Synthesis of Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes from Plastic Waste Using a Stainless-Steel CVD Reactor as Catalyst.

The disposal of non-biodegradable plastic waste without further upgrading/downgrading is not environmentally acceptable and many methods to overcome the problem have been proposed. Herein we indicate a simple method to make high-value nanomaterials from plastic waste as a partial solution to the environmental problem. Laboratory-based waste centrifuge tubes made of polypropylene were chosen as a carbon source to show the process principle.

Synthesis of Large Pore Carbon Nanoparticles for Removal of Malachite Green.

In this work, we have synthesized high surface area and large pore volume carbon nanoparticles (CNP) by a simple and easy sol-gel approach. The sol was prepared by mixing Pluronic F127 and phloroglucinol-terephthalaldehyde in acidic ethanol solution and the gel was formed after the vacuum removal of ethanol. In the sol-gel process, hydrophobic segments of Pluronic F127 forms enhanced hydrogen bonding with trihydroxyl groups of phloroglucinol.

Mesoporous carbon nanomaterials as environmental adsorbents.

The transportation and diffusion of the guest objects or molecules in the porous carbon nanomaterials can be facilitated by reducing the pathway and resistance. The reduced pathway depends on the porous nature of carbon nanomaterials. Classification of porous carbon materials by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) has given a new opportunity to design the pores as per their applicability and to understand the mobility of ions, atoms, and molecules in the porous network of carbon materials and also advanced their countless applicability.

Novel mesoporous Si@C microspheres as anodes for lithium-ion batteries.

In this paper, we demonstrate the design and synthesis of novel mesoporous Si@C microspheres as anode materials for high-performance lithium-ion batteries. SiO2 nanoparticles modified with hexadecyl trimethyl ammonium bromide are enveloped within resorcinol-formaldehyde polymer microspheres which form in the ethanol-water-ammonia system. Mesoporous voids between Si nanoparticles and the carbon framework are generated after carbonization at 800 °C and magnesiothermic reduction at 650 °C.

Treatment of refractory nano-filtration reject from a tannery using Pd-catalyzed wet air oxidation.

We attempted catalytic wet air oxidation (CWAO) of nanofiltration (NF)-reject using Pd based catalyst viz., Pd/activated charcoal (AC) and PdCl2 with the objective of degradation of refractory organic pollutants. Refractory organic pollutants in NF-reject before and after WAO and CWAO were confirmed by GC-MS analysis.

A seeded synthetic strategy for uniform polymer and carbon nanospheres with tunable sizes for high performance electrochemical energy storage.

We established a novel and facile strategy to synthesize uniform polymer and carbon nanospheres, the diameters of which can be precisely programmed between 35-105 and 30-90 nm, respectively, via time-controlled formation of colloidal seeds. The carbon nanospheres show promising prospects in high rate performance electrochemical energy storage.