Germanium (Ge) nanoparticle-multiwalled carbon nanotube (MWCNT) anodes are fabricated through the anchoring of Ge on the surface of electrophoretically pre-deposited MWCNT networks via a thermal evaporation process. This Ge-MWCNT nanocomposite displays a large reversible capacity of over 800 mA h g(-1) at 1 C even after 200 cycles.

Modifications to an automated thermal evaporator were made: A device for angular evaporation was fabricated and a protocol for in vacuum oxidation was developed. The new features allow for versatile fabrication of metaltunnel junction-metal thin film samples. A discussion of the usefulness of tunnel junctions is provided.

Bimetallic islands films consisting of composite Au-Ag nanoparticles are deposited on glass substrates by electron beam evaporation. Broad tuning of the surface plasmon resonance (SPR) characteristics can be achieved by controlling film composition, deposition temperature and post-deposition thermal annealing. Optical and structural characterization of the samples enable to establish the link b...

This report discusses some of the electrical and optical properties of thin films of the organic semiconductor pentacene fabricated using thermal evaporation. Conductivities of between 1.84 × 10 Ω cm and 7.49 × 10 Ω cm are reported. Transistors using thermally evaporated pentacene were fabricated and mobilities of up to 0.03 cmVs were obtained.

The suspended droplet framework is commonly used to study liquid fuel evaporation and combustion. However, measurements at this facility can be affected by artifacts. This examines their impact on butanol evaporation. Thermal radiation fiber conduction effects are specifically addressed. Results show that heat through the significantly affect evaporation, even causing internal bubbling in some ...

New metal–carbon clusters, M4C9 + (M = Ti, V), generated using a combined thermal arc discharge evaporation set-up, have been studied with quadrupole mass spectrometry. Reactivities of these clusters have been investigated by means of association reactions with H2O. Metal–carbon clusters of other compositions have also been studied. We speculate on the mechanism of formation of larger metal–car...

Crystal orientation-ordered ZnS nanobelt quasi-arrays were fabricated using a non-catalytic and template-free thermal evaporation process; field-emission measurements show that these novel arrays are decent field emitters possessing a current density more than 20 times higher than that of randomly-oriented ZnS nanobelt ensembles at a macroscopic field of 5.5 V microm(-1).

A model is proposed to describe a transition from a Schwarzschild black hole of mass M0 to a Schwarzschild black hole of mass M1 ≤ M0. The basic equations are derived from the non-vacuum Einstein field equations taking a source representing a null scalar field with a nonvanishing trace anomaly. It is shown that the nonvanishing trace anomaly of the scalar field prevents a complete evaporation. ...

Evaporation from small reservoirs, wetlands, and lakes continues to be a theoretical and practical problem in surface hydrology and micrometeorology because atmospheric flows above such systems can rarely be approximated as stationary and planar-homogeneous with no mean subsidence (hereafter referred to as idealized flow state). Here, the turbulence statistics of temperature (T) and water vapor...

Microwave heating was employed for preparation of the standard gas of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and semivolatile organic compounds (semi-VOCs) by using a 1000 W commercial domestic microwave oven and 1 L gas-sampling bulbs. The VOCs investigated were benzene, chloroform, 1,3-dichlorobenzene, tetrachloroethylene, toluene, and 1,1,2-trichloroethane, and the semi-VOCs used were the polychl...