Herein, we report a nano-cylindrical strontium titanate/N-doped graphene (SrTiO3/N-GNS) hybrid composite synthesized by a solvothermal method. The composite material has been explored by various physicochemical and electrochemical characterization techniques. It is found that the nano-cylindrica...

Short titanate nanotubes are promising materials showing high capacity for applications in medicine, electronic device and composite materials, etc. In this paper, nearly endless and disorderly tangled titanate nanotubes were cut into short segments roughly ranging from 40 to 100 nm via a soft c...

In this study, a simple sol-gel approach was applied to fabricate novel N-Ti3+ co-doped porous titanate-TiO2 rod-like heterostructures with both enhanced adsorption ability and visible light photocatalytic activity. We also investigated the effect of calcination temperature on the physical prope...

Titanate nanotubes were hydrothermally synthesized and their adsorption performances for lead(II) ion removal were studied. The results showed that titanate nanotubes ruptured in the adsorption process resulting in two distinct adsorption stages, thus achieving a maximum adsorption capacity of 3...

BackgroundTitanates are inorganic, amorphous, aqueously insoluble, particulate compounds of titanium, oxygen, hydrogen, and sodium. Two types of titanates, monosodium titanate (MST) and amorphous peroxotitanate (APT), have recently been proposed for use in biological applications where it would ...

A simple wet chemical method was developed to synthesize visible-light-driven titanate-TiO2 rod-like composites using ethylenediaminetetraacetic disodium salt (EDTA-Na2) as both template-directed modifier and nitrogen doping source. The synthesized heterojunctions exhibited both enhanced adsorpt...

The rate of H2 evolution from aqueous suspensions of Pt/TiO2 with deposited zinc porphyrin in the presence of an electron donor (EDTA, triethanolamine, ascorbic and oxalic acids) during irradiation by visible light (λ > 520 nm) was optimized with respect to the concentrations of platinum, zinc ...

Batch experiments were conducted to investigate the effects of cathode materials and anions (Cl−, SO42 −, NO3−, and CO32 −/HCO3−) on perfluorooctanoate (PFOA) removal in electrocoagulation process using zinc anode. The results indicated that the hydroxide flocs generated in-situ in the electroco...

This paper describes the synthesis of the Zn(II) complex with H2L = 2-hydroxyiminopropanoic acid. The final structure incorporated two linear dimeric anions with two Zn2+ atoms, which are linked by a carbonate anion into a tetranuclear unit. In each dinuclear unit, the two Zn(II) ions are coordi...

Instead of the expected neutral radical the reduction of a quinoxaline bridged 4,4-bipyridinium salt by disodium dithionite (DSD) in water renders 2,3-dimethylquinoxaline and 4,4′-bipyridine. In contrast, with more electronrich arenes used as spacer groups no decomposition products were observe...

The performance of a flexible, thin-film, zinc-air battery can be improved significantly if using a sodium silicate as a novel inorganic binder pigment for the anode components. Formulations consisting of zinc and carbon in sodium silicate are applied onto various substrates (glass or indium tin...

Adsorption of zinc was studied using chemically modified newspaper pulp as an adsorbent in the aqueous medium. Quantitative chemical analysis showed the presence of trace quantities of some inorganic elements along with phosphorous in TNP. The experimental adsorption data fitted reasonably well ...

Zinc protoporphyrin is formed in pork homogenates in both enzymatic and non-enzymatic reactions. Ferrochelatase is active in formation of the highly fluorescent pigment known from Parma ham as demonstrated by inhibition with N-methylmesoporphyrin and by thermal inactivation. A non-enzymatic tran...

Zinc oxide (ZnO) appears as a promising preservative for pharmaceutical or cosmetic formulations. The other ingredients of the formulations may have specific interactions with ZnO that alter its antimicrobial properties. The influence of common formulation excipients on the antimicrobial efficac...

Photocatalytic water splitting and carbon dioxide reduction provide us clean and sustainable energy resources. The carbon dioxide reduction is also the redemption of the greenhouse effect. MoS3/TiO2 photocatalysts based on TiO2 nanoplates have been synthesized via a hydrothermal acidification ro...

In this study, the effect of different concentrations (50, 100, and 200 mg L-1) of zinc oxide nanoparticles (ZnO-NP) on the biochemical changes, oxygen evolution, and lipid production in Chlorella sp. were analyzed. The growth rate, oxygen evolution capacity, total carotenoids and protein, starc...

Tuning the optical and electrical properties of WO3 via doping is an efficient strategy to improve its photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting activity. In this article, a simple hydrothermal method is utilized to fabricate Ta-doped WO3 nanotriangle thin films for the PEC water splitting appl...

Due to its good biocompatibility and chemical stability, tantalum attracts much attention for biomedical applications, however, limited by its relatively high cost. In this study, tantalum oxide layers were deposited onto titanium (Ti) substrates with polymer-assisted deposition (PAD) technique ...

Bifunctional catalysts for oxygen electrodes, active for both the oxygen reduction and evolution reactions (ORR, OER), are highly desirable for the development of electrochemical energy conversion devices. In this work, carbon-supported tantalum based catalysts were synthesized by a microemulsio...

In this work we discussed a label-free biosensing application of long-period gratings (LPGs) optimized in refractive index (RI) sensitivity by deposition of thin tantalum oxide (TaOx) overlays. Comparing to other thin film and materials already applied for maximizing the RI sensitivity, TaOx off...