Facile Oxidation Approach to Amend Surface Chemistry of Carbon Particles for Augmented Dispersion in Epoxy Matrix

Russian Journal of Applied Chemistry - Surface chemistry of carbon black (CB) plays a major role towards its dispersion in liquid media. In this study a simple approach of surface modification has...     

Synthesis and Characterization of Functionalized Nanosilica for Zinc Ion Mitigation; Experimental and Computational Investigations

Zinc is an essential trace metal and its concentration above 4ppm reduces the aesthetic value of water. This study explores the possibility of using functionalized nanohybrids as Zn(II) ion scavengers from aqueous solution. Functionalized nanohybrids were synthesized by the attachment of thiosemicarbazide to silica. The material was characterized by TGA, SEM, FTIR, EDX, and BET analysis, which revealed ligand bonding to silica. The functionalized silica was employed as Zn(II) ion extractant in batch experiments and removed about 94.5% of the Zn(II) ions at pH 7, near zero point charge (6.5) in 30 min. Kinetics investigations revealed that zinc adsorption follows an intra particle diffusion mechanism and first-order kinetics (K = 0.1020 min⁻¹). The data were fitted to Freundlich, Dubinin–Radushkevich, and Langmuir models and useful ion exchange parameters were determined. The impact of co-existing ions on Zn(II) ion sequestration was also studied and it was found that the adsorbent can be used for selective removal of zinc with various ions in the matrix. Quantum mechanical investigations revealed that the Zn(II) ion adsorption on ZnBS1 is more favorable, having higher binding energy (BE) (−178.1 kcal/mol) and ∆H (−169.8), and making tridentate complex with the N and S sites of the chelating ligand. The negative ∆G and BE values suggest highly spontaneous Zn(II) adsorption on the modified silica even at low temperatures.     

Synthetic transformations and biological screening of benzoxazole derivatives: A review

The presence of benzoxazole moiety in most of the heterocyclic compounds is well reported. The present literature review mainly highlights the novel synthetic transformation and describes the biological potential of most of the heterocyclic compounds by virtue of presence of benzoxazole framework. Most of the researchers have revealed that benzoxazole derivatives exhibit significant antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, antifungal, anticancer, analgesic, antiviral, anti-tubercular, and anthelmintic activities. Benzoxazole moieties also act as tyrosinase inhibitor and cholesterol ester transfer protein inhibitor. This literature review may provide an opportunity to the chemists to design new derivatives of benzoxazole that proved to be the successful agent in view of safety, effectiveness, and efficacy.     

Tumoricidal effects of nanomaterials in HeLa cell line

Laser Physics - The current study exhibits the cellular response of HeLa (cervical cancer) cells to metal oxides ultrafine nanomaterials e.g. manganese dioxide nanowires (MnO2 NRs), iron oxide...     

Role of ALA sensitivity in HepG2 cell in the presence of diode laser

Laser Physics - 5-aminolevulinic acid (ALA) being an amazing second generation photosensitizer was studied as photodamaging drug on hepatocellular carcinoma (HepG2) cells. The mentioned...     

Observation of ultra-long lifetime UV-induced infrared absorption in undoped and magnesium-doped congruent lithium niobate crystals

We report experimental observation of ultra-long lifetime UV-induced absorption in undoped and 5 mol.% Mg-doped congruent lithium niobate crystals between 400 nm and 2500 nm wavelength range. The saturated absorption coefficient change in undoped congruent lithium niobate was about 3 to 7 times that in Mg-doped congruent lithium niobate in the mid-infrared spectrum. The UV-illuminated LiNbO₃:Mg was fully recovered in the dark after 2 days, whereas the undoped congruent LiNbO₃ still exhibited nontrivial infrared absorption. We attribute the cause of the UV-induced absorption to the creation of hole-trapped intermediate states O⁻ near lithium vacancies.     

Analysis of flow and heat transfer of viscous fluid between contracting rotating disks

The present work investigates the effects of disks contracting, rotation and heat transfer on the viscous fluid between heated contracting rotating disks. By introducing the Von Kármán type similarity transformations through which we reduced the highly nonlinear partial differential equation to a system of ordinary differential equations. This system of differential equations with appropriate boundary conditions is responsible for the flow behavior between large but finite coaxial rotating and heated disks. It is important to note that the lower disk is rotating with angular velocity Ω while the upper one with SΩ, the disks are also contracting and the temperatures of the upper and lower disks are T₁ and T₀, respectively. The agents which driven the flow are the contraction and also the rotation of the disks. On the other hand the velocity components and especially radial component of velocity strongly influence the temperature distribution inside the flow regime. The basic equations which govern the flow are the Navier Stokes equations with well known continuity equation for incompressible flow. The final system of ordinary differential equations is then solved numerically with given boundary conditions. In addition, the effect of physical parameters, the Reynolds number (Re), the wall contraction ratio (γ) and the rotation ratio (S) on the velocity and pressure gradient, as well as, the effect of Prandtl number (Pr) on temperature distribution are also observed.     

Directional mechanical and thermal properties of single-layer black phosphorus by classical molecular dynamics

Black phosphorus(BP) has received attention due to its own higher carrier mobility and layer dependent electronic properties, such as direct band gap. Interestingly, the single layer black phosphorus(SLBP) has had large popularity in applications related to thermoelectric, optoelectronic, and electronic devices. Here, we investigate the phonon spectrum,thermal conductivities, and stress strain effects. Robust anisotropy was mainly observed in the thermal conductivities together with the alongside zigzag(ZZ) direction value, compared to the armchair(AC) directions. We also investigated the attitude of stress that was anisotropic in both directions, and the stress effects were two times greater across the ZZ path than those in the AC direction at a low temperature. We obtained a Young's modulus of 63.77 and 20.74 GPa in the AC and ZZ directions, respectively, for a strain range of 0.01. These results had good agreement with first principle calculations.Our study here is useful and significant for the thermal tuning of phosphorus-based nanoelectronics and thermalelectric applications of phosphorus.     

An approximation algorithm for sorting by reversals and transpositions

Genome rearrangement algorithms are powerful tools to analyze gene orders in molecular evolution. Analysis of genomes evolving by reversals and transpositions leads to a combinatorial problem of sorting by reversals and transpositions, the problem of finding a shortest sequence of reversals and transpositions that sorts one genome into the other. In this paper we present a 2k-approximation algorithm for sorting by reversals and transpositions for unsigned permutations where k is the approximation ratio of the algorithm used for cycle decomposition. For the best known value of k our approximation ratio becomes 2.8386+δ for any δ>0. We also derive a lower bound on reversal and transposition distance of an unsigned permutation.     

Moments of the asset price for the Barndorff-Nielsen and Shephard model

In this paper, we derive closed-form formulas for moments of the asset price in the Barndorff-Nielsen and Shephard (BN–S) stochastic volatility model. We also present similar results where the market is driven by a BN–S-type stochastic process. It is shown that in both cases the results depend on the cumulant transform of the background driving Lévy process for the models. In this paper, we have also obtain various approximate expressions for the expected value of the square-root process for the shifted asset price with respect to the BN–S model.