Road deicing salts are widely used during winter in northern China, which makes it essential to choose proper salt-tolerant plant species urban landscapes. Columbine (Aquilegia) is a herb with high ornamental and commercial values. This study evaluated three Aquilegia (A. oxysepala, A. parviflora, viridiflora) for salt tolerance by monitoring their germination state under different electrical c...

In simple electrical flow problems the Dirichlet integral of the potential function gives the electrical conductance. Moreover the Dirichlet integral of an arbitrary function satisfying the boundary condition gives an upper bound for the conductance. This last property (Dirichlet's principle) does not hold if the boundary value problem is not self-adjoint. This paper develops new algorithms for...

The electronic conductance at zero temperature through a quantum wire with side-connected asymmetric quantum ring (as a scatter system) is theoretically studied using the non-interacting Hamiltonian Anderson tunneling method. In this paper we concentrate on the configuration of the quantum dot rings. We show that the asymmetric structure of QD-scatter system strongly influences the amplitude an...

It was shown using perturbation theory[1] that Thouless energy Ec for a quantum system scales linearly with the conductance of the system. We derive in an alternate way in 1-D that Ec scales with the conductance in a very different way. We physically show the difference between our approach and that of ref. 1 to expect our results to hold in higher dimensions also. We verify our results with ex...

– We present a simple model of electrical transport through a metal–molecule– metal nanojunction that includes charging effects as well as aspects of the electronic structure of the molecule. The interplay of a large charging energy and an asymmetry of the metal– molecule coupling can lead to various effects in non–linear electrical transport. In particular, strong negative differential conduct...

Dislocation is a lattice imperfection of crystalline materials. Dislocation movement is induced during plastic deformation and influences the mechanical properties. Although the role of dislocation in mechanical properties has been well understood, the role of dislocation in electrical properties is completely lacking. Only Matthiessen's rule addresses the electrical influence of dislocations a...