Copper-based composites strengthened with fullerene soot nanoparticles of 20–30 nm size in concentration up to 23 vol.% were prepared via two methods: mechanical mixing and molecular level mixing. The dependence of thermal conductivity on the c...
The presented work demonstrates the capability of obtaining composite powder, silver-fullerene soot, by the electrolytic deposition of silver from an aqueous solution of silver nitrate. The morphology of particles was studied as a function of fullere...
This study investigates the formation and soot removal properties of four composite materials derived from alloy glasses in the system of Zr-Pd-Pt-Ce. Amorphous Zr65Pd35, Zr65Pd30Pt5, Zr60Pd35Ce5, and Zr60Pd30Pt5Ce5 were subjected to a heat treatment...
Copper-based composite materials strengthened with nanosized fullerene soot particles were produced by mechanical milling and hot pressing technology with a content of carbon up to 5 wt. %. The microstructure of the composite powders and the compacts...
In this paper, a superhydrophobic biomimetic composite coating was fabricated on brass by electrochemical etching, brushing PDMS adhesive layer, and depositing carbon soot particles. Due to the microstructure and the optimized ratio of PDMS, the cont...
As atmospheric fresh soot particles age, they become coated with other chemical species. This transforms their physicochemical properties and affects their optical characteristics, which is of great importance to air quality, the environment and clim...
The effect of fulleroid materials (fullerene С60 and fullerene soot which is used for fullerene production) and carbon fibers on the mechanical and tribological properties of polymer nanocomposites based on polyamide 6 (PA6) was investigated. Composi...
High-concentration biodiesel-diesel fuel blends are an alternative fuel widely used for compression ignition engines. However, commercial diesel engines are not designed and set up for high-concentration biodiesel-diesel fuel blends. Hence, the aim o...
Aluminum-based composite materials reinforced with fullerene soot, which is a mixture of fullerene and amorphous carbon, are promising materials for friction and wear applications. Composite materials: aluminum with 2% fullerene soot (f.s) and Al wit...
Soot and ash as residues from the combustion of peat briquettes were analysed by chemical and mineralogical methods. The study aimed to characterize combustion in domestic boilers of two different emission classes. Ten samples of soot deposited in ex...
Engineered nanoparticles are known to boost membrane performance in membrane technology. Hitherto, tunable properties that lead to improved hydrophilicity due to increased surface oxygen functionalities upon oxidation of petrol soot have not been ful...
Nowadays catalytic technologies are widely used to purify indoor and outdoor air from harmful compounds. Recently, Ag–CeO2 composites have found various applications in catalysis due to distinctive physical-chemical properties and relatively low cost...
In this work, the results of a complex investigation of structure and properties of nanodiamond soot (NDS) of detonation synthesis are presented. Size distribution of NDS particles, dispersed in different liquid media, was investigated using dynamic...
Considerable attention has been devoted to the development of nanomaterial-based photoacoustic transmitters for ultrasound therapy and diagnosis applications. Here, we fabricate and characterize candle-soot nanoparticles (CSNPs) and polydimethylsilox...
Triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs) have emerged as viable micro power sources for an array of applications. Since their inception in 2012, TENGs have been the subject of significant advancements in terms of structural design and the development of...
Structure–performance relationships in functional catalysts allow for controlling their performance in a wide range of reaction conditions. Here, the structural and compositional peculiarities in CTAB-templated CeO2-ZrO2-MnOx catalysts prepared...
Mixed oxides with perovskite-type structure (ABO3) are promising catalysts for atmospheric pollution control due to their interesting and tunable physicochemical properties. In this work, two series of BaxMnO3 and BaxFeO3 (x = 1 and 0.7) catalysts we...
In the present work, a novel burner capable of complete pre-vaporization and stationary combustion of diesel fuel in a laminar diffusion flame has been developed to investigate the effect of the chemical composition of diesel fuel on soot formation....
Diesel soot particles are of concern for both the environment and health. To catalytically remove them, it is important to know their structure and composition. There is little described in the literature on how catalysts favor the combustion of diff...
Soot is characterized by a multiscale structural organization; the only diagnostic tool that can give access to it is the transmission electron microscope (TEM). However, as it is a diffraction-based technique, TEM images only conjugate aromatic syst...
The soot produced by fossil fuel combustion affects climate and human health, and the ethylene laminar flame is a crucial research object of soot generation. After verifying the accuracy of the numerical calculation model by comparing experimental da...
In this paper, a simple, inexpensive, and rapid method for the fabrication of controlled layer candle soot film has been reported by interface self-assembly and transferred method. The mechanism of candle soot self-assembly is explained and their mor...
It is necessary to install a specific burner system to burn out fuel-rich post combustion gas produced from a gas generator in a rocket engine when the performance of gas generator is separately evaluated in a test facility. Because of the fuel-rich...
Combustion characteristics and harmful emissions with emphasized soot emission in the new concept of a biogas-dimethyl ether (DME) hybrid dual-fuel engine were analyzed. The effects of DME content, biogas compositions and diesel injection were examin...
Soot formation in combustion represents a complex phenomenon that strongly depends on several factors such as pressure, temperature, fuel chemical composition, and the extent of premixing. The effect of partial premixing on soot formation is of relev...
FeVO4 and Fe0.5Er0.5VO4 were prepared and loaded over standard Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR) supports based on TiO2-WO3-SiO2 (TWS) and redox active supports like CeO2 and CeZrO2 with the aim of finding a suitable formulation for simultaneous so...
This study investigates the relationship between exhaust gas composition, particle number (PN) emissions, and soot microstructure of a 1.9 L compression-ignition engine operated under six controlled steady-state load regimes at 2000 min−1. Unli...
This paper presents a study of microstructures and properties of pure copper and copper–fullerene-soot (Cu-FS) composite materials produced by mechanical milling followed by hot pressing. The electrochemical etching method was successfully appl...
Soot combustion experiments with 5%O2/He were conducted using model soot, and four distinct compositions of CexPr1-xO2-δ oxides of varying nominal cerium compositions (x = 0, 0.2, 0.3, and 1) were prepared. The catalyst samples were comprehensi...
Emissions from diesel engines can be limited and potentially decreased by modifying the fuel chemical composition through additive insertion. One class of additives that have shown to be particularly efficient in the reduction of the particulates fro...
The work reported in the paper addresses the thermal diffusivity (TD) tuning of the electronic sensor material polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF). The thermal properties of electronic material were found to influence the device characteristics significan...
Catalytic performance of 3 and 5 wt.% of vanadia, supported on zirconia, zirconia-ceria, and zirconia-yttria, tested in the combustion of soot without and in the presence of NO was described. The catalysts were characterized by structural (XRD, RS) a...
In this paper, cerium was incorporated into polyhydroxyltriacetictin (PHTES) using the sol-gel method combined with electrospinning technology to prepare a series of composite oxide fiber catalysts SnxCe1−xO2 in different proportions. The struc...
The condition of architectural monuments is directly influenced by various factors, such as anthropogenic, natural, and technological, leading to the degradation of both structures and construction materials, ultimately resulting in irreversible dama...
Carbon nanoparticles have excellent lubricating properties, however, they are less involved in metal protection. In this study, easily prepared candle soot was added to electroless nickel-phosphorus plating as a re-enforcement particle. Ball-disc fri...
Snow covers are greatly affected by particles deposited on their surface. In this work, an experimental campaign was carried out in the Sierra Nevada (Granada, Spain). The optical effect of different contaminating particles on the snow covers was mea...
Air pollution has become the world’s single biggest environmental health risk of the past decade, causing millions of yearly deaths worldwide. One of the dominant air pollutants is fine particulate matter (PM2.5), which is a product of combusti...
The catalytic behaviour of Ag2O and Ag doped CeO2 thin films, deposited by atomic layer deposition (ALD), was investigated for diesel soot oxidation. The silver oxide was deposited from pulses of the organometallic precursor (hfac)Ag(PMe3) and ozone...
As the poor cycling stability of CeO2 catalysts has become the major obstacle for applications of diesel particulate filters (DPF), it is necessary to investigate how to reduce their structural and compositional changes during soot oxidation. In this...
Archival writing material is an important carrier to record and reflect archival content, and its material and durability are closely related to the life of archives. The “Shuyede” press in Shandong Province, which originated in the reign...
Purification of soot particles from automobile exhaust has closely to do with the synergistic effect between catalyst metals. Here, several binary Ni-Fe oxide catalysts were elaborately prepared via a modified solvothermal method. A non-noble-metal (...
Sampling on different substrates is commonly used in laboratory and field studies to investigate the morphology and mixing state of aerosol particles. Our focus was on the transformations that can occur to the collected particles during storage, hand...
The present work delineates the tailoring of the thermal effusivity and diffusivity of the novel class of heat transfer fluids—ionanofluids—by the incorporation of nanocarbons like diesel soot (DS), camphor soot (CS), carbon nanotubes (CN...
A series of Co-Ce clay-based catalysts were prepared via the wet impregnation method and tested for the catalytic combustion of diesel soot and carbon monoxide. The objective of this work was to find a suitable catalyst with an optimized active phase...
In this study, we employed a straightforward flame synthesis process to produce carbon soot containing carbon nano onions (CNOs) using easily accessible ghee oil as a precursor. The ghee oil, with a molecular composition rich in more than 50 carbon a...
The enhancement of carbon-supported components is a crucial factor in augmenting the interplay between carbon-supported and metal-active components in the utilization of catalysts for direct ethanol fuel cells (DEFCs). Here, we propose a strategy for...
Understanding the chemical composition and mixing states of individual particles in indoor/outdoor environments is important for assessing daily human exposure. In this study, the chemical composition and mixing states of micron-sized individual part...
Gasoline is one of the most important distillate fuels obtained from crude refining; it is mainly used as an automotive fuel to propel spark-ignited (SI) engines. It is a complex hydrocarbon fuel that is known to possess several hundred individual mo...
This study proposes a novel multipoint transducer system by utilizing the single-mode-multimode-thin-cladding fiber (SMTC) structure. This structure leverages the disparity in mode field diameter between the multimode fiber (MMF) and thin-cladding fi...
This paper investigates the influence of ventilation conditions, including oxidizer flow speed and oxygen concentration, on major species composition in favor of estimating a risk of flame acceleration at reduced gravity. A two-step chemical reaction...
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