Development and Evaluation of Impregnated Carbon Systems Against Iodine Vapours

Srivastava, Avanish Kumar,Saxena, Amit,Singh, Beer,Srivas, Suresh Kumar Korean Carbon Society 2007 Carbon Letters Vol.8 No.4

In order to understand the breakthrough behaviour of iodine vapours on impregnated carbon systems, an active carbon, 80 CTC grade, $12{\times}30$ BSS particle size and $1104\;m^2/g$ surface area, was impregnated with metal salts such Cu, Cr, Ag, Mo and Zn, and an organic compound Triethylene diamine (TEDA) to prepare different carbon systems such as whetlerite, whetlerite/TEDA, whetlerite/KI/KOH and ASZMT. The prepared adsorbents along with active carbon were characterized for surface area and pore volume by $N_2$ adsorption at liquid nitrogen temperature. These carbon systems were compared for their CT (concentration X time) values at 12.73 to 53.05 cm/sec space velocities and 2 to 5 cm carbon column bed heights. The carbon column of 5.0 cm bed height and 1.0 cm diameter was found to be providing protection against iodine vapours up to 5.5 h at 3.712 mg/L iodine vapour concentration and 12.73 cm/sec space velocity. The study clearly indicated the adsorption capacities of carbon systems to be directly proportional to their surface area values. Dead layer with all the prepared carbon systems was found to be less than 2.0 cm indicating it to be minimum bed height to have protection against $I_2$ vapours. Effect of carbon bed height and flow rate was also studied. The active carbon showed maximum protection at all bed heights and flow rates in comparison to all other impregnated carbon systems, showing that only physical adsorption is responsible for the removal of iodine vapours.

Breakthrough behaviour of NBC canister against carbon tetrachloride: a simulant for chemical warfare agents

Avanish Kumar Srivastava,D. Shah,T.H. Mahato,Beer Singh,A. Saxena,A.K. Verma,S. Shrivastava,A. Roy,S.S. Yadav,A.R. Shrivastava 한국탄소학회 2012 Carbon Letters Vol.13 No.2

A nuclear, biological, chemical (NBC) canister was indigenously developed using active carbon impregnated with ammoniacal salts of copper (II), chromium (VI) and silver (I), and high efficiency particulate aerosol filter media. The NBC canister was evaluated against carbon tetra chloride (CCl4) vapours, which were used as a simulant for persistent chemical warfare agents under dynamic conditions for testing breakthrough times of canisters of gas masks in the National Approval Test of Respirators. The effects of CCl4 concentration, test flow rate, temperature, and relative humidity (RH) on the breakthrough time of the NBC canister against CCl4 vapour were also studied. The impregnated carbon that filled the NBC canister was characterized for surface area and pore volume by N2 adsorption-desorption isotherm at liquid nitrogen temperature. The study clearly indicated that the NBC canister provides adequate protection against CCl4 vapours. The breakthrough time decreased with the increase of the CCl4 concentration and flow rate. The variation in temperature and RH did not significantly affect the breakthrough behaviour of the NBC canister at high vapour concentration of CCl4, whereas the breakthrough time of the NBC canister was reduced by an increase of RH at low CCl4 vapour concentration.

Development and Evaluation of Impregnated Carbon Systems Against Iodine Vapours

Avanish Kumar Srivastava,Amit Saxena,Beer Singh,Suresh Kumar Srivas 한국탄소학회 2007 Carbon Letters Vol.8 No.4

In order to understand the breakthrough behaviour of iodine vapours on impregnated carbon systems, an active carbon, 80 CTC grade, 12×30 BSS particle size and 1104 m2/g surface area, was impregnated with metal salts such Cu, Cr, Ag, Mo and Zn, and an organic compound Triethylene diamine (TEDA) to prepare different carbon systems such as whetlerite, whetlerite/TEDA, whetlerite/KI/KOH and ASZMT. The prepared adsorbents along with active carbon were characterized for surface area and pore volume by N2 adsorption at liquid nitrogen temperature. These carbon systems were compared for their CT (concentration X time) values at 12.73 to 53.05 cm/sec space velocities and 2 to 5 cm carbon column bed heights. The carbon column of 5.0 cm bed height and 1.0 cm diameter was found to be providing protection against iodine vapours up to 5.5 h at 3.712 mg/L iodine vapour concentration and 12.73 cm/sec space velocity. The study clearly indicated the adsorption capacities of carbon systems to be directly proportional to their surface area values. Dead layer with all the prepared carbon systems was found to be less than 2.0 cm indicating it to be minimum bed height to have protection against I2 vapours. Effect of carbon bed height and flow rate was also studied. The active carbon showed maximum protection at all bed heights and flow rates in comparison to all other impregnated carbon systems, showing that only physical adsorption is responsible for the removal of iodine vapours.

Anomalous Weak Ferromagnetism in Electron-doped Nd_(1−x)Sr_xMnO_3 (0.50 ≤ x ≤ 0.62) Thin Films

Pawan Kumar,Ravikant Prasad,Hari Krishna Singh,Rakesh Kumar Dwivedi,Avanish Kumar Srivastava,Mangala Prasad Singh 한국물리학회 2011 THE JOURNAL OF THE KOREAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY Vol.59 No.4

In the present work we demonstrate that an anomalous weak ferromagnetism occurs in the composition range 0.50 ≤ x ≤ 0.62 in nanostructured thin films of Nd_(1−x)Sr_xMnO_3 (NSMO). Nanocrystalline thin films of overdoped manganite Nd_(1−x)Sr_xMnO_3 (<I>x</I> ∼ 0.50, 0.55, 0.60 and 0.62) on single crystal LaAlO_3 (001) substrates are grown by nebulized chemical spray pyrolysis technique. These single phase films possess average crystallite size ∼15 nm and the width of the grain boundaries is ∼1 - 2 nm. In the composition range 0.50 ≤ x ≤ 0.62, the ground state of NSMO is A-type antiferromagnetic (AFM) metallic. However, in the present films a broad paramagnetic (PM) to ferromagnetic (FM) transition is observed in all the compositions at T_C ∼ 226 K for x = 0.50 and 235 K for rest of the samples. All the films show a well-defined M-H hysteresis loop at 5 K. The coercivity (H_C) of these films is much larger than those having composition range 0.35 < x < 0.45. For x = 0.50 (0.62) film H_C = -1210 (-1484) Oe and +1162 (+1476) Oe. The asymmetry in coercivity suggests the presence of weak exchange bias effect in these films. It is observed that the FM ground state in these films have smaller magnetic moment per Mn atom than the expected full moment using the rigid model, we term this as a weak ferromagnetic (WFM) state arising due to the destabilization of the AFM ordering. We propose a possible scenario based on the combined effect of spin reorganization and enhanced orbital disordering in nanosized manganites, to explain the observed anomalous weak ferromagnetism in the A-type AFM spin ordered regime.

Impregnated Active Carbon-Shelf Life Studies and Its Evaluation Against Cyanogen Chloride with and without Canister

Beer Singh,Amit Saxena,Avanish Kumar Srivastava,Devendra Kumar Dubey,Arvind Kumar Gupta 한국탄소학회 2007 Carbon Letters Vol.8 No.4

Samples of active carbon of 1150 m2/g surface area were impregnated with ammoniacal salts of copper, chromium and silver, with and without triethylenediamine. The samples of impregnated carbon were aged at 50℃, with and without 90% RH (relative humidity), for a little more than one year and chemically evaluated periodically. Initially copper (II) and chromium (VI) reduced very fast in the samples in humid atmosphere to the extent of 30% and 60% respectively in four months. These values were found to be unaffected by the presence of triethylenediamine (TEDA) indicating that the chemical did not retard the reduction process of chromium (VI) and copper (II). However, in the absence of humidity the reduction of the impregnants was significantly less (10-12%, w/w) in four months. It was quite evident; therefore, that the moisture was mainly responsible for the reduction of chromium (VI) and copper (II) species in impregnated carbons. The prolonged ageing of the samples with and without triethylenediamme after four months with and without humid atmosphere showed that the extent of reduction of chromium (VI) was very low, i.e. 5-10% and of copper (II) was 2-25%. Silver is not reduced due to carbon, as it remained unchanged in concentration on storage. The impregnated carbon samples (100 g) without triethylenediamine, which were aged at room temperature for 5 years in absence of humidity and unaged when evaluated against cyanogen chloride (CNCl) at a concentration of 4 mg/L and airflow rate of 30 lpm showed a high degree of protection (80- 110 minutes).

Impregnated Active Carbon-Shelf Life Studies and Its Evaluation Against Cyanogen Chloride with and without Canister

Singh, Beer,Saxena, Amit,Srivastava, Avanish Kumar,Dubey, Devendra Kumar,Gupta, Arvind Kumar Korean Carbon Society 2007 Carbon Letters Vol.8 No.4

Samples of active carbon of $1150\;m^2/g$ surface area were impregnated with ammoniacal salts of copper, chromium and silver, with and without triethylenediamine. The samples of impregnated carbon were aged at $50^{\circ}C$, with and without 90% RH (relative humidity), for a little more than one year and chemically evaluated periodically. Initially copper (II) and chromium (VI) reduced very fast in the samples in humid atmosphere to the extent of 30% and 60% respectively in four months. These values were found to be unaffected by the presence of triethylenediamine (TEDA) indicating that the chemical did not retard the reduction process of chromium (VI) and copper (II). However, in the absence of humidity the reduction of the impregnants was significantly less (10-12%, w/w) in four months. It was quite evident; therefore, that the moisture was mainly responsible for the reduction of chromium (VI) and copper (II) species in impregnated carbons. The prolonged ageing of the samples with and without triethylenediamme after four months with and without humid atmosphere showed that the extent of reduction of chromium (VI) was very low, i.e. 5-10% and of copper (II) was 2-25%. Silver is not reduced due to carbon, as it remained unchanged in concentration on storage. The impregnated carbon samples (100 g) without triethylenediamine, which were aged at room temperature for 5 years in absence of humidity and unaged when evaluated against cyanogen chloride (CNCl) at a concentration of 4 mg/L and airflow rate of 30 lpm showed a high degree of protection (80- 110 minutes).

Preparation, characterization and application of polyaniline nanospheres to biosensing

Dhand, Chetna,Das, Maumita,Sumana, Gajjala,Srivastava, Avanish Kumar,Pandey, Manoj Kumar,Kim, Cheol Gi,Datta, Monika,Malhotra, Bansi Dhar Royal Society of Chemistry 2010 Nanoscale Vol.2 No.5

<P>Polyaniline nanospheres (PANI-NS) prepared by morphological transformation of micelle polymerized camphorsulfonic acid (CSA) doped polyaniline nanotubes (PANI-NT) in the presence of ethylene glycol (EG) have been characterized by X-ray diffraction, atomic force microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, Fourier transform infra-red and UV-Visible spectroscopy. A PANI-NS (60–80 nm) film deposited onto an indium-tin-oxide (ITO) coated glass plate by the solution casting method has been utilized for covalent immobilization of biomolecules (cholesterol oxidase (ChOx)) <I>via</I><I>N</I>-ethyl-<I>N</I>′-(3-dimethylaminopropyl) carbodiimide (EDC) and <I>N</I>-hydroxysuccinimide (NHS) chemistry for fabrication of a cholesterol biosensor. The ChOx/PANI-NS/ITO bioelectrode detects cholesterol in the concentration range of 25 to 500 mg dL<SUP>−1</SUP> with sensitivity of 1.3 × 10<SUP>−3</SUP> mA mg<SUP>−1</SUP> dL and regression coefficient of 0.98. Further, this PANI-NS based bioelectrode shows fast response time (10 s), low Michaelis–Menten constant (2.5 mM) and shelf-life of 12 weeks. The spherical nanostructure observed in the final morphology of the PANI-NS film is attributed to hydrogen bonding interactions between PANI-NT and EG.</P> <P>Graphic Abstract</P><P>Morphological transformation of CSA-PANI nanotubes to nanospheres in EG <I>via</I> solvation energy generated from hydrogen bonding interactions. <IMG SRC='http://pubs.rsc.org/services/images/RSCpubs.ePlatform.Service.FreeContent.ImageService.svc/ImageService/image/GA?id=b9nr00346k'> </P>

Recent Advances for Fabricating Smart Electromagnetic Interference Shielding Textile: A Comprehensive Review

Sarika Verma,Manish Dhangar,Sriparna Paul,Kamna Chaturvedi,Mohammed Akram Khan,Avanish Kumar Srivastava 대한금속·재료학회 2022 ELECTRONIC MATERIALS LETTERS Vol.18 No.4

A sharp elevation in the generation of electromagnetic interference (EMI) is observed, directly proportional to the increasein digital and electronic appliances. With the high growing population and enhancement in the number of electrical devicesused in personal, industrial and medical sites, the issues arising due to EMI are also at their peak. EM wave interference isknown to cause malfunctioning of the nearby electronic devices, destroying the signals and affecting human health, causingnausea, headaches, neural deformities etc. To avoid the harmful effect of these interferences, the personnel in its vicinity needa shielding material, protecting them from the ill effects of the electromagnetic waves. In this review article, EMI shieldingtextiles are being focused upon. Cotton, spandex, PET, PAN, silk fabric, etc., are modified through various methods andtechniques like drop-casting, layer-by-layer electrostatic self-assembly, click chemistry, and inkjet printing to perform thefunction of shielding of EM waves. These smart, flexible, hydrophobic and light weighing fabrics can be revolutionary indiminishing the deteriorating effects of EM waves in the human body. Surface modified having high electrical conductivitiesand EMI SE of up to and beyond 90 dB in various frequency ranges have been reported, providing promising and alternativepersonal protective equipment for electromagnetic interference shielding.