Fast and ecofriendly triple sulfonamides mixture utilization using UV irradiation and spherical SnO nanoparticles with controllable parameters and antibacterial activity.

One of the solutions for the growing problem of water purification is photocatalytic degradation of the pollutants. Semiconductor nanoparticles are widely under study as a promising photocatalyst for this purpose. However, there is still lack of understanding of the relation between properties of nanoparticles, in their turn related with synthesis conditions, and photocatalytic efficiency, as well as of the other factors influencing the process.

Reversed-phase dispersive liquid-liquid microextraction based on decomposition of deep eutectic solvent for the determination of lead and cadmium in vegetable oil.

In this work, a reversed-phase dispersive liquid-liquid microextraction procedure based on the decomposition of deep eutectic solvent was suggested for the first time. The procedure was utilized for fast and simple separation of lead and cadmium from vegetable oil samples. The procedure assumed mixing of oil sample and DES based on menthol, formic acid and water.

Voltammetric Study of the Influence of Various Phosphate Anions on Silver Nanoparticle Oxidation.

The antibacterial properties of silver are strongly controlled by the redox couple of silver/silver(I). This work reports the influence of phosphate anions on silver nanoparticle oxidation, which is important given the abundance of phosphate species in biological systems. The three different species of anions were found to have a varying degree of influence on silver oxidation with the order PO4 (3-)>HPO4 (2-)>H2PO4 (-).