Multiplexed thermal desorption spectroscopy was used to study the influence of preadsorbed and postadsorbed deuterium on a methanol monolayer on Pd(111). In particular, the effect of atomic deuterium exposure on the reaction products was examined in detail. Preadsorbed deuterium hinders the formation of chemisorbed methanol and favors physisorption of methanol. This leads to a strong reduction ...

Methanol is a versatile chemical feedstock, fuel source, and energy storage material. Many reactions involving methanol are catalyzed by transition metal surfaces, on which hydrogen-bonded methanol overlayers form. As with water, the structure of these overlayers is expected to depend on a delicate balance of hydrogen bonding and adsorbate-substrate bonding. In contrast to water, however, relat...

Adequate coverage is one of the main problems for distributed wireless sensor networks and The effectiveness of that highly depends on the sensor deployment scheme. Given a finite number of sensors, optimizing the sensor deployment will provide sufficient sensor coverage and save power of sensors for movement to target location to adequate coverage. In this paper, we apply fuzzy logic system to...

background: public health burden from hazardous and harmful use of alcohol warrants drastic action throughout the world. although less alcohol related harm is anticipated in islamic countries, unrecorded alcohol remains a considerable concern which needs intelligent and realistic policy options. methods: in a descriptive study, records  of chemically analyzed samples of alcohol obtained from ma...

In the view of the complexities involved in the environmental cycling of hazardous metal species, attempts have been made to develop a poly (vinyl chloride) (PVC) based sensor for detection of MoO4 2ions using positively charged diaza crown ether (18-crown-6). The influence of membrane compositions on the potentiometric response of the electrodes have been found to substantially improve the per...

This work proposed a gas sensor for the determination of tert-butyl mercaptan, one of the highly toxic volatile sulfur compounds, which was based on cataluminescence emission during its catalytic oxidation on the surface of nanosized V(2)O(5). The cataluminescence characteristics and the optimum conditions, including the morphology of sensing material, the wavelength of cataluminescence emissio...

Nanowire-based field-effect transistors (FETs) have demonstrated considerable promise for a new generation of chemical and biological sensors. Indium arsenide (InAs), by virtue of its high electron mobility and intrinsic surface accumulation layer of electrons, holds properties beneficial for creating high performance sensors that can be used in applications such as point-of-care testing for pa...

Recently, we demonstrated that leaf wounding results in the synthesis of pectin methylesterase (PME), which causes the plant to release methanol into the air. Methanol emitted by a wounded plant increases the accumulation of methanol-inducible gene mRNA and enhances antibacterial resistance as well as cell-to-cell communication, which facilitates virus spreading in neighboring plants. We conclu...

this paper proposes an efficient network architecture to improve energy consumption in wireless sensor networks (wsn). the proposed architecture uses a mobile data collector to a partitioned network. the mobile data collector moves to center of each logical partition after each decision period. the mobile data collector must declare its new location by packet broadcasting to all sensor nodes. h...

Methanol occurs naturally in most alcoholic distillates. Yet, suitable detectors to check liquor adherence legal limits and, importantly, monitor situ methanol content during distillation are not available. Usually, distillers rely on error-prone human olfaction while “gold standard” liquid or gas chromatography (GC) rarely used being off-line, time-consuming, and expensive. Here, we explore mo...