing the silicali...

A Ti-Beta zeolite was used in gas phase photocatalytic CO2 reduction to reduce the charge recombination rate and increase surface area compared P25 as commercial benchmark, reaching 607 m2 g?1. By adding Pt nanoparticles, selectivity can be tuned toward CO, a value of 92% turnover frequency (TOF) 96 µmol·gcat?1·h?1, nearly an order magnitude higher comparison with P25. Pd nanoparticles shifted ...

Fibrous erionite is a mineral fibre of great concern but to date mechanisms by which it induces cyto- and geno-toxic damage, and especially the role of iron associated to this zeolite species, remain poorly understood. One of the reasons is that we still don't know exactly where iron is in natural erionite. This work is focused on fibrous erionite-Na from Jersey (Nevada, USA) and attempts to dr...