We present a systematic study on the effect of surface chemistry on thermal transport in colloidal nanocrystal (NC) solids. Using PbS NCs as a model system, we vary ligand binding group (thiol, amine, and atomic halides), ligand length (ethanedithiol, butanedithiol, hexanedithiol, and octanedithiol), and NC diameter (3.3-8.2 nm). Our experiments reveal several findings: (i) The ligand choice ca...

Electric conductivity of air is an important characteristic of the electric properties of an atmosphere. Testing instruments to measure electric conductivity ranging from ~10 to 10Sm in natural conditions found in the Earth atmosphere is not an easy task. One possibility is to use stratospheric balloon flights; another (and a simpler one) is to look for terrestrial environments with significant...

An analytical model to predict the effective conductivity of a partially sintered solid is presented. It is based on an analysis of heat flow through a spherical particle embedded in a self-consistent matrix. Determination of the effective conductivity reduces to solving an integral equation, and a numerical solution of this equation is presented. In the limiting cases wherein the contact size ...

Rio da Serra watershed presents well preserved fragments of rain forest at the headwaters and small farms at middle and final stretches. These features allowed the study of fluvial hydrochemistry, under quasi pristine conditions. Sampling stations were established in order to represent the basin, and visited during dry, intermediate and wet periods. Obtained results are: temperature (22.1-28.6 ...

the basis of the ohmic heating process is the transmission of alternating electric current through multi-phase solutions that is followed by heat generation due to particle resistance to the transmitted electric current. throughout the present study, simultaneous transfer of heat and electricity was modeled in a two-phase system of solid-liquid food to investigate the critical factors affecting...

Textile wastewater contains substantial pollution loads in terms of Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD), Biological Oxygen Demand (BOD), Total Suspended Solids (TSS), Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) and heavy metals. Phytoremediation used for removing heavy metals and other pollutants by aquatic macrophytes treatment systems (AMATS) is well established environmental protective technique. A lab scale stud...

Bioelectrochemistry and Bioenergetics 43 (1997) 285-291 Sensitivity of transmembrane voltage induced by applied electric fields-a theoretical analysis Tadej Kotnik, Feda Bobanovic *, Damijan Miklavcic University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Trzaskn 25, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia Received 4 December 1996; revised 20 January 1997 The sensitivity of induced transmembrane voltage ...

in this research, the groundwater quality of abhar plain was studied for drinking, domestic and irrigation uses. to assess the evaluation of hydrochemistry and quality, 26 groundwater samples were collected and analyzed for the physicochemical factors such as ph, electric conductivity (ec), total dissolved solids (tds), total hardness (th), na+, k+, ca2+,mg2+, cl-, so42-, hco3-, co32- during oc...

Electropermeabilization (EP) based protocols such as those applied in medicine, food processing or environmental management, are well established and widely used. The applied voltage, as well as tissue electric conductivity, are of utmost importance for assessing final electropermeabilized area and thus EP effectiveness. Experimental results from literature report that, under certain EP protoco...