Development of highly efficient and reusable Ruthenium complex catalyst for hydrogen evolution

Herein, we report an efficient, environmentally friendly and stable catalyst development to hydrogen evolution from sodium borohydride hydrolysis. For this purpose, Ruthenium complex catalyst successfully fabricated via 5-Amino-2,4-dichlorophenol-3,5-ditertbutylsalisylaldimine ligand and RuCl₃·H₂O salt. Ru complex catalyst was identified with X-Ray Diffraction Analysis, Infrared Spectroscopy, Elemental Analysis, Transmission electron microscopy, Scanning Electron Microscope and Brunauer-Emmett-Teller Surface Area Analysis. According to the analysis results, it was confirmed that Ru complex catalyst was successfully synthesized. Ru complex was used as a catalyst in NaBH₄ hydrolysis. The kinetic performance of Ru complex catalyst was evaluated at various reaction temperatures, various sodium borohydride concentration, catalyst concentration and sodium hydroxide concentration in hydrogen evolution. The apparent activation energy for the hydrolysis of sodium borohydride was determined as 25.8 kJ mol^?1. With fully conversion, the promised well durability of Ru complex was achieved by the five consecutive cycles for hydrogen evolution in sodium borohydride hydrolysis The hydrogen evolution rates were 299,220 and 160,832 mL H₂ g_cat^?1 min^?1 in order of at 50 °C and 30 °C. Furthermore, the proposed mechanism of Ru complex catalyzed sodium borohydride hydrolysis was defined step by step. This study provides different insight into the rational design and utilization and catalytic effects of ruthenium complex in hydrogen evolution performance.     

Enhanced efficiency fertilisers: a review of formulation and nutrient release patterns

Fertilisers are one of the most important elements of modern agriculture. The application of fertilisers in agricultural practices has markedly increased the production of food, feed, fuel, fibre and other plant products. However, a significant portion of nutrients applied in the field is not taken up by plants and is lost through leaching, volatilisation, nitrification, or other means. Such a loss increases the cost of fertiliser and severely pollutes the environment. To alleviate these problems, enhanced efficiency fertilisers (EEFs) are produced and used in the form of controlled release fertilisers and nitrification/urease inhibitors. The application of biopolymers for coating in EEFs, tailoring the release pattern of nutrients to closely match the growth requirement of plants and development of realistic models to predict the release pattern of common nutrients have been the foci of fertiliser research. In this context, this paper intends to review relevant aspects of new developments in fertiliser production and use, agronomic, economic and environmental drives for enhanced efficiency fertilisers and their formulation process and the nutrient release behaviour. Application of biopolymers and complex coacervation technique for nutrient encapsulation is also explored as a promising technology to produce EEFs. © 2014 Society of Chemical Industry     

含Euxyl K220的复合防腐剂在化妆品中的防腐效果研究

为寻求新型复合防腐剂,研究了含有Euxyl K220的不同种类复合防腐剂在化妆品基质中的作用效果并进行评价。选择4种防腐剂按照不同方法复配,利用微生物挑战性试验验证复配后的复合防腐剂在化妆品基质中的防腐效果。结果发现,对羟基苯甲酸甲酯质量分数低于0.1%时,含Euxyl K220的复合防腐剂抑制细菌效果稍好,抑制霉菌效果较差,不能通过挑战性试验,而当存在Euxyl PE9010时,抑制细菌、霉菌效果均较好,能通过挑战性试验;对羟基苯甲酸甲酯质量分数在0.1%~0.2%时,含Euxyl K220的复合防腐剂抑菌效果最好,Euxyl K220在相对较低的质量分数(0.08%)下即能通过挑战性试验。研究制备的对羟基苯甲酸甲酯(质量分数0.2%)和Euxyl K220(质量分数0.08%)复合防腐剂,以及对羟基苯甲酸甲酯(质量分数0.05%)、Euxyl K220(质量分数0.1%)和Euxyl PE9010(质量分数0.2%)复合防腐剂应用于受试样品中均通过了挑战性试验且用量较低,该两种新型复合防腐剂的应用可行性较高。     

多水体系单核Mn(Ⅱ)配合物的合成、晶体结构和氢键研究

采用缓慢蒸发溶剂的方法,在去离子水中合成了单核Mn(Ⅱ)配合物[Mn(phen)2(H2O)2]·(H2O)6·SO4(phen=1,10-邻菲罗啉)。利用X射线单晶衍射和元素分析等表征手段确定了其结构和组成。该配合物属于三斜晶系,空间群为P-1。该配合物的中心离子为Mn(Ⅱ),中心离子与两个1,10-邻菲罗啉和两个水分子配位,在晶胞中还有六个未配位的水分子和一个自由的硫酸根离子。配合物中存在多种结构的氢键,包括平面三角形、四面体形、四边形、五边形和六边形。     

多靶点药物的开发策略及研究进展

多靶点药物治疗肿瘤、抑郁症、糖尿病等复杂性疾病效果显著,越来越受到重视。本文综述了多靶点药物的分类、发现策略和优势,总结和展望了多靶点药物在复杂性疾病中的应用现状及前景。     

莫来石-磷酸锆复相陶瓷材料性能的研究

本文研究了在莫来石中添加低膨胀第二相磷酸锫的莫来石-磷酸锆复相陶瓷的性能,找到了在保证强度的同时,获得较低热膨胀系数的莫来石-磷酸锆复相陶瓷的制备方法.实验表明：莫来石-磷酸锆复相陶瓷能通过将莫来石粉料与磷酸锆粉料或莫来石粉料与磷酸锆生料粉按不同质量比混合烧结制备;加入1wt％的MgO作为烧结助剂,在1350℃烧成的样品具有最低的热膨胀系数和较小的吸水率.     

2-羟基-1-萘醛缩乙二胺Schiff碱及其稀土金属配合物的合成和表征

以2-羟基-1-萘醛和乙二胺为原料,乙醇为溶剂,加热回流制备2-羟基-1-萘醛缩乙二胺Schiff碱配体,然后分别与铟（Ⅲ）、钍（Ⅳ）的盐反应,生成相应的配合物,并对2-羟基-1-萘醛缩乙二胺Schiff碱及其金属配合物的抗菌活性进行探究。结果表明,配合物对枯草杆菌、大肠杆菌、绿脓杆菌和金黄色葡萄球菌的抑制作用较配体更强。     

Oscillatory shear rheology of dilute solutions of flexible polymers interacting with oppositely charged particles

Fluids with both attractions and repulsions among its constituents can exist in multiple states depending on nature of the interactions. An external flow can induce such systems to transition between the different states, such as the globule‐stretch transition for polymers in poor solvents. Brownian dynamics simulations of a dilute solution of polymers and colloids interacting via short‐ranged potentials are presented. For some values of the strength and range of interactions, compact structures of polymers and colloids are formed. An external flow is capable of pulling these globules apart, causing the polymers to stretch at a critical shear rate. In oscillatory shear, the shear rate can cycle between being above and below this critical shear rate leading to interesting dynamics. These dynamics are quantified using the rheological response in large amplitude oscillatory shear. © 2014 American Institute of Chemical Engineers AIChE J, 60: 1365–1371, 2014     

Time‐series and extended Karhunen–Loève analysis of turbulent drag reduction in polymer solutions

Direct numerical simulations and statistical analysis techniques are used to study the drag‐reducing effect of polymer additives on turbulent channel flow in minimal domains. Additionally, a new formulation of Karhunen–Loève decomposition for viscoelastic flows is introduced, allowing the dominant features of the polymer stress fields to be characterized. In minimal channels, there are intervals of “active” and “hibernating” turbulence that display very different structural and energetic characteristics; the present work illustrates how the statistics of these intervals evolve over the entire range of drag reduction (DR) levels. The effect of viscoelasticity on minimal channel turbulence is twofold: first, it strongly suppresses the active turbulent dynamics that predominate in Newtonian flow and second, at sufficiently high Weissenberg number it stabilizes the dynamics of hibernating turbulence, allowing it to predominate in the maximum drag reduction regime. In this regime, the stress fluctuations become delocalized from the wall region, encompassing the entire flow domain. © 2014 American Institute of Chemical Engineers AIChE J, 60: 1460–1475, 2014     

Control of the permeability of a porous media using a thermally sensitive polymer

Experiments explore the reduction in permeability of a porous bead pack when a suspension of thermally responsive polymer is injected and the temperature then increased above the thermal activation temperature. The change in permeability is greater with higher polymer concentration, provided that the ionic concentration of the solution is sufficient for floc formation. The time for activation of the blocking effect is within tens of seconds to minutes of when the polymer solution is heated. This is consistent with the timescale for diffusion‐limited aggregation, although the detailed value depends on the geometry and polymer concentration. Dynamical experiments demonstrate that once the porous media is blocked, adding additional polymer has no effect. The mechanism for permeability reduction may be modeled in the context of a pore‐network model, and we build a simple model to illustrate the permeability reduction as a function of the fraction of pores links which are blocked. © 2014 American Institute of Chemical Engineers AIChE J, 60: 1193–1201, 2014