Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy-Based Coal-Rock Recognition: An <italic>in Situ</italic> Sampling and Recognition Method by Cong Liu, Yimin Luo, Qizhi Zhang

“…Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) is considered a cutting-edge technology in the field of material analysis due to its real-time analysis capability, minimal to no sample preparation scheme, high sensitivity to low atomic weight elements, and ability to perform nearby and distant detection. …”
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The Effect of Thermal Treatment under Different Atmospheric Conditions on the Catalytic Performance of Nickel Supported on Porous Silica in the Gas-Phase Hydrogenation of Acetonitr... by Pilar Braos-García, Desireé Durán-Martín, Antonia Infantes-Molina, Dolores Eliche-Quesada, Enrique Rodríguez-Castellón, Antonio Jiménez-López

“…A direct relationship was found between catalytic activity in the gas-phase hydrogenation of acetonitrile and the Ni 2p 3/2 binding energy assigned to the Ni 0 atoms of the reduced catalysts, where the catalytic activity decreased with increasing binding energy. …”
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A PCBM-Modified TiO2 Blocking Layer towards Efficient Perovskite Solar Cells by Gang Lu, Fengqin He, Shangzheng Pang, Haifeng Yang, Dazheng Chen, Jingjing Chang, Zhenhua Lin, Jincheng Zhang, Chunfu Zhang

“…Scanning electron microscope, atomic force microscope, and X-ray diffraction (XRD) results suggest the formation of a uniform and compact CH3NH3PbI3−xClx perovskite layer on the PCBM-modified TiO2 blocking layer. …”
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Coalescence of carbon nanotubes while preserving the chiral angles by Akira Takakura, Taishi Nishihara, Koji Harano, Ovidiu Cretu, Takeshi Tanaka, Hiromichi Kataura, Yuhei Miyauchi

“…Abstract Atomically precise coalescence of graphitic nanocarbon molecules is one of the most challenging reactions in sp 2 carbon chemistry. …”
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Benchmarking COMSOL Multiphysics Single-Subchannel Thermal-Hydraulic Analysis of a TRIGA Reactor with RELAP5 Results and Experimental Data by Ahmed K. Alkaabi, Jeffrey C. King

“…The aim of this study is to benchmark the prediction accuracy of COMSOL Multiphysics in performing thermal-hydraulic analysis of TRIGA (Training, Research, Isotopes, General Atomics) reactors such as the Geological Survey TRIGA Reactor (GSTR) by comparing its predictions with RELAP5 (a widely used code in nuclear thermal-hydraulic analysis) results and experimental data. …”
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Electronic, Structural, and Optical Properties of Zinc Blende and Wurtzite Cadmium Sulfide (CdS) Using Density Functional Theory by Teshome Gerbaba Edossa, Menberu Mengasha Woldemariam

“…To assure the accuracy of calculation, the convergence test of total energy with respect to energy cutoff and k-point sampling is performed. The relaxed atomic position for the CdS in zb and wz structure is obtained by using total energy and force minimization method following the Hellmann–Feynman approach. …”
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Dynamic generation of superflow in a fermionic ring through phase imprinting by Ke-Ji Chen, Wei Yi, Fan Wu

“…We study the dynamic generation of persistent current by phase imprinting fermionic atoms in a ring geometry at zero temperature. Mediated by the pairing interaction, the Fermi condensate dynamically acquires a quantized current by developing azimuthal phase slips, as well as density and pairing-order-parameter depletions. …”
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Formation of Residual Bubbles in Diesel Engine Nozzle and Their Influence on Initial Jet by Xiaonan Ni, Hua Wen

“…The study found that the initial position of the residual bubbles has a significant effect on the initial atomization shape. When the residual bubble was in the front of the orifice, the initial tip was formed at the front of jet, and then, it stretched into a thin ligament due to vortex ring motion around the jet.…”
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L’ombre du Condor by Franck Gaudichaud

“…This event explains why the working of an hegemonic terrorism, which impact on Latino-American societies is considerable in terms of destruction of the social movement, the cultural activities and the social and political activities that remains marked, again today to various degrees, by the violence, the fear and the structural atomization.…”
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Rapid Determination of 226Ra and Uranium Isotopes in Solid Samples by Fusion with Lithium Metaborate and Alpha Spectrometry by R. Bojanowski, Z. Radecki, R. Piekoś

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Selected Experimental Results from Heavy-Ion Collisions at LHC by Ranbir Singh, Lokesh Kumar, Pawan Kumar Netrakanti, Bedangadas Mohanty

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Topological Aspects of Molecular Networks: Crystal Cubic Carbons by Muhammad Javaid, Aqsa Sattar, Ebenezer Bonyah

“…In this paper, we compute the connection number-based TIs of the structure of crystal cubic carbons which are one of the most significant and interesting composites in modern resources of science due to the involvement of carbon atoms.…”
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Kinetics of quantum reaction-diffusion systems by Federico Gerbino, Igor Lesanovsky, Gabriele Perfetto

“…In order to model possible experimental implementations with cold atoms, for fermions in $d=1$ we further discuss inhomogeneous cases involving the presence of a trapping potential. …”
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Hybrid C18-Bonded Silica Phases: Application in Acetaminophen Adsorption by Carolina Feier Pinto, Fernando Silveira, Fernanda C. Stedile, João Henrique Z. dos Santos

“…The solids were characterized by infrared spectroscopy (IR), ultraviolet diffuse reflectance spectroscopy (DRS), atomic force microscopy (AFM), scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and nitrogen adsorption. …”
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Levels of some heavy Metals in Cocoyam (<i>Colocasia esculentum</i>) grown on Soil receiving Effluent from a Paint Industry by ED Udosen, EO Akpan, SM Sam

“…The levels of some heavy metals in soil samples and tubers of cocoyam (Colocasia esculentum) grown on  soil receiving paint wastes (PWS) has been investigated using Atomic Absorption spectrophotometer  (Unicam 939/959 model). …”
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Role of Electrostatic Effects in the Pure Component and Binary Adsorption of Ethylene and Ethane in Cu-Tricarboxylate Metal-Organic Frameworks by Timothy M. Nicholson, Suresh K. Bhatia

“…The interaction of ethane and ethylene with a Cu-tricarboxylate complex was investigated, showing that at low loadings the lighter molecule has a higher binding energy as a result of interaction with framework Cu and H-bonding with basic framework oxygen atoms. This leads to the selective adsorption of ethylene at low pressure by a factor of ca. 2. …”
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Characterization of Blue Tourmaline from Madagascar for Exploring Its Color Origin by Ming Li

“…The research work emphasized the analysis of transition metal atoms, including their valence state and coordination number, in order to better understand the effect of transition metal cations on the color origin. …”
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The Electrochemical Variation of a Kind of Protein Staining and Food Dye as a New Corrosion Inhibitor on Mild Steel in Acidic Medium by Demet Özkır

“…With surface characteristic analyses, such as field emission scanning electron microscope (FESEM) and atomic force microscope (AFM), it was further determined that the metal surface in HCl of FG-FCF was protected. …”
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Phase transitions, Dirac and Weyl semimetal states in Mn1−x Ge x Bi2Te4 by A. M. Shikin, N. L. Zaitsev, T. P. Estyunina, D. A. Estyunin, A. G. Rybkin, D. A. Glazkova, I. I. Klimovskikh, A. V. Eryzhenkov, K. A. Kokh, V. A. Golyashov, O. E. Tereshchenko, S. Ideta, Y. Miyai, Y. Kumar, T. Iwata, T. Kosa, K. Kuroda, K. Shimada, A. V. Tarasov

“…Abstract Using angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) and density functional theory (DFT), an experimental and theoretical study of changes in the electronic structure (dispersion dependencies) and corresponding modification of the energy band gap at the Dirac point (DP) for topological insulator (TI) $$\textrm{Mn}_{1-x} \textrm{Ge}_x \textrm{Bi}_2 \textrm{Te}_4$$ have been carried out with gradual replacement of magnetic Mn atoms by non-magnetic Ge atoms when concentration of the latter was varied from 10% to 75%. …”
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Evaluation of mineral and near-infrared forecasting of wheat yield varieties using spectrophotometric techniques by H.A. Pardhe, N. Krishnaveni, B.K. Chekraverthy, S. Patel, S. Naveen, V. Rashmi, P.C. Govinden

“…Iron concentration ranged from (0.7 to 6.3 milligrams/100 grams) in ultraviolet-visible analysis, (0.7 to 6.74 milligrams/100 grams) in atomic absorption spectrometry, and (0.81 to 6.8 milligrams/100 grams) in inductive coupled plasma-mass spectroscopy. …”
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