Gold BulletinPub Date : 2020-01-22DOI: 10.1007/s13404-020-00269-y
Rekha Panda, Om Shankar Dinkar, Manis Kumar Jha, Devendra Deo Pathak
{"title":"Novel approach for selective recovery of gold, copper, and iron as marketable product from industrial effluent","authors":"Rekha Panda, Om Shankar Dinkar, Manis Kumar Jha, Devendra Deo Pathak","doi":"10.1007/s13404-020-00269-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13404-020-00269-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Globally, continuous R & D efforts are being made to recuperate precious metals from wastes in order to conserve the natural resources as well as minimize environmental pollution. Keeping in view of the above, a process has been developed to recover gold from industrial effluent using hydrometallurgical route. Initially, the effluent was pre-treated using precipitation and solvent extraction techniques to remove impurities, i.e., iron and copper as value added products. Iron was removed up to 99.99% at pH ~?3.5. Further, copper was extracted using 10% LIX 84IC maintaining phase ratio 1/1 in mixing time of 15?min and equilibrium (eq.). pH?2.2. Selective adsorption of gold was carried out using ionenaustauscher-II and resulted in 99% gold adsorption between pH?7 and 8 in contact time of 30?min. Experimental results obtained for the adsorption of gold was found to follow second order reaction and fitted well with the Freundlich isotherm. Gold from the loaded resin was eluted using a mixture of hydrochloric acid and thiourea. From the pure gold solution, metal could be produced using cementation/charcoal adsorption followed by heat treatment, respectively.</p>","PeriodicalId":581,"journal":{"name":"Gold Bulletin","volume":"53 1","pages":"11 - 18"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2020-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s13404-020-00269-y","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"4861722","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Gold BulletinPub Date : 2019-11-12DOI: 10.1007/s13404-019-00262-0
F. J. Alguacil
{"title":"Mechanistic investigation of facilitated transport of gold(III) from HCl media using ionic liquid Cyphos IL102 as carrier across a supported liquid membrane","authors":"F. J. Alguacil","doi":"10.1007/s13404-019-00262-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13404-019-00262-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The transport of gold(III) across a supported liquid membrane containing the ionic liquid Cyphos IL102 (trihexyl(tetradecyl)phosphonium bromide) in Solvesso 100 has been investigated. The investigation was carried out under various experimental variables affecting to the transport process: stirring speed in the aqueous feed solution, HCl and gold(III) concentrations in this same phase, and carrier concentration in the membrane phase. The transport of gold(III) was compared against the transport of Fe(III), Cu(II), and Ni(II) from aqueous solutions containing the four elements, whereas the performance of Cyphos IL102 was compared, with respect to the gold transport, against other potential carriers for gold(III) from this acidic medium. Gold can be recovered in the strip solution as zero valent gold nanoparticles.</p>","PeriodicalId":581,"journal":{"name":"Gold Bulletin","volume":"52 3-4","pages":"145 - 151"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2019-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s13404-019-00262-0","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"4507729","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Gold BulletinPub Date : 2019-06-01DOI: 10.1007/s13404-019-00258-w
Dong Hoon Choi, Jee Eun Hong, Yeonghun Jung, Hye In Park, Seung Tae Baek, Su Jeong Kim, Chan Gook Lee, Youmie Park, Seok Ju Park, Yohan Park
{"title":"Synthesis of gold nanoparticles supported at graphene derivatives using green reductants and evaluation of their catalytic activity in 4-nitrophenol reduction","authors":"Dong Hoon Choi, Jee Eun Hong, Yeonghun Jung, Hye In Park, Seung Tae Baek, Su Jeong Kim, Chan Gook Lee, Youmie Park, Seok Ju Park, Yohan Park","doi":"10.1007/s13404-019-00258-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13404-019-00258-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this study, gold nanoparticles were supported at graphene derivatives (AuNPs@GDs) from chloroauric acid and graphene oxide (GO) by using sodium citrate, L-ascorbic acid, and 4-(2-hydroxyethyl)-1-piperazineethane-sulfonic acid (HEPES) as green reductants to evaluate the catalytic activity in the 4-nitrophenol (4-NP) reduction system. Among the three reductants, HEPES which derived AuNP@GD (<b>3</b>) exhibited up to 8.44-fold higher catalytic activity compared with sodium citrate and L-ascorbic acid. To evaluate the influence of mass ratio between Au and GO on the catalytic activity, we controlled adding amounts of chloroauric acid while the other conditions using HEPES were fixed. Notably, decreasing the mass ratio of Au/GO from 0.59 to 0.10 increased the rate constant in the range of 7.6?×?10<sup>?3</sup> to 16.1?×?10<sup>?3</sup>/s. However, when the turnover frequency (TOF) was considered, the maximum value was obtained when Au/GO was 0.39. It can be concluded that AuNPs@GD (<b>4</b>) synthesized using HEPES significantly improved the catalytic activity in both rate constant (10.4?×?10<sup>?3</sup>/s) and TOF (8.08?×?10<sup>?5</sup>?mol/g·s) in 4-NP reduction. These results suggest that the type of reductants used to synthesize AuNPs@GDs is a significant factor on the catalytic activity and that GO can help increase the catalytic activity, but has an effective ratio with Au.</p>","PeriodicalId":581,"journal":{"name":"Gold Bulletin","volume":"52 3-4","pages":"165 - 174"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2019-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s13404-019-00258-w","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"4037664","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Gold BulletinPub Date : 2019-05-16DOI: 10.1007/s13404-019-00259-9
Nazila Masoud, Tomas Partsch, Krijn P. de Jong, Petra E. de Jongh
{"title":"Thermal stability of oxide-supported gold nanoparticles","authors":"Nazila Masoud, Tomas Partsch, Krijn P. de Jong, Petra E. de Jongh","doi":"10.1007/s13404-019-00259-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13404-019-00259-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this study, we report on the influence of support and gas atmosphere on the thermal stability of Au nanoparticles on oxidic supports. All samples were prepared with a modified impregnation method and have initial Au particle sizes in the range of 3–4?nm. We observed that in air, Au nanoparticles on SiO<sub>2</sub> and Al<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub> are thermally much more stable than Au nanoparticles on TiO<sub>2</sub>. For instance, upon treatment up to 700?°C, on SiO<sub>2</sub>, Au particles grew from 4 to 6?nm while on TiO<sub>2</sub> from 3 to 13?nm. For Au nanoparticles on TiO<sub>2</sub>, growth is accelerated by oxidizing atmospheres and the presence of water and/or chloride. On non-reducible supports and in non-oxidizing atmosphere, the supported Au nanoparticles were remarkably stable. The insight into the growth of oxide-supported Au nanoparticles in reactive atmosphere offers an additional tool for a rational choice of a support for high-temperature gas-phase reactions involving gold nanocatalysts.</p>","PeriodicalId":581,"journal":{"name":"Gold Bulletin","volume":"52 2","pages":"105 - 114"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2019-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s13404-019-00259-9","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"4657962","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Horseradish peroxidase-AuNP/LDH heterostructures: influence on nanogold release and enzyme activity","authors":"Elena-Florentina Grosu, Renato Froidevaux, Gabriela Carja","doi":"10.1007/s13404-019-00256-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13404-019-00256-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Gold nanostructures (AuNP) are important as strong platforms for targeted therapeutic and diagnostic applications. Tireless effort has been devoted nowadays to explore the multifunctionality of AuNP in multicomponent biostructures. Herein, we report the fabrication of horseradish peroxidase enzyme (HRP)-AuNP/ZnAlLDH heterostructure by the facile synthesis of AuNP on the biocompatible matrices of layered double hydroxides (LDH) followed by the immobilization of the enzyme on AuNP/LDH assemblies. During this process, ZnAlLDH have a dual function of exploring its structural “memory effect” for the synthesis of nanogold and acting as a support for the enzyme immobilization. X-ray diffraction (XRD), UV-Vis spectrometry, transmission electronic microscopy (TEM), energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX), and infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy have been used to characterize the structural, chemical composition, optical, and morphology of the novel materials. We present here the release of AuNP from HRP-AuNP/ZnAlLDH by using as controlled variables HRP:LDHs ratio and the pH of the solution. Results show that AuNP established close interactions with HRP and formed an HRP-AuNP bioconjugate. Results reveal that HRP suffers a significant loss of the activity in the presence of nanoparticles of gold, such that, AuNP act to inhibit the activity of the enzyme. AuNP behavior in enzyme-bio-heterostructures should be inspiring for future applications of AuNP in nanomedicine.</p>","PeriodicalId":581,"journal":{"name":"Gold Bulletin","volume":"52 2","pages":"87 - 97"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2019-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s13404-019-00256-y","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"4349293","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Gold BulletinPub Date : 2019-05-07DOI: 10.1007/s13404-019-00257-x
Katja Vahl, Tyll Utesch, Ulrich Hasse, Heike Kahlert, Robert S. Jack, Andreas Bollmann, Klaus Lücke, Fritz Scholz
{"title":"Detoxification of gold surfaces by OH• treatment","authors":"Katja Vahl, Tyll Utesch, Ulrich Hasse, Heike Kahlert, Robert S. Jack, Andreas Bollmann, Klaus Lücke, Fritz Scholz","doi":"10.1007/s13404-019-00257-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13404-019-00257-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Metallic gold is not completely inert towards biological tissues and cells. Cytotoxicity and immunotoxicity are concerns in various gold applications. This study shows that treating the surface of gold with OH<sup>?</sup> radicals renders the gold surface non-cytotoxic, as well as prevents any biocorrosion of gold implants by an immune reaction. The detoxification is discussed as resulting from the selective dissolution of active gold atoms from the surface.</p>","PeriodicalId":581,"journal":{"name":"Gold Bulletin","volume":"52 2","pages":"99 - 103"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2019-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s13404-019-00257-x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"4312909","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Gold BulletinPub Date : 2019-05-07DOI: 10.1007/s13404-019-00255-z
T. Kavetskyy, N. Stasyuk, O. Smutok, O. Demkiv, Y. Kukhazh, N. Hoivanovych, V. Boev, V. Ilcheva, T. Petkova, M. Gonchar
{"title":"Improvement of amperometric laccase biosensor using enzyme-immobilized gold nanoparticles coupling with ureasil polymer as a host matrix","authors":"T. Kavetskyy, N. Stasyuk, O. Smutok, O. Demkiv, Y. Kukhazh, N. Hoivanovych, V. Boev, V. Ilcheva, T. Petkova, M. Gonchar","doi":"10.1007/s13404-019-00255-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13404-019-00255-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Synthesis of gold nanoparticles (Au-NPs) was performed using method of an inorganic chemical reduction. The synthesized Au-NPs showed an intensive surface plasmon resonance band at 525?nm that is typical for corresponding Au-NPs reported in literature. The structural and morphology characterizations of the obtained Au-NPs were carried out using SEM, AFM, TEM, and X-ray spectral analysis. The possibility of usage of Au-NPs as a carrier for covalent immobilization of commercial laccase and the combination of the obtained bio-Au-NPs with ureasil polymers as host matrixes for formation of bio-nanocomposite films was studied. The prospect of using the obtained bio-nanocomposite films in biosensor technologies in order to improve the bioanalytical characteristics of sensory elements has been proved.</p>","PeriodicalId":581,"journal":{"name":"Gold Bulletin","volume":"52 2","pages":"79 - 85"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2019-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s13404-019-00255-z","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"4311024","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Gold BulletinPub Date : 2019-03-20DOI: 10.1007/s13404-019-00254-0
Wei Dong Xing, Man Seung Lee
{"title":"Development of a hydrometallurgical process for the recovery of gold and silver powders from anode slime containing copper, nickel, tin, and zinc","authors":"Wei Dong Xing, Man Seung Lee","doi":"10.1007/s13404-019-00254-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13404-019-00254-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In order to recover gold and silver from anode slimes containing Cu, Ni, Sn, and Zn, an integrated hydrometallurgical process consisting of leaching, solvent extraction, and cementation was developed. All the metals together with 10% of Ag(I) were dissolved by the mixture of HCl and H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub> at the optimum conditions. Separation of Au (III) together with Sn (II) was performed by Cyanex 272 from the leaching solution with two-stage counter current extraction. Stripping of Au (III) and Sn (II) from the loaded organic phase was sequentially carried out by NH<sub>4</sub>Cl and NaOH. Cu (II) in the raffinate after Au (III) extraction was separated by LIX 63 with three-stage counter current extraction. Pure Cu (II) solution was recovered from the loaded LIX 63 by stripping with dilute HCl solution. Ag powders with extra high purity were obtained by cementation with copper sheet from the raffinate after Cu (II) separation. Au (III) (99.3%) and 96.8% of Sn (II) were recovered by extraction, and purity of Au (III) and Sn (II) stripping solutions was found to be 99.99%. Au powders with extra high purity were directly synthesized by adding ascorbic acid solution into the NH<sub>4</sub>Cl stripping solution.</p>","PeriodicalId":581,"journal":{"name":"Gold Bulletin","volume":"52 2","pages":"69 - 77"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2019-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s13404-019-00254-0","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"5095247","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Gold BulletinPub Date : 2019-02-12DOI: 10.1007/s13404-019-00253-1
Sergey Yu. Sarvadiy, Andrey K. Gatin, Maxim V. Grishin, Vasiliy A. Kharitonov, Nickolay N. Kolchenko, Nadezhda V. Dokhlikova, Boris R. Shub
{"title":"Electric field–prevented adsorption of hydrogen on supported gold nanoparticles","authors":"Sergey Yu. Sarvadiy, Andrey K. Gatin, Maxim V. Grishin, Vasiliy A. Kharitonov, Nickolay N. Kolchenko, Nadezhda V. Dokhlikova, Boris R. Shub","doi":"10.1007/s13404-019-00253-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13404-019-00253-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The adsorption of hydrogen on the surface of gold nanoparticles deposited on a graphite support was studied in the presence of an external electric field by means of scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and spectroscopy (STS). Hydrogen was adsorbed from the gas phase onto the surface of gold nanoparticles synthesized by impregnation-precipitation method. During the adsorption process, the STM tip was removed from the surface of the sample so that the measurable tunneling current could not flow, and potential differences of various polarities were applied to the vacuum gap between the sample and the grounded tip. Thus, the system of the STM tip and sample surface formed an asymmetric capacitor inside which an inhomogeneous electric field existed. No hydrogen adsorption was observed in the case of a positive potential difference, while dissociative adsorption of hydrogen took place in the cases of zero and negative potential differences. The ability to control the adsorption process of hydrogen by means of a weak electric field was demonstrated.</p>","PeriodicalId":581,"journal":{"name":"Gold Bulletin","volume":"52 2","pages":"61 - 67"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2019-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s13404-019-00253-1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"4487600","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Gold BulletinPub Date : 2019-02-06DOI: 10.1007/s13404-019-00252-2
Sahar Mohammadpour Lashkari, Hasan Kariminezhad, Nazanin Safarnezhad, Hossein Amani
{"title":"Surface plasmon resonance of naked gold nanoparticles for photodynamic inactivation of Escherichia coli","authors":"Sahar Mohammadpour Lashkari, Hasan Kariminezhad, Nazanin Safarnezhad, Hossein Amani","doi":"10.1007/s13404-019-00252-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13404-019-00252-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Although antimicrobial photothermal inactivation of naked gold nanostructures using powerful pulsed lasers has been previously studied, there are little reports about their photodynamic antimicrobial properties under the irradiation of low-power density continuous wave lasers. Therefore, this paper attempts to fill this gap. In this paper, we studied the effects of a 40-mW/cm<sup>2</sup> continuous Nd:Yag laser at 532?nm and naked gold nanoparticles on inactivation of <i>Escherichia coli</i> ATCC25922. According to our results, 60?min illumination using the Nd:Yag laser caused a 0.15log reduction of the bacterial viability. Also, the employed gold nanoparticles with an average size of 15?nm were toxic to <i>E. coli</i> ATCC 25922 in the concentrations above 0.5?μg/ml. In addition, synergistic effects of 0.5?μg/ml gold nanoparticles and the light illumination led to a 2.43log reduction of the viability after a 60-min exposure and did not show any considerable temperature change on the media. The obtained results were justified based on the possible interaction mechanisms of low-power density laser lights and naked gold nanoparticles. The paper is proposed as a prelude for future research about localized inactivation of resistant pathogens with minimum side effects on neighbor tissues.</p>","PeriodicalId":581,"journal":{"name":"Gold Bulletin","volume":"52 1","pages":"51 - 60"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2019-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s13404-019-00252-2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"4244528","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}