Mechanistic vision on polypropylene microplastics degradation by solar radiation using TiO nanoparticle as photocatalyst.

Microplastics are emerging contaminants owing to their occurrence and distribution in everywhere the ecosystem and leading to major environmental problems. Management methods are more suitable for larger-sized plastics. Here, the current study elucidates that, TiO photocatalyst under sunlight irradiation actively mitigates polypropylene microplastics (pH 3, 50 h) in an aqueous medium.

Crystallographic investigation, Hirshfeld surface analysis, NLO characterization and experimental spectral (UV and NMR) studies with DFT probe on(R)-9-(2-hydroxy propyl)adenine.

In this study, (R)-9-(2-hydroxy propyl)adenine (HPA) is the molecule of interest for investigation. The XRD from single crystal of HPA has been used to extract its structural features. Since HPA crystallised in a non-centro symmetric space group P222, its NLO property was studied and it was found to exhibit very good SHG activity.

Solar light-driven CeVO/ZnO nanoheterojunction for the mineralization of Reactive Orange 4.

In this study, we synthesized CeVO/ZnO nanoheterojunction photocatalyst through hydrothermal-precipitation method. The prepared photocatalyst was characterized by Fourier transform infrared analysis (FT-IR), X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX) with elemental color mapping (ECM), high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HR-TEM) with selected area electron diffraction (SAED) pattern, UV-vis diffuse reflection spectroscopy (UV-vis-DRS), BET, and photoluminescence (PL) spectroscopy. The BET surface area of CeVO/ZnO is 10.

Crystallographic, spectral and computational studies on (S)-4-(4-aminobenzyl) oxazolidin-2-one.

The experimental geometry (XRD), vibrational (IR and Raman), electronic (UV-visible) and NMR spectra of (S)-4-(4-Amino-benzyl)-oxazolidin-2-one (ABO) have been corroborated with the corresponding first principle calculated values at DFT using hybrid B3LYP exchange correlation functional invoking 6-311++g(d, p) basis set. The optimized geometrical parameters were found to be in satisfactory agreement with the experimental values obtained from the X-ray diffraction structural features of ABO. The scaled down computed vibrational frequencies with appropriate scaling factors were in good correspondence with the experimental observations.

Novel Synthesis and Characterization Studies of Spinel Ni Co Al₂O₄ ( = 0.0 to 1.0) Nano-Catalysts for the Catalytic Oxidation of Benzyl Alcohol.

Ni-doped cobalt aluminate NixCo1-xAl2O4 (x = 0.0, 0.2, 0.

Keratitis caused by Aspergillus pseudotamarii.

A male patient presented with complaints of redness, pain and defective vision in the left eye. The infiltrate healed completely after two weeks of topical natamycin administration. A polyphasic approach was used to identify the isolate as Aspergillus pseudotamarii, which produced aflatoxins in inducing medium.

Antidiarrhoeal efficacy of Mangifera indica seed kernel on Swiss albino mice.

Objective: To examine the antidiarrhoeal activity of alcoholic and aqueous seed kernel extract of Mangifera indica (M. indica) on castor oil-induced diarrhoeal activity in Swiss albino mice.

Methods: Mango seed kernels were processed and extracted using alcohol and water.