Variable temperature EPR spectra of KNilOß • 0.5 H2O have established that the paramagnetic behavior of this compound (~ 1 BM) is due to the presence of nickel(III) atoms which have occupied some nickel(IV) sites in the crystal lattices. Change of spectral pattern from rhombic (77 K) to isotropic (300 K) is due to a dynamic Jahn-Teller effect. Electrical conductivity measurement has shown it to...

This investigation aims to develop a quantitative model to estimate the material removal of polycrystalline diamond composites (PCDCs) by dynamic friction polishing. The model accounts for the contributions from the constitutive characteristics and thermal properties of the materials and the key polishing parameters. It was found that the material removal was dominated by six dimensionless vari...

SOEs (sulfite-oxidizing enzymes) are physiologically vital and occur in all forms of life. During the catalytic cycle, the five-co-ordinate square pyramidal oxo-molybdenum active site passes through the Mo(V) state, and intimate details of the structure can be obtained from variable frequency pulsed EPR spectroscopy through the hyperfine and nuclear quadrupole interactions of nearby magnetic nu...

We describe here two innovative in-flight measurement techniques for onboard operation on atmospheric re-entry demonstrator vehicles like EXPERT or pre-X actually in study in Europe. The first one is the Electron Beam Fluorescence (EBF) technique which aims at characterising shock layer chemistry through measurements of density, rotational and vibrational temperatures of N2 and NO in low densit...