Assessment of ethanol autoxidation as a drop-in kerosene and surrogates blend with a new modelling approach.

Bioethanol has been considered as a more sustainable alternative for fossil fuels, and it has been used as a drop-in fuel mixture. In this paper, the autoxidation properties of real kerosene as well as single, binary and ternary surrogates with the presence of ethanol are investigated for the first time. A simplified python code is proposed to predict the pressure drop of the PetroOXY method that was used for assessing the fuel autoxidation properties.

An RNA Repair Operon Regulated by Damaged tRNAs.

Many bacteria contain an RNA repair operon, encoding the RtcB RNA ligase and the RtcA RNA cyclase, that is regulated by the RtcR transcriptional activator. Although RtcR contains a divergent version of the CARF (CRISPR-associated Rossman fold) oligonucleotide-binding regulatory domain, both the specific signal that regulates operon expression and the substrates of the encoded enzymes are unknown. We report that tRNA fragments activate operon expression.

Estimation of the Thermochemical Radii and Ionic Volumes of Complex Ions.

The estimation of the thermochemical radius is very important because most of the properties of the electrolyte solutions are, to some extent, linked to this property. Also, these thermochemical radii can be used to estimate lattice energies, which can be a very important parameter to be evaluated when assessing the possibility of synthesizing new inorganic materials. This study presents a formulation for estimating the thermochemical radii of complex ions.

Controlling nanocrystal superlattice symmetry and shape-anisotropic interactions through variable ligand surface coverage.

The assembly of colloidal nanocrystals (NCs) into superstructures with long-range translational and orientational order is sensitive to the molecular interactions between ligands bound to the NC surface. We illustrate how ligand coverage on colloidal PbS NCs can be exploited as a tunable parameter to direct the self-assembly of superlattices with predefined symmetry. We show that PbS NCs with dense ligand coverage assemble into face-centered cubic (fcc) superlattices whereas NCs with sparse ligand coverage assemble into body-centered cubic (bcc) superlattices which also exhibit orientational ordering of NCs in their lattice sites.

Gas-surface reactions between pentakis(dimethylamido)tantalum and surface grown hyperbranched polyglycidol films.

We have investigated the growth of hyperbranched polyglycidol films, and their subsequent reaction with a transition metal coordination complex, pentakis(dimethylamido)tantalum, Ta[N(CH 3) 2] 5 using ellipsometry, contact angle measurements, atomic force microscopy and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). Up to thicknesses of approximately 150 A, the growth of polyglycidol is approximately linear with reaction time for growth activated using either sodium methoxide or an organic superbase. The reaction of Ta[N(CH 3) 2] 5 at room temperature with these layers depends strongly on their thickness--the amount of uptake of Ta by the surface increases with the thickness of the organic layer, and thicker films also lead to more extensive ligand exchange reactions (with the R-OH groups), with as many as 4 ligands being lost on the thicker organic films.

H atom yields from the reactions of CN radicals with C2H2, C2H4, C3H6, trans-2-C4H8, and iso-C4H8.

The kinetics and H atom channel yield at both 298 and 195 K have been determined for reactions of CN radicals with C2H2 (1.00+/-0.21, 0.

Evaluation of models for the low temperature combustion of alkanes through interpretation of pressure-temperature ignition diagrams.

The purpose of this paper is to show the application of global uncertainty analysis to comprehensive and reduced kinetic models as a tool to identify important thermochemical and reaction rate parameters as determinants of the conditions leading to autoignition. Propane oxidation is taken as the test case. The simulation of experimental investigations of the cool flames and two-stage ignitions, via the pressure-temperature ignition diagram, show that existing kinetic models for the low temperature combustion of propane at sub-atmospheric pressures reflect a greater reactivity than seems to be appropriate.

Combined experimental and master equation investigation of the multiwell reaction H + SO2.

The temperature and pressure dependence of the rate coefficient for the reaction H + SO2 has been measured using a laser flash photolysis/laser-induced fluorescence technique, for 295 View Article and Find Full Text PDF