We report penetration and lateral diffusion behavior of environmental molecules on synthesized polycrystalline graphene. Penetration occurs through graphene grain boundaries resulting in local oxidation. However, when the penetrated molecules diffuse laterally, the oxidation region will expand. Therefore, we measured the lateral diffusion rate along the graphene-copper interface for the first t...

We present a detailed theoretical and experimental NQR multiple-pulse spin-locking study of spin-lattice relaxation and spin diffusion processes in the presence of paramagnetic impurities in solids. The obtained diffusion equation was obtained allows to find the time dependence of the magnetization in the effective field. The spin lattice relaxation times were calculated, both for direct and di...

Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a multifactorial chronic disorder characterized by various abdominal complaints and a worldwide prevalence of 10% 20%. Although its etiology and pathophysiology are complex and still not completely understood, aberrations along the microbe-gut-brain axis are known to play a central role. IBS is characterized by interrelated alterations in intestinal barrier fun...

Using Embedded-atom-method (EAM) potential, we have performed in detail molecular dynamics studies on a Fe adatom adsorption and diffusion dynamics on three low miller index surfaces, Fe (110), Fe (001), and Fe (111). Our results present that adatom adsorption energies and diffusion barriers on these surfaces have similar monotonic trend: adsorption energies, Ea(110) < Ea(001) < Ea(111), diffus...

We have performed density functional calculations of oxygen incorporation and diffusion in monoclinic hafnia (HfO2) for a range of oxygen charge states. The calculations demonstrate that oxygen favors atomic incorporation and that O2- is the most stable species. We find that oxygen interstitials diffuse via exchange with lattice oxygen sites in hafnia, and that O- species have the smallest diff...

Within the literature, capillary barriers have been suggested as an alternative hydraulic barrier in cover liners for waste dumps. When a waste dump reaches its full capacity, cover liners are usually constructed over the waste mound to seal the waste from the surrounding environment. One main function of a cover liner is to prevent substantial amounts of water infiltrating into the waste mater...

Four sets of experimental data were investigated in terms of normal distribution and presence of outliers. The following sets of compound were investigated: blood-brain barrier partitioning (n=105), inhibitory activity of para-substituted aromatic sulfonamides (n=47), inhibition activity of taxoids (n=63), and estrogen receptor binding affinity of triphenilacrylonitriles (n=25). The normality o...

This paper describes a new multilayer TBC that incorporates a 10 μm-thick oxygen barrier layer of yttrium–aluminum garnet (YAG) into a typical YSZ TBC system. The thermal conductivity of as-sprayed YAG/YSZ coatings was reduced due to excessive porosity and amorphous areas in the YAG layer. After long-term heat treatments, the conductivity of the multilayer was unaffected by the presence of YAG....

The micro-architecture of brain tissue obstructs the movement of diffusing water molecules, causing tissue-dependent, often anisotropic diffusion profiles. In diffusion MRI (dMRI), the relation between brain tissue structure and diffusion anisotropy is studied using oriented diffusion gradients, resulting in tissueand orientation-dependent diffusion-weighted images (DWIs). Over time, various me...