A phosphorus allotrope that has not been observed so far, ring-shaped phosphorus consisting of alternate P8 and P2 structural units, has been assembled inside multi-walled carbon nanotube nanoreactors with inner diameters of 5-8 nm by a chemical vapor transport and reaction of red phosphorus at 500 °C. The ring-shaped nanostructures with surrounding graphene walls are stable under ambient condi...

Density functional theory in combination with genetic algorithm is applied to determine the atomic models of p(1x2) and p(1x3) surface structures observed upon oxygen adsorption on a Mo(112) surface. The authors' simulations reveal an unusual flexibility of Mo(112) resulting in oxygen-induced reconstructions and lead to more stable structures than any suggested so far. Comparison of the stabili...

Spinel zinc manganese oxide (ZnMn2O4) nanorods were successfully prepared using the previously synthesized α-MnO2 nanorods by a hydrothermal method as template. The nanorods were characterized by X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, UV-Vis absorption, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, surface photovoltage spectroscopy, and Fourier transform infrared...

Nanostructured TiO2 and S and Fe co-doped TiO2 thin films with high transparency were prepared on glass substrate through ultrasonic-assisted spray pyrolysis technique. The effects of doping on morphological, optical an...

We have studied the oxidation of CO over Rh(100) using high pressure x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy under CO and O2 pressures ranging from 0.01 to 1 mbar. The results show a very low or no conversion for the CO covered surface found at low temperatures, while the activity rises slightly when the temperature is high enough for some CO to desorb, exposing surface sites for dissociative O2 adsor...

The analysis of Re compounds has revealed a time-dependent photoreduction during x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) measurements. Whilst such reduction of metal ions during XPS analysis is not uncommon, this is the first time that cases specifically for rhenium have been identified in the open literature.

This study offers an exclusive class of magnetic nanoparticles supported hyperbranched polyglycerol (MNP/HPG) that was functionalized with citric acid (MNP/HPG-CA) as a host immobilization of palladium nanoparticles. The MNP/HPG-CA/Pd catalyst was fully characterized using some different techniques such as thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), x-ray diffraction (XRD), transmission electron microsco...

We report a class of amorphous thin film material comprising of transition (Fe) and Lanthanide metals (Dy and Tb) that show unique combination of functional properties. Films were deposited with different atomic weight ratio (R) of Fe to Lanthanide (Dy + Tb) using electron beam co-evaporation at room temperature. The films were found to be amorphous, with grazing incidence x-ray diffraction and...

An extremely sensitive dependence of the electronic properties of SnOx film on sputtering deposition power is discovered experimentally. The carrier transport sharply switches from n-type to p-type when the sputtering power increases by less than 2%. The best n-type carrier transport behavior is observed in thin-film transistors (TFTs) produced at a sputtering power just below a critical value ...

The core level electron excitation and ionization spectra of thymine and adenine have been investigated by photoabsorption and photoemission spectroscopy, and the results interpreted by means of ab initio calculations using the second-order algebraicdiagrammatic construction (ADC(2)) method for the polarization propagator and the fourth-order ADC method (ADC(4)) for the one-particle Green's fun...