Showing papers in "Materials Chemistry and Physics in 2018"

TL;DR: In this paper, the chemical exfoliation and thermal annealing methods are appraised as an inventive route towards the production of graphene at prodigious scale, which is used for the oxidation of graphite flakes having an oxidizing specialist.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reported the photocatalytic and antibacterial properties of nanosized Ti1-xAgxO2 (0.00) and reported the antibacterial and photocatalysis properties of the same type of materials.

TL;DR: In this article, the removal feasibility of malachite green (MG) on Magnetic Activated Carbon (Fe3O4-AC) from aqueous solution was investigated.

TL;DR: In this article, copper nanoparticles were synthesized by the leaf broth of Azadirachta indica and effect of different reaction parameters such as precursor salt concentration, leaf broth percentage, temperature and pH of the medium on the conversion rate and morphology of the CuNPs were analyzed.

TL;DR: Li et al. as mentioned in this paper reported a facile approach to expand the interlayer spacing of Ti3C2Tx and tune its surface functional groups by hot alkaline solution treatment.

TL;DR: In this paper, the photon attenuation coefficients of 20WO3-(80-x) TeO2-xPbO (where x is the energy region of 1.5V −100V) tellurite glasses have been studied in the energy range of 1

TL;DR: High-entropy films as mentioned in this paper are a new type of films which have been developed based on highentropy alloys and feature many excellent properties, such as high strength and hardness with remarkable strain hardening rate, excellent wear and corrosion resistance, thermal stability, irradiation resistance, high toughness for wide-temperature range applications, etc., which traditional films are incomparable with.

TL;DR: A series of metal hexacyanoferrates, with a general formula of K x M y [Fe(CN) 6 ] z · q H 2 O, with x, y, z and q representing stoichiometric numbers and M = Fe (1), Co (2), Ni (3 ), and Cu (4), were prepared by a simple co-precipitation reaction as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this article, the role of the plant extract and advantages of microwave techniques are discussed, and various techniques to analyze the size, shape, crystallinity, optical, magnetic, and antimicrobial properties of cobalt ferrite nanoparticles are characterized.

TL;DR: In this paper, a melt quenching method was used to prepare BaO-30Bi2O3-(70-x)B 2O3 and ZnO-ZnO −30B2O 3 −70x B 2O 3 glasses, where the mass attenuation coefficients (MAC) for the prepared glasses have been calculated using MCNPX (version 2.6.0) Monte Carlo code in the energy range 0.122-1.33

TL;DR: In this paper, carbon dots were obtained from bleached eucalyptus kraft pulp through a simple method using sulfuric and nitric acid, and the obtained CD were fully characterized by several techniques including FTIR, Elemental Analysis, XRD, Raman, HRTEM, UV-Vis, Fluorescence and Potentiometric titration.

TL;DR: In this article, two different routes were carried out in order to obtain reduced graphene oxide: a modification of Improved Hummers method whose modifications efficiently reduce the reaction time and the amount of chemical reagents, and an environmentally friendly, fast and economic method which use potassium ferrate as oxidizing agent.

TL;DR: In this article, the microstructure evolution and mechanical properties of spark plasma sintered commercially pure titanium were studied, which was performed at a temperature range of 750-1350°C for a dwell time of 5min under an external pressure of 50MPa in vacuum.

TL;DR: In this article, three corrosion inhibitors with different anionic carbon chain lengths, 1-vinyl-3methylimidazolium iodide ([VMIM]I), 1-vyl-three-proply-dimitriou-dimethyl iodide (VPIMI) and 1-VBIM]I, were studied on the corrosion of X70 steel in 0.5 mM H2SO4 solution at 298 K.

TL;DR: In this article, the mass attenuation coefficient (μ/ρ) and Zeff values for different chemical compositions of B2O3, Bi 2 O3, Sb 2 O 3 and Sb O 3 glasses were computed using MCNPX simulation code and compared with WinXCom results.

TL;DR: In this article, the ability of β-cyclodextrin grafted magnetic graphene oxide nanocomposite (β-CD-MG) for the delivery of doxorubicin (DOX) and methotrexate (MTX) as hydrophilic and hydrophobic anticancer drugs, respectively, was synthesized.

TL;DR: The structural, electronic, anisotropic elastic, and lattice dynamical properties of the M 2 AB (M 2 AB) compounds belong to the family of MAX phases have been investigated by accomplishing the first principles density functional theory (DFT) calculations with utilizing the generalized-gradient approximation (GGA).

TL;DR: In this article, the electrical and optical properties of undoped single-phase e-Ga2O3 epitaxial films prepared by MOCVD are reported, and it is shown that this still unexplored polymorph of gallium oxide possesses wide bandgap and very high dark resistivity, thus allowing the design and fabrication of solar-blind UV photodetectors.

TL;DR: In this paper, the Williamson-Hall equation was used to determine crystallite size and strain produced, while a decrease in specific surface area and strain were observed with increasing rare earth concentrations.

TL;DR: In this article, the green and sustainable synthesis of zinc oxide quantum dots (QDs) using zinc acetate (precursor) and Eclipta alba leaf extract as a reducing agent was monitored by ultraviolet-visible absorption spectroscopy at wavelength (λmax) 324.

TL;DR: In this article, a novel polymeric flame retardant poly (pentaerythritol phosphate phosphinic acyl piperazine) (PPAP) was synthesized successfully.

TL;DR: In this paper, the radiation mass attenuation coefficients of different bismuth-borate glass samples as shielding materials are calculated at 356, 662, 1173 and 1332 keV photon energies by using general purpose Monte Carlo code MCNPX (version 2.4.0).

TL;DR: In this article, the adsorption properties of heavy metal atoms with zinc oxide nanotube and ZnO-graphene like structures sheet using Ab-initio based density functional theory (DFT) calculations were compared with each other.

TL;DR: In this paper, byproduct lignin biomass was converted into sulfur self-doped carbon via in-situ hydrothermal carbonization followed by thermal annealing.

TL;DR: In this article, a thermodynamic study of the adsorption process and the corrosion inhibition performance of three cationic surfactants based on imine surfactant corrosion inhibitor in 1.0 mM HCl solution is provided.

TL;DR: In this paper, the photocatalytic efficiency of cobalt tungstate nanoparticles was estimated by monitoring the degradation of brilliant green dye under visible light irradiation, which showed that approximately 94% of the green dye was degraded within 120 min of visible light illumination.

TL;DR: The results obtained within the Langmuir model gave the highest R2, the smallest root-mean-squared error (RMSE), and the best nonlinear chi-square test (χ2) values, indicating that this model is the most appropriate approach for describing the adsorption of lead onto the MnO2/CS nanomaterials as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this article, the percolation threshold for tensile strength of polymer/CNT nanocomposites (PCNT) is studied by known Pukanszky model.

TL;DR: In this paper, the influence of cyclohexane/ethanol, alkali, and silane treatments on the waste hemp fibers and their polybenzoxazine composites was evaluated by evaluating the mechanical, thermomechanical, thermal and water uptake properties.

TL;DR: In this article, a polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP)-assisted co-precipitation route was used to synthesize small ZnO micro/nanoflowers.