...Ali Baqaei; Ali Asghar Sabbagh Alvani; Hassan Sameie Purpose Over the past decades, intense efforts have been devoted to design and synthesize efficient photocatalysts which are active under sunlight for environmental and energy applications. Titanium dioxide (TiO₂) has attracted much...

... decomposition, have been used to synthesize UC materials. Among these methods, hydrothermal is a good candidate due to its biocompatibility and ability to control the phase and particle morphology easily (Dawson, 1988 ; Gao et al., 2014 ; Hao et al., 2009 ; Lin et al., 2015 , 2016...

...) catalyst and to study peculiar features of mineral formation processes and changes in their colour indices depending on composition and firing temperature. Design/methodology/approach Aluminate spinel ceramic pigments with specified colour indices were synthesised by directed formation of their mineral...

...Esmail Rezaei-Seresht; Aboulfazl Salimi; Behnam Mahdavi Purpose The purpose of this paper is synthesis and evaluation of antioxidant and antibacterial activities of a series of new azo dyes derived from 4-aminostilbene. Design/methodology/approach First, the starting material 4-aminostilbene...

... the highest photocatalytic activity for the degradation of MO. Research limitations/implications Synthesis of these zinc porphyrins had never been reported previously. Originality/value Four novel zinc porphyrin-TiO₂ photocatalysts which could response to visible light in degradation of MO...

...) was synthesised using phenylphosphonic dichloride, melamine, bisphenol A, triethylamine and dichloromethane via solvent-based reaction, that was added into the polyethylene to test flame performance. The chemical structures of PDEPDM were characterised by ¹H nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy...

...Fatma A. Mohamed; Saadia A. Abd El-Megied; Mahmoud S. Bashandy; Hassan M. Ibrahim Purpose This study aims to synthesise and characterise new reactive dyes based on thiazole derivatives which act as chromophoric moieties. These dyes were applied to cotton fabric, resulting in the dyed fabrics...

...; N, N-dicyano ethylaniline; N, N-dihydroxyethylaniline; sodium nitrite; sulfuric acid; hydrochloric acid; acetic acid; and sodium acetate were used to synthesize the dyes. The dispersing agent (AVOLAN®IS, Liquid) was supplied by Bayer company. Polyester fabrics (Polyacryl Co., local suplier) and non...

... not solidify when it is used higher than 90°C, compared to the palm oil-based acrylate reported by Cheong et al. (2009) research. The palm oil needs to be synthesised at a reaction temperature below 90°C to avoid any solidification or gelation occurrence during synthesis because of the formation...

...) , Matteucci et al. (2006) , Dondi et al. (2006) , and Fernandez et al. (1998), thermal stability and intensity of colouration of the synthesised powders were studied. Effect of the milling process on the properties of CoFe₂O₄ pigment was shown in article...

...N. Köken; M.E. Çamoglu; E.A. Güvel Purpose This paper aims to synthesise block copolymers (PPy-b-ENP) of pyrrole (Py) and ethoxylated nonyl phenols (ENP) via redox systems in presence of ceric ammonium nitrate (CAN) at room temperature. The initiating radical was formed on reducing organic...

... on silica gel. The route of process is illustrated in Scheme 2 . Scheme 2 Synthesis of Dyes 5 and 6 The FTIR spectra of the synthesised dyes (5 and 6) showed primary amino group (N–H stretch) in 3,389, 3,378 cm⁻¹ and 3,395, 3,387 cm⁻¹ and also the presence of secondary...

... and flame-retardant performance. Design/methodology/approach The IFR was synthesised by phenylphosphonic dichloride, hydroquinone and cyanuric chloride via solvent reaction, and the structure was fully characterised by proton nuclear magnetic resonance (¹H-NMR), mass spectrometry (MS...

... and their photovoltaic behaviours were determined. Schematic representation of the route for synthesis of the prepared metal-free organic dyes is given in Figure 1 . Figure 1 Synthesis route of the dyes Nine organic dyes, Dye 1-Dye 9, were synthesised based on double rhodanine, as schematically...

... between the calcination temperature of the synthesised catalysts and their activities (Xie and Li, 2006). Effect of calcination temperature on the yield of curcumin is shown in Figure 9 . Apparently, the yield of curcumin increased gradually with the calcination temperature ranging from 423 to 623 K...

... acrylic latex was that the copolymerised monomers were emulsified with the cationic surfactants. Naves et al. (2013) synthesised the polymeric particles of poly [methyl methacrylate (MA)] in the presence of one of two different quaternary ammonium surfactants: cetyltrimethylammonium bromide...

...Aiqin Gao; Hongjuan Zhang; Kongliang Xie Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to synthesise a tetrakisazo reactive dye and to characterise its dyeing property to meet the demand for better black reactive dyes. Design/methodology/approach – The novel tetrakisazo navy-blue reactive dye...

...Shuling Cui Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to synthesise a novel wet-rubbing fastness improver with diphenylmethane diisocyanate (MDI), polyethylene glycol (PEG), dimethylol propionic acid (DMPA), diethylenetriamine and epichlorohydrin. Design/methodology/approach – The synthetic...

...F. Bezgin; K. Demirelli Purpose This paper aims to a newly designed photoresponsive four-armed graft copolymer was synthesised and characterised. The synthesised polymer contains photochemical group and a greater part of the cross-linkable functional group which is not affected by short wavelength...

...Lijun Chen; Wen Li; Wei Jiang Purpose – The purpose of this paper was to prepare a fluorinated acrylate resin, which would be synthesised via solution polymerisation of fluorinated monomer, acrylate monomers and other functional monomers. Relevant characterisation and application studies were...