Boron carbide (B4C) added manganese dioxide (MnO2) used as a cathode material for a Zn–MnO2 battery using aqueous lithium hydroxide (LiOH) as the electrolyte is known to have higher discharge capacity but with a lower average discharge voltage than pure MnO2 (additive free). The performance is reversed when using potassium hydroxide (KOH) as the electrolyte. Herein, the MnO2 was mixed with 0, 5...

The excess of solar-neutrino events above 13 MeV that has been recently observed by Superkamiokande can be explained by vacuum oscillations (VO). If the boron neutrino flux is 20% smaller than the standard solar model (SSM) prediction and the chlorine signal is assumed 30% (or 3.5σ) higher than the measured one, there exists a VO solution that reproduces both the observed boron neutrino spectru...

Background: The declining soil fertility is a severe bottleneck for crop production in Ethiopia. application of inorganic fertilizer helps to correct site-specific nutrient deficiency. Methods: research was conducted at Achura kebele Farmers Training Center (FTC) from December 2020 July 2021. Soil samples and data were collected analyzed by standard procedures. Result: reaction revealed that th...

A systematic study was carried out to dope single-walled carbon nanotube (SWNT) bundles with varying amounts of boron using the pulsed laser vaporization technique. Targets containing boron concentrations ranging from 0.5 to 10at.% boron were prepared by mixing elemental boron with carbon paste and the Co/Ni catalysts. The laser-generated products that were obtained from these targets were char...

Hydrogenation of easily accessible potassium triphenylsilyl [K(Me6TREN)SiPh3] gave the hydrogen storage material α-[KSiH3] in high yields by an unusual hydrogenolytic cleavage of silicon-phenyl bonds.

We present a study of the effects of non-stoichiometry, boron purity, wire diameter and post-synthesis treatment (etching and Mg distilling) on the temperature dependent resistance and resistivity of sintered MgB2 pellets and wire segments. Whereas the residual resistivity ratio (RRR) varies between RRR ≈ 4 to RRR ≥ 20 for different boron purity, it is only moderately affected by non-stoichiome...