Electrooxidation of methanol was realised on platinum and perchlorate anion doped polypyrrole film electrodes in acidic media. A systematic kinetic investigation was performed and optimum experimental conditions for the preparation of the electrocatalytic system were determined. The presence of ClO4 − anions was confirmed by XPS analysis of the doped polymer matrix. © 2001 Elsevier Science B.V....

The study used a vehicle-based driving simulator to evaluate two graphical displays, one showing risk probability in terms of safety margin (Time Headway, TH), and one showing risk severity in terms of Kinetic Energy (KE). Twenty-seven subjects were randomly allocated to one of three experimental conditions: Control, TH, and KE. Subjects undertook three driving tasks (ABA design). For the secon...

A theoretical investigation of proton-coupled electron transfer in ruthenium polypyridyl complexes is presented. The three reactions studied are as follows: (1) the comproportionation reaction of [(bpy)(2)(py)Ru(IV)O](2+) and [(bpy)(2)(py)Ru(II)OH(2)](2+) to produce [(bpy)(2)(py)Ru(III)OH](2+); (2) the comproportionation reaction of [(tpy)(bpy)Ru(IV)O](2+) and [(tpy)(bpy)Ru(II)OH(2)](2+) to pro...

Temporal Analysis of Products (TAP) investigation on Natural Gas-fueled Vehicle (NGV) catalysts provides information related to the nature of reaction steps involved over noble metals and at the metal-support interface. The determination of accurate kinetic parameters for methane adsorption from single pulse experiments and subsequent investigation of sequential surface reactions from alternati...

We perform a numerical investigation of the Lyapunov spectra of chaotic dynamics in lattices of classical spins in the vicinity of second-order ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic phase transitions. On the basis of this investigation, we identify a characteristic of the shape of the Lyapunov spectra, the "G-index," which exhibits a sharp peak as a function of temperature at the phase transition...

Cyclopropene is the last of the small strained ring hydrocarbons to have its thermal decomposition subjected to intensive investigation. This critical review describes the nearly 40 year history of this investigation largely by gas kinetic methods with chromatographic analysis. These studies have revealed that cyclopropenes can decompose by a variety of mechanisms involving diradicals, vinylcar...

Kinetic inductances of superconducting nanostrips with a meander pattern are theoretically investigated based on the London model, and effect current crowding at turns is considered. The complex approach developed for analytical investigation kinetic inductance thin $d<\lambda$ narrow $w\ll \lambda^2/d$ strips, where $d$ strip thickness, $w$ width, $\lambda$ penetration depth. We show that dist...

In this note, we prove the generic Kobayashi volume measure hyperbolicity of singular directed varieties (X,V ), as soon as the canonical sheaf KV of V is big in the sense of Demailly.

The steady-state kinetic behavior of dopamine 8monooxygenase (DBM) has been examined over a 1000-fold range of ascorbate concentrations. Kinetic plots exhibit extreme curvature indicative of apparent negative cooperativity in the interaction of D@M with ascorbate, with a calculated Hill coefficient of 0.150.30. The observed cooperativity is found to be independent of enzyme concentration and...