Solvent-Free Synthesis of HKUST-1 with Abundant Defect Sites and Its Catalytic Performance in the Esterification Reaction of Oleic Acid.

HKUST-1 has received increasing attention because of its potential applications in many fields, such as heterogeneous catalysis, sensors, gas storage, and separation. Herein, we report that HKUST-1 can be facilely prepared by heating a ground mixture of copper nitrate trihydrate and 1,3,5-benzenetricarboxylic acid in an autoclave at 80 °C for 10 h. The data from nitrogen sorption show that the obtained material, named HKUST-1-free, possesses a high BET specific surface area of 1671 m/g and a pore volume of 0.

A green approach for enhancing the hydrophobicity of UiO-66(Zr) catalysts for biodiesel production at 298 K.

Recently, the incorporation of hydrophobicity on the surface of UiO-66(Zr) has received much attention due to the deactivation of hydrophilic active sites of UiO-66(Zr) upon water adsorption. In this work, we report UiO-66(Zr) catalysts with an assortment of surface hydrophobicities fabricated by the solvent-free method to elucidate the impact of the environment framing Lewis acid sites on their catalytic activity in the production of fatty acid methyl ester (biodiesel) the esterification of fatty acids at room temperature with high selectivity (100%) and good recyclability. A detailed structural analysis of the materials by N sorption, FT-IR, SEM, XRD, water contact angle measurement, dynamic liquid scattering (DLS), NMR and TGA revealed the fabrication of stearic acid-grafted UiO-66(Zr) catalysts (10SA/UiO-66) with fine particle size and a highly hydrophobic network.

Systematic analysis of disease-specific immunological signatures in patients with febrile illness from Saudi Arabia.

Objectives: Little is known about the prevalence of febrile illness in the Arabian region as clinical, laboratory and immunological profiling remains largely uncharacterised.

Methods: A total of 2018 febrile patients from Jazan, Saudi Arabia, were recruited between 2014 and 2017. Patients were screened for dengue and chikungunya virus, , , , group A streptococcus and .

Adsorption of malathion on thermally treated egg shell material.

Thermally treated egg shell materials were prepared at different temperatures. The samples were investigated by means of FT-IR and thermogravimetric analysis (TGA). The adsorption behaviour of malathion on egg shell and its thermally treated samples was studied using batch method and gave uptake capacities up to 0.