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George P. Balayiannis and Helen Karasali
N-nitrosamines are a class of carcinogenic chemical compound. Considering the large-scale application of agrochemicals globally, the elimination of N-nitrosamines from pesticides should be a priority for manufacturers and regulators. A set of methods was...
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Patrick W. Fedick, William L. Fatigante, Zachary E. Lawton, Adam E. O?Leary, Seth. E. Hall, Ryan M. Bain, Stephen T. Ayrton, Joseph A. Ludwig and Christopher C. Mulligan
Portable mass spectrometers (MS) are becoming more prevalent due to improved instrumentation, commercialization, and the robustness of new ionization methodologies. To increase utility towards diverse field-based applications, there is an inherent need f...
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Ágnes Nagy and Karlheinz Schwarz
The properties of many materials at the atomic scale depend on the electronic structure, which requires a quantum mechanical treatment. The most widely used approach to make such a treatment feasible is density functional theory (DFT), the advances in wh...
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Teng Jiao, Zeming Li, Wei Chen, Xin Dong, Zhengda Li, Zhaoti Diao, Yuantao Zhang and Baolin Zhang
To obtain high-quality n-type doped ß-Ga2O3 films, silane was used as an n-type dopant to grow Si-doped ß-Ga2O3 films on (100) ß-Ga2O3 substrates by metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD). The electron concentrations of the Si-doped ß-Ga2O3 film...
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Yui Hayashi, Wahyu Diono, Noriharu Takada, Hideki Kanda and Motonobu Goto
Chemical reactions of amino acids induced by discharge plasma are important for understanding the mechanism of biological effects of discharge plasma in biomedical applications. In this study, we generated a nano-second pulsed discharge plasma under atmo...
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Joseph J. S. Shang
Variable and potential plasma applications in aerospace engineering are exemplified by ion thrusters, flow control by plasma actuator, enhanced ignition and combustion stability. The operational environments span a range from the rarefied to continuum ga...
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M. A. DUNAJECKA,S. A. PULINETS
Recently developed theory of Lithosphere-Atmosphere-Ionosphere (LAI) coupling pays attention to the processes taking place within the near ground layer of atmosphere. Air ionization produced by radon emanating from the earth?s...
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Nastaran Khademimoshgenani and Sarah A. Green
Dissolved organic matter (DOM) is a complex mixture of naturally occurring organic molecules originating from multiple marine and terrestrial sources. DOM plays a significant role in water quality by affecting the photochemistry, trace metal transport, a...
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Illia Zymak, Ján ?abka, Miroslav Polá?ek, Arnaud Sanderink, Jean-Pierre Lebreton, Bertrand Gaubicher, Barnabé Cherville, Anna Zymaková and Christelle Briois
A new laboratory OrbitrapTM cell-based mass spectrometer, OLYMPIA (Orbitrap anaLYseur MultiPle IonisAtion), without a C-trap module, has been developed and constructed. The first operation of the OrbitrapTM cell-based device with the continuous ion sourc...
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Niels F. W. Ligterink, Kristina A. Kipfer, Salome Gruchola, Nikita J. Boeren, Peter Keresztes Schmidt, Coenraad P. de Koning, Marek Tulej, Peter Wurz and Andreas Riedo
Recent and past observations of chemical and physical peculiarities in the atmosphere of Venus have renewed speculations about the existence of life in its clouds. To find signs of Venusian life, a dedicated astrobiological space exploration mission is r...
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Andresa Baptista, Francisco Silva, Jacobo Porteiro, José Míguez and Gustavo Pinto
Physical vapour deposition (PVD) is a well-known technology that is widely used for the deposition of thin films regarding many demands, namely tribological behaviour improvement, optical enhancement, visual/esthetic upgrading, and many other fields, wit...
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