CO2 hydrogenation as sustainable route for generation of value-added carbon feedstock is identified as green pathway for mitigation of greenhouse gasses emission. CO2 methanation is one of the promising solutions, whi...
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Lanarkite is a mineral formed by a combination of lead, sulphur, and oxygen atoms arranged in the general chemical formula Pb2SO5 (PSO) that crystallises with monoclinic symmetry (belonging to the C2/m space group, No...
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Lanarkite is a mineral formed by a combination of lead, sulphur, and oxygen atoms arranged in the general chemical formula Pb2SO5 (PSO) that crystallises with monoclinic symmetry (belonging to the C2/m space group, No. 12). This mineral was first discovered in Lanarkshire, Scotland and was named after its location. PSO has a unique structure comprising alternating penta-coordinated lead [PbO5] and tetra-coordinated sulphur [SO4] clusters. This lanarkite-type structure has recently attracted significant scientific interest and has been the focus of the superconducting material research community. However, its chemistry needs to be explored further. This article presents a comprehensive investigation on the chemical bonding, electronic structure, and spectroscopic properties of the lanarkite-type PSO structure from a computational perspective. Thus, different functionals in the DFT (e.g., PBE, PBE0, PBESOL, PBESOL0, BLYP, WC1LYP37, and B3LYP) were assessed to accurately predict their fundamental properties. All the DFT calculations were performed using a triple-zeta valence plus polarisation basis set. Among all the DFT functionals tested in this study, PBE showed the best agreement with the experimental data available in the literature. Our results also reveal that the [PbO5] clusters are formed with three Pb–O bond lengths, with values of about 2.32, 2.59, and 2.84 Å, respectively, while the [SO4] clusters have the same S–O bond length of 1.57 Å. We performed a complete topological analysis of this system to comprehend these structural differences. Additionally, the PSO structure has an indirect band gap energy of 2.9 eV and an effective mass ratio (mℎ∗ /me∗) of about 0.415 (using PBE calculations) which may, in principle, indicate a low recombination of electron-hole pairs in the lanarkite structure. Therefore, we believe that a detailed understanding of their electronic structures, spectroscopic properties as well as their chemical bonding is critically important
Jammed packings of granular materials display complex mechanical response. For example, the ensemble-averaged shear modulus 〈G〉 increases as a power law in pressure p for static packings of soft spherical particles th...
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Jammed packings of granular materials display complex mechanical response. For example, the ensemble-averaged shear modulus 〈G〉 increases as a power law in pressure p for static packings of soft spherical particles that can rearrange during compression. We seek to design granular materials with shear moduli that can either increase or decrease with pressure without particle rearrangements even in the large-system limit. To do this, we construct tessellated granular metamaterials by joining multiple particle-filled cells together. We focus on cells that contain a small number of bidisperse disks in two dimensions. We first study the mechanical properties of individual disk-filled cells with three types of boundaries: periodic boundary conditions (PBC), fixed-length walls (FXW), and flexible walls (FLW). Hypostatic jammed packings are found for cells with FLW, but not in cells with PBC and FXW, and they are stabilized by quartic modes of the dynamical matrix. The shear modulus of a single cell depends linearly on p. We find that the slope of the shear modulus with pressure λc<0 for all packings in single cells with PBC where the number of particles per cell N≥6. In contrast, single cells with FXW and FLW can possess λc>0, as well as λc<0, for N≤16. We show that we can force the mechanical properties of multicell granular metamaterials to possess those of single cells by constraining the end points of the outer walls and enforcing an affine shear response. These studies demonstrate that tessellated granular metamaterials provide a platform for the design of soft materials with specified mechanical properties.
The effect of two structures of alloy quantum dots (QDs) (i.e., core and core/shell) was investigated for titanium dioxide (TiO2) based quantum dots sensitized solar cells (QDSSCs). In the current study, the synthesiz...
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Making primary lithium-thionyl chloride (Li-SOCl2) battery rechargeable in the lithium-chlorine (Li-Cl2) chemistry is an important milestone towards the development of high energy battery technology. Although porous c...
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Aluminum oxide (alumina, Al2O3) exists in various structures and has broad industrial applications. While the crystal structure of α-Al2O3 is well-established, those of transitional aluminas remain highly debated. In...
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Light-based nanowelding of metallic nanoparticles is of particular interest because it provides convenient and controlled means for the conversion of nanoparticles into microstructures and fabrication of nanodevices. ...
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A perfluoropentane-in-water biphasic system, capable of optothermally generating microbubbles at low power, enhanced surface binding of protein by the bulk-To-surface concentration with minimal loss in its activity. &...
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A reduced kinetic method (RKM) with a first-principle collision operator is introduced in a 1D2V planar geometry and implemented in a computationally inexpensive code to investigate non-local ion heat transport in mul...
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