Introduction Thousands of chemical substances, including toxic, persistent, bioaccumulative substances (TPBS), are produced and used world-wide annually 1 . These volatile and semivolatile TPBS may be transported by air both in gaseous phase and adsorbed to atmospheric particles 2 prior to deposition in soil and water. Due to the grasshopper effect, TPBS released may evaporate in warmer climate...

water quality in each area, indicates the impact of geology, climate and anthropogenic pollutants. monitoring of water quality in most cases result in complex data which shows the perfect act of water resources, so they need appropriate method for analyzing. in this study hydro-chemical evaluation of hiv basin which located in west of hashtgerd have been done. to measure the concentration of ma...

We demonstrate laser direct growth of few layer graphene on a silicon substrate. In our study, a continuous wave laser beam was focused on a poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA)-coated silicon wafer to evaporate PMMA and melt the silicon wafer. Carbon atoms, decomposed from PMMA, were absorbed by the molten silicon surface, and then separated from silicon in the cooling process to form few-layer gr...

Direct deposition of graphene on various dielectric substrates is demonstrated using a single-step chemical vapor deposition process. Single-layer graphene is formed through surface catalytic decomposition of hydrocarbon precursors on thin copper films predeposited on dielectric substrates. The copper films dewet and evaporate during or immediately after graphene growth, resulting in graphene d...

2,7-Dichlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (DCDD) was found to evaporate easily with water vapor from a heated solution. Steam distillation was also effective for the removal of DCDD from DCDD-applied soil; its concentration (250 microg/50g soil) in the original soil decreased to less than 5% after steam distillation for only 20 min. Actual dioxin-polluted soil in Tokorozawa City was partially decontaminated...

We present the results of observational studies of a number of molecular clouds associated with ultracompact HII regions in regions of massive star formation. We derive molecular abundances and show that gas-phase-only chemical models of these regions are incapable of reproducing the observations. It appears that a rich chemistry occurs in the ice matrices frozen onto dust grains at high densit...

In this paper, we report the realization and characterization of a condensation sensor based on indium nitride (InN) layers deposited by magnetron sputtering on glass and flexible plastic substrates, having fast response and using potentially low cost fabrication technology. The InN devices work as open gate thin film sensitive transistors. Condensed water droplets, formed on the open gate regi...