Effect of ‘Zn’ substitution on structural,morphological, magnetic and optical properties of Co–Zn ferrite nanoparticles for ferrofluid application

Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics - The Co1?xZnxFe2O4 (Co–Zn) ferrite nanoparticles with x varying from 0.0 to 0.4 have been manufactured by facile chemical...     

Optical-luminescence properties of ZnO and TiO2 nanopowders obtained by pulsed laser reactive ablation

Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics - The ZnO and TiO2 nanopowders have been prepared by means of the pulsed laser reactive ablation of metallic (Zn, Ti) targets. The Structural,...     

Resistive organic memory devices based on nitrogen-doped CNTs/PSS composites

Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics - Non-volatile organic memory devices were fabricated using polystyrene sulfonate (PSS)?+?nitrogen-doped multi-walled carbon...     

Synergic effect of Sn-doped TiO2 nanostructures for enhanced visible light photocatalysis

Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics - In the recent years, metal oxides have attracted more interest for researchers because of their applications in energy and...     

Intensity tunable optical limiting behaviour of an organic material 2-aminopyridinium succinate succinic acid single crystal

Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics - A mixed solution of 2-aminopyridine and succinic acid, with a 1:1 molar ratio, was kept at room temperature to develop a 2-aminopridinium...     

Growth and physiochemical characterization studies on 4-chloro-2-nitroaniline nonlinear optical single crystals

The non-centrosymmetric space group organic nonlinear optical single crystal of 4-chloro-2-nitroaniline (4Cl2NA) was developed by slow evaporation method at 40 °C. Grown 4Cl2NA was monoclinic structure with Pc space group which was recognized by single-crystal XRD analysis. An intermolecular contact of 4Cl2NA was visually analysed by Hirshfeld surface analysis. Active functional groups and their respective vibrations were identified by FTIR and FT-Raman spectral analysis. Optical properties were evaluated by UV–Visible spectral analysis. Thermal TG/DTA thermogram analysis and mechanical Vickers hardness analysis revealed that the synthesis material was thermally stable up to 115 °C and mechanical work hardness coefficient (n?=?2.98) confirmed the grown crystal was soft material. Laser beam-irradiated LDT analysis expressed the laser utility limitation of the 4Cl2NA crystal. The NLO second harmonic generation efficiency was tested by Kurtz Perry powder method.

     

High-intensity ultrasound processed acerola juice containing oligosaccharides and dextran promotes Lacticaseibacillus casei NRRL B-442 growth

In the present study, a prebiotic acerola juice containing gluco-oligosaccharides and dextran was produced and processed by high-intensity ultrasound (HIUS). After a simulated in vitro digestion, the gluco-oligosaccharides and dextran maintained 90% and 80% of their initial concentration in all prebiotic’s juices. At the same time, Vitamin C and phenolic compounds concentration increased significantly by 19% and 7% (P < 0.05). After the in vitro digestion, the prebiotic juice HIUS processed by 10 min showed the highest increase in gluco-oligosaccharides and bioactive compound concentrations. The HIUS processing imparted some dextran hydrolysis and improved its fermentability by Lacticaseibacillus casei. Gluco-oligosaccharides were extensively consumed as substrate in simulated intestinal conditions, promoting the L. casei NRRL B-442 growth and production of organic acids and short-chain organic acids. The prebiotic juice HIUS processed for 6 min showed the best responses regarding the metabolism of L. casei NRRL B-442. The results showed high-intensity ultrasound processed acerola juices containing gluco-oligosaccharides and dextran as a prebiotic food.     

Priority Aware and Spectrum Efficient Scheduling of Co-existing Wireless Body Area Networks

Real-time continuous and remote health monitoring has become widespread due to the developments in Wireless body area networks (WBANs). Based on the criticality of health data to be transmitted, regular healthcare data and critical emergency health data must be provided differential service. In this paper, we consider the beyond WBAN communication in a system comprising multiple WBANs with different quality of service (QoS) requirements and multiple access points (APs), and propose two hybrid approaches for resource allocation. In the first approach, the AP association to the WBANs and channel allocation to the APs are done jointly and is modelled as an optimization problem, which is computationally complex and it also requires global network information. In order to reduce the involvement of APs in making decisions for resource allocations of WBANs, the problem is reformulated as a Stackelberg game with price update, which guarantees QoS of the critical users. A learning based algorithm, namely distributed learning for Pareto optimality, is used by the normal users, in this second approach. The performance of both the proposed approaches are evaluated and compared, in terms of the throughput of the critical and normal users as well as the QoS guarantee of the critical users.

     

Archetypes of open-source business models

Electronic Markets - The open-source paradigm offers a plethora of opportunities for innovative business models (BMs) as the underlying codebase of the technology is accessible and extendable by...     

Annealing of Mineral-Like Host Matrices for High-Level Waste Immobilization

Inorganic Materials - We have studied the effect of annealing on the chemical and physical properties of mineral-like host matrices for immobilization of the rare-earth–actinide fraction from...