In this study, inductive coupled plasma-optical emission spectroscopy (ICP-OES) is employed for the evaluation of soil pollution for selected metals in the Vanderbijlpark area of South Africa. Soil samples investigated were collected from five different sites in the city based on their proximity to the industrial areas of Vanderbijlpark. Soil samples were collected from close to traffic robots,...

The concentration of heavy metals (Cd, Cu, Pb, Ni and Zn) and organochlorine contaminants (PCBs, DDT, DDE and DDD) in the blubber of 12 adult male Cape fur seals, Arctocephalus pusillus pusillus, inadvertently caught in trawl nets off the Eastern Cape coast of South Africa during commercial fishing operations between May 1993 and October 1994, was investigated. The median and range of concentra...

A novel solid–liquid interdiffusion (SLID) bonding method with the assistance of temperature gradient (TG) was carried out to Cu and Ni substrates Sn as interlayer. The element distribution grain morphology interfacial intermetallic compound (IMC) in Cu/Sn/Ni micro-joints during both SLID TG-SLID final Cu/(Cu,Ni)6Sn5/Ni full IMC were analyzed. Under effect Cu-Ni cross-interaction, (Cu,Ni)6Sn5 d...

A new family of magic cluster structures is found by genetic global optimization, whose results are confirmed by density functional calculations. These clusters are Ag-Ni and Ag-Cu nanoparticles with an inner Ni or Cu core and an Ag external shell, as experimentally observed for Ag-Ni, and present a polyicosahedral character. The interplay of the core-shell chemical ordering with the polyicosah...

Decorating of Transition metals (TMs) on the "AlMg" nanoalloy has been studied basis Langmuir adsorption applying "ONIOM" model with three levels «high, medium and low» by using "LANL2DZ /6-31+G(d,p)/EPR-III", "semi-empirical" "MM2" functions. The fluctuation "NQR" estimated inhibiting role pyridine alkylpyridines containing 2-picoline (2Pic), 3-picoline (3Pic) ,4-picoline (4Pic), 2,4-lutidine ...

A newly prepared iminocoumarin-functionalized magnetic nanosilica (Ni@SiO(2)-1) was found to form a selective stable complex with Cu(2+) over other metal ions. Quantification of Cu(2+) ions in aqueous solution using Ni@SiO(2)-1 is demonstrated through a fluorescent demetallization ensemble process.

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Soft X-ray resonant magnetic scattering studies on a magnetically modulated, but nominally chemically homogenous, 5 nm Ni layer in a Cu/Ni/Cu/Co/NiO/GaAs(110) system are reported. It was possible to estimate the main chemical structure of the sample on the basis of the results from specular reflectivity and rocking scans, probing the scattering vector components in the perpendicular and in-plan...

Equilibrium structural properties of solid-liquid interfaces in Cu-Ni alloys are studied by Monte-Carlo simulations employing interatomic potentials based on the embedded-atom method. We describe a thermodynamicintegration approach used to derive bulk concentrations and densities for solid and liquid phases in two-phase thermodynamic equilibrium. These results are used as a basis for constructi...