Visible and near-infrared excited-state dynamics of single-walled carbon nanotubes

Excited-state lifetimes of isolated single-walled semiconducting carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) have been measured for the first time; these excited states, observed over the 400- to 1800-nm spectral domain, possess lifetimes that range from several ps to more than 100 ps. Sub-ps to ps decay components are assigned to relaxation in SWNT bundles. Interrogation of the samples with different SWNT mean diameters further confirms the dependence of the excited-state lifetime on roll-up vector. The ratio of fast and slow decaying component contributions in the first van Hove band can be viewed as a measure of the bundle content. PACS 78.67.Ch; 78.47.+p; 61.46.+w; 73.22.-f     

Radiant-conductive heat transfer in semitransparent medium with phase transition at boundaries with different absorptivity

The one-phase Stefan problem was simulated numerically in a layer of semitransparent medium with different emissivity factors at the right moving boundary. The effect of optic properties of irradiated surface on formation of temperature fields and radiation flux densities was demonstrated.     

Synthesis and structure of derivatives of 7-aminobenzo[b]thiophene

Oximes of 2-acylamino-3-ethoxycarbonyl-7-oxo-4,5,6,7-tetrahydrobenzo[b]thiophenes have been prepared. A method for the synthesis of derivatives of 7-aminobenzo[b]thiophene is proposed and the hydrolysis of the compounds prepared has been studied.Deceased.Translated from Khimiya Geterotsiklicheskikh Soedinenii, No. 9, pp. 1178–1180, September, 1986.     

The modes of combustion of copper nanopowders

It was shown that the synthesis of Cu nanopowder by thermal decomposition afforded chemically purer (without oxides) and finer (specific surface value ～45 m2 g^?1) product than the synthesis by chemical reduction. The latter method leads to pyrophoric nanopowders containing detectable amounts of copper oxides.