In the last ten years, the spin-dependent structure functions g1 and g2 of the nucleon have been intensively studied in the polarized deep-inelastic scattering of polarized lepton on polarized nucleon targets. Based on the next-to-leading order (NLO) QCD analysis of the experimental data, the polarized parton distributions inside the nucleon have been extracted. The gluon polarization ∆G is now...

During the last decade, major efforts have been made to develop adequate and commercially viable processes for disintegrating cellulose fibres into their structural components. Homogenisation of cellulose fibres has been one of the principal applied procedures. Homogenisation has produced materials which may be inhomogeneous, containing fibres, fibres fragments, fibrillar fines and nanofibrils....

ZnO nano-particles with a diameter of 10-20 nm were fabricated under oxygen and helium mixture plasma circumstance by evaporating Zn target using pulsed laser ablation. Cathodoluminescence technique, combined with transmission electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction and energy-dispersive spectrometer, was applied to study luminescence property and crystalline structure of ZnO nano-particles. Var...

In this paper, we used quantum chemical approach to shed light on the catalytic mechanism of γ-carbonic anhydrase (γ-CA) to convert carbon dioxide to bicarbonate ion. Density functional theory (DFT) using B3LYP and UB3LYP functional and three split-valance including 6-31G*, 6-311G** and 6-311++G** basis sets were used to calculate the details of electronic structure and electronic energy of act...

Cerium oxide nanoparticles (nano-CeO₂) have been reported to cause damage and apoptosis in human primary hepatocytes. Here, we compared the toxicity of three types of nano-CeO₂ with different nanocrystal morphologies (cube-, octahedron-, and rod-like crystals) in human hepatocellular carcinoma cells (HepG2). The cells were treated with the nano-CeO₂ at various concentrations (6.25, 12.5, 25, 50...

The nano-domain, with short-range ordered structure, has been widely observed in rare-earth-doped ceria. Atomistic simulation has been employed to investigate the ordering structure of the nano-domain, as a result of aggregation and segregation of dopant cations and the associated oxygen vacancies in gadolinium-doped ceria. It is found that the binding energy of defect cluster increases as a fu...