The structure of a liquid water layer on Pt(111) has been studied by ab initio molecular dynamics simulations based on periodic density functional theory calculations. First the reliability of the chosen exchange-correlation function has been validated by considering water clusters, bulk ice structures, and bulk liquid water, confirming that the dispersion corrected RPBE-D3/zero functional is a...

globally, increasing nitrate concentrations have become a significant environmental problem and a potential risk to public health. the world health organization (who) has set a limit of (10 (mg.l -1 )) no 3 - for human consumption and (100 mg.l -1 )) no 3 - for animals. water above these limits requires denitrification. nitrates causes cancer, blue-bay syndrome, hypertension and thyroid hypertr...

Effect of different feeding levels on water quality, growth performance, survival rate and body composition of Pacific white shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei post larvae were studied in zero water exchange system. Shrimp post larvae with mean weight of 74.46± 6.17 mg were fed for 32 days in 300L fiberglass tanks containing 130L water at density of 1 post larvae L-1. There were five treatments includ...

The pull of water from the soil to the leaves causes water in the transpiration stream to be under negative pressure decreasing the water potential below zero. The osmotic concentration also contributes to the decrease in leaf water potential but with much lesser extent. Thus, the surface tension force is approximately balanced by a force induced by negative water potential resulting in concave...

3-O-Methyl-D-glucose transport across the plasma membrane of isolated rat hepatocytes was followed for net entry of the sugar into sugar-free cells (zero trans entry), net exit of sugar into sugar-free medium (zero trans exit) and for unidirectional entry and exit fluxes when cells had been equilibrated with sugar in the extracellular medium (equilibrium exchange entry and exit). These measurem...

EPR spectra of perdeuterated 2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-4-oxopiperidine-1-oxyl (PDT) are studied as functions of molar concentration, c, and temperature, T, in water and 70 wt % glycerol in water. The increase of the intrinsic line width averaged over the three hyperfine lines, B(tot), varies linearly with c with zero intercept in both solvents at all temperatures; therefore dB(tot)/dc is independent ...