Calcium oxide nanoparticles (CaO NPs) have unique catalytic and biological properties; their activities are highly influenced by their morphology; as a result, these characteristics are most needed for various applications in several fields, including material science, environmental science, and medicinal science. The primary motivation for synthesizing CaO NPs using a biological method is to suppress the usage of hazardous chemicals used in making its process, which will be more cost‐effective and ecologically profitable. However, due to the complexity of the biological extracts employed in chemical processes, large‐scale manufacturing of nanoparticles via the green synthesis approach remains a significant problem. As a result, the production of CaO NPs utilizing Moringa oleifera plant leaves aqueous extract as an alternative biological agent for capping, stabilizing, and reducing agents due to rich phytochemical parameters in synthesis was investigated in this study. The structural characterization of the CaO NPs obtained by using UV‐Vis, FTIR, XRD, and SEM‐EDS indicates the presence of purity and primarily aggregated spherical nanosized material with an average size of 32.08 nm observed. The XRD study revealed that heat annealing increased the size of the crystallites, favoring monocrystalline. Finally, these findings, together with the cheap cost of synthesizing the plant‐mediated CaO NPs produced, show good antimicrobial (gram‐positive) activities.

Nanomaterials have attracted more curiosity recently because of their wide-ranging application in environmental remediation and electronic devices. The current study focuses on zinc oxide nanoparticles’ (ZnO NPs) simple production, characterization, and applications in several fields, including medicinal and photocatalytic degradation of dyes. The non-aqueous-based reflux method is helpful for ZnO NP synthesis; the procedure involves refluxing zinc acetate dihydrate precursor in ethylene glycol for 3 hours in the absence of sodium acetate, in which the refluxing rate and the cooling rate are optimized to get the desired phase, and the unique morphology of polyol-mediated ZnO NPs; it has been achieved using the capping agent TBAB (tetra-butyl ammonium bromide) and precursor zinc acetate dihydrate. UV–Vis, FTIR, XRD, and FESEM structurally characterized polyol-mediated ZnO-NPs. The results show that the material is pure and broadly aggregated into spherical nanoparticles with an average particle size of 18.09 nm. According to XRD analysis, heat annealing made the crystallites more prominent and favored a monocrystalline state. These results and the low cost of making polyol-mediated ZnO NPs demonstrate photocatalytic and antimicrobial properties.

Background: The Novel coronavirus (COVID-19), which started in Wuhan (China) during December 2019, has spread to the rest of the world until now (July 2020). COVID-19 infections are more prevalent in developed countries rather than in the fast-developing, and underdeveloped countries. Now novel COVID-19 infection is a global health problem. In a fast-developing country like India, the incidence of coronavirus infections is increasing day by day. The fifth phase of lockdown has started in India to reduce the incidence of infection. Purpose: The purpose of this study of the impact of lockdown on the India’s environment, according to the literature survey from various research papers, news, social networking, government data (websites), etc., indicates that the lockdown helping to reduce transit in India and at the same time has a great impact on reduced pollution such as air pollution, water pollution, land pollution, etc., thus improving the balance of the environment after March 2020 onwards. Methods: In this work, we have used an online method using various online sources, which has mainly surveyed some important cities in India, have also studied the factors such as air pollution, river pollution, land pollution, etc. and its impact on Indian environment. Results: According to an online survey, lockdown has had a significant impact on the Indian environment, reducing the number of vehicles on the road that improving air quality, reducing river pollution, and having a positive impact on various fields. Lockdown has been very beneficial to the environment. Conclusions: The observations from various parts of the sources show that reduced pollution has also reduced the number of patients in hospitals, mainly jaundice (yellow fever), chikungunya, typhoid, respiratory diseases, etc. This review article explains the brief analysis of the impact of COVID-19 lockdown on India’s environment.

In present work, the concentration and temperature dependence of the thermodynamic properties of 3-substituted Schiff base of 4-piperidyl N-(4-chlorophenyl)maleimide compound in 80% DMSO was estimated. Concentration (0.002-0.01 M) and temperature (298-313 K) dependent densitometric and viscometric measurement were employed to evaluate limiting molar volume (φv 0), semi-empirical parameter (Sv), Falkenhagen (A) and Jones-Dole (B) viscosity coefficient. The obtained results suggest the presence of weaker solute-solvent interactions and stronger solute-solute interactions. It was observed that these interactions strongly depend on the temperature of the system. Furthermore, the Gibbs free energy (ΔG), enthalpy (ΔH) and entropy (ΔS) of the system were also evaluated. The negative values of ΔG and ΔH and positive values of ΔS indicating reaction was spontaneous and exothermic in nature.

Introduction: In this reported work, we have used 80 % aqueous dimethyl sulphoxide (DMSO) for density and viscosity measurement of pyrimidine-5-carbonitrile at 298.15 K. The obtained experimental results show that as concentration increases density and viscosity increases. From the results of density and viscosity, we have found apparent molar volume, limiting apparent molar volume, semi-empirical parameters, Falkenhagen coefficients and Jones Dole coefficients. Method: The apparent molar volume and limiting apparent molar volume having negative values indicated electostrictive solvation of ions and weak or absence of ion solvent interactions respectively. Result & Discussion : Falkenhagen coefficients are independent of concentration and possess positive values that shows strong solute-solute interactions. Jones-Dole coefficient with negative value shows weak solute-solvent interactions. The strong solute-solute interactions were present in A-1 as compared to A-2 compound because of the high electronegativity of oxygen atom. These parameters provides information about the type of the molecular interactions such as solute-solute, solute-solvent and solvent-solvent. Conclusion: We have reported density and viscosity study of 4-amino-2-hydroxy-6- phenylpyrimidine-5-carbonitrile and 4-amino-2-mercapto-6-phenylpyrimidine-5-carbonitrile in 80 % aqueous DMSO solution at 298.15 K. A stronger molecular association is observed in A-2 than A-1 shown by negative values of Øv.