Quaternary tungstate glasses containing K2O, Na2O and B2O3 have been prepared by melt quench technique and studied by IR and Raman spectroscopy. Raman and infrared spectroscopy have been employed to investigate the (30−x)Na2O–xK2O–10WO3–60B2O 3 glasses in order to obtain information about the competitive role of WO3 and B2O3 in the formation of glass network. IR spectral study reveals the exist...

In this work we study a class of Secant-like iterations for solving nonlinear and non-differentiable equations in Banach spaces. We consider a condition for divided differences which generalizes those usual ones, i.e, Lipschitz continuous and Hölder continuous conditions. A semilocal convergence result is obtained. For that, we use a technique based on a new system of recurrence relations to ob...

Extreme non-Arrhenius dependence of the ionic conductivity in optimized fast ion conducting glasses has been observed. When all the chemical factors controlling the ionic conductivity in glass have been optimized, the conductivity fails to reach the values expected, >0.1 (Ωcm)−1 at 298 K. A new series of glasses zAgI+(1−z) [0.525Ag2S+0.475B2S3:SiS2] have been measured for the first time and are...

The quenching effect of Se(>4— and NO3(scavenger for trapped electrons) on the delayed luminescence ('recombination luminescence') caused by the recombination of trapped electrons with mother tryptophan cations was investigated in aqueous 9 M NaOH and 9.5 M LiCI glasses at 77 K . The results show that the trapped electrons responsible for the recombination fluorescence were deep-trapped ones in...

In this paper a methodology is proposed to segment beard and glasses on frontal face images. Active Appearance Model (AAM) generative power is used to find the equivalent face without beard nor glasses. These artefacts can be detected and then segmented by difference between the original face image and its free-from-artefact equivalent. We replace the segmented pixels with non-beard and non-gla...

Observed enrichments of N (and the δ15N of this N) in volcanic glasses altered on Earth's modern and ancient seafloor are relevant in considerations of modern global N subduction fluxes and ancient life on Earth, and similarly altered glasses on Mars and other extraterrestrial bodies could serve as valuable tracers of biogeochemical processes. Palagonitized glasses and whole-rock samples of vol...

Chlorine (Cl) is a constituent of certain types of nuclear wastes and its presence can affect the physical and chemical properties of silicate melts and glasses developed for the immobilization of such wastes. Cl K-edge X-ray absorption spectra (XAS) were collected and analyzed to characterize the unknown Cl environments in borosilicate waste glass formulations, ranging in Cl-content from 0.23 ...

We briefly review the state-of-the-art study on plastic flow in metallic glasses. Especially, we survey the features and behaviors, percolation, and response of the basic deformation units to the activation of stress and temperature, and various models and notions on microscopic flow in metallic glasses. The discussion, comments and perspective on possible unified notation, terminologies and mo...

The Anaglyph 3D method of stereoscopic visualization is both cost effective and compatible with all full-color displays, however this method often suffers from poor 3D image quality due to poor color quality and ghosting (whereby each eye sees a small portion of the perspective image intended for the other eye). Ghosting, also known as crosstalk, limits the ability of the brain to successfully ...

2014 57Fe Mössbauer spectroscopy has been combined with bulk magnetic measurements to determine the valence state and coordination of iron as well as the magnetic properties of the ternary oxide glasses, Li2O-B2O3Fe2O3. In all investigated glasses (~ 8.4 at % Fe), the Fe3+ ions coexist in tetrahedral and octahedral coordinations ; the presence of Fe2+ ions ( 15 %), which is observed in some gla...