Introduction: Unfolding X-ray spectrum is a powerful tool for quality control of X-ray tubes. Generally, the acquisition of the X-ray spectrum in diagnostic radiology departments is complicated and difficult due to high photon flux. Measurement of x ray spectra using radiation detectors could not be performed accurately, because of the pulse pile up. Therefore, indirect methods...

x-ray absorption fine structure (xafs) spectroscopy was used to identify directly the metal speciation and local bonding environment of fe in sediments originated from dobczyce reservoir (poland); special attention was paid to analysis of samples collected from points situated at different distances from the land. the combination of traditional approach to data analysis as well as usage of mult...

a novel zinc oxide - agar nanocomposite was successfully synthesized using zinc chloride as a precursor. the nanocomposite was prepared using a domestic microwave oven. the prepared nanocomposites have been characterized by fourier transform infrared (ftir) spectroscopy, x-ray diffraction (xrd) analysis, scanning electron microscopy (sem) and uv- visible spectroscopy. the crystalline properties...

x-ray photoelectron and electron energy loss spectroscopic (xps-eels) studies reveal that the following species are present when a mixture of co2 and water vapour is exposed to the clean mg(100) surface at 110k: co3(a), c(a) ch(a), oh(a). the reactive chemisorptions of co2 and h2o vapour coadsorbed on a mg surface leads to the formation of ch bond. increasing the temperature to 400 k shows the ...

Supernova remnants are beautiful astronomical objects that are also of high scientific interest, because they provide insights into supernova explosion mechanisms, and because they are the likely sources of Galactic cosmic rays. X-ray observations are an important means to study these objects. And in particular the advances made in X-ray imaging spectroscopy over the last two decades has greatl...

a simple and green synthetic strategy to prepare bao/tio2-zro2 as a solid base catalyst was reported. these materials with various amounts of bao were prepared by the adsorption method. the physical and chemical properties of bao/tio2-zro2 were investigated by x-ray diffraction, x-ray fluorescence, specific surface area and bjh pore size distribution, ft-ir spectroscopy, scanning electron micro...

znfe2o4 mixed spinel ferrite nanoparticles obtained through a citrate-nitrate combustion method. ignited products calcined at different temperatures in 600-900ºc range and effect of calcination treatment temperature investigated. final products characterized by x-ray diffraction (xrd), fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (ftir), and field emission scanning electron microscopy (fesem). the a...

Oxygen, that supports all aerobic life, is abundant in the atmosphere because of its constant regeneration by photosynthetic water oxidation, which is catalyzed by a Mn₄CaO₅ cluster in photosystem II (PS II), a multi subunit membrane protein complex. X-ray and other spectroscopy studies of the electronic and geometric structure of the Mn₄CaO₅ cluster as it advances through the intermediate stat...

Sol-gel technique was used to coat multiwall carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) with anatase titania to increasing the surface area and improve the photocatalytic activity of TiO2. Room temperature ballistic conduct of MWCNT combined with semiconducting behavior of anatase brought about a photocatalytic improvement of ~37 % with respect to the highest methyl orange decolorization flair. For characteriza...