To commemorate the 70th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese people's Anti-Japanese War and the World AntiFascist War, an international parade was held in Beijing in September 2015. In order to ensure satisfactory air quality during this event, a phased emission control measures were taken in Beijing and its surrounding provinces. The 24-h PM2.5 samples were collected in Beijing from Augus...

Doping of low-dimensional graphitic materials, including graphene, graphene quantum dots and single-wall carbon nanotubes with nitrogen, sulfur or boron can significantly change their properties. We report that simple fluorination followed by annealing in a dopant source can superdope low-dimensional graphitic materials with a high level of N, S or B. The superdoping results in the following do...

Applications of Lagrangian dispersion modeling to the analysis of changes in the specific absorption of elemental carbon J. C. Doran, J. D. Fast, J. C. Barnard, A. Laskin, Y. Desyaterik, M. K. Gilles, and R. J. Hopkins Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, P.O. Box 999, Richland, Washington, USA Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA Received: 25 September 2007 – Accepted: 10...

How does consumer physiology and life history respond to them? And (3) What are their consequences for ecological processes in ecosystems? Elemental imbalances are defi ned by a mismatch between the elemental demands of a consumer and those provided by its resources. For example, carbon-tophosphorus (C:P) ratios in the suspended organic matter in lakes (i.e., algae, bacteria, and detritus) can ...

in this paper, the chemical functionalization of carboxylated multi-walled carbon nanotubes (mwnt-cooh) by 1,2-phenylenediamine, have been investigated. mwnt-benzimidazole is obtained through mwnt-amide reaction with pocl3 after 72h, which is confirmed by ft-ir, sem, tga, and elemental analysis. these functionalizations have been chosen due to –nh2 and nhco active sites in mwnt-amide for future...

A three-dimensional elemental carbon kagome lattice, made of only fourfold-coordinated carbon atoms, is proposed based on first-principles calculations. Despite the existence of 60° bond angles in the triangle rings, widely perceived to be energetically unfavorable, the carbon kagome lattice is found to display exceptional stability comparable to that of C(60). The system allows us to study the...

IBA methods were applied to measure elemental depth profiles of precursors and superconducting MgB2 thin films deposited on glassy carbon (Good Fellows) and sapphire (Al2O3) substrates. For each type of substrates we obtained a pair of samples i.e. one amorphous precursor and one superconducting film which were then characterized. A He beam was used to bombard both, precursors and superconducti...

Because of increased interest in the marine and atmospheric sciences in elemental carbon (EC), or black carbon (BC) or soot carbon (SC), and because of the difficulties in analyzing or even defining this pervasive component of particulate carbon, it has become quite important to have appropriate reference materials for intercomparison and quality control. The NIST "urban dust" Standard Referenc...

24-hour samples of pm1 (submicron particles, aerodynamic diameters ≤1 μm) and pm2.5(fine particles, aerodynamic diameters ≤ 2.5 μm) were collected at a quasi-rural area in racibórz (1 january-30 june 2011). the samples were analysed for carbon (organic and elemental), water-soluble ions (na+,nh4 +, k+, mg2+, ca2+, cl-, no3 -, so4 2-) and concentrations of 21 elements with a carbon analyser (sun...