This is a story of our exploration of the olefin-metathesis reaction, a reaction that has been the major emphasis of my independent research. As with all stories of scientific discovery, there are three components: the discoveries, the resulting applications, and, perhaps the most important of all, the people involved. Starting from observations made from seemingly unrelated work, our investiga...

Solid oxide electrolysis cells (SOECs) have great application prospects because of their excellent performance, but the long-term applications stacks are restricted by structural degradation under high-temperature conditions. Therefore, an SOEC model is developed and embedded in a process steam (HTSE) system to investigate influence stack at level. The sensitivity analysis optimization were car...

There is a strong and optimistic commitment by all staff to the school improvement strategy and a clear belief that further improvement is possible. Teachers take responsibility for the changes in their practice required to achieve school targets and are using data on a regular basis to monitor the effectiveness of their own efforts to meet those targets. The school has developed an agenda for ...

There is a strong and optimistic commitment by all staff to the school improvement strategy and a clear belief that further improvement is possible. Teachers take responsibility for the changes in their practice required to achieve school targets and are using data on a regular basis to monitor the effectiveness of their own efforts to meet those targets. The school has developed an agenda for ...

In this work, Ni50Al50 alloy is taken into consideration as potential brazing material for joining ZrB2 ultra-high temperature ceramic. The results of experimental study on high interfacial phenomena between molten binary and polycrystalline ZrB2, are shown. A sessile drop method combined with a capillary purification procedure was applied to investigate the wetting behavior Ni50Al50/ZrB2 coupl...

DIVERSITY OF HIGH-TEMPERATURE ENVIRONMENTS High-temperature biotopes colonized by thermophilic and hyperthermophilic microorganisms are distributed on all continents and oceans and span a huge diversity of physicochemical niches, with pH values in high-temperature spring sources spanning >7 units (1–3) and aqueous concentrations of biologically relevant elements spanning several orders of magni...

While it is possible to find examples of field theories with a spontaneously broken symmetry at high temperature, in renormalizable supersymmetric models any internal symmetry gets always restored. Recently, a counterexample was suggested in the context of nonrenormalizable supersymmetric theories. We show that non negligible higher loop effects actually restore the symmetry, without compromisi...

QCD now occupies an established position as the well-attested theory of strong-interaction physics. Other contributions to these proceedings (those of S. Frixione, L. Lellouch, and K. Long) survey the agreement between evidence from particle collider experiments and perturbative and lattice QCD calculations. However, there is more to QCD than collisions between pairs of particles. QCD should al...