Professor J. Brian Mullin retires as Editor-in-Chief from the journal Progress in Crystal Growth and Characterization of Materials

The present research is focus on the synthesis of highly acidic zirconia material for the isomerization of n-hexane. Microwave irradiation used to synthesis of zirconia. Sulphation of zirconia was carried out with sulphuric acid. Material has been characterized by various state of art equipment, viz. BET surface area, pore volume, pore size distribution, XRD, SEM, FTIR, NH3-TPD and H2-TPR. Surface area and pore volume of zirconia was found to be...