Paraffinic oils were submitted to microbial action. The microorganisms consisted of bacteria of the genera Pseudomonas sp. and Bacillus lincheniforms. The alterations in interfacial tension were determined using a tensometer and applying the hanging drop technique at room temperature (299 K ±275 K). The alteration in the constitution of the paraffins was evaluated by means of gas chromatography...

The extended SSH model and Bogoliubov-de Gennes(BdeG) formalism are applied to investigate the electronic properties and stable lattice configurations of C36. We focus the problem on the molecule’s unusual D6h symmetry. The electronic part of the Hamiltonian without Coulomb interaction is solved analytically. We find that the gap between HOMO and LUMO is small due to the long distance hopping b...

Hartree-Fock ~HF! and density functional theory calculations indicate that a ~4,0! carbon nanotube ~CNT! of sub-0.4-nm diameter is stable and its heat of formation is close to that of the stable C36 (D6h). Semiempirical molecular-orbital calculation shows that such narrow tubular structure is more stable than the corresponding opened fragment in the innermost zone of a large CNT. Simulated TEM ...

Abstract The identification of defects in crystal structures is crucial for the analysis atomistic simulations. Many methods to characterize that are based on classification local atomic arrangement available simple crystalline structures. However, there currently no method identify both, and internal topologically close-packed (TCP) phases such as Laves phases. We propose a new method, phase (...

Phase transitions in the Co-rich part of Co–Al–Nb–Mo phase diagram are studied by energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS), X-ray analysis, transmission electron microscopy (TEM), and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) measurements. The obtained results were compared with for alloys binary Co–Al ternary Co–Al–Nb, Co–Al–Mo systems. Formation intermetallic L12 structure was found a range 10 at.%...