This study examines the thermal characteristics and kinetics of oil shale combustion using thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) at various heating rates. The combustion process includes three stages: dehydration, main combustion (70–80% mass loss),...
Rhizomes of Curcuma longa L. are well known for their content of curcuminoids, which are compounds with interesting biological activity against various inflammatory states and diseases. Curcuminoids can degrade during processing. This piece of work i...
The pyrolysis of biomass in a fluidized-bed reactor is studied by a combination of a CFD-DEM algorithm and a multistep kinetic scheme, where fluid dynamics, heat and mass transfer, particle collisions, and the detailed thermochemical conversion of bi...
The objective of this review paper is to survey the phase transition kinetics with a focus on the temperature dependence of the rates of crystallization and melting, as well as on the activation energies of these processes obtained via the Arrhenius...
Silicone resin has recently attracted great attention as a high-power Light Emitting Diode (LED) encapsulant material due to its good thermal stability and optical properties. In general, the abrupt curing reaction of the silicone resin for the LED e...
While heating a seawater spiral shell (Euplica scripta), thermally induced aragonite–calcite (A–C) transformation occurred within the temperature region of multistep thermal dehydration. Here, the kinetic interplay between the A–C t...
We discuss the implementation of a computer program for accurate calculation of the kinetics of chemical reactions integrated in the user-friendly, multi-purpose Virtual Multifrequency Spectrometer tool. The program is based on the ab initio modeling...
To achieve the safe reuse of oil-based drill cuttings, this study employs thermogravimetric analysis and pyrolysis-gas chromatography/mass spectrometry to investigate the formation patterns and kinetic characteristics of pyrolysis products in oil-bas...
In this tutorial overview article the authors share their original experience in studying the kinetics of thermally stimulated reactions under the conditions of continuous cooling. It is stressed that the kinetics measured on heating is similar to th...
Examining the kinetics of solids’ thermal decomposition with multiple overlapping steps is of growing interest in many fields, including materials science and engineering. Despite the difficulty of describing the kinetics for complex reaction p...
Biomolecular adsorption has great significance in medical, environmental, and technological processes. Understanding adsorption equilibrium and binding kinetics is essential for advanced process implementation. This requires identifying intrinsic det...
Bacterial heteroresistance (i.e., the co-existence of several subpopulations with different antibiotic susceptibilities) can delay the clearance of bacteria even with long antibiotic exposure. Some proposed mechanisms have been successfully described...
This study presents the kinetic modeling of the natural long-term aging of the pharmaceutical substance as well as the intact tablets of Diclofenac. Datasets are collections of near-infrared spectra acquired from the intact tablets packed in plastic...
MicroRNAs are widely studied as circulating biomarkers for early stage diagnosis of several diseases, but the procedures for their detection and quantification are currently complex and time consuming. We demonstrate a rapid, multiplex, one-pot detec...
Humins is a biomass-derived material, co-product of the acid-catalyzed conversion of cellulose and hemicellulose to platform chemicals. This work presents a thorough study concerning the crosslinking kinetics of humins by chemorheological analysis an...
High fidelity gene transcription and replication require kinetic discrimination of nucleotide substrate species by RNA and DNA polymerases under chemical non-equilibrium conditions. It is known that sufficiently large free energy driving force is nee...
Measurement of the nitric oxide (NO) concentration in living cells in the physiological nanomolar range is crucial in understanding NO biochemical functions, as well as in characterizing the efficiency and kinetics of NO delivery by NO-releasing drug...
MgHPO4·3H2O was synthesized via a simple wet reaction and transformed to its final decomposed product, Mg2P2O7 at 873 K. The thermal properties, vibrational modes of block units, and solid phases of the synthetic compounds have been investigat...
Kinetic models used for the kinetic analysis of solid-state reactions assume ideal conditions that are very rarely fulfilled by real processes. One of the assumptions of these ideal models is that all sample particles have an identical size, while mo...
The kinetics of thermally stimulated processes in the condensed phase is commonly analyzed by model-free techniques such as isoconversional methods. Oftentimes, this type of analysis is unjustifiably limited to probing the activation energy alone, wh...
Due to the invalidity of traditional models, pretreatment conditions dependent parameter of susceptible dissolution degree of xylan (dX) was introduced into the kinetic models. After the introduction of dX, the dissolution of xylan, and the formation...
This work examined the possibilities and limitations of model-free and model-based methods related to decrypting the kinetic complexity of multi-step thermo-oxidative degradation processes (as a testing system, a [4-(hydroxymethyl)phenoxymethyl] poly...
This study investigates the pyrolytic decomposition of apple and potato peel waste using thermogravimetric analysis (TGA). In addition, using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and energy dispersive X-r...
Bimetallic nanoparticles represent attractive catalytic systems thanks to the synergy between both partners at the atomic level, mainly induced by electronic effects which in turn are associated with the corresponding structures (alloy, core-shell, h...
Municipal solid waste incineration fly ash (FA) can represent a sustainable supply of supplementary material to the construction industries if it is pre-treated to remove hazardous substances such as chloride, sulfate, and heavy metals. In this paper...
The curing process of epoxy resin based on epoxidized linseed oil (ELO) is studied using dynamic differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) in order to determine the kinetic triplet (Ea,
This study investigates the adsorption performance of granular activated carbon (GAC) and pelletized activated carbon (PAC) for the purification of syngas produced from glycerol reforming, focusing on the removal of CO2, CO, and CH4. The adsorption p...
Coaxial electrospun membranes made of polycaprolactone (PCL) and polyvinylalcohol (PVA) were produced and filled with a promising synthetic gold complex (AuM1) for antitumoral applications. Coaxial nanofibers characterized by a PVA shell and PCL + Au...
The electro-oxidation of eugenol (EUG) natural antioxidant was studied by cyclic voltammetry in phosphate buffer solutions (PBS) of different pH at electrochemically partially reduced graphene oxide (GCE/ePRGO). The voltammetric responses were mainly...
Water diffusivity, a critical parameter for cereal processing design and quality optimization, is usually concentration-dependent. dynamic vapor sorption (DVS) system provides an approach to establishing the relationship between water concentration a...
This work reports a study on the structural characterization, evaluation of thermal stability, and non-isothermal decomposition kinetics of urea–formaldehyde (UF) resin modified with hydrochar (obtained by the hydrothermal carbonization of spen...
Mixed nickel-iron (Ni-Fe) compounds have recently emerged as promising non-precious electrocatalysts for alkaline water splitting. The understanding of the charge-transfer mechanism involved in the multi-step Faradic reaction, however, is still limit...
The characteristics of hydrothermal carbonization hydrochar derived from cattle manure including excrements and lignocellulosic biomass were analyzed. The effects of hydrothermal carbonization were evaluated by varying the reaction temperatures in th...
In this study, a Zn-Mn ferrite soft magnetic material (Mn0.6Zn0.4Fe2O4) was successfully prepared from a spent Zn-Mn battery using a novel multi-step process involving bioleaching, co-precipitation, and boiling reflux. The green Zn–Mn ferrite e...
Slow kinetics is one of the capital issues of photocatalytic technology because of its heterogeneous nature, which involves multi-step processes. Herein, we show that the simple modification of the sol-gel-based TiO2-smectite composite by hexadecyltr...
In recent years, the electrocatalytic reduction of nitrate to ammonia (NRA) has garnered significant research attention. However, the complex multi-step proton–electron transfer process often results in various by-products, limiting NH3 product...
The oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is a complex multi-step four-electron process showing sluggish kinetics. Layered double hydroxides (LDH) were reported as promising catalysts for the OER, but their low electrical conductivity restricts their wides...
In this work, 6-aminocaproic acid-modified copper ferrite nanoparticles were synthesized and used as an adsorbent for removing Amaranth dye from water. The modified nanoparticles were easily prepared using a simple and cost-effective method, namely t...
The heterogeneous interactions of colloidal U particles with organophosphates, leading to the formation of U-phosphate minerals, can retard the migration of U in contaminated sites. Here, we studied the hydrolytic mechanism of p-nitrophenyl phosphate...
Even if huge efforts are made to push alternative mobility concepts, such as electric cars and fuel-cell-powered cars, the significance and use of liquid fuels is anticipated to stay high during the 2030s. Biomethane and synthetic natural gas (SNG) m...
Efficient recycling of polyamide 6 (PA6) requires selective depolymerization routes that recover monomers under moderate conditions. This study investigates microwave-assisted acid hydrolysis of four PA6 waste streams, two oligomer-rich residues (WS-...
Direct metal-liganded bioactive coordination complexes are known to be sensitive to stimuli such as pH, light, ion activation, or redox cues. This results in the controlled release of the bioactive(s). Compared to other drug delivery strategies based...
This research aims to develop new high-energy dense ordinary- and nano-energetic composites based on hydrazine 3-nitro-1,2,4-triazol-5-one (HNTO) and nitrated cellulose and nanostructured nitrocellulose (NC and NMCC). The elaborated energetic formula...
A multi-step procedure, based on the employment of K10-Montmorillonite, is proposed for the selective removal of metal ions and dyes from a multicomponent solution. The objective is twofold: decontaminate the effluents and separate and recover the va...
Novel Uracil-modified chitosan (UCs) adsorbent has successfully been synthesized through a four-step method during which the amino groups of chitosan have been protected, then epoxy nuclei have been incorporated, afterwards the latter have been opene...
Novel Cyanoguanidine-modified chitosan (CCs) adsorbent was successfully prepared via a four-step procedure; first by protection of the amino groups of chitosan, second by insertion of epoxide rings, third by opening the latter with cyanoguanidine, an...
A multi-step procedure was effectively employed to synthesize innovative three-dimensional (3D) heterostructures encompassing sodium titanate (Na2Ti3O7) nanowire cores, an intermediate resorcinol–formaldehyde (RF) layer, and outer silver (Ag) n...
Protein phase separation and protein liquid cluster formation have been observed and analysed in protein crystallization experiments and, in recent years, have been reported more frequently, especially in studies related to membraneless organelles an...
Cellulose nanofibers (CNF) are sustainable nanomaterials, obtained by the mechanical disintegration of cellulose, whose properties make them an interesting adsorbent material due to their high specific area and active groups. CNF are easily functiona...
High-fidelity simulations of turbulent flames are computationally expensive when using detailed chemical kinetics. For practical fuels and flow configurations, chemical kinetics can account for the vast majority of the computational time due to the h...
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