Ag nanocrystals differing by their coating agents: unexpected behaviors

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Two-dimensional (2D) nanocrystal superlattices Over the last 20 years, a number of groups have succeeded in fabricating self-ordered nanocrystals in two-dimensional closed-packed superlattices with a small number of defects and at very large...

Applications to aqueous systems: proton transfer reactions 

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Density functional theory on a localized basis set Calculations with density functional theory represent an essential step towards more accurate QMC simulations. The reason is twofold. At first place, extensive benchmarks [11, 12]...

Integrating fluidized beds in microfluidic systems

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Lab-on-a-Chip: magnetic microparticles and immunoassays Most commonly magnetic microparticles are composed of an ensemble of magnetic nanocrystals enclosed in a non-magnetic matrix made of an inert and bio-compatible material such as polymer or...

NH and NH2 radical formation: photochemistry of NH3 versus N/N2+H/H2 radical addition reactions

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Infrared Fourier spectrometry (FTIR) We know that spectroscopy studies the light absorption in the sample at different wavelengths. At first it was done by dispersing the light through a prism to different wavelengths...

Generating Post-hoc Counterfactuals and the Risk of Out-of-distribution Explanations 

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » From Counterfactual Reasoning to Counterfactual Explanations in Machine Learning Counterfactual reasoning. The term counterfactual originally comes from psychology (see e.g. Roese, 1997; Byrne, 2008), and Artificial Intelligence literatures (Lewis, 1973; Ginsberg, 1986). In...

Overview of Graphene Physics and Mesoscopic Transport

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Band Structure Calculations We now apply the above-presented model to the case of the graphene honeycomb lattice. As it was already mentioned, lattice symmetry is reflected by Bravais lattice, while honeycomb lattice can...

Alkanes and acid gases with brines: salting out effect in presence of organic compounds

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Mean spherical approximation theory (MSA) The MSA theory is based on the perturbation of polar fluids where the reference system is in the Percus-Yevick approximation using the Ornstein-Zernike equation as a specific closure....

Buoyant jets of helium-air mixture or helium in a partially confined air-filled cavity 

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Plumes in confined environment Although a lot of research efforts have been devoted to the study of self-similar solutions of plumes rising in free space, the laboratory experiments to produce these plumes were...

Mucosal immunity of the female genital tract 

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Seminal fluid Seminal fluid (SF), also cited as seminal plasma, represents a part of the semen containing a range of organic/inorganic substances (e.g. neutral α-glucosidase, hyaluronidase, carnitine, glycerolphosphocholin, fructose, prostaglandins, citrate, zinc, selenium)...

Modelling the nebular emission from star-forming galaxies

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Chemical composition of galaxies To constrain the past history of star formation, gas accretion and out ow of a galaxy, it is necessary to accurately measure the relative abundances of di erent chemical...