Advanced Materials Research Vol. 699

Abstract: We have synthesized a novel carboxylated porphyrin-based sensitizer, in which the porphyrin ring and the carboxyl anchoring group are connected with a vinyl at the meso position. Vinylcarboxyl was introduced by heck coupling in which mono-vinylcarboxyl porphyrin was obtained. And we introduced four hexyloxyl in the ortho-positions of the meso-phenyls to protect the porphyrin core and increase solubility.

Abstract: The photodissociation of chlorobromomethane (CH2BrCl) has been studied using unrestricted Hartree-Fock (UHF), configuration-interaction-singles (CIS), and complete active space self-consistent field (CASSCF) levels. The result of oscillator strengths indicate that the photochemistry reactions of CH2BrCl are processes where the n(Br)→σ*(C-Br) transition are excited to repulsive states leading to direct carbon-bromine bond breaking reactions. And the 1A’ →1A’ state is the important transition in photolysis of chlorobromomethane.

Abstract: Based on GRI3.0, we study the main chemical kinetics process about reactions of singlet oxygen O₂(a¹Δ_g) and ozone O3 with methane-air combustion products, inherit and further develop research in chemical kinetics process with enhancement effects on methane-air mixed combustion by these two molecules. In addition, influence of these two molecules on ignition delay time and flame speed of laminar mixture are considered in our numerical simulation research. This study validates the calculation of this model which cotains these two active molecules by using experimental data of ignition delay time and the speed of laminar flame propagation. In CH4-air mixing laminar combustion under fuel-lean condition(ф=0.5), flame speed will be increased, and singlet oxygen with 10% of mole fraction increases it by 80.34%, while ozone with 10% mole fraction increase it by 127.96%. It mainly because active atoms and groups(O, H, OH, CH₃, CH₂O, CH₃O, etc) will be increased a lot after adding active molecules in the initial stage, and chain reaction be reacted greatly, inducing shortening of reaction time and accelerating of flame speed. Under fuel rich(ф=1.5), accelerating of flame speed will be weakened slightly, singlet oxygen with 10% in molecular oxygen increase it by 48.93%, while ozone with 10% increase it by 70.25%.

Abstract: The composition of catering waste oil is similar to that of traditional materials for the preparation of fatty acid collectors, which makes it possible to change catering waste oil into fatty acid collector applied to ore flotation. The collectors which come from catering waste oil are detected by FTIR and GC-MS analyses. The FTIR date shows that collectors contains lively carboxyl functional groups and The GC-MS date reveals that those carboxyl functional groups exist in single unsaturated fatty acid and three unsaturated fatty acid. The collectors can be applied to iron ore reverse flotation, apatite flotation, and fluorite flotation. It has better flotation experiment results than the traditional collector that using in field production.

Abstract: Hollow inorganic particles have attracted considerable interest for a variety of applications. In this work, yeast powder was used as a bio-template to fabricate yeast/titania core-shell spheres. A titania precursor was deposited via the hydrolysis of tetraisopropyl titanate. Triethanolamine was employed to control the reaction rate of the sol-gel process. The hollow titania particles with a diameter of approximately 4 m and a thickness of approximately 54 nm were successfully obtained after calcination of the core-shell spheres at 700 °C. The crystal structure of the particles was anatase. The specific surface area and the average pore diameter were 21.4 m2/g and 1.6 nm, respectively. The photocatalytic activity of the hollow particles was higher compared with that of solid particles.

Abstract: Zinc oxide (ZnO) powders were synthesized by a simple precipitation and a hydrothermal process at the temperature range RT-100°C. In precipitation process, the powders were formed by mixing aqueous solutions of zinc nitrate with NaOH aqueous solution under controlled process conditions such as precursor concentration, reaction pH and temperature. Single phase ZnO particles can be easily synthesized in lower precursor concentration, higher reaction pH and temperature. The powders synthesized at room temperature exhibited plates, rods or pointed multipod morphologies depending on the concentration and pH. ZnO crystallites synthesized by hydrothermal process consisted mostly of well developed large or elongated crystallites of plates or rods in shape. The results reveal that the ZnO crystallite sizes and shapes would be efficiently controllable by changing the processing parameters of the preparation processes.

Abstract: An experimental study has been conducted in premixed and counterflow diffusion flames in order to obtain the nanocarbon materials. The original results in the field of synthesis of fullerenes, carbon nanotubes, syperhydrophobic soot,grapheme and nickel oxide nanoparticles in hydrocarbon flames were carried out for the last years at the Institute of Combustion Problems. Nanoparticles of nickel oxides contribute to the efficient absorption of light energy. Surfacing on the surface of a silicon solar cell of led to an increase in solar cell efficiency by 3%.

Abstract: 18- Smart Nanoparticles was synthesized using sol-gel process. The spherical particles were obtained using appropriate parameters such as solvent. Modification of C18-Smart Nanoparticles was carried out using trichloro and trimethoxy octadecylsilane. The modified particles were designed for extraction and preconcentration of herbicides as illustrated in figure 1. Herbicides molecules were easily recognized by C18- Smart Nanoparticles and the recoveries were varied from 59-82%.

Abstract: Porous nanocomposites of M/Ce-K-O (M=Co, Ni, Cu) were prepared by the citrate-gel thermal decomposition and selective reduction process, and the effect of transition metal nanoparticles on their microstructure, catalytic performance were studied by XRD, SEM, BET, XPS and TG analysis. The nanocomposites consist of the fluorite-type matrix of CeO2 nanoparticles about 13-20 nm and metallic nanoparticles ~26 nm. These nanocomposites have a nanoporous structure with high specific surface area and their pore sizes, pore structures, surface morphologies are largely affected by the dispersed nano metal species. For M/Ce-K-O (M=Co, Ni, Cu) nanocomposites, all the catalysts show a high catalytic activity for soot combustion, and among them, the Cu/Ce-K-O nanocomposite has a lowest T50 of 315 °C mainly due to a higher lattice oxygen content and a weaker Cu-O interaction intensity.

Abstract: A series of ionic solid nanomaterials denoted as IS1, IS2 and IS3 have been prepared using butylmethylimidazolium bromide ([BMIM][Br]) ionic liquid as cation, and three types of heteropolyacid; phosphotungstic acid (H3PW12O40), phosphomolybdic acid (H3PMo12O40), and silicotungstic acid (H4SiW12O40) as anion. The nanomaterials were characterized by FTIR, XRD, SEM, TGA, NH3-TPD and BET. Its catalytic performance was investigated by catalyzing glucose conversion to levulinic acid and hydroxymethylfurfural. It was observed that the ionic solids have higher acidity with semi amorphous structure, higher thermal stability and insignificant water content compared to the parent compound. Among the three prepared ionic solids, phosphomolybdic based ionic solid (IS2) exhibited the best catalytic performance due to its highest total acidity.