The thermal transport properties of random network, single-walled carbon nanotube (SWNT) films were assessed using Raman spectroscopy. Two types of SWNT films were investigated: single-layer and stacked. The single-layer films were fabricated by aerosol chemical vapour deposition and subsequent direct dry deposition, while the stacked films were prepared by placing the single-layer films on top...

The behavior of marine-terminating ice sheets, such as the West Antarctic ice sheet, is of interest due to the possibility of rapid grounding-line retreat and consequent catastrophic loss of ice. Critical to modeling this behavior is a choice of basal rheology, where the most popular approach is to relate the ice-sheet velocity to a power-law function of basal stress. Recent experiments, howeve...

A novel two-dimensional→three-dimensional Cu(II) coordination polymer, {[Cu2(C10H14N4)5](NO3)4·4H2O} n , based on the 1,1'-(butane-1,4-di-yl)bis-(1H-imidazole) (biim) ligand and containing one crystallographically unique Cu(II) atom, has been synthesized under hydro-thermal conditions. The Cu(II) atom is coordinated by five N atoms from biim ligands, one of which has crystallographically impose...

Spatial structures in ionospheric electron density revealed in a tomographic image have been identi®ed with auroral forms and related to their sources in precipitating particles observed by DMSP satellites. The observations of plasma enhancements relate to discrete auroral arcs seen in the post-noon sector, identi®ed by both redand green-line emissions measured by a meridional scanning photomet...

We investigated the optical, electrical, structural, and surface properties of roll-to-roll [R2R] sputter-grown flexible IZO/Ag/IZO/Ag [IAIA] multilayer films on polyethylene terephthalate substrates as a function of the top indium zinc oxide [IZO] thickness. It was found that the optical transmittance of the IAIA multilayer was significantly influenced by the top IZO layer thickness, which was...

We study the "hybrid" heterostructure formed by one sheet of single-layer graphene (SLG) and one sheet of bilayer graphene (BLG) separated by a thin film of dielectric material. In general, it is expected that interlayer interactions can drive the system to a spontaneously broken-symmetry state characterized by interlayer phase coherence. The peculiarity of the SLG-BLG heterostructure is that t...

The most favorable locations for wind farm were determined based on environmental landuse factors, wind resources and the layout of the electrical grid lines. In the study landuse map was prepared and updated by using Survey of India topographic sheet and ASTER satellite imagery in open source Quantum GIS & GRASS GIS software environment. Wind Power Density Layer was digitized by using Indian w...

Solution-processable thin layer graphene is an intriguing nanomaterial with tremendous potential for electronic applications. In this work, we demonstrate that electrochemical exfoliation of graphite furnishes graphene sheets of high quality. The electrochemically exfoliated graphene (EG) contains a high yield (>80%) of one- to three-layer graphene flakes with high C/O ratio of 12.3 and low she...

In this paper, the unsteady stagnation-point boundary layer flow and heat transfer of a special third grade fluid past a permeable stretching/shrinking sheet has been studied. Similarity transformation is used to transform the system of boundary layer equations which is in the form of partial differential equations into a system of ordinary differential equations. The system of similarity equat...

In this research, flat rolling process of bonded sandwich sheets is investigated by the method of upper bound. A kinematically admissible velocity field is developed for a single layer sheet and is extended into the rolling of the symmetrical sandwich sheets. The internal, shear and frictional power terms are derived and they are used in the upper bound model. Through the analysis, the rolling ...