The surface of magnetite nanoparticles as nano-sized solid support was modified with a molybdenum-Schiff base complex to prepare an easily separable heterogeneous catalyst for the epoxidation of olefins. Characterization techniques such as Fourier transform infrared and inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectroscopies, X-ray diffraction, vibrating sample magnetometry, scanning, an...

Multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNT)-doped TiO2 thin films were synthesized by the dip-coating method. The obtained products were characterized by SEM, EDX, XRD, and UV-vis absorption spectroscopy. The XRD patterns showed the presence of anatase phase. Absorption spectrum of MWCNT-doped TiO2 revealed a red shift in the optical absorption edge due to carbon doping. The photocatalytic properties...

In this paper we describe an approach to automatically estimate movements of vehicles in optical satellite imagery. The approach takes advantage of the fact that the optical axes of the panchromatic and multispectral channels of current spaceborne systems like IKONOS or Quickbird are not coinciding. The time gap that appears between the acquisition of the panchromatic and multispectral data can...

Yet each in itself – this was the uncanny, the antiorganic, the life-denying character of them all – each of them was absolutely symmetrical, icily regular in form. They were too regular, as substance adapted to life never was to this degree – the living principle shuddered at this perfect precision, found it deathly, the very marrow of death – Hans Castorp felt he understood now the reason why...

F. A. Pinheiro, V. A. Fedotov, N. Papasimakis, N. I. Zheludev 1 Instituto de Fı́sica, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro-RJ, 21941-972, Brazil 2 Optoelectronics Research Centre and Centre for Photonic Metamaterials, University of Southampton, United Kingdom and 3 Centre for Disruptive Photonic Technologies, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences and The Photonics Instit...

Nagy's report of an optical rotation of-0.023 degrees to -0.084 degrees in the Orgueil meteorite has not been confirmed. The highest rotation found in several fatty-acid and hydrocarbon fractions isolated from the meteorite was -0.002 degrees , less than that of optically inactive controls. The "rotations" observed by Nagy may have been caused by scattered depolarized light from colloidal parti...

The circular dichroism of hypothetical, water-filled, spherical shells, 75-3500 nm in radius, with walls 7.5 nm thick, composed of poly(L-lysine) in various conformational proportions, and suspended in water, were computed from the known optical properties of this polypeptide by classical general light-scattering theory (Mie theory). Comparison of the computed curves of circular dichroism spect...

For photons that propagate through a gas of neutrinos with a non-zero chemical potential, the left-handed and right-handed polarization modes acquire different dispersion relations. This is due to the CP and CPT odd terms induced by such a background on the photon self-energy. We present a detailed calculation of this effect, which does not depend on any physical assumptions beyond those of the...

Following the recent observation of a large second-harmonic intensity difference from a monolayer of chiral molecules with left and right circularly polarized light, the scattering theory is generalized and extended to predict linear and circular intensity differences for the more versatile sum-frequency spectroscopy. Estimates indicate that intensity differences should be detectable for a typi...

Kirsty Hannam,1,* David A. Powell,1 Ilya V. Shadrivov,1 and Yuri S. Kivshar1,2 1Nonlinear Physics Center, Research School of Physics and Engineering, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 0200, Australia 2National Research University of Information Technology, Mechanics and Optics, St. Petersburg 197101, Russia (Received 23 January 2014; revised manuscript recei...