In this study, we aimed to observe how different operating parameters influenced the photocatalytic degradation of rhodamine B (RhB, cationic dye) and bromophenol Blue (BPB, anionic over ZnO/CuO under visible light irradiation. This further corroborated optimization study employing response surface methodology (RSM) based on central composite design (CCD). The synthesis nanocomposite was carrie...

The photothrombotic stroke model aims to induce an ischemic damage within a given cortical area by means of photo-activation of a previously injected light-sensitive dye. Following illumination, the dye is activated and produces singlet oxygen that damages components of endothelial cell membranes, with subsequent platelet aggregation and thrombi formation, which eventually determines the interr...

We report the synthesis and characterization of five new donor–π–spacer–acceptor dye molecules with a diphenylamine donor, fluorene–1,2,5-oxadiazole spacers and a range of acceptor/anchor groups (carboxylic acid 1, cyanoacrylic acid 2 and 3, alcohol 4 and cyano 5) to facilitate electron injection from the excited dye into the TiO2 photoanode in dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). Detailed photo...

Dye is one of the waste waters, which will be a problem if content excessive in water. Modifying bentonite with titanium dioxide (TiO2) as photocatalyst for removal dye waste. In this study, composite synthesis was carried out by mixing and TiO2 suspensions. The mass 20 g, variations are 10%, 20%, 30%, 40%, 50%, 60%, 70%, 80%, 90%, 100%. resulting heated using furnace at 550°C 5 hours. Bentonit...

Many factors influence the near-field visualization of plasmonic structures that are based on perforated elliptical slits. Here, characterization errors are experimentally analyzed in detail from both fabrication and measurement points of view. Some issues such as geometrical parameter, probe-sample surface interaction, misalignment, stigmation, and internal stress, have influence on the final ...

For various graph-theoretic properties P that impose upper bounds on the minimum degree or the size of a neighbourhood set, we characterize the class %(P’) (%((P’)) of graphs G such that G and all its subgraphs (subcontractions) have property P. For example, if P is “6 <xn” (6 = minimum degree, n = number of vertices, 0 <X < 1) then S(P’) = F(K,+,), the class of graphs that do not have K,,, as ...

We study which infinite posets have simple cofinal subsets such as chains, or decompose canonically into such subsets. The posets of countable cofinality admitting such a decomposition are characterized by a forbidden substructure; the corresponding problem for uncountable cofinality remains open.

In this thesis we consider ordered graphs (that is, graphs with a fixed linear ordering on their vertices). We summarize and further investigations on the number of edges an ordered graph may have while avoiding a fixed forbidden ordered graph as a subgraph. In particular, we take a step toward confirming a conjecture of Pach and Tardos [12] regarding the number of edges allowed when the forbid...

Clique-width is a graph parameter with many algorithmic applications. For a positive integer k, the k-th power of a graph G is the graph with the same vertex set as G, in which two distinct vertices are adjacent if and only if they are at distance at most k in G. Many graph algorithmic problems can be expressed in terms of graph powers. We initiate the study of graph classes of power-bounded cl...

We prove a precise characterization of toroidal graphs with no K3,3-subdivisions in terms of forbidden minors and subdivisions. The corresponding lists of four forbidden minors and eleven forbidden subdivisions are shown.