Scandium nitride has recently gained interest as a prospective compound for thermoelectric applications due to its high Seebeck coefficient. However, ScN also has a relatively high thermal conductivity, which limits its thermoelectric efficiency and figure of merit (zT). These properties motivate a search for other semiconductor materials that share the electronic structure features of ScN, but...

La2O2SO4 nanoceramic was synthesized via sol-gel method using lanthanum nitrate and thioacetamid as precursors and stearic acid as polymeric precursor. The characterization studies were conducted by X-ray diffraction, energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy and scanning electron microscopy. The result showed that the synthesized sample belongs to monoclinic structure with the average sizes between...

The synthesis and single-crystal X-ray structure determination of the title compound [(bipy) , Pb(0 ,CMe) (O ClO )] (1) and [(bipy) Pb(ClO ) ] (2) is described. Compound (I) crystallizes in the triclinic space group P1(2), a= 7.384(2), b= 12.824(3), c= 10.622(6) A, ?= 73.41(2), ?= 80.98(2), ?= 73.68(2)', Z= 2, and R =0.033 for 3408 independent reflections .Compound (2) crystallizes in the ...

The crystal structure of the DNA decamer C-G-A-T-C-G-A-T-C-G has been solved to a resolution of 1.5 A, with a final R-factor of 16.1% for 5,107 two-sigma reflections. Crystals are orthorhombic space group P2(1)2(1)2(1), with cell dimensions a = 38.93 A, b = 39.63 A, c = 33.30 A, and 10 base pairs/asymmetric unit. The final structure contains 404 DNA atoms, 142 water molecules treated as oxygen ...

Dispersion of Love waves is studied in a fibre-reinforced layer resting on monoclinic half-space. The wave velocity equation has been obtained for a fiber-reinforced layer resting on monoclinic half space. Shear wave velocity ratio curve for Love waves has been shown graphically for fibre reinforced material layer resting on various monoclinic half-spaces. In a similar way, shear wave velocity ...

We report the synthesis of KNbO(3) nanowires (NWs) with a monoclinic phase, a phase not observed in bulk KNbO(3) materials. The monoclinic NWs can be synthesized via a hydrothermal method using metallic Nb as a precursor. The NWs are metastable, and thermal treatment at ∼450 °C changed the monoclinic phase into the orthorhombic phase, which is the most stable phase of KNbO(3) at room temperatur...

A new metal-organic compound, [Fe(Pydc)(DMSO)(H2O)Cl], (where Pydc is pyridine-2, 6-dicarboxylate and DMSO is dimethyl sulfoxide), has been synthesized and characterized by singlecrystal X-ray diffraction, TGA/DTA, IR and Raman spectroscopy. Green-yellow crystals,crystallized in the monoclinic system, space group P21/n, a = 7.2461(4) Å, b = 10.3018(4) Å, c =17.7667(10) Å, α = 90°, β = 90.014°(5...

Ab initio perturbed ion calculations were performed for the cubic, orthorhombic, hexagonal, and monoclinic phases of PbF2. A complete characterization of these phases was achieved in terms of the potential energy surfaces, the equations of state, and the phase-transition pressures. Thermal effects were included via a quasiharmonic nonempirical Debye model. The internal parameters of the unit ce...