Novel cone-shaped carbon nanofiber (CNF)/silicon carbide (SiC)coated Si-nanocone (Si-NC) composite structures with excellent field emission (FE) performance have been fabricated by a simple microwave plasma chemical vapour deposition process. Transmission electron microscopy analyses reveal that the newly developed cone-shaped composite structures are composed of bamboolike herringbone CNFs gro...

Nanometer-sized glass-sealed metal ultramicroelectrodes (UMEs) have been prepared using a laser-based micropipet puller. The tip was exposed to solution either by etching away a small portion of glass insulator or by micropolishing. The characterization of the UMEs was carried out by a combination of steady-state voltammetry, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and scanning electrochemical micr...

Variable rate application of fertilisers with traditional spinner-type spreaders is known to suffer from spread pattern uniformity variability as a function of application rate. To demonstrate this variability, simulations using models from the literature were carried out for two cases: (1) a dual disc spreader with segment-type feed gates; and (2) a single disc spreader with conical feed gates...

Japanese pine sawyer beetle (Monochamus alternatus) is an economically important pest in coniferous trees. Ophiostoma ips was isolated from the beetle and identified based on analysis of morphological properties and the β-tubulin gene sequence. The fungus easily produced perithecia with a long neck on malt extract agar and its ascospores were rectangular shaped. This is first report of Ophiosto...

WETLANDS, a multidimensional model describing water flow in variably saturated soil and evapotranspiration, was used to simulate successfully 3-years of local hydrology for a cypress pond located within a relatively flat Coastal Plain pine forest landscape. Assumptions included negligible net regional groundwater flow and radially symmetric local flow impinging on a truncated conical pond, deci...

Randomly oriented short and low density conical carbon nanotubes (CNTs) were prepared on Si substrates by tubular microwave plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition process at relatively low temperature (350–550 C) by judiciously controlling the microwave power and growth time in C2H2 + NH3 gas composition and Fe catalyst. Both length as well as density of the CNTs increased with increasing mi...

The resetting behaviors of Pt/TiO2/Pt resistive switching (RS) cell in unipolar RS operations were studied in detail through an experiment and by modeling. The experiment showed that the apparently highly arbitrary resetting current-voltage (I-V) curves could be grouped into three types: normal, delayed, and abnormal behaviors. A dual conical conducting filament (CF) model was conceived, and th...