The resource intensive human activities (such as mining and extraction of mineral oils for betterment of life and modernization of society) have increased environmental pollution several folds. Products of mining and petrochemical industries are advantageous for the modern society. But waste generated such as BTEX from such industries are carcinogenic, toxic and causes adverse effects on enviro...

This paper describes CHEM2D-H2O, a new parameterization of H2O photochemical production and loss based on the CHEM2D photochemical-transport model of the middle atmosphere. This parameterization accounts for the altitude, latitude, and seasonal variations in the photochemical sources and sinks of water vapor over the pressure region from 100–0.001 hPa (∼16–90 km altitude). A series of free-runn...

The dual nature of ~3-~2-~4-~N,N-diethylamino!phenyl!ethenyl!-5,5-dimethyl-1,2-cyclohexenylidene!propanedinitrile ~Lemke-e! allows us to write both quasipermanent and erasable holographic gratings in the same storage volume. In the presence of a triplet excited sensitizer, Lemke-e undergoes a photochemical reaction allowing the creation of quasipermanent photochemical holographic gratings. In a...

We report here on significant enhancement of the photochemical etching of p-type gallium phosphide (GaP) by Au plasmonic nanostructures. The photochemical etching rate of defect (dislocation) states of Au-coated p-GaP samples is ten times higher than blank samples when irradiated with 532 nm laser. It is confirmed that the enhancement of photochemical etching is wavelength selective. Only 532 n...

Observations of peroxynitric acid (HO2NO2) obtained simultaneously with those of NO and NO2 provide a sensitive measure of the ozone photochemical production rate. We illustrate this technique for constraining the ozone production rate with observations obtained from the NCAR C-130 aircraft platform during the Megacity Initiative: Local and Global Research Observations (MILAGRO) intensive in Me...

Coherent multidimensional electronic spectroscopy is commonly used to investigate photophysical phenomena such as light harvesting in photosynthesis in which the system returns back to its ground state after energy transfer. By contrast, we introduce multidimensional spectroscopy to study ultrafast photochemical processes in which the investigated molecule changes permanently. Exemplarily, the ...