Applied Chemical Engineering

Synthesis and Catalysis of Magnetic Dendrimer Materials

Submission deadline: 2023-08-31
Special Issue Editors

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

It is a great pleasure to invite original research articles for the special issue “Synthesis and Catalysis of Magnetic Dendrimer Materials” to be published in ACE. Dendrimer is considered as a smart nanopolymer material since it has versatile character and responsive catalytic applications. An essential core, tunable void/branches and tailorable periphery enable them as an inevitable nanomaterial in a diversified field. Especially, a rational synthesis of functional dendrimers stretches them towards a revolutionary utilization in broad catalysis. Besides, each portion of the dendrimer namely core, branch and surface is serving as enriched catalytic active sites with exemplary host character and multivalent interaction towards guest molecules such as reactants. Therefore, this kind of specialty materials must be reused after their use as catalyst. A finest method to achieve its facile recoverability from the reaction medium is grafting the dendrimers on magnetic nanomaterials such as magnetite, maghemite and ferrite materials. These magnetic nanomaterials have superparamagnetic behaviour which support its facile recovery from the reaction medium. Grafting of synthesized dendrimer on magnetic material or functionalization of dendrimer on magnetic material, both are favourable methods to heterogenize the dendrimers and which is said to be semi-heterogeneous catalyst materials for enhanced catalytic applications in the industrial catalytic processes. These days, all supported dendrimer catalysts are replaced by the magnetic dendrimers to synthesize pharma and specialty chemicals. Furthermore, the scope of this material is reaching industrial chemical manufacturing sectors. With this brief note, I invite your valuable reviews/articles to submit in ACE with keeping the above themes.    

Planned Papers

Keywords

dendrimers catalysis; magnetic nanomaterials; catalyst support; recoverable catalyst; functionalization; semi-heterogeneous

Published Paper