Ground pearl (Eurhizococcus colombianus) is a crop pest in Colombia, with special impact on fig, grass, rubus and tomato plants. The insect is resistant to external insecticide application because it produces a thick waxy shell that isolates it from the environment. The composition of this shell was determined by NMR and MS as a triglyceride, whose fatty acid is transformed into other products ...

interaction of pb(ii) ion with modified banana shell (mbs) and banana shell (bs) during adsorption fromaqueous solution were investigated. batch experiments were carried out to investigate the effect of contact time,ph, and idmid ion concentration on adsorption efficiency. the favorable pll for maxim= pb(ii) adsorptionwas at 5.0. for the investigated imoi) concentrations (10-80 mph), maximum ad...

Dendrimer-encapsulated Au nanoparticles comprised of an average of 147 atoms were synthesized and immobilized on a glassy carbon electrode. A one-atom-thick shell of Cu was added to the Au core by electrochemical underpotential deposition, and then this shell was replaced with Pt by galvanic exchange. The results indicate that this synthetic approach leads to well-defined core/shell nanoparticl...

The radiation efficiency of an acoustically thick circular cylindrical shell has been examined by calculations using the boundary element method for three different boundary conditions, and by conducting experiments using point excitation with the boundary conditions being free at both ends. Both the numerical and experimental results indicate that the radiation efficiency attains a value of un...

Nanowire nanoelectronic devices have been exploited as highly sensitive subcellular resolution detectors for recording extracellular and intracellular signals from cells, as well as from natural and engineered/cyborg tissues, and in this capacity open many opportunities for fundamental biological research and biomedical applications. Here we demonstrate the capability to take full advantage of ...

TITLE: Functionally-graded sandwich design of the armor protecting a hot-vent gastropod AUTHORS (FIRST NAME, LAST NAME): Haimin Yao1, Ming Dao1, Timothy Imholt2, Subra Suresh1, Christine Ortiz1 INSTITUTIONS (ALL): 1. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambirdge, MA, USA. 2. Raytheon, Inc, Marlboro, MA, USA. ABSTRACT BODY: Recently, a gastropo...

Treated herein is the elastic buckling problem of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes (SCNTs) under axial compression. Critical buckling strains cr ε of stocky SCNTs (length/diameter less than 8) that have been obtained by modeling them as first-order shear deformation (thick) shell theory (FSDST). The buckling strains are compared with those obtained by commonly used thin shell theories, such as th...