The decomposition of organic matter is a major biogeochemical process because of its effect on ecosystem productivity and its implications on climate change. Temperature and moisture are two variables that have a tremendous influence on microbial decomposition. Decomposition is also influenced by substrate type, in which higher quality substrates often have greater decomposition than lower qual...

Single junction microcrystalline silicon solar cells presently reach confirmed efficiencies up to 10.1%. Further improvement on device quality is now necessary to continuously increase the electrical performances of the solar cells. Zones of porous material, called “cracks”, appear when the substrate, such as glass covered with zinc oxide (ZnO), is too “rough”. Previous works have demonstrated ...

In this work, we demonstrate a single-layer encapsulation method for poly(3,4ethylenedioxythiophene) (PEDOT). This method is achieved by initiated chemical vapor deposition (iCVD) process, which is scalable and employs solvent-free and low-substrate temperature conditions. The encapsulant used, poly(divinylbenzene-co-maleic anhydride) (PDVB-MA), was first time synthesized via vapor phase proces...

Within the Landau-Ginzburg-Wilson approach we derive the effective Hamiltonian governing fluctuations of an interface between two phases, one of them adsorbed on a disclike substrate. For large disc radii and for temperatures close to the wetting temperature of the corresponding planar substrate the expressions for the height-height correlation function and the accompanying correlation angle ar...

This paper presents the analysis and modeling of the nonuniform substrate temperature in high performance ICs and its effect on the integrity of the clock signal. Using a novel non-uniform temperature-dependent distributed RC interconnect delay model, the behavior of clock skew in presence of the substrate thermal gradients is analyzed and some design guidelines are provided to ensure the integ...

Citation: Aversa L, Taioli S, Nardi MV, Tatti R, Verucchi R and Iannotta S (2015) The interaction of C60 on Si(111) 7×7 studied by supersonic molecular beams: interplay between precursor kinetic energy and substrate temperature in surface activated processes. Front. Mater. 2:46. doi: 10.3389/fmats.2015.00046 The interaction of C60 on Si(111) 7×7 studied by supersonic molecular beams: interplay ...

Environmental factors affecting the species composition of periphytic diatom assemblages were analyzed in the partly polluted Asa River, in Tokyo, Japan, using principal component analysis, individual differences scaling and direct gradient analy sis. The effects of water pollution, seasonal change of temperature, and substrate were detected, among which pollution was the most influential in th...

The 1.7A resolution crystal structure of recombinant family G/11 beta-1,4-xylanase (rXynA) from Bacillus subtilis 1A1 shows a jellyroll fold in which two curved beta-sheets form the active-site and substrate-binding cleft. The onset of thermal denaturation of rXynA occurs at 328 K, in excellent agreement with the optimum catalytic temperature. Molecular dynamics simulations at temperatures of 2...

Palladium-based membranes are attractive for their nearly perfect permselectivity to hydrogen. Membrane modules, consisting of a membrane foil, porous stainless steel substrate, test frame and flange were assembled and tested in an electrically heated vessel. Instantaneous hydrogen permeation flux was measured. Influences of operation conditions on the membrane performance were examined. Micros...

The electron transport in inhomogenous quasi-one-dimensional conducting channels on the liquid helium surface are studied in the temperature range 0.6− 1.5 K. Inhomogeneities are created by charging the substrate on which the conducting channels are formed. It has been established that the electron conductivity practically does not depend on temperature at some substrate charge. The results obt...