Fe-substituted MCM-41 molecular sieves with ca. 1, 2, and 3 wt % Fe were synthesized hydrothermally using different sources of colloidal silica (HiSil and Cab-O-Sil) and characterized by ICP, XRD, N2 physisorption, UV-vis, EPR, TPR, and X-ray absorption. Catalysts synthesized from Cab-O-Sil showed higher structural order and stability than those from HiSil. The local environment of Fe in the me...

Fe-MCM-41 materials were prepared by different methods. The Fe was both incorporated into the structure and formed crystallites attached to the silica. High Fe content MCM-41 (~16 wt%) with retention of mesoporosity and long-range order was achieved by a range of new synthetic methodologies: (i) by delaying the addition of Fe(aq) to the stirred synthesis gel by 2 h, (ii) by addition of Fe precu...

HIGHLIGHTS Fe incorporation significantly accelerated the adsorption of CPX on MCM-41.Fe leaching can be ignored when pH was higher than 4.0.pH played an important role in CPX adsorption on Fe-MCM-41.Co-effect of CPX and metal cations on Fe-MCM-41 was investigated. Fe-MCM-41s with various molar ratios of silicon to iron (20, 40, 80, and 160) were prepared to investigate adsorption properties of...

In this study MCM-41, Fe20-MCM-41 and Fe40-MCM-41 mesoporouse silicates have been prepared in various conditions with cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (C16) and dodecyltrimethyl-ammonium chloride as template and various mole ratios of Si/Fe. The resulted compositions have been characterized by power X-ray diffraction, N adsorption–desorption measurements and Fourier transform infrared spectroscop...

The goal of this research was to investigate the potential of newly synthesized gold complex trichloro(2,4,6-trimethylpyridine)Au(III) as an anticancer agent. The gold(III) complex was synthesized and grafted on nanoporous silica, MCM-41, to produce AuCl(3)@PF-MCM- 41 (AuCl(3) grafted on pyridine-functionalized MCM-41). The toxicity of trichloro(2,4,6- trimethylpyridine)Au(III) and AuCl(3)@PF-M...

MCM-41 based catalysts (molar ratio Si/Al = 40) were prepared by a hydrothermal route, modified ionic exchange with different metals (Cu, Cr, Fe and Zn) finally calcined at 550 °C. The fully characterized techniques that confirmed the formation of oxides on surfaces all materials. Low-angle X-ray diffraction (XRD) analyses showed calcination resulted in incorporation metallic Zn, Cr framework M...