{"id":5234,"date":"2015-01-06T08:41:08","date_gmt":"2015-01-06T08:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=5234"},"modified":"2015-01-06T08:41:08","modified_gmt":"2015-01-06T08:41:08","slug":"functionalized-core-shell-nanoparticles-as-a-better-microalgae-harvester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/functionalized-core-shell-nanoparticles-as-a-better-microalgae-harvester.html","title":{"rendered":"Functionalized Core\u2013Shell Nanoparticles as a Better Microalgae Harvester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5235 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/nanobees-300x221.jpg\" alt=\"nanobees\" width=\"108\" height=\"80\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/nanobees-300x221.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/nanobees.jpg 460w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 108px) 100vw, 108px\" \/>A team of researchers from Taiwan synthesised core-shell Fe<sub>3<\/sub>O<sub>4<\/sub>@silica magnetic nanoparticles functionalized with a strong base, triazabicyclodecene (TBD) for harvesting and conversion of microalgae to biodiesel. Under optimal conditions, the biodiesel yield was upto 97.1%. In addition, these TBD-Fe<sub>3<\/sub>O<sub>4<\/sub>@silica nanoparticles were found to act as efficient algae harvester due to their adsorption and magnetic properties.<\/p>\n<p>Hence these covalently functionalized core\u2013shell nanoparticles can be used for the production of liquid transportation fuels from algal biomass.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/cssc.201402996\/abstract\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of researchers from Taiwan synthesised core-shell Fe3O4@silica magnetic nanoparticles functionalized with a strong base, triazabicyclodecene (TBD) for harvesting and conversion of microalgae to biodiesel. Under optimal conditions, the biodiesel yield was upto 97.1%. In addition, these TBD-Fe3O4@silica nanoparticles were found to act as efficient algae harvester due to their adsorption and magnetic properties. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":5235,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[639],"class_list":["post-5234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-algae-biodiesel","tag-algae-biodiesel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5236,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5234\/revisions\/5236"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}