Propylene glycol methyl ether acetate (PGMEA) serves as a crucial solvent in semiconductor and display material processes, demanding high purity and low acidity. Despite its significance, its conventional synthesis method using homogeneous catalysts...
Organic solvents are known to affect the nervous system, but neurotoxicity testing is not routinely required for industrial chemicals under current European regulations. Glycol ethers are widely used in consumer and industrial products. They can cros...
This paper presents a simple method for determination of synergism in binary surfactant mixtures. A homologous series of cationic alkyltrimethylammonium bromides (CnTAB, with n = 8, 12, 16, 18) mixed with three non-ionic surfactants (n-octanol, methy...
Biodiesel is regarded to be a renewable, CO2 neutral and thus sustainable biological alternative diesel fuel. With attention to the reduction of petroleum import, PM 2.5 aerosol particles and the greenhouse effect gas CO2, biodiesel has drawn great r...
Zeolitic imidazolate frameworks (ZIFs) have been extensively examined for their potential in acid–base catalysis. Many studies have demonstrated that ZIFs possess unique structural and physicochemical properties that allow them to demonstrate h...
Many chemically synthesized xenobiotics can significantly inhibit the vitality of parasitic nematodes. However, there is yet too little research on the toxicity of such contaminating compounds toward nematodes. Compounds that are present in plants ar...
Self-supported gradient bilayer NaA zeolite membranes were hydrothermally converted from geopolymer precursors for pervaporative dehydration of the propylene glycol methyl ether (PGME)/water azeotrope. XRD confirms crystallization of amorphous geopol...
Hydrogels have attracted considerable attention due to their ability to undergo rapid and reversible phase transitions in response to external stimuli. In this work, a novel multi-responsive hydrogel (PT-Gel) was synthesized via the crosslinking of a...
Here, we report the synthesis of new thermoresponsive hyperbranched polymers (HBPs) via one-pot reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) copolymerisation of poly(ethylene glycol)methyl ether methacrylate (PEGMEMA, Mn = 475 g/mol), poly...
The ability to tune the surface properties of a polymer film in a simple and effective manner is important for diverse biological, industrial, and environmental applications. In this work, we investigated whether or not the surface free energy of pol...
Volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions to the atmosphere cause air pollution associated with adverse health outcomes. Volatile chemical products (VCPs) have emerged as a VOC emission category that is poorly characterized by air pollution models. V...
An overview of solvent replacement strategies shows that there is great progress in green chemistry for replacing hazardous di-polar aprotic solvents, such as N,N-dimethylformamide (DMF), 1-methyl-2-pyrrolidinone (NMP), and 1,4-dioxane (DI), used in...
To explore aggregate-induced emission (AIE) properties, this study adopts a one-pot hydrothermal route for synthesizing polyethylene glycol (PEG)-coated graphene quantum dot (GQD) clusters, enabling the emission of highly intense photoluminescence un...
In this research, the enhancement in electrochemical performance of pyrolyzed carbon microelectrodes by surface modification is investigated. For the proposed microfabrication process, pyrolyzed carbon microelectrodes with multi-walled carbon nanotub...
The reactive double dividing-wall distillation column (R-DDWDC) can simultaneously integrate and effectively coordinate reaction–separation coupling (RSC) and separation–separation coupling (SSC), thereby offering greater technical advant...