Application of advanced nuclear analytical techniques for the electrocatalyst's characterization: Paving the path for mechanistic investigations

As the application of electrocatalyst continues to expand, envisaging the hidden mechanisms occurring at various length scale affecting the catalytic efficiency became important. To enhance the stability of electrocatalyst and reduce the cost, it is of paramount importance to reveal the active site's dynamics (using in situ techniques for getting the real-time information) which directly affect the reactions such as oxygen evolution reaction, hydrogen evolution reaction, and so on. Since such reactions are crucial for many engineering and scientific applications, in situ characterization techniques are required, which could capture such reactions happening at a different length and time scale. This article analyzes the recent progress made in the field of electrocatalyst's characterization using in situ neutron techniques. The article also paves the future path and has delineated the future challenges involved in multiscale correlative techniques (e.g., neutron techniques in the combination of synchrotron or microscopic techniques) used for getting the multiscale (atomic to micrometer range) mechanistic information about the electrocatalyst's working and degradation.     

Regularities of Structure Formation in AA2024 Alloy During High-Intensity Plastic Deformation Under Conditions of Adhesion-Diffusion Friction Interaction

Russian Physics Journal - The results of model experimental studies of structural-phase changes in an AA2024 aluminum alloy after friction with a counter-body of a complex configuration are...     

On New Functional Characteristics of Domains $$\Omega\in\mathbb R^n$$

Mathematical Notes - A system of new differential-geometric notions as the result of an analysis of the Trudinger–Wang inequalities is proposed. Their naturalness in multivariate analysis and...     

Set-theoretical solutions of the Zamolodchikov tetrahedron equation on associative rings and Liouville integrability

Theoretical and Mathematical Physics - This paper is devoted to tetrahedron maps, which are set-theoretical solutions of the Zamolodchikov tetrahedron equation. We construct a family of tetrahedron...     

Three-Dimensional Structure of Recombinant Thermophilic Ribokinase from Thermus speсies 2.9 in Complex with Adenosine Diphosphate

Crystallography Reports - The three-dimensional structure of recombinant thermophilic ribokinase from Thermus speсies 2.9 was determined at 2.4 Å resolution using crystals, which were...     

COMPENSATING ROLE OF SELF-EQUILIBRATED STRESS FIELDS IN CONSTRUCTING NON-SINGULAR SOLUTIONS USING A NON-EUCLIDEAN CONTINUUM MODEL FOR AN INCOMPRESSIBLE SPHERE

Journal of Applied Mechanics and Technical Physics - A self-equilibrated stress field for an incompressible sphere is constructed based on a non-Euclidean continuum model. The...     

Using an ANP performance management framework to manage the development of transversal competences in University degrees

Organisations are concerned about measuring the performance of the product/service they deliver to their customers. In all types of organisations, if a proper performance assessment is to be developed, it should be measured in different dimensions. At University, the new study programs include the development and assessment of transversal competences due to their importance in enhancing the abilities and improving the employability of students. The achievement of transversal competences can be assessed in different levels/stages; for example, the 1st and 2nd years of a Bachelor’s degree; the 3rd and 4th years of a Bachelor’s degree and at Master’s level. The purpose of this paper is to integrate the research into performance management in organisations to develop an approach consisting of four components (a methodology, a solid and integrated performance management framework, graphical diagrams and quantitative techniques) to assess and manage the achievement of transversal competences through the different levels of study using a consolidated approach. The proposal uses the Analytic Network Process (ANP) to model dependences and feedback among the elements of the competences.

     

Vacuum Conditions and the Lifetime of a Single-Charged Helium Ion Beam in the Booster Synchrotron of the NICA (First Run)

JETP Letters - The results of the first run (December 2020) for the commissioning of the new superconducting synchrotron Booster at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research are presented. Vacuum...     

Metastable Unipolar Elastic Deformation Structures

JETP Letters - The possibility of the formation of localized metastable elastic strain structures in a nonequilibrium paramagnetic crystal has been analyzed. Under the assumption that the process...     

Features of Obtaining Images of Extended Objects,Reconstructed by Pulse Holograms

Optics and Spectroscopy - We consider the features of the dimensional transformation of images of depth-extended objects, which are reconstructed by transmission pulse holograms, with differences...