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University of South Africa
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About: University of South Africa is a education organization based out in Pretoria, South Africa. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Context (language use) & Population. The organization has 8478 authors who have published 19960 publications receiving 237688 citations. The organization is also known as: Unisa.
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TL;DR: In this article, a new synthesis route of hierarchical yttria (Y2O3) nanosphere decorated ceria (CeO2) nanorods from the precursor cerium nitrate and yttrium nitrate under hydrothermal method (HM) was reported.
Abstract: We report the new synthesis route of hierarchical yttria (Y2O3) nanosphere decorated ceria (CeO2) nanorods from the precursor cerium nitrate and yttrium nitrate under hydrothermal method (HM). Synthesized nanorods (NRs) were analyzed by different techniques to investigate their textural morphology, size and shape of nanorods and crystalline structures, morphology growth, optical activity and sizes of the samples. The luminescence blue peaks were observed in the range of 450–490 nm and green emission appeared at 533 nm at the room temperature (RT), the presence of oxygen vacancies was confirmed. The photodecomposition nature of the prepared nanosamples was investigated by using the industrial effluent Rhodamine-B (RhB) dye in aqueous medium by the illumination of solar light. The photocatalytic degradation efficiency showed 95.8% for RhB after 240 min. On illumination of visible light, the catalyst was found to tend to produce reactive oxygen species (ROS), which might account for the decay of dyes into small fractions. The enhanced photocatalytic effect of the synthesized NRs was primarily ascribed to the rising in the separation efficiency of electrons and holes.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the activation energies for the different molecular motions in these waxes have been extracted from the NMR spin-lattice relaxation time measurement, and it seems that the structure of this wax differs from those of other plant waxes that have been investigated in that the longer chains bridge the amorphous zone between two adjacent layers of crystalline material.
Abstract: Waxes from the leaves of Fagus sylvatica
L. (European beech tree) and Hordeum vulgare L. (barley) have been investigated using NMR, DSC, X-ray diffraction and gas chromatographic methods. The wax from Fagus sylvatica, consisting mainly of n-alkanals, n-alkanes and 1-alkanols, has chain-lengths ranging from 20 to 52 carbon atoms with an average chain-length of 30.5 carbon atoms. The X-ray results show that the wax is to a large extent (∼ 70%) amorphous. The wax from the leaves of Hordeum vulgare L., consisting mainly of n-alkanols, has chain-lengths ranging from 20 to 50 carbon atoms with an average chain-length of 27.4 carbon atoms. The wax is ∼ 52% crystalline. It seems that the structure of this wax differs from those of other plant waxes that have been investigated in that the longer chains bridge the amorphous zone between two adjacent layers of crystalline material, thus linking the two layers. This linking affects the melting point of the wax noticeably. The activation energies for the different molecular motions in these waxes have been extracted from the NMR spin-lattice relaxation time measurement.
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TL;DR: In this article, the bimetallic nanocomposite of face-centred cubic NiO/MgO pseudocapacitors were successfully prepared via the polyphenols of punica granatum peel extracts.
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TL;DR: Using long-term data from the De Hoop baboons, testing whether social relations influence female reproductive success in this study group shows that the number of strong bonds a female maintained predicted birth rate, and that theNumber of weak bonds afemale possessed predicted infant 12-month survival and infant longevity.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the main physical properties of single-phase pure α-Cr2O3 nanoparticles synthesized by a facile, rapid and eco-friendly process using Callistemon viminalis extract as an effective oxidizing/reducing agent were reported.
Abstract: This contribution reports for the first time on the synthesis and the main physical properties of single-phase pure α-Cr2O3 nanoparticles synthesized by a facile, rapid and eco-friendly process using Callistemon viminalis flower's extract as an effective oxidizing/reducing agent. These crystalline nanoparticles exhibit a cubic-like platelet shape with sharp edges with an average particle diagonal size of ∼92.2 nm. The room temperature physical properties of these pure highly crystalline Eskolaite α-Cr2O3 nanoparticles were carried out using complementary techniques such as high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM), energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS), XRD, FTIR-ATR, Raman and XPS.
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Alvaro Avezum | 93 | 279 | 48888 |
Jordan J. Louviere | 93 | 356 | 38739 |
Jürgen Eckert | 92 | 1368 | 42119 |
Simon Henry Connell | 83 | 506 | 25147 |
Elina Hyppönen | 81 | 258 | 33011 |
David Wilkinson | 80 | 631 | 27578 |
Béla Bollobás | 78 | 566 | 34767 |
Richard A. Matzner | 72 | 317 | 16389 |
Tim Olds | 71 | 412 | 21758 |
Nicolin Govender | 71 | 412 | 18740 |
Paul A. Webley | 70 | 374 | 18633 |
Dusan Losic | 70 | 398 | 16550 |
Alexander Shapiro | 70 | 252 | 26450 |
Kerin O'Dea | 69 | 359 | 16435 |
Shrikant I. Bangdiwala | 68 | 359 | 21650 |