New Reaction of Dimethylformamide with Acrylic Acid

Russian Journal of Organic Chemistry - A new homogeneous reaction of dimethylformamide (DMF) with acrylic acid was studied. The reaction afforded previously unknown...     

New Syntheses and Properties of Some Axial and Helical Isomers of Organic Compounds

Russian Journal of Organic Chemistry - The review generalizes published data on the synthesis of atropisomeric arylimide, porphyrin, and benzimidazole derivatives, helically chiral compounds...     

On the Change in the Form and Parameters of Silicon Compression Curves under Temperature and Electric Current Impacts

Crystallography Reports - Uniaxial compression of n-type silicon under joint impact of temperature and constant electric current revealed a significant increase in its plasticity in comparison with...     

Photoelectrochemical study of La2NiO4 synthesized using citrate sol gel method—application for hydrogen photo-production

Journal of Solid State Electrochemistry - The semi conducting properties of La2NiO4 synthesized through sol gel method are studied for the first time using photoelectrochemistry. The X-ray...     

Optical Trapping with Focused Surface Waves

Near-field optical trapping can be realized with focused evanescent waves that are excited at the water–glass interface due to the total internal reflection, or with focused plasmonic waves excited on the water–gold interface. Herein, the performance of these two kinds of near-field optical trapping techniques is compared using the same optical microscope configuration. Experimental results show that only a single-micron polystyrene bead can be trapped by the focused evanescent waves, whereas many beads are simultaneously attracted to the center of the excited region by focused plasmonic waves. This difference in trapping behavior is analyzed from the electric field intensity distributions of these two kinds of focused surface waves and the difference in trapping behavior is attributed to photothermal effects due to the light absorption by the gold film.     

Erratum to: Response of a SINIS Detector with Electron Cooling to Submillimeter-Wave Radiation

JETP Letters - Page 542, the sentence under Fig. 3 should read as follows: According to Fig. 3, the maximum radiation response is 2 × 109 V/W, which is 2.5 times greater than that at...     

Relaxation Processes and Exciton-Phonon Interactions in Nanocomposites Based on CdSe/ZnS Semiconductor Quantum Dots and Porphyrin Molecules

Russian Physics Journal - Using spectral-kinetic data obtained for nanoassemblies based on CdSe/ZnS semiconductor quantum dots and tetrapyridylporphyrin molecules in methylcyclohexane-toluene...     

Impact of anisotropic slip on the stagnation-point flow past a stretching/shrinking surface of the Al_2O_3-Cu/H_2O hybrid nanofluid

The characteristics of heat transfer in the three-dimensional stagnationpoint flow past a stretching/shrinking surface of the Al_2O_3-Cu/H_2O hybrid nanofluid with anisotropic slip are investigated. The partial differential equations are converted into a system of ordinary differential equations by valid similarity transformations. The simplified mathematical model is solved computationally by the bvp4c approach in the MATLAB operating system. This solving method is capable of generating more than one solutions when suitable initial guesses are proposed. The results are proven to have dual solutions, which consequently lead to the application of a stability analysis that verifies the achievability of the first solution. The findings reveal infinite values of the dual solutions at several measured parameters causing the non-appearance of the turning points and the critical values. The skin friction increases with the addition of nanoparticles, while the escalation of the anisotropic slip effect causes a reduction in the heat transfer rate.