The behaviours of a range of polar and non-polar organic liquids (acetone, ethanol, methanol, N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone (NMP), carbon tetrachloride and water) confined to 2D graphene nanochannels with thicknesses in the range of 4.5 Å to 40 Å were studied using classical molecular dynamics and hybrid density functional theory. All liquids were found to organise spontaneously into ordered layers pa...

We discuss a novel approach to predict nonradiative multi phonon (NMP) transition rates for oxide defects in semiconductor devices in the context of device reliability. In accordance with NMP theory, the influence of the atomic vibration on the electronic transition is assumed to be fully described by the line shape function. This line shape is calculated from density functional theory for a gi...

We report the synthesis and characterization of a molecular barium vanadium oxide cluster featuring high nuclearity and high symmetry. The tetrameric, 2.3 nm cluster H(5)[Ba(10)(NMP)(14)(H(2)O)(8)[V(12)O(33)](4)Br] is based on a bromide-centred, octahedral barium scaffold which is capped by four previously unknown [V(12)O(33)](6-) clusters in a tetrahedral fashion. The compound represents the l...

• NMP: Networked Music Performance • Ultra-low delay variant of conferencing • End-to-end delays of 25 rather than 150 ms • NMP is not the same as conferencing • Participants prefer to do their own mixing • The MCU should only relay data streams • The MusiNet project • Ultra-low delay audio and video coding • Each participant indicates what it wants to receive • The MCU maintains a stream routi...

Electrospun nanofiber membranes are employed in a variety of applications due to its unique features. the nanofibers' characterizations effected by polymer solution. The used solvent for dissolving powder is critical preparing precursor In this paper, Polyacrylonitrile (PAN)-based nanofibers were prepared concentration 10 wt.% using various solvents (NMP, DMF, and DMSO). surface morphology, por...

in this paper, synthesized (raw) multi-walled carbon nanotube (rmwcnts) surfaces were modified with chitosan and β-cyclodextrin using chen’s soft cutting technique. raw and surface modified multi-walled carbon nanotubes were observed by transmission electron microscope (tem). the results showed that chitosan and β-cyclodextrin could attach to the outer surface of nanotubes, wrapping the nanotub...

Common battery electrolytes comprise organic carbonate solvents and fluorinated salts based on hexafluorophosphate (PF6–) anions. However, these suffer from high flammability, limited operating temperature window, cost. To address those issues, we here propose a fluorine-free electrolyte sodium bis(oxalate)borate (NaBOB). Although lithium (LiBOB) has previously been investigated for lithium-ion...

During vertebrate development, the posterior end of embryo progressively elongates in a head-to-tail direction to form body plan. Recent lineage tracing experiments revealed that bi-potent progenitors, called neuromesodermal progenitors (NMPs), produce caudal neural and mesodermal tissues during axial elongation. However, their precise location contribution spinal cord development remain elusiv...