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Cubic gauche nitrogen (cg-N) with a three-dimensional network of N-N single bonds attracted lots of attentions in last decades, since it theoretically has five times larger energy than TNT. While, extreme environments of high pressure or…
It is known that amphibians are especially susceptible to the combination of heightened UVB radiation and increased nitrate concentrations. Various astrophysical events have been suggested as sources of ionizing radiation that could pose a…
The enhanced photocatalytic performance of doped graphene(GR)/semiconductor nanocomposites have recently been widely observed, but an understanding of the underlying mechanisms behind it is still out of reach. As a model system to study the…
This study evaluates the effectiveness of non-thermal plasma at atmospheric pressure (NTP APPJ) for treating PFAS - contaminated water in different matrices. Successful removal of several perfluoroalkyl carboxylic acids (PFCAs) (C6 to C4),…
Plasma activated medium, containing reactive oxygen species (ROS) and reactive nitrogen species (RNS), has been used for cancer treatment as an indirect treatment method. Here we report cold atmospheric plasma (CAP) activated deionized (DI)…
Motivated by the ongoing interest in nitrides as materials for spintronics applications we have studied effects of doping with magnetic transition-metal elements (T=Cr,Mn,Fe,Co and Ni) on the electronic properties of semiconducting scandium…
Catalyst-free vertically aligned graphene nanoflakes possessing a large amount of high density edge planes were functionalized using nitrogen species in a low energy N+ ion bombardment process to achieve pyridinic, cyanide and nitrogen…
Kite growth is a process that utilizes laminar gas flow in chemical vapor deposition to grow long, well-aligned carbon nanotubes (CNTs) for electronic application. This process uses metal nanoparticles (NPs) as catalytic seeds for CNT…
High critical current-density (10 to 420 kA/cm^2) superconductor-insulator-superconductor tunnel junctions with aluminium nitride barriers have been realized using a remote nitrogen plasma from an inductively coupled plasma source operated…
In this work, we use the Green-Kubo method to study the bulk viscosity of various dilute gases and their mixtures. First, we study the effects of the atomic mass on the bulk viscosity of dilute diatomic gas by estimating the bulk viscosity…
S-nitrosylation, the covalent addition of NO to the thiol side chain of cysteine, is an important post-transitional modification (PTM) that can affect the function of proteins. As such, PTMs extend and diversify protein functions and thus…
An influence of the magnetized electron - positron plasma on the absorption and loss of the energy and momentum in a process of neutrino propagation is investigated. A total contribution of all crossed processes, $\nu \to \nu e^- e^+$, $\nu…
In this paper we report the results about the synthesis and characterization of optimally doped La1-xNaxMnO3 thin films grown onto SrTiO3 (100), NdGaO3 (100) and NdGaO3 (110) for thickness ranging from 11 to 82 nm. The effect of substrate…
Nitrogen represents an archetypal example of material exhibiting a pressure driven transformation from molecular to polymeric state. Detailed investigations of such transformations are challenging because of a large kinetic barrier between…
Using plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) with Acetylene and Ammoniac on Pd-specimens Carbon nanotubes (CNT) could be produced successfully. Two different devices are compared and the conditions for best growth conditions are…
Based on first-principles calculations and ab initio molecular dynamics simulations, the polymerisation of the unsaturated cis dinitrogen-difluoride (cis-N2F2) molecular compound is investigated. The thermodynamic, dynamical and thermal…
In this study, using first-principles calculations, we investigate the behavior of electrons at the SiC/SiO$_2$ interface when nitrogen is introduced as a dopant within a few nm of the SiC surface. When a highly doped nitrogen layer…
A method is described of radiocesium fixation in soils contaminated by this radionuclide. To immobilize radiocesium, the soil surface is treated with aqueous hexacyanoferrate solution of alkaline metals. It has been experimentally shown…