Prof. Ahmet R. Özdural Chemical Engineering Department Hacettepe University Ankara, Turkey Tel: + 90 (312) Fax: + 90 (312)

FORMER UNSUCCESSFULL FP6 PROJECT PROPOSAL EXPERIENCES 1. ADSORPTIVE SEPARATIONS Type of Instrument:NoE Priority 3 – NMP Call: FP NMP-1 NMP Research Areas: – New materials by design – Understanding materials phenomena – Sustainable waste management and hazard reduction in production, storage and manufacturing 2. SMART MULTI-FUNCTIONAL NANO ORGANO-COMPOSITE PARAMAGNETIC PARTICLES TO DRIVE GROWTH AND COMPETITIVENESS IN EUROPEAN ENVIRONMENTAL AND CHEMICAL SECTORS Type of Instrument: Specific Targeted Research Projects (STREP) Priority 3 – NMP

Scanning electron microscope (SEM) micrographs of the magnetic 80% PVBAC beads, (a) surface viewing of PVBAC and (b) cross-sectional viewing of PVBAC. PARA-MAGNETIC POLYVINYLBUTYRAL PARTICLES CONTAINING ACTIVATED CARBON

Paramagnetic duolite–polystyrene composite particles for enzyme immobilization

SEM photographs of (a) magnetic (b) nonmagnetic microbeads. Paramagnetic Polyvinylbutyral Microbeads

SEM photographs of magnetic nitrocellulose microbeads Kindly note that our technique allows the production of both “Hollow” and “Filled” paramagnetic particles

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS REGARDING PARAMAGNETIC PARTICLES  Tanyolaç, D., Hakan Sönmezışık, H., Özdural, A.R., “A low cost porous polyvinylbutyral membrane for BSA adsorption”, Biochemical Engineering Journal, 22, ,  Demirel, D., Özdural, A.R., Mutlu, M., “Performance of immobilized Pectinex Ultra SP-L on magnetic duolite-polystyrene composite particles Part I: a batch reactor study”, Journal of Food Engineering, 64, 417–421, .Demirel, D., Özdural, A.R., Mutlu, M., “Preparation and Characterization of Magnetic Duolite-Polystyrene Composite Particles for Enzyme Immobilization”, Journal of Food Engineering, 62, ,  Demircan, Z., Tekol, E., Tanyolaç, D., Özdural, A.R., “Para-magnetic polyvinylbutyral particles containing activated carbon as a new adsorbent”, Chemical Engineering Communications, 190, ,  Tanyolaç, D., Özdural, A.R., "BSA adsorption onto magnetic polyvinylbutyral microbeads", Journal of Applied Polymer Science, 80, , 2001.

 Tanyolaç, D., Özdural, A.R., "Preparation of low-cost magnetic nitrocellulose micro-beads", Reactive and Functional Polymers, 45, ,  Tanyolaç, D., Özdural, A.R., "A new low cost porous magnetic material: Magnetic polyvinylbutyral micro-beads", Reactive and Functional Polymers, 43, ,  Tanyolaç,D., Yürüksoy,B.I., Özdural,A.R., "Immobilization of a thermostable a-amylase onto nitrocellulase membrane by cibacron blue F3GA dye binding", Biochemical Engineering Journal, 2, ,  Denizli,A., Tanyolaç,D., Salih,B., Özdural,A.R., "Cibacron blue F3GA- attached polyvinylbutyral microbeads as novel magnetic sorbents for removal of Cu(II), Cd(II) and Pb(II) ions", Journal of Chromatography A, 793, 47-56,  Denizli, A., Salih, B., Aydınlar, E., Tanyolaç, D., Özdural, A.R., Piskin, E., "Adsorption of heavy metal ions on cibacron blue F3GA-immobilized microporous polyvinylbutyral based affinity membranes", Journal of Membrane Science, 137,1- 8,1997  Iman, M., Çelebi, S., Özdural, A.R., "Preparation of photooxidized magnetic polystyrene beads for enzyme immobilisation", Reactive Polymers, 17, 325, 1992.