The photoexcited triplet states of a series of linear and cyclic butadiyne-linked porphyrin oligomers were investigated by transient Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR) and Electron Nuclear DOuble Resonance (ENDOR). The spatial delocalization of the triplet state wave function in systems with different numbers of porphyrin units and different geometries was analyzed in terms of zero-field spl...

We present a new reaction-diffusion model for chiral branching growth of colonies of the bacteria Paenibacillus dendritiformis. In our model the bacteria are represented by a density field with nonlinear diffusion and a complex scalar field which represents bacterial orientation. The orientation field introduces anisotropy into the flux of bacteria, representing self-propulsion along their long...

The present study provides a thermodynamic analysis of solar thermochemical cycles for splitting of H2O or CO2. Such cycles, powered by concentrated solar energy, have the potential to produce fuels in a sustainable way. We extend a previous study on the thermodynamics of water splitting by also taking into account CO2 splitting and the influence of the solar absorption efficiency. Based on thi...

The exponential splitting of the classical evolution operator yields symplectic integrators if the canonical Hamiltonian is separable. Similar splitting of the noncanonical evolution operator for a charged particle in a magnetic field produces exact energy-conserving algorithms. The latter algorithms evaluate the magnetic field directly with no need of a vector potential and are more stable wit...

The equations for the electromagnetic field in an anisotropic media are written in a form containing only the transverse field components relative to a half plane boundary. The operator corresponding to this formulation is the electromagnetic system’s matrix. A constructive proof of the existence of directional wave-field decomposition with respect to the normal of the boundary is presented. In...

for solving large sparse non-hermitian positive definite linear equations, bai et al. proposed the hermitian and skew-hermitian splitting methods (hss). they recently generalized this technique to the normal and skew-hermitian splitting methods (nss). in this paper, we present an accelerated normal and skew-hermitian splitting methods (anss) which involve two parameters for the nss iteration. w...

We present a droplet microfluidic method to extract molecules of interest from a droplet in a rapid and continuous fashion. We accomplish this by first marginalizing functionalized super-paramagnetic beads within the droplet using a magnetic field, and then splitting the droplet into one droplet containing the majority of magnetic beads and one droplet containing the minority fraction. We quant...

A pseudotetrahedral cobalt(II) complex with a positive axial zero-field splitting parameter of D = 12.7 cm(-1), as determined by high-field EPR spectroscopy, is shown to exhibit slow magnetic relaxation under an applied dc field.

Context. The role of magnetic fields during high-mass star formation is a matter of fierce debate, yet only a few direct probes of magnetic field strengths are available. Aims. The magnetic field is detected in a number of massive star-forming regions through polarization observations of 6.7 GHz methanol masers. Although these masers are the most abundant of the maser species occurring during h...