Exploration of Photoluminescence, Colorimetric, and Decay Performance of Sm-activated CaWO Ceramic.

This paper represents structure, photoluminescence, and colorimetric investigations of Sm-activated CaWO ceramic made with the help of a solid-state reaction process. Structures of the ceramics are examined through X-ray diffraction spectroscopy. It indicates that these materials have a tetragonal structure and I4/a space group without having any other secondary phase.

Analysis of Structural, Photoluminescence, and Colorimetric Performance of Gd-Incorporated BNT Ceramic.

Structural, optical, photoluminescence and colorimetric analyses of Gd (1-5 mol %) doped BNT ceramics synthesized by the solid-state reaction technique are reported. Structural analyses of all the samples are done by the X-ray diffraction method. It is shown that the samples have rhombohedral crystal structures with an RC space group.

Integrated Nutrient Management Improves the Growth and Yield of Rice and Greengram in a Rice-Greengram Cropping System under the Coastal Plain Agro-Climatic Condition.

Continuous mono-cropping of rice has resulted in decline or stagnation of yield output due to the occurrence of multiple nutrient deficiencies and worsening of soil physicochemical properties accompanying increased pressure of insect pests and diseases. The basic concept of integrated nutrient management (INM) is maintenance or adjustment of soil fertility and supply of plant nutrients to an optimum level for sustaining the desired crop productivity through optimisation of benefits from all possible sources of plant nutrients in an integrated way. Augmenting a rice-based cropping system with pulses is a prevalent and indigenous cropping system under rainfed conditions.

Abatement of gas-phase VOCs via dielectric barrier discharge plasmas.

Non-thermal plasma (NTP) technology is regarded as promising method for abatement of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and has gained substantial interests in the fields of air purification. In this present work at atmospheric pressure, dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) plasma has been employed and utilized to evaluate feasibility of toluene, benzene, and m-xylene degradation in a parallel plate type DBD reactor taking argon as a carrier gas. The composition of post-plasma-treated by-products is studied by various spectroscopic techniques such as GC, GCMS, and FTIR, and the corresponding computational work is carried out by Gaussian software.