Search results for "carbon"

CCDC 688227: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination

2009

Related Article: G.Bentabed-Ababsa, A.Derdour, T.Roisnel, J.A.Saez, P.Perez, E.Chamorro, L.R.Domingo, F.Mongin|2009|J.Org.Chem.|74|2120|doi:10.1021/jo8027104

CO2 vents areas show effects of ocean acidification on benthic rocky shores assemblages

2011

Climate Change Mitigation Potentials of Carbon Labels in the Aviation Industry

2018

This chapter discusses the climate change mitigation potentials of carbon labels in the aviation industry. As this study shows, there are significant differences in the environmental performance of individual flights, even when operated on the same route or by the same airline. Selecting one flight over another can significantly reduce the carbon dioxide emissions of a single air passenger. Nevertheless, the currently available measures, such as carbon calculators, are not capable of presenting these differences, leaving air passengers with no means of comparing individual flights. Therefore, the use of carbon labels could be highly beneficial because it would give air passengers the opport…

Managing a boreal forest landscape for providing timber, storing and sequestering carbon

2015

Human well-being highly depends on ecosystem services and this dependence is expected to increase in the future with increasing population and economic growth. Studies that investigate trade-offs between ecosystem services are urgently needed for informing policy-makers. We examine the trade-offs between a provisioning (revenues from timber selling) and regulating (carbon storage and sequestration) ecosystem services among seven alternative forest management regimes in a large boreal forest production landscape. First, we estimate the potential of the landscape to produce harvest revenues and store/sequester carbon across a 50-year time period. Then, we identify conflicts between harvest re…

Mechanical properties of carbon nanotube reinforced nanocomposites

2013

One way to take advantage of the marvelous properties of the carbon nanotubes consists in incorporating them into a matrix to build composite materials. The best candidates for this task are undoubtedly polymers thanks to their strength, toughness, low weight, and easy processing. A mixed model, numerical-analytical, is presented that allows one to predict the elastic properties of carbon nanotube (CNT)/polymer composites containing a random distribution of CNTs, while taking account of the curvature that they show when immersed in the polymer. A three-dimensional model, using a single CNT immersed in an infinite matrix, allows us to numerically evaluate the concentration tensor by evaluati…

Simulated eutrophication and browning alters zooplankton nutritional quality and determines juvenile fish growth and survival

2018

Source at https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.3832. The first few months of life is the most vulnerable period for fish and their optimal hatching time with zooplankton prey is favored by natural selection. Traditionally, however, prey abundance (i.e., zooplankton density) has been considered important, whereas prey nutritional composition has been largely neglected in natural settings. High‐quality zooplankton, rich in both essential amino acids (EAAs) and fatty acids (FAs), are required as starting prey to initiate development and fast juvenile growth. Prey quality is dependent on environmental conditions, and, for example, eutrophication and browning are two major factors defining primary produ…

Increased conformational rigidity of humic substances by oxidative biomimetic catalysis

2005

A synthetic water-soluble meso-tetra(2,6-dichloro-3-sulfonatophenyl)porphyrinate of iron(III) chloride, Fe(TDCPPS)Cl, was employed as a biomimetic catalyst in the oxidative coupling of terrestrial humic materials. High-performance size-exclusion chromatography (HPSEC), solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (CPMAS-(13)C NMR), electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR), and diffuse reflectance infrared spectroscopy (DRIFT) were used to follow conformational and structural changes brought about in different humic materials by the oxidative coupling. Increase in apparent weight-average molecular weight (Mw(a)) occurred invariably for all humic substances with the oxidative polymerization catalyzed …

Activity and kinetics of DNA dependent DNA and RNA polymerases n xeroderma pigmentosum and in normal human skin.

1971

1. DNA dependent DNA polymerase (E.C.2.7.7.7) was prepared from human normal and from Xeroderma pigmentosum skin. 2. DNA polymerase from normal skin has the same Michaelis constant with native and denatured DNA as templateKm= 120 ± 11 µg DNA/ml, with differing maximum reaction velocities. 3. The enzyme from Xeroderma pigmentosum has the same Michaelis constant for denatured DNA as the enzyme from normal skin, but with native DNA as template, theKmvalue is lower (97.2 ± 9.8). The maximum reaction velocities of the Xeroderma pigmentosum enzyme with native resp. denatured DNA as template are the same. 4. DNA dependent RNA polymerases (E.C.2.7.7.6) from normal and Xeroderma pigmentosum skin wer…

Nanocompositi a base di copolimero stirene-butadiene-stirene e nanotubi di carbonio: morfologia e proprietà

2014

Modeling Heterogeneous copolymerization of fluorinated monomers in scCO2

2009

In recent years the use of supercritical carbon dioxide (scCO2) in polymer processing and reaction has emerged as a “green” alternative to replace both environmentally hazardous organic solvents and water, whose utilization involves the production of large amount of waste streams. Moreover, scCO2 is non-toxic, inexpensive, and often exhibits intense plasticizing effect on polymers. In this work, the copolymerization of fluorinated monomers in scCO2 is explored. Batch free-radical copolymerization reactions of vinylidene fluoride (VDF) and hexafluoropropylene (HFP) have been carried out at temperature of 50 C and pressure of 400 bar using DEPDC as initiator and different amounts of stabilize…