Synthesis and Evaluation of Bio-compatible Cholinium Amino Acid Ionic Liquids for Lubrication Applications

10.1016/j.jiec.2018.04.004

2018-04-08

Cholinium amino acid ionic liquids ([Ch][AA] ILs), composed of renewable biomaterials have recently gained considerable importance in synthetic organic chemistry. In the present study, a series of ([Ch][AA] ILs) with different amino acids such as aspartic aci...

Boron Defect Engineering in Boron Nitride Nanosheets with Improved Adsorptive Desulfurization Performance

10.1016/j.jiec.2018.04.001

2018-04-07

Boron defect engineered boron nitride (BN) nanosheets have been prepared with the barbituric acid as co-reactant sources. By virtue of B defects, the electronic structure of BN undergo significantly variation, in which the conduction band of BN declined from ...

Preparation and Anticancer Effect of Pegylated-chlorambucil Prodrug Nanoparticle for Enhanced Therapeutic Efficiency

10.1016/j.jiec.2018.03.040

2018-04-07

Chlorambucil (CLB), which is well known as a therapeutic agent of leukemia and Hodgkin’s disease, has been reported to have anticancer effects against various cancer cells. However, hydrophobic CLB has many problems, including being inefficient and producing ...

Utilization of a triacetylcellulose membrane to immobilize 5-(2′,4′-dimethylphenylazo)-6-hydroxypyrimidine-2,4-dione for erbium determination in real samples

10.1016/j.jiec.2018.02.027

2018-04-03

A membrane optode formed by physical inclusion of a chromophore 2-amino-6-(1,3-thiazol-2yldiazenyl)phenol (ATDP) into a plasticized cellulose triacetate (CTA) matrix was investigated for preconcentration, extraction and colorimetric determination of Er(III) f...

3D yolk-shell Si@void@CNF nanostructured electrodes with improved electrochemical performance for lithium-ion batteries

10.1016/j.jiec.2018.03.035

2018-03-31

Si-based anode materials are studied to overcome the limitations of high-capacity lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). However, Si-based anodes have critical drawbacks such as volumetric electrode expansion during cycling in LIBs, that result in deterioration in cyc...

Covalent functionalization of multi-walled carbon nanotubes with imidazolium-based poly(ionic liquid)s by Diels-Alder “click” reaction

10.1016/j.jiec.2018.03.034

2018-03-31

Imidazolium-based poly(ionic liquid)s grafted on the surface of multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWNTs) were prepared by Diels-Alder “click” reaction with a high grafting density. Poly(styrene-alt-maleic anhydride) (PSM) was functionalized with furfuryl amine an...

Development of Solution-Processable Blue/hybrid-White OLEDs Based on Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence

10.1016/j.jiec.2018.03.030

2018-03-31

In this work, hybrid-WOLEDs are fabricated by employing single emitting layers (S-EMLs), which consist of 5-(4-(4,6-diphenyl-1,3,5-triazin-2-yl)phenyl)-10,10-diphenyl-5,10-dihydrodibenzo[b,e][1,4]azasiline (DTPDDA) as a blue thermally activated delayed fluore...

Fabrication of polyaniline-carbon nano composite for application in sensitive flexible acid sensor

10.1016/j.jiec.2018.03.031

2018-03-31

Many studies have been carried out on sensors for detecting hazardous chemicals. In this study, a sensor for detecting the presence of acid was developed and evaluated. The sensor is composed of carbon materials and polyaniline, which is a conductive polymer....

One-Step Production of Highly Anisotropic Particles via a Microfluidic Method

10.1016/j.jiec.2018.03.033

2018-03-31

We introduce a promising protocol that can be used to fabricate polymer particles with a high degree of shape anisotropy; this method can be utilized with a variety of microfluidic generation methods Low-density microparticles and high-density nanoparticles v...

Influence of small amount of Mg incorporated into hexagonal ZnO crystal on cell performance in membrane free Zinc-Nickel redox battery

10.1016/j.jiec.2018.03.032

2018-03-31

This study focused on improving the cell efficiency of Zinc-Nickel redox battery. The cycle life of zinc anodic material in KOH alkaline electrolyte was enhanced by small amount of Mg insertion into ZnO framework through a typical hydrothermal method. The as-...