Published in Physica Scripta
This study focuses on the modification of the intrinsic MoSe2 using rare earth (RE) elements and investigates its structure, adsorption energy, magnetic properties and work function. Modification studies show that all doping models exhibit metallic properties and all introduce varying degrees of magnetism. In order to investigate the effect of modi...
Published in Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics
The utilization of hydrogen energy has emerged as a promising solution for clean and sustainable energy sources. The development of cost-effective catalysts with high activity and stability is crucial for efficient hydrogen production. In this work, we investigated the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) catalytic activity of single transition metal ...
Published in Frontiers in Chemistry
The tobacco waste generated from the tobacco agriculture and industry, including the discarded stem and leaf, often needs dehydration pretreatment before thermal conversion utilization. In order to study the water activity and migration of tobacco waste during the pretreatment process, TG-NMR (Thermogravimetric Nuclear Magnetic Resonance) was used ...
The conversion of anisole has been studied at 773 K on HZSM-5 zeolites with nine Si/Al ratios ranging from 9 to 201. The influence of the distribution of Brønsted Acid Sites on catalytic activity and reaction products selectivity has been studied experimentally. The adsorption energies for reactant and products on isolated and paired aluminium have...
Published in Materials Research Express
Electronic, optical, and mechanical properties of single-walled C-57 carbon nanotube have been investigated within the framework of density functional theory (DFT). It was found that for the nanotube, there is a direct relationship between its radius and Young’s modulus: larger radius leads to larger Young’s modulus. Optical properties have been ca...
Published in Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
Sluggish reaction kinetics and the undesired side reactions (hydrogen evolution reaction and self-reduction) are the main bottlenecks of electrochemical conversion reactions, such as the carbon dioxide and nitrate reduction reactions (CO2 RR and NO3 RR). To date, conventional strategies to overcome these challenges involve electronic structure modi...
Published in Zeitschrift für Physikalische Chemie
Bis ethoxylated cationic surfactant (BOECS) is synthesized. The prepared surfactant’s structure configuration was verified through a variety of spectral and physicochemical techniques, including FT-IR, MS,1HNMR, and surface activity evaluations. BOECS applications as a C-steel corrosion inhibitor in 1.0 N HCl and 1.0 N H2SO4 and sulfate reducing ba...
Aqueous zinc-ion batteries (AZIBs), the favorite of next-generation energy storage devices, are popular among researchers owing to their environmental friendliness, low cost, and safety. However, AZIBs still face problems of low cathode capacity, fast attenuation, slow ion migration rate, and irregular dendrite growth on anodes. In recent years, ma...
Published in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Rapid and accurate detection of lethal volatile compounds is an emerging requirement to ensure the security of the current and future society. Since the threats are becoming more complex, the assurance of future sensing devices' performance can be obtained solely based on a thorough fundamental approach, by utilizing physics and chemistry together....
Published in Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany)
The production of high-quality hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) is essential for the ultimate performance of 2D materials-based devices, since it is the key 2D encapsulation material. Here, a decisive guideline is reported for fabricating high-quality h-BN on transition metals. It is crucial to exclude carbon from the h-BN related process, otherwise ...
