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Two Dimensional Electronic Spectroscopy

  • Fleming, Graham R.;Yang, Min-O;Agarwal, Ritesh;Prall, Bradley S.;Kaufman, Laura J.;Neuwahl, Fred
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.24 no.8
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    • pp.1081-1090
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    • 2003
  • Two different electronically resonant two-dimensional spectroscopies are described. The first, two-color photon echo peak shift spectroscopy, is sensitive to correlations in transition frequency between the initial and probed (final) states. It provides new insight into the mechanism of ultrafast solvation and should prove useful for characterizing dynamics in inhomogeneous systems in general. The second technique, fifth order threepulse scattering, contains two coherence periods whose durations are controlled. The entire two-dimensional surface was recorded for a dye molecule in dilute solution and a photosynthetic light-harvesting complex. The data provide insight into the short-time dynamics of solvation and exciton relaxation, respectively.

Two-color Transient Grating Spectroscopy of a Two-level System

  • Kwak, Kyoung-Won;Cho, Min-Haeng;Fleming, Graham R.;Agarwal, Ritesh;Prall, Bradley S.
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.24 no.8
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    • pp.1069-1074
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    • 2003
  • A theoretical description and experimental demonstration of homodyne-detected two-color transient grating (2-C TG) signal are presented. By treating the coupled bath degrees of freedom as a collection of harmonic oscillators and using a short-time expansion method, approximated nonlinear response functions were obtained. An analytic expression for the two-color transient grating signal was obtained by carrying out relevant Gaussian integrals. The initial rising and decaying parts of the 2-C TG signal is shown to be critically dependent on the ultrafast inertial component of the solvation correlation function. The experimental results confirm the predictions of the theoretical model.

Synthesis, Structural Characterization, and Catalytic Activity of Flower Like ZnO Nanostructures

  • Ramachandran, K.;Kumar, G. Gnana;Kim, Ae Rhan;Yoo, Dong Jin
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.35 no.4
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    • pp.1091-1097
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    • 2014
  • Tageteserecta flower like zinc oxide nanostructures composed of hexagonal nanorods were synthesized via sonochemical method at room temperature. The synthesized nanomaterials exhibited wurtzite hexagonal phase structure with the single crystalline nature. The diameter of the individual nanorods that constitute the flower shaped zinc oxide structures is in the range of 120-160 nm. The sonication time effectively determined the morphological properties of the prepared materials. The catalytic activity of prepared zinc oxide nanostructures towards N-formylation reactions were evaluated without any surface modification and the nanostructures exhibited good reaction yield with the prompt recyclability behavior.

Effects of Texture on the Electrochemical Properties of Single Grains in Polycrystalline Zinc

  • Park, Chan-Jin;Lohrengel, Manuel M.;Hamelmann, Tobias;Pllaski, Milan;Kwon, Hyuk-Sang
    • Corrosion Science and Technology
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    • v.3 no.2
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    • pp.54-58
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    • 2004
  • Effects of texture on the electrochemical behaviors of single grains in polycrystalline zinc were investigated using a capillary-based micro-droplet cell. Pontiodynamic sweeps and capacity measurements were carried out in pH 9 borate buffer solution. The cyclic voltammograms and the capacity measurements on single grains with different crystallographic orientations in polycrystalline Zn showed a strong dependence of oxide growth on crystallographic grain orientation. The total charge consumed for oxide formation and the inverse capacity increased with an increase of surface packing density of grain. suggesting the oxide formation was greater on grains with higher surface packing density.

Carbon-allotropes: synthesis methods, applications and future perspectives

  • Karthik, P.S.;Himaja, A.L.;Singh, Surya Prakash
    • Carbon letters
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    • v.15 no.4
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    • pp.219-237
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    • 2014
  • The element carbon has been used as a source of energy for the past few hundred years, and now in this era of technology, carbon has played a significant and very prominent role in almost all fields of science and technology. So as an honour to this marvellous element, we humans should know about its various forms of existence. In this review article, we shed light on all possible carbon-allotropes; similarities in their synthesis techniques and the starting materials; their wide range of possible availability; and finally, future perspectives and applications. A brief introduction is given on the types, structures, and shapes of the allotropes of carbon for a better understanding.

The Calculation of Physical Properties of Amino Acids using Molecular Modeling Techniques

  • Ui-Rak Kim;Kyung-Sub Min;Bong-Jin Jeong
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.106-112
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    • 1994
  • Six physical properties (molecular weight, heat capacity, side chain weight, side chain volume, standard entropy and partial molar volume) of amino acids, peptides and their derivatives were examined by molecular modeling techniques. The molecular connectivity index, Wiener distance index and ad hoc descriptor are employed as structural parameters to encode information about branching, size, cyclization, unsaturation, heteroatom content and polarizability. This paper examines the correlation of the molecular modeling techique's parameters and the physicochemical properties of amino acids and their derivatives. As a result, calculated values were in agreement with experimental data in the above six physical properties of amino acids, peptides and their derivatives and the molecular connectivity index was superior to the other indices in fitting the calculated data.

Separation and purification of elements from alkaline and carbonate nuclear waste solutions

  • Alexander V. Boyarintsev ;Sergei I. Stepanov ;Galina V. Kostikova ;Valeriy I. Zhilov;Alfiya M. Safiulina ;Aslan Yu Tsivadze
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.55 no.2
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    • pp.391-407
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    • 2023
  • This article provides a survey of wet (aqueous) methods for recovery, separation, and purification of uranium from fission products in carbonate solutions during the reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel and methods for removal of radionuclides from alkaline radioactive waste. The main methods such as selective direct precipitation, ion exchange, and solvent extraction are considered. These methods were compared and evaluated for reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel in carbonate media according to novel alternative non-acidic methods and for treatment processes of alkaline radioactive waste.

Exothermic processes in nitric acid solutions imitating highly active raffinate

  • E.V. Belova;V.V. Kalistratova;A.S. Obedkov
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.55 no.10
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    • pp.3808-3814
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    • 2023
  • The thermal stability of nitric acid solutions after contact with non-irradiated and irradiated tributyl phosphate (TBP) and its solution in Isopar-M has been studied. It has been established that exothermic processes occur during heating due to the interaction of soluble radiolysis products and the decomposition of the extractant with nitric acid. Such processes can occur at temperatures below 100 ℃, but unlike a thermal explosion that occurs in seconds, they are longer in time and are accompanied by weak heat evolution. Their intensity depends on the composition of the extractant, the concentration of HNO3, and the volume ratio of the organic and aqueous phases. The presence of extractant degradation products in raffinates does not pose a risk of a rapid evolution of gaseous products during evaporation, however, the presence of reducing agents can significantly increase the intensity of the exothermic decomposition of raffinates.