by Ernesto Viglizzo, Florencia Ricard
ABSTRACT: Based on the notion of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), the carbon footprint (CF) is an extensively used concept that quantifies and informs carbon load per unit weight (e.g., kg C/ton food) in the...
by Valerii Dolmatov, Galina Konstantinovna Burkat, Maxim Nikolaevich Kiselev
ABSTRACT: Chromium deposition process regularities are analyzed in the standard chromium plating electrolytes, with and without detonation nanodiamonds additives modified with boron, phosphorus (DND-boron,...
by Svetlana Kulakovskaya, Tatyana S. Zyubina, Alexander S. Zyubin, Alexander V. Kulikov, Yuriy A. Dobrovolskiy
ABSTRACT: Oxidation of tert-butyl alcohol (tert-BuOH, Me 3 COH), a compound with a high C-H bond breaking energy in the absence of precious metals or their oxides as catalysts and using metal-free...
by Joseph-Tuakolon Tokpah, Mehdi Seraj, Huseyin Ozdeser
ABSTRACT: In today's world, there are numerous urgent global challenges that require our attention, prominent among those issues is the need to address climate change. Due to this, governments around the...
by Slavik Melkonyan
ABSTRACT: Within the Boltzmann kinetic theory minimal dc conductivity of single and bilayer graphene is studied. It is shown that the uncertainty principle plays a key role in graphene band structure. In...
by Apostolos Syropoulos, Marcin Orawiec, Richard Telford, Alexander Surtees
ABSTRACT: Graphene is a promising nanofiller for producing polymer nanocomposites with enhanced mechanical, electrical, thermal, electromechanical, and flame retardancy properties, leading to applications...
by Qianru Wu, Ningning Xu, Xinyan Chi, Wenjing Zhang, Kezheng Chen, Maoshuai HE
ABSTRACT: Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) have gained worldwide attention because of their exceptional electronic, optical, and mechanical properties, which are contingent on their structures denoted...
by Valery Dolmatov
ABSTRACT: To determine the dependence of the yield of detonation nanodiamonds on the power of the explosives used, a new concept was introduced—the specific power of explosives (with which the detonation...
by Michael Oteng-Peprah, Benjamin Agyei-Tuffour, Maame Adwoa Animpong, Frank Nana Osei, Deborah Oyiye Mensah, Mike Agbesi Acheampong
ABSTRACT: This study assesses the reduction of 5-day biochemical oxygen demand (BOD 5 ) and chemical oxygen demand (COD) of household greywater using palm kernel activated carbon (PKAC) and tropical almond...
by Rafael Belo Duarte, Gabriela de França Lopes, João Lourenço Castagnari Willimann Pimenta, Luiz Mario de Matos Jorge
ABSTRACT: International initiatives such as the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA) have set goals for the complete de-carbonization of international aviation in this...