From contamination to detection: The growing threat of heavy metals by Basma Hossam Abdelmonem, Lereen T. Kamal, Rana M. Elbaz, Mohamed R. Khalifa, Anwar Abdelnaser

“…Atomic fluorescence spectrometry (AFS) is considered a powerful tool for quantifying heavy metals due to its high sensitivity, low detection limits, and wide linear range. …”
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Simulation of Electronic Structure of Aluminum Phosphide Nanocrystals Using Ab Initio Large Unit Cell Method by Hamad R. Jappor, Zeyad Adnan Saleh, Mudar A. Abdulsattar

“…Ab initio restricted Hartree-Fock method coupled with the large unit cell method is used to determine the electronic structure and physical properties of aluminum phosphide (AlP) nanocrystals between 216 and 1000 atoms with sizes ranging up to about 3 nm in diameter. …”
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Fano resonated, ultrathin, flexible and ultrawideband absorption featured nano-metaatom structure with dispersion gap optimized for optical range applications by Ahasanul Hoque, Mohammad Tariqul Islam, Ali F. Almutairi

“…Maximum visible spectrum wave interaction with the cascaded split nano square meta atom also ensured to achieve the absorption at highest percentage in numerical evaluation. …”
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Improvement in the Mechanical Properties of High Temperature Shape Memory Alloy (Ti50Ni25Pd25) by Copper Addition by Saif ur Rehman, Mushtaq Khan, A. Nusair Khan, Syed Husain Imran Jaffery, Liaqat Ali, Aamir Mubashar

“…The increase in both stresses was attributed to the solid solution strengthening by substitution of Ni atoms with relatively greater atomic radius of copper (Cu) atoms. …”
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Theoretical Study about the Effect of Halogen Substitution on the Reactivity of Antitumor 3-Formylchromones and Their Free Radicals by Maximiliano Martínez-Cifuentes, Boris Weiss-López, Ramiro Araya-Maturana

“…The mandatory presence of a chlorine atom on the aromatic ring of 6-hydroxy-3-formyl angular chromones, on the respiration inhibition of mammary carcinoma mouse, is explained through a computational study of these compounds. …”
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UV Sensitivity of Indium-Zinc Oxide Nanofibers by Nadezhda Markova, Olga Berezina, Nikolay Avdeev, Alexander Pergament

“…It is shown that the highest sensitivity to UV is observed at the indium content of about 50 atomic %. The photocurrent increment with respect to the dark current is more than 4 orders of magnitude. …”
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Graphene: A Rising Star on the Horizon of Materials Science by Ujjal Kumar Sur

“…Graphene, a one-atom thick planar sheet of sp2 bonded carbon atoms packed in a honeycomb lattice, is considered to be the mother of all graphitic materials like fullerenes, carbon nanotubes, and graphite. …”
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Enhanced Aqueous Zinc-Ion Batteries Using 3D MoS₂/Conductive Polymer Composite by Tongxin Jiang, Sijie Li, Zexiang Luo, Xue Li, Lifeng Zhang, Haisheng San, Xin Li, Yifei Ma

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Interaction Study of Oxygen and Iron-Sulfur Clusters Based on the Density Functional Theory by Jiancun Gao, Hongbin Sui, Siyuan Wu, Renyou Zhang, Mengxin Zhang, Bolun Cui, Huilin Chu

“…The results show that O2 prefers to adsorb around Fe atoms and has repulsion with S atoms, and the adsorption energy is maximum when two O atoms are co-adsorbed around Fe atoms, which is 198.13 kJ/mol. …”
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Understanding the affinity of Cyphos Nitrate for Zr(IV) over other metal ions present in simulated high level liquid waste compositions by Alok Rout, S. Sriram, N. Ramanathan

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Tearing stable stationary ITER baseline operation in DIII-D by L. Bardóczi, A. Dudkovskaia, N.C. Logan, N.J. Richner, A.C. Brown, J.D. Callen, R.J. La Haye, E.J. Strait

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Engineering Design of a Mechanical Decladder for Spent Nuclear Rod-Cuts by Young-Hwan Kim, Yung-Zun Cho, Young-Soon Lee, Jin-Mok Hur

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Atomistic Insight into the Effects of Collision Angle on the Characteristics of Cu-Ta Joining by Explosive Welding by Van-Thuc Nguyen, Nguyen Quang Hien, Pham Minh Duc, Tran Duy Nam, Van Huong Hoang, Van Thanh Tien Nguyen

“…Because of the dynamic diffusion mechanism at the interface, which creates an almost identical atomic rate between Cu and Ta atoms, combined with the dynamic recrystallization phenomenon, explosive welding provides the advantage of combining two low-solubility solid-solution metals.…”
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Analyse préliminaire et discussion sur la nature d’un dépôt dentaire très particulier by Yves Gleize, Dominique Castex, Rémy Chapoulie, Henri Duday

“…This revealed the presence of atoms which are constituents of the inorganic portion of tartar. …”
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Synthesis and Characterization of Oxozirconium(IV), Dioxomolybdenum(VI) and Dioxotungsten(VI) with Ciprofloxacin and Norfloxacin Complexes by Khalaf I. Khallow, Amaal Y. R. Al-Assaf

“…FTIR spectra of both types of complexes suggest that CIP and NOR act as deprotonated bidentate ligands through the ring carbonyl oxygen atom and one of the oxygen atom of carboxylic group.…”
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Review of JAEA’s Monte Carlo codes for nuclear reactor core analysis by Nagaya Yasunobu

“…Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) has been developing a general-purpose continuous-energy Monte Carlo code MVP for nuclear reactor core analysis. …”
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Hydrogen Storage Enhancement Attained by Fixation of Ti on MWNTs by J. J. Pérez-Bueno, M. L. Mendoza López, K. M. Brieño Enriquez, J. Ledesma García, L. A. Godínez Mora-Tovar, C. Angeles Chavez

“…This work explores the use of some procedures involving electrochemistry, aimed to bond atomic Ti on the outer surface of MWNTs. Each titanium atom has the potential of hosting two hydrogen molecules and relinquishing them by heating. …”
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A Nanotechnology Enhancement to Moore's Law by Jerry Wu, Yin-Lin Shen, Kitt Reinhardt, Harold Szu, Boqun Dong

“…In viewing of mobile computing with insatiate appetite, we explored the necessary enhancement by an increasingly maturing nanotechnology and facing the inevitable quantum-mechanical atomic and nuclei limits. Since we cannot break down the atomic size barrier, the fact implies a fundamental size limit at the atomic/nucleus scale. …”
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Safeguards-related event detection in surveillance video using semi-supervised learning approach by Se-Hwan Park, Byung-Hee Won, Seong-Kyu Ahn

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Lévy walk of pions in heavy-ion collisions by Dániel Kincses, Márton Nagy, Máté Csanád

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