Muth Hassan Althubyani, Fouad Adil Ahmad, Waddah Adel Althaqafi
Abi Ayoub Al Ansari, Makkah, SAUDI ARABIA
Advances in nanotechnology have given birth to new classes of materials. These developed nanoparticles could provide a high surface area, and so it has great potential to be used in catalysis. The objective of the present work was to prepare eligible nanoparticles as a step forward to investigate its use as catalyst for some chemical reactions. The nanoparticles were prepared by mixing 100 mL ethanol, 100 mL ammonia, and 8 mL TEOS and heated for 60 min. After cycles of washings with organic solvents, the developed deposits incubated with ethanol in the Ultrasonic equipment until homogeneous dispersion of the nanoparticles. The nanomaterial is heated to 300 C to evaporate ammonia complex, and allow Cupper ions adherence with nanoparticles. The nanoparticles was checked with different microscopes. The electronic microscope, and ferromagnetic electronic microscope showed that roundness working particles were developed, and its size was about 100 nm. The nanoparticles were successfully coated with Cupper ions, this was confirmed through particles color change from white to reddish-blue. E-Dax equipment confirmed coating of developed nanoparticles with cupper ions. The Nano particles was developed successfully, and coated with cupper ions. These particles could be used to perform several experiments to investigate its use as catalyst of some chemical reactions such as hydrogenation. Large-scale preparation of the nanoparticles for use in many experiments. Further investigation of the effect of some factors like pressure and temperature on the final products will be performed.