Viscoelastic fluids have been recently proposed to promote mixing effect in microfluidic systems, where limited success has obtained. However, the flow and mechanism of a viscoelastic fluid is still poorly understood, particularly regarding roles injection on at low Reynolds numbers. In this work, an efficient mixer by orthogonal into primary proposed. The behaviors shear-thinning serpentine ch...

[1] Laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) analyses of B and Li in serpentinized peridotites from the Feather River Ophiolite (California) indicates that B is enriched in serpentine minerals compared to the whole-rock and less altered olivine grains, while Li in serpentine is depleted or comparable to whole-rock Li. The high B contents of serpentine minerals cor...

Plants on serpentine soils provide extreme examples of adaptation to environment, and thus offer excellent models for the study of evolution at the molecular and genomic level. Serpentine outcrops are derived from ultramafic rock and have extremely low levels of essential plant nutrients (e.g., N, P, K, and Ca), as well as toxic levels of heavy metals (e.g., Ni, Cr, and Co) and low moisture ava...

Adaptations to particular stresses may occur only in populations experiencing those stresses or may be widespread within a species. Nickel hyperaccumulation is viewed as an adaptation to high-Ni (serpentine) soils, but few studies have determined if hyperaccumulation ability is restricted to populations from high-Ni soils or if it is a constitutive trait found in populations on both high- and l...

Rauwolfia species (Apocynaceae) are medicinal plants well known worldwide due to its potent bioactive monoterpene indole alkaloids (MIAs) such as reserpine, ajmalicine, ajmaline, serpentine and yohimbine. Reserpine, ajmalicine and ajmaline are powerful antihypertensive, tranquilizing agents used in hypertension. Yohimbine is an aphrodisiac used in dietary supplements. As there is no report on t...

This study numerically examined the impacts of central winglets and Al2O3-water nanofluid on thermo-hydraulic performance in a zigzag channel. The analyzes based Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) using SIMPLE algorithm are actualized for flow Reynolds numbers (Re) varying between 200 1200. volume fraction nanoparticle (φ) is changed from 1% to 5 %. upper lower surfaces kept at Tw = 350 K consta...

adsorption of co2 on the surface of single-wall zigzag (5,0) and armchair (4,4) carbon nanotubes (swcnts) were studied through using density functional theory (dft) calculations. optimizations of geometric were performed at the b3pw91 level of 6-311++g** method standard basis set using gaussian 03 package of program [1]. structural models were optimized and adsorption energies, band gap, charge...

in this study, the adsorption of 4-hydroxy phenyl-azobenzene on the surface of (4, 0) zigzag open-end boron nitride nanotube (bnnt) has been investigated by quantum calculations. in order to find the preferred adsorption site, different positions and orientations were considered. the impacts of donor-acceptor electron delocalization on the structural and electronic properties and reactivity of ...