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Energy-efficient CO2 hydrogenation with fast response using photoexcitation of CO2 adsorbed on metal catalysts.
Many heterogeneous catalytic reactions occur at high temperatures, which may cause large energy costs, poor safety, and thermal degradation of catalysts. Here, we propose a light-assisted surface reaction, which catalyze the surface reaction using both light and heat as an energy source. Conventional metal catalysts such as ruthenium, rhodium, platinum, nickel, and copper were tested for CO2 hydrogenation, and ruthenium showed the most distinct change upon light irradiation. CO2 was strongly adsorbed onto ruthenium surface, forming hybrid orbitals. The band gap energy was reduced significantly upon hybridization, enhancing CO2 dissociation. The light-assisted CO2 hydrogenation used only 37% of the total energy with which the CO2 hydrogenation occurred using only thermal energy. The CO2 conversion could be turned on and off completely with a response time of only 3 min, whereas conventional thermal reaction required hours. These unique features can be potentially used for on-demand fuel production with minimal energy input
When do neutrinos cease to oscillate?
In order to investigate when neutrinos cease to oscillate in the framework of
quantum field theory, we have reexamined the wave packet treatment of neutrino
oscillations by taking different sizes of the wave packets of the particles
involved in the production and detection processes. The treatment is shown to
be considerably simplified by using the Grimus-Stockinger theorem which enables
us to carry out the integration over the momentum of the propagating neutrino.
Our new results confirm the recent observation by Kiers, Nussinov and Weiss
that a precise measurement of the energies of the particles involved in the
detection process would increase the coherence length. We also present a
precise definition of the coherence length beyond which neutrinos cease to
oscillate.Comment: 10 pages, no figure
Effect of ferromagnetic contacts on spin accumulation in an all-metallic lateral spin-valve system: Semiclassical spin drift-diffusion equations
We study the effect of the ferromagnetic (FM) contacts on the spin
accumulation in the lateral spin valve system for the collinear magnetization
configurations. When an additional FM electrode is introduced in the
all-metallic lateral spin-valve system, we find that the transresistance can be
fractionally suppressed or very weakly influenced depending on the position of
the additional FM electrode, and relative magnitudes of contact resistance and
the bulk resistance defined over the spin diffusion length. Nonlocal spin
signals such as nonlocal voltage drop and leakage spin currents are independent
of the magnetization orientation of the additional FM electrode. Even when the
additional contact is nonmagnetic, nonlocal spin signals can be changed by the
spin current leaking into the nonmagnetic electrode.Comment: 13 pages, 1 figure, revised versio
Valuation of human deaths and illnesses resulting from pesticide uses in the United States
The objective of this study is to measure the costs associated with the unintentional human deaths and acute illnesses resulting from pesticide uses. This study also estimated comparative health costs among alternative pesticides that can be used for a certain crop. The annual total cost of human deaths and illnesses resulting from pesticide uses in the United States is estimated at .40 for 2,4,D to $23,128 for diquat.Health Economics and Policy,
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