The adsorption of ethylene has been studied on clean and hydrogen-covered Pd(1 1 1) using reflection–absorption infrared spectroscopy and molecular beam methods. Using a correlation diagram, in which vibrational frequencies are plotted versus a rp parameter proposed by Stuve and Madix, shows that ethylene is substantially rehybridized on Pd(1 1 1) having a rp parameter intermediate between thos...

It is now generally agreed that the electrochemical reduction of ethylene carbonate ~EC! plays an important role in the formation of an effective solid electrolyte interface layer on the carbon anode in lithium-ion cells. However, neither the composition of this layer nor the reaction pathways involved in its formation have been clearly established. We report reflectance infrared spectra from a...

Optical limiting behaviour of suspensions of single-walled carbon nanotubes in water, ethanol and ethylene glycol is reported. Experiments with 532 nm, 15 nsec duration laser pulses show that optical limiting occurs mainly due to nonlinear scattering. The observed host liquid dependence of optical limiting in different suspensions suggests that the scattering originates from microbubbles formed...

The biuret method offers some advantages as a simple, rapid photometric method for the determination of proteins. In the methods which have been proposed, precipitation of cupric hydroxide gives rise to certain difficulties (1, 2). It occurred to us that the precipitates might be avoided by the addition of a reagent which would form a compound with copper which was soluble in alkali, but of suc...

In the present work, a prototype of a new type of solar collectors, which called Direct Absorption Solar Collector, was built and its thermal performance is experimentally compared with conventional flat plate solar collector under transient and steady state conditions. Different volume fractions of multi wall carbon nanotubes in water and ethylene glycol mixture (70%:30% in volume) were used a...

Experimental results are presented from an experiment in which ionization created by a highenergy x-ray synchrotron radiation beam intersecting an ethylene diffusion flame is measured.The ionization signal is believed to arise from x-ray absorption by aggregated soot particles.Comparisons are made between these ionization profiles and those due to natural flameionization. Visibl...

−Poly-Ethylene Glycol (PEG) 300+H2O solutions (PEGWs) has been used as a promising medium for the absorption of SO2. We investigated the UV, FTIR, 1H-NMR, and fluorescence spectra in the absorption processes of SO2 in PEGWs to present an important absorption mechanism. Based on the spectral results, the possibility of intermolecular hydrogen bond formation by hydroxyl oxygen atom in the PEG mol...