High quality noncrystalline NiPB nanotubes were synthesized and exhibited high efficiency for the catalytic hydrogenation of p-chloronitrobenzene due to the characteristic confinement effect of the nanotubes.

Proton transfer (PT) and methyl group transfer (MGT) occurring in small biomimetic systems, Formamide-Formamidic acid (FA-FI), and N-formyl-N-methylformamide-(E)-methyl N-formylformimidate (NMFA-NMFI) are investigated in the gas phase and in single-walled carbon nanotubes by using the density functional theory and the ONIOM approach. It is shown that PT reaction is disfavoured in single-walled ...

In this paper, a novel design of all-solid photonic bandgap fiber with ultra-low confinement loss is proposed. The confinement loss is reduced remarkably by managing the number of rods rings, up-doping level, pitch value, and rods diameters. Moreover, the designed PCF shows ultra-flattened dispersion in L- and U-band. Furthermore, a new design, based on introducing of an extra ring of air h...

  Germanium nanostructures were generated in the post annealed germanium oxide thin films. Visible and near infrared photoluminescence bands were observed in the samples annealed at 350°C and 400°C, respectively. These different luminescence ranges are attributed to the presence of the defects in oxide matrix and quantum confinement effect in the germanium nanostructures, respectively. Decay ti...

Well-dispersed noble metal nanoparticles can be synthesized, and further stabilized under high treatment temperature, by the confinement effect of ordered mesoporous alumina.

Gauge field configurations appropriate for the infrared region of QCD is proposed. Using the usual QCD action, confinement is realized as in the London theory of Meissner effect.