In this paper we focus on the development of a methodology for treatment of carbon tetrachloride utilising a non-equilibrium plasma operating at atmospheric pressure, which is not singularly aimed at destroying carbon tetrachloride but rather at converting it to a non-hazardous, potentially valuable commodity. This method encompasses the reaction of carbon tetrachloride and methane, with argon ...

The influence of cholestyramine and chenodeoxycholic acid on the induction of liver cirrhosis by carbon tetrachloride was investigated in the Wistar rat. The addition of 1.3% cholestyramine to the diet of the experimental animals inhibited to a large extent the induction of cirrhosis. While all the animals subjected to carbon tetrachloride exposure plus basal diet and those to carbon tetrachlor...

Carbon nanotube (CNT) based sensors are often fabricated by dispersing CNTs into different types of polymer. In this paper, a prototype carbon nanotube (CNT) yarn strain sensor with excellent repeatability and stability for in situ structural health monitoring was developed. The CNT yarn was spun directly from CNT arrays, and its electrical resistance increased linearly with tensile strain, mak...

Soil Organic Carbon (SOC) has been identified as one of the major C sinks in the global carbon cycle, of which the exact size and spatial distribution are still difficult to determine quantitatively. Estimation of the amount of SOC present using remote sensing is mostly based on the overall decrease in reflectance in the solar reflective part of the electromagnetic spectrum. However, moisture c...

Graphitic formsof carbonare important inawidevariety of applications, ranging frompollution control to composite materials, yet the structure of these carbons at the molecular level is poorly understood. The discovery of fullerenes and fullerene-related structures such as carbon nanotubes has given a new perspective on the structure of solid carbon. This review aims to show how the new knowledg...

The behavior of meso-carbon microbeads in the boiling quinoline was investigated. The meso-carbon microbeads used were of three kinds; Type C, Type M and Type P. These were treated in quinoline at 238 •Ž for 30 min. and the insoluble part was filtered out. This procedure was repeated five times. The amount of quinoline soluble part was measured and the structural characteristics of quinoline in...

In this paper we investigate the changes that occur in the chemical composition of carbon nanowalls due to ageing process in open atmosphere. Ageing process of the carbon nanowalls samples was monitored for about two years by FTIR spectroscopy. The carbon nanowalls were deposited in a low-pressure plasma jet expanding through a nozzle. The ageing behaviour of the samples is related to the time ...

Through first-principles calculations, we predict a new superhard carbon allotrope named C 20  -  T, which possesses a cubic T symmetry with space group No.198(P213). This new carbon allotrope has an all-sp (3) hybridized bonding network with 20 atoms in its primitive unit cell. The dynamic, mechanical, and thermal stabilities of this new carbon phase at zero pressure are confirmed by using a v...

A biomolecule-assisted pyrolysis method has been developed to synthesize sulfur-doped graphitic carbon nitride (CNS) nanosheets. During the synthesis, sulfur could be introduced as a dopant into the lattice of carbon nitride (CN). Sulfur doping changed the texture as well as relative band positions of CN. By growing CN on preformed sulfur-doped CN nanosheets, composite CN/CNS heterojunction nan...