Considering the great impact of a material’s surface area on adsorption processes, hollow nanotube magnetic zinc oxide with a favorable surface area of 78.39 m2/g was fabricated with the assistance of microwave technology in the presence of poly vinyl alcohol (PVA) as a stabilizing agent followed by sonic precipitation of magnetite nano-particles. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) micrographs identified the nanotubes’ morphology in the synthesized material with an average aspect ratio of 3. X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis verified the combination of magnetite material with the hexagonal wurtzite structure of ZnO in the prepared material. The immobilization of magnetite nanoparticles on to ZnO was confirmed using vibrating sample magnetometry (VSM). The sorption affinity of the synthesized magnetic ZnO nanotube for phenolic compounds from aqueous solutions was examined as a function of various processing factors. The degree of acidity of the phenolic solution has great influence on the phenol sorption process on to magnetic ZnO. The calculated value of ΔH0 designated the endothermic nature of the phenol uptake process on to the magnetic ZnO nanotubes. Mathematical modeling indicated a combination of physical and chemical adsorption mechanisms of phenolic compounds on to the fabricated magnetic ZnO nanotubes. The kinetic process correlated better with the second-order rate model compared to the first-order rate model. This result indicates the predominance of the chemical adsorption process of phenol on to magnetic ZnO nanotubes.
This work presents the effect of NiO on the thermal behavior and the crystallization
kinetics of glasses lying near the stoichiometric cordierite composition nucleated with
TiO2. Three glasses with NiO content varying between 1 and 5 mol% have been synthesized in
Pt crucibles. Activation energies for structural relaxation and viscous flow have been calculated
using the data obtained from differential thermal analysis (DTA). Kinetic fragility of the
glasses along with other thermal parameters has been calculated. Non-isothermal
crystallization kinetic studies have been employed to study the mechanism of crystallization in
all three glasses. The crystallization sequence in the glasses has been followed by x-ray
diffraction analysis of the heat treated glass samples in the temperature range of
800–1200 °C. μ-cordierite has been observed to be the first crystalline phase in all the glass samples after heat treatment
at 850 °C, while NiO plays an important role in determining the crystallization
sequence at higher temperatures, leading to the formation of
α-cordierite.
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