A product for adsorbing one or more heavy metals from a liquid is disclosed. The product may comprise attapulgite that has been surface functionalized with a surface coating agent that includes one or more mercury affinity functional groups that chemically bond to the attapulgite surface, wherein the weight percentage of components of the product includes: 91-99 wt. % attapulgite and 1-9 wt. % surface coating agent that includes the one or more mercury affinity functional groups. The product has a surface area in the range of 115-145 m.sup.2/g as measured using the BET method. The heavy metal includes mercury and/or lead. Also disclosed is a method of producing the product and a method of adsorbing at least one heavy metal in a liquid using the product.

The present invention is directed to a method, device and system to capture carbon dioxide in air using solid amine sorbents and using a radio frequency and/or microwave generator to desorb the carbon dioxide by directly exciting the amine-carbon bond thereby significantly reducing the energy cost of releasing the carbon dioxide.

The invention concerns a method for producing a chromatography analysis column, the resulting column, and a device comprising such a column. The method according to the invention comprises the following steps: (a) depositing on the flat surface of a substrate a first layer of particles which are intended to form the stationary phase; (b) depositing on the layer at least one second layer of compactly assembled particles; (c) impregnating the first and second layers with a light radiation-sensitive material, to form at least two compactly assembled particle layers impregnated with sensitive material; (d) insolating these layers in the regions corresponding to the desired internal shape of the chromatography analysis column, if the light radiation-sensitive material behaves like a positive resin, or outlining this internal shape if the light radiation-sensitive material behaves like a negative photosensitive resin; (e) eliminating either the regions insolated in step (d) if the light radiation-sensitive layer behaves like a positive photosensitive resin, or the regions not insolated in step (d) if the light radiation-sensitive material behaves like a negative photosensitive resin; and (f) covering and sealing the structure obtained in step (e) with a cover covered on the face facing the layers with at least one layer of compactly assembled particles which are identical to or different from those deposited on the substrate surface. The invention is used in particular in the field of chemical analysis.

Provided herein are stationary phase compositions comprising a chromatographic surface of porous or non-porous core material comprising a surface modifier for use in chromatographic separations.

A filtering and adsorbent sampling and enrichment system comprising a stationary phase consisting of a felt of activated carbon fibres with a micro-meso porous conformation and specific surface area of about 1500 m2/g and sampling and/or enrichment standards, confined within a closed casing, is described, as well as the method for obtaining it and the relative process for the analysis of organic and inorganic analytes that uses said system.

The present disclosure is directed to a coating process for chromatographic surfaces. Embodiments of the present disclosure feature a two-step, vapor-liquid phase organosilane deposition method for creating a hydrophilic, non-ionic surface in a chromatographic system.

An organic light emitting display device may include a filling part filling a space between a second substrate and an organic light emitting diode, and a dam structure disposed in a non-display area and surrounding the filling part. At least one of the dam structure and the filling part includes a getter. The getter of the present disclosure is composed of magnesium oxide particles whose surfaces are modified into a first surface modification part made of an amino silane-based compound and a second surface modification part bound to the first surface modification part and made of a compound containing an acrylate group and a methacrylate group. Accordingly, it is possible to provide an organic light emitting display device that has high transparency and of which optical properties and durability are improved by minimizing permeation of water and oxygen.

The present invention relates to an adsorbent including: an inorganic porous body; and an amine compound, in the inorganic porous body has an oil absorption value of 230 ml/100 g or more, and a peak diameter of a pore size, which is obtained based on a nitrogen adsorption method, of 20 nm or more and 100 nm or less. The present invention relates to an adsorbent including: an inorganic porous body; and an amine compound, in which the inorganic porous body has a pore volume of 1.2 cm.sup.3/g or more and 3.5 cm.sup.3/g or less, and a peak diameter of a pore size, which is obtained based on a nitrogen adsorption method, of 20 nm or more and 100 nm or less.

The present invention provides a process for capturing CO.sub.2 from a gas stream, the process at least comprising the steps of: (a) providing a CO.sub.2-containing gas stream; (b) contacting the gas stream as provided in step (a) in an adsorption zone with solid adsorbent particles thereby obtaining CO.sub.2-enriched solid adsorbent particles (c) passing CO.sub.2-enriched solid adsorbent particles as obtained in step (b) from the bottom of the adsorption zone to the bottom of a first desorption zone; (d) removing a part of the CO.sub.2 from the CO.sub.2-enriched solid adsorbent particles in the first desorption zone, thereby obtaining partly CO.sub.2-depleted solid adsorbent particles and a first CO.sub.2-enriched gas stream; (e) passing the partly CO.sub.2-depleted solid adsorbent particles as obtained in step (d) via a riser to a second desorption zone; (f) removing a further part of the CO.sub.2 from the partly CO.sub.2-depleted solid adsorbent particles in the second desorption zone thereby obtaining regenerated solid adsorbent particles and a second CO.sub.2-enriched gas stream; and (g) recycling regenerated solid adsorbent particles as obtained in step (f) to the adsorption zone of step (b); wherein the second desorption zone is located above the adsorption zone.

The present disclosure provides an apparatus for sampling at least one analyte from a sampling fluid. The apparatus includes: a solid-phase microextraction (SPME) sampling instrument. A connector is attached to the SPME sampling instrument and is coupleable to an aerial drone. The apparatus includes a protective cover that is sized and shaped to at least partially surround the SPME sampling instrument. The SPME sampling instrument and the protective cover are movable in relation to each other between a protecting configuration and a sampling configuration. The SPME sampling instrument and the protective cover are (i) biased in the protecting configuration when the density of the fluid surrounding the SPME sampling instrument is less than the density of the sampling fluid; and (ii) biased in the sampling configuration when the density of the fluid surrounding the SPME sampling instrument is equal to or greater than the density of the sampling fluid.