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The first vapor phase self-assembled heterocatalytic structure on surface is build from cobalt 5,10,15,20 tetrakis (4-aminophenyl)-21H, 23H-porphine through imide bonds. This heterogeneous catalyst possesses essential thermal and temporal…
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We developed a new quick pseudo-3D photoionization code based on Cloudy (G. Ferland) and IDL (RSI) tools. The code is running the 1D photoionization code Cloudy various times, changing at each run the input parameters (e.g. inner radius,…
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We report on the development of an original mesoscopic lattice model to predict structural, dynamical and capacitive properties of carbon-carbon supercapacitors. The model uses input from molecular simulations, such as free energy profiles…
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Using first principles calculations, the energetic stability of two-dimensional (2D) binary compounds $XY$ is investigated, where $X$ and $Y$ indicate the metallic element from Li to Pb in the periodic table. Here, 1081 compounds in the…
We construct a class of periodic tilings of the plane, which corresponds to toroidal arrangements of trivalent atoms, with pentagonal, hexagonal and heptagonal rings. Each tiling is characterized by a set of four integers and determines a…