We report a first-principles study of hydrogen storage media consisting of calcium atoms and graphene-based nanostructures. We find that Ca atoms prefer to be individually adsorbed on the zigzag edge of graphene with a Ca-Ca distance of 10 A without clustering of the Ca atoms, and up to six H(2) molecules can bind to a Ca atom with a binding energy of approximately 0.2 eV/H(2). A Ca-decorated z...

This study analyzed the performances of a hybrid membrane aerated biofilm reactor (MABR) pilot plant in terms nutrients removal attached growth and suspended biomass comparison with conventional activated sludge (CAS) system at different retention time (SRT) (20−3) days. Overall, MABR showed better than CAS TSS (86% vs 79%), COD (89% 85%) total nitrogen (80% 65%). The minimum SRT for achieving ...

abstract in this experiment the effects of two type of medium cultures, gibberellic acid and dark/cold and light/warm culture conditions on mature embryos germination of a local cultivar of walnut were investigated. the mature fruits were collected at 22 weeks postanthesis and after disinfection the mature embryo along with cotyledon pieces were excised and then were cultured on mt and modified...

abstract somatic embryogenesis is a new approach to in vitro plant propagation. this technique is based on stem cell obtain and its differentiation to a complete plant. this is affected by components of media culture. so, the effects of ms, b5 and nl media on carrot petiole somatic embryogenesis investigated via histological experiment. to do this, carrot petioles (with 1 cm dimension) cultured...

in order to investigation of vermicompost effect on growth and yield of marigold in pot medium, an experiment was done by a randomized completely block design in three raplications. treatmnets were included control (30% v/v of soil plus 70% v/v of sand) and three levels of vermicompost (20, 40, 60 % v/v of vermicompost+30% v/v of sand and soil) that applied in three lit. pots. marigold seeds (t...

BACKGROUND Laboratory diagnosis of tuberculosis has undergone a rapid change during last few years and a number of techniques for culture as well as molecular diagnosis have been used with their respective advantages and disadvantages. Sporadic studies have also reported the isolation of M. tuberculosis on standard blood agar (BA), which at one time was not considered as a suitable medium for m...

These media appear to be distinctly different with respect to their physical and chemical properties. Yet the Separation between them becomes more blurred as information recorded in one medium can be copied readily onto another. Conventional examples are the miaofilming of newspapers, or the photocopying of whole fragile books. Modem scanning techniques allow any form of information whether pic...

We study, both numerically and experimentally, the synchronization of uncoupled excitable systems due to a common noise. We consider two identical FitzHugh–Nagumo systems, which display both spiking and nonspiking behaviours in chaotic or periodic regimes. An electronic circuit provides a laboratory implementation of these dynamics. Synchronization is tested with both white and coloured noise, ...