Preparation of gold nanoparticles (GNP) aqueous suspensions by a new method involving Tiron

A new method is proposed to produce gold nanoparticles (GNP) by in situ reduction of a gold salt dissolved in water. The reducing agent used is Tiron instead of the citrate anion most often mentioned in literature. The influence of various parameters has been investigated, such as the content of Tiron with respect to that of the precursor of gold HAuCl₄, or the initial pH of the solution after mixing of reactants. It is shown that Tiron also exerts a positive influence as a dispersant, which impedes agglomeration of gold nanoparticles. The typical average size of GNP synthesized in the present work is close to 7 nm.     

Temperature waves in a horizontal liquid layer cooled from above

Waves in a thermal boundary layer were obtained by numerically modeling the natural thermogravitational convection in the infinite horizontal layer of a liquid cooled from above. The waves are generated via a mechanism related to the loss of stability and periodic separation of the upper, heavier and cooler liquid layer (penetrative convection).     

Surface barrier diode based on zinc selenide with a passivating zinc oxide film

We propose a method of fabricating surface barrier diodes with overlapped metal junction, which provides for a significant decrease in the reverse currents and an increase in the breakdown voltage.     

An analysis of nonlinear ion drift spectrometry for gas detectors with separating chamber of planar geometry

A consistent analytical model of nonlinear ion drift spectrometry for modern gas analyzers is developed. A procedure for determining the field dependence of the ion mobility using the experimental data is described. An ionogram is calculated for the case of a flat drift chamber and polynomial character of the field dependence of the ion mobility.