This study entails the electrospinning of a sodium alginate (SA) natural polymer with the aid of an electrospinnable synthetic polymer, polyethylene oxide (PEO), in order to develop nanofibrous-based membranes for wastewater ...

Melt compounding was used to prepare polycarbonate (PC) and poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) nanocomposites with different amounts of metal-oxide fillers (silica, zirconia and titania). Zirconia and two types of titania ...

English: The aim of this study was to use square planar platinum(II) and palladium(II) complexes for the synthesis of bridged complexes and as building blocks for the subsequent construction of two dimensional metal organic ...

ZnO has been by far the most interesting semiconductor because of its properties. The ZnO nanostructures were synthesized by a sol-gel method and the samples were annealed in air at various temperatures capped with polymers ...

Zeolitic Imidazole Framework-8 nanoparticles, a subclass of Metal Organic Frameworks, were successfully synthesized with particle size control by temperature, using isothermal benchtop reactions in methanol. As the synthesis ...

Platinum (Pt) is an important catalyst for applications such as catalytic converters. In this thesis the formation of platinum nanoparticles was investigated by means of simulations. For the first part of the thesis a ...

The ZnO nanostructures were successfully synthesized by chemical bath deposition method (CBD) to study the influence of parameters such as reaction temperature, time, precursor concentration and the annealing temperature ...

In recent studies, amorphous silica (SiO2) has been used as a host matrix for rare-earth ions to prepare luminescent materials that can be used in various light emitting devices. Sol-gel glasses have the potential to hold ...

The recent global research interest in wide band gap semiconductors has been focused on zinc oxide (ZnO) due to its excellent and unique properties as a semiconductor material. The high electron mobility, high thermal ...

English: Zeolitic Imidazolate Framework-8 nanoparticles (nZIF-8) were successfully synthesized during isothermal benchtop reactions, with different reagent concentrations in methanol. At an optimal concentration, an ...