Ohmic heating (OH) was evaluated as a post-harvest technology to improve chestnuts’ shelf-life (Castanea sativa Mill.) by controlling molds and insect larvae proliferation. Chestnuts were processed OH at 35, 45, 55 °C compared with untreated fruits the conventional hydrothermal (HT - 50 for 45 min), which is process currently used chestnut industry. Shelf-life studies carried out different atmo...

We study the charge profile of a C60-FET (field effect transistor) as used in the experiments of Schön, Kloc and Batlogg. Using a tight-binding model, we calculate the charge profile treating the Coulomb interaction in a mean-field approximation. At low doping, the charge profile behaves similarly to the case of a continuous space-charge layer and becomes confined to a single interface layer fo...

We present here the 7.0–8.7 μm spectrum of the bright reflection nebula NGC 7023. Our observations are made with the Short Wavelength Spectrometer (SWS) on the European satellite Infrared Space Observatory (ISO). The vibrational bands of the ionized fullerene C60 are expected at 7.11 and 7.51 μm, while those of the neutral fullerene C60 are expected at 7.0 and 8.45 μm. We estimate an upper limi...

A carbon fiber/epoxy resin prepreg was tested by DSC, and the phenomenological nth-order autocatalytic reaction curing kinetic models of were established. On this basis, optimum process obtained. In addition, in order to explore effect ply parameters on mechanical properties laminates, thermomechanical laminates [0]10, [+ 45/ − 45]5s [0/90]5s, prepared compression molding, investigated. The res...

in this study the efficacy of intermittent and continuous drying processes on fissuring of hashemi and koohsar varieties was investigated. the fissuring of the kernels was assessed based on stress cracking index (sci). the experiments were carried out at drying and tempering temperatures of 30, 45 and 60 °c, drying durations of 20, 40 and 60 min, and constant tempering duration of 80 min. in co...

Modified Neglect of Differential Overlap (MNDO) and MNDO/d based semiempirical methods are widely employed to explore structure and thermochemistry of molecular systems. In this work, the AM1/d method has been parametrized for systems containing platinum. The proposed scheme delivers excellent performance for binding energies of Pt complexes with ethylene and large pi conjugated hydrocarbons. T...

Variations in the band structures of C60-polymers are studied, when conjugation conditions and the electron number are changed. We use a semiempirical model with the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger type electron-phonon interactions. In the neutral onedimensional C60-polymer, electronic structures change among direct-gap insulators and the metal, depending on the degree of conjugations. High pressure exper...

The discovery and synthesis of fullerenes led to the hypothesis that they may be present and stable in interstellar space. As first evidence for the largest molecule ever detected in space, we have recently detected two new diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs) in the near-infrared that are consistent with laboratory measurements of the C 60 cation. The inferred abundance (up to 0.9 % of cosmic car...