A potential energy surface for the lowest quartet electronic state ((4)A(')) of lithium trimer is developed and used to study spin-polarized Li+Li(2) collisions at ultralow kinetic energies. The potential energy surface allows barrierless atom exchange reactions. Elastic and inelastic cross sections are calculated for collisions involving a variety of rovibrational states of Li(2). Inelastic co...

We introduce a notion of conditional memory loss for nonequilibrium open dynamical systems. We prove that this type of memory loss occurs at an exponential rate for nonequilibrium open systems generated by one-dimensional piecewise-differentiable expanding Lasota-Yorke maps. This result may be viewed as a prototype for time-dependent dynamical systems with holes.

Li(2)O(2), Li(2)CO(3), and Li(2)O are three critical compounds in lithium-air and lithium-ion energy storage systems. Extensive measurements have been carried out to study the chemical species and their evolutions at difference stages of the device operation. While x-ray spectroscopy has been demonstrated to be one of the most powerful tools for such purpose, no systematic study on the irradiat...

For a large class of piecewise expanding C1,1 maps of the interval we prove the Lasota-Yorke inequality with a constant smaller than the previously known 2/ inf |τ ′|. Consequently, the stability results of Keller-Liverani [7] apply to this class and in particular to maps with periodic turning points. One of the applications is the stability of acim’s for a class of W-shaped maps. Another appli...

We derive an estimate for the minimal period of autonomous strongly damped hyperbolic problems. Our result corresponds to works by Yorke [13] , Busenberg et al. [2] ordinary differential equations as well Robinson and Vidal-Lopez [10] [11] parabolic A general approach is developed treating both An example application a class beam provided.

This paper presents the preparation and characterization of a single-excitation, dual-emission ratiometric optical Li(+)-sensing device using a newly designed and synthesized highly Li(+)-selective fluoroionophore (KBL-01) carrying 14-crown-4 ether with tetramethyl and benzene blocking subunits as Li(+)-binding site and boron-dipyrromethene as fluorophore. The indicator dye was covalently immob...