415 research outputs found

    Guadarrama (Madrid) (Canal). Mapas topográficos. 1786

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    Al verso anotado en tinta de bugalla: "XXV"Sumario: Presenta un plano del primer trozo del canal de Guadarrama entre Torrelodones y Las Rozas. Se indica el trazado del canalCopia Digital. Real Academia de la Historia : 2010Forma de ingreso: Seguramente es el ejemplar regalado por el director Campomanes en junta académica de 15 de junio de 1787Orientado con lis en rosa de 8 vientos con el N al O del mapa. Relieve por sombreado. Zonas de cultivo. Hidrografía. En la parte inferior explicación del mapa: arroyos, fuentes, caminos, el estanque que formará la presa, cerros, lomas, etcSegún se indica en las actas de la Academia del 15 de junio de 1787, este mapa fue costeado por el Banco Nacional de San Carlos. Así consta también en el libro que se publicó con un resumen del coste de la obra del canal (Madrid, 1788)Restaurado en 1999Marco con incisiones alrededor del mapa. La parte inferior ornada con motivos geométrico

    Highly cross-linked bifunctional magnesium porphyrin-imidazolium bromide polymer: Unveiling the key role of co-catalysts proximity for CO2 conversion into cyclic carbonates

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    Highly cross-linked materials containing an imidazolium salt and magnesium porphyrin, either in the absence (TSP-Mg-imi) or in the presence (7a and 7b) of multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs), were synthesized and used as heterogeneous bifunctional catalysts for the conversion of CO2 into cyclic carbonates. The metalloporphyrin moiety acts both as a “covalent swelling agent”, generating hybrids with high surface area, and as a Lewis acid co-catalytic species. TSP-Mg-imi produced excellent conversion and TONMg values, under solvent-free conditions, even at room temperature and with low catalytic loading (0.003 mol%). In terms of conversion and TONMg, TSP-Mg-imi exhibited better catalytic performance compared to a reference homogeneous system, demonstrating that the proximity between the metal centers and the nucleophilic site results in a synergistic effect during the catalytic cycle. The results of the computational study confirmed both the cooperative function and the significance of incorporating a co-catalytic species into the system

    Análisis estadístico, económico y financiero del sector hotelero en los principales destinos turísticos de España

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    El sector turístico es uno de los sectores más importantes para el desarrollo de la economía en Canarias y en otros puntos de la Península Ibérica. Es por lo que en este Trabajo de fin de Grado se analizan los principales aspectos de dicho sector como son la tasa de ocupación o la rentabilidad económicofinanciera del conjunto de hoteles seleccionados en cada destino. Se hace uso de herramientas tales como indicadores turísticos de gasto y duración, análisis vertical y horizontal de las cuentas anuales agrupadas y los principales ratios económicos- financieros para así determinar cuáles han sido las variaciones en los últimos años y estimar cuáles son los destinos turísticos más rentables. En conclusión, este estudio aporta nueva información sobre el sector turístico y hotelero en España, reflejando en su análisis la situación actual económico financiera de los destinos de estudio.The tourism sector is one of the most important sectors for the development of the economy in the Canary Islands and in other parts of the Iberian Peninsula. That is why in this Final Project Degree, the main aspects of this sector are analyzed, such as the rate of occupancy or the economic-finantial profitability of the selected hotels in each destination. Tools such as tourism expenditure and duration indicators, vertical and horizontal analysis of the grouped annual accounts and the main economic-financial ratios are used in order to determine what the variations have been in recent years and estimate which are the most profitable tourist destinations

    White light emitting silsesquioxane based materials: The importance of a ligand with rigid and directional arms

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    The synthesis of a novel polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane functionalized with eight rigid and directional terpyridine-based arms (Ter-POSS) was successfully achieved via a Sonogashira reaction. The POSS based ligand was extensively characterized using different techniques including 1H, 13C and 29Si NMR as well as UV-Vis and fluorescence spectroscopies. The assembly of these nano-caged units in the presence of different transition metal ions (Fe2+, Zn2+ and Cu2+) as well as of a cation from the lanthanides (Eu3+) was investigated using absorption and emission spectroscopies. The final materials display an evident emission in different regions of the visible spectrum as a function of the cation employed. Additional insights into the structural organization of Ter-POSS in the presence of metal cations were obtained via molecular mechanics and molecular dynamics simulations. The polymeric material resulting from the complexation with europium displays a white light emission ascribed to the presence of combined contributions from the blue, green and red regions. The final self-assembled organizations display an increased quantum yield with the highest value (29.6%) obtained in the presence of Zn2+. Moreover, the white-light emitting europium-based nanostructure exhibits one of the highest quantum yields reported in the literature for similar solids

    Stereoselective ROP of rac- and meso-lactides using achiral TBD as catalyst

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    1,5,7-Triazabicyclo[4.4.0]dec-5-ene (TBD) polymerizes rac-lactide (rac-LA) to form highly isotactic polylactide (PLA) with a Pm = 0.88, while meso-LA yields heterotactic PLA (Pm ~ 0.8) at −75 °C. The stereocontrol of the cryogenic-based ring-opening polymerization comes from a perfect imbrication of both chiral LA and the propagating chiral end-group interacting with the achiral TBD catalyst

    Donor-acceptor stacking arrangements in bulk and thin-film high-mobility conjugated polymers characterized using molecular modelling and MAS and surface-enhanced solid-state NMR spectroscopy

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    Conjugated polymers show promising properties as cheap, sustainable and solution-processable semiconductors. A key challenge in the development of these materials is to determine the polymer chain structure, conformation and packing in both the bulk polymer and in thin films typically used in devices. However, many characterisation techniques are unable to provide atomic-level structural information owing to the presence of disorder. Here, we use molecular modelling, magic-angle spinning (MAS) and dynamic nuclear polarisation surface-enhanced NMR spectroscopy (DNP SENS) to characterise the polymer backbone group conformations and packing arrangement in the high-mobility donor-acceptor copolymer diketopyrrolo-pyrrole-dithienylthieno[3,2-b] thiophene (DPP-DTT). Using conventional H-1 and C-13 solid-state MAS NMR coupled with density functional theory calculations and molecular dynamics simulations, we find that the bulk polymer adopts a highly planar backbone conformation with a laterally-shifted donor-on-acceptor stacking arrangement. DNP SENS enables acquisition of C-13 NMR data for polymer films, where sensitivity is limiting owing to small sample volumes. The DNP signal enhancement enables a two-dimensional H-1-C-13 HETCOR spectrum to be recorded for a drop-cast polymer film, and a C-13 CPMAS NMR spectrum to be recorded for a spin-coated thin-film with a thickness of only 400 nm. The results show that the same planar backbone structure and intermolecular stacking arrangement is preserved in the films following solution processing and annealing, thereby rationalizing the favourable device properties of DPP-DTT, and providing a protocol for the study of other thin film materials

    Strong Suppression of Thermal Conductivity in the Presence of Long Terminal Alkyl Chains in Low-Disorder Molecular Semiconductors

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    While the charge transport properties of organic semiconductors have been extensively studied over the recent years, the field of organics-based thermoelectrics is still limited by a lack of experimental data on thermal transport and of understanding of the associated structure–property relationships. To fill this gap, a comprehensive experimental and theoretical investigation of the lattice thermal conductivity in polycrystalline thin films of dinaphtho[2,3-b:2′,3′-f]thieno[3,2-b]thiophene (Cn-DNTT-Cn with n = 0, 8) semiconductors is reported. Strikingly, thermal conductivity appears to be much more isotropic than charge transport, which is confined to the 2D molecular layers. A direct comparison between experimental measurements (3ω–Völklein method) and theoretical estimations (approach-to-equilibrium molecular dynamics (AEMD) method) indicates that the in-plane thermal conductivity is strongly reduced in the presence of the long terminal alkyl chains. This evolution can be rationalized by the strong localization of the intermolecular vibrational modes in C8-DNTT-C8 in comparison to unsubstituted DNTT cores, as evidenced by a vibrational mode analysis. Combined with the enhanced charge transport properties of alkylated DNTT systems, this opens the possibility to decouple electron and phonon transport in these materials, which provides great potential for enhancing the thermoelectric figure of merit ZT
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