Annop Ektarawong, Sergey Simak, Lars Hultman, Jens Birch and Björn Alling, Configurational order-disorder induced metal-nonmetal transition in B13C2 studied with first-principles superatom-special quasirandom structure method, 2015, Physical Review B. Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, (92), 1, 014202. http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.92.014202 Copyright: American Physical Society http:/...

Over the past decades, China has been facing severe airborne pollution associated with atmospheric fine particulate matter (PM2.5). Much attention has been paid to the physical transport of PM2.5 emissions. However, the embodied emissions, namely the emissions transferred through economic activities, have seldom been investigated. In this paper, embodied emission of PM2.5 from each sector of Be...

For greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by the Chinese economy in 2007 with the most recent statistics availability, a concrete inventory covering CO2, CH4, and N2O is composed and associated with an input–output analysis to reveal the emission embodiment in final consumption and international trade. The estimated total direct GHG emission amounts to 7456.12 Mt CO2-eq by the commonly referred IPCC g...

A slowly moving, rod-shaped magnetotactic bacterium was found in relatively large numbers at and below the oxic-anoxic transition zone of a semianaerobic estuarine basin. Unlike all magnetotactic bacteria described to date, cells of this organism produce single-magnetic-domain particles of an iron oxide, magnetite (Fe3 0 4), and an iron sulfide, greigite (Fe3 S4), within their magnetosomes. The...

In the nonmetallic state of the organic superconductor k-~BEDT-TTF)2Cu@N(CN)2#Br synthesized with deuterated BEDT-TTF molecule, an angle-dependent electron spin resonance signal below 6–8 K was found. This is interpreted in terms of an antiferromagnetic resonance. The signal was found only when the sample was rapidly cooled, corresponding to the characteristics in that the present salt stays cl...

Understanding the development of metallic behavior with increasing cluster size has been one of the important questions in cluster science. Based on Kubo's criterion and optimized structures with ab initio calculations, the nonmetal to metal transition in Ba clusters is studied. It has been found that the critical size for this transition is around 32, in agreement with the mass spectra experim...

Abstract Mineral inclusions within native gold are features of lode occurrences that preserved in detrital particles. Inclusion assemblages populations particles placers from specific localities revealed through inspection polished sections, and assimilation robust data sets permits reconstruction the source mineralogy. differ considerably according to deposit type, various approaches have been...

the major reason for the prediction of thermodynamic properties of mercury lies in the fact that itsintermolecular interactions highly depend on temperature and density. internal pressure is a good criterion toinvestigate the density dependence of the interatomic interactions. because its physical base is a forcetending to close together the molecules that is intermolecular interactions, and as...