Glasses and glass-ceramics (GCs) used for sealing, coating and high voltage applications belong to a special class of materials in which among other requirements, matching of thermal expansion coefficient with that of metal as closely as possible up to set temperature is an important consideration. In this paper I shall concentrate on some indigenous efforts carried out in my laboratory on the ...

We report the first demonstration of superbroadband emission extending from 1.30 to 1.68 μm in praseodymium(Pr(3+))-erbium(Er(3+)) codoped fluorotellurite glasses under 488 nm excitation. This superbroad near-infrared emission is contributed by the Pr(3+): (1)D(2)→(1)G(4) and Er(3+): (4)I(13/2)→(4)I(15/2) transitions which lead to emissions located at 1.48 and 1.53 μm, respectively. The quenchi...

this study at first level focused on definitions and descriptions of  some landfills and landfills sites all around the world and  survey on how important they are for regional governments and responsible in duty  as a very important responsibility for locals and their health. at the second level we had a look on heavy metals concentration which are by many definitions as follows: lead, nickel,...

Synthesis of a large number of simple and complex polymetaphosphate glasses of alkali metals with the general formulae (MXM1 -X)P03)fl and (MM_12PO3) has been described, where M and M' = Li,Na, K, Rb or Cs; M" = Be, Mg,Ca,Sr,Ba,Zn,Cd,Pb,CuorNi;andx = 1,,4or4.Thepreparations have been carried out by heating alkali dihydrogen phosphate, metal oxide (or carbonate) and diammonium hydrogen phosphate...

Accumulation of heavy metals from various oxides with adsorbed cadmium by wetland plant Phragmites australis was studied to evaluate the fate of heavy metals in the sediment of constructed wetlands. Hoagland solution was used as nutrition supply, and single metal oxide with adsorbed cadmium was applied as contaminant to study the accumulation characteristics of cadmium and the substrate metals ...

A bottom-up approach to nanofabricate metallic glasses from metal clusters as building blocks is presented. Considering metallic glasses as a subclass of cluster-assembled materials, the relation between the two lively fields of metal clusters and metallic glasses is pointed out. Deposition of selected clusters or collections of them, generated by state-of-the-art cluster beam sources, could le...

A combined experimental and theoretical study shows that the photooxidative activity of two isostructural metal oxide clusters depends on their internal templates. To this end, two halide-templated bismuth vanadium oxide clusters [X(Bi(dmso)3 )2 V12 O33 ](-) (X=Cl(-) , Br(-) ) are reported and fully characterized. The two clusters show similar absorption features and illustrate that bismuth inc...

The study of heavy metal speciation is of interest for the evaluation of their ecotoxicological risk. Free heavy metal ion concentrations of Cu2+, Zn2+, Ni2+ and Cd2+ were studied at different soil to soil solution ratio (SSR) to discuss metal bioavailability and toxicity in circumstance. The samples were collected from two farmed soils, impacted by a cadmium rich zinc deposit, Guizhou, China. ...

BACKGROUND Chelation therapy involving organic chelators for treatment of heavy metal intoxication can cause cardiac arrest, kidney overload, mineral deficiency, and anemia. METHODS In this study, superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (SPIONs) modified with an edible biopolymer poly(γ-glutamic acid) (PGA) were synthesized by coprecipitation method, characterized and evaluated for their r...

We observe attraction, repulsion and energy exchange between two self-trapped beams in a heavy-metal-oxide glass exhibiting a Kerr-like response with multiphoton absorption. The coherent interaction between spatial solitons is controlled by their relative phase and modelled by a nonlinear dissipative Schrödinger equation.