Intricacies of Documentary Credits – A situational Analysis

This paper is an attempt to explore intricacies in Documentary Credit operations through situational analysis. The paper presents a situation of plausible non settlement under Documentary Credit Method and further analyses the situation with an aim to explore viable solution to the conflicting stands taken by parties to the Letter of Credit. The paper concludes with specific recommendations towards an amicable solution to the research problem

Study of CdI2{\rm CdI_2} nanocrystals dispersed in amorphous Sb2S3{\rm Sb_2S_3} matrix

Crystalline nanoparticles of cadmium iodide where suspended in the amorphous matrix of antimony trisulphide. Both materials are layered structured and have large band-gaps however cadmium iodide exhibits polytypism, i.e. it exists in various different crystalline states. Different crystalline states are marked by wholely different dielectric constants which give rise to sharp surface plasmon resonance (SPR) peaks in the UV-visible. The manuscript details the variation in SPR's with heat-treatment of the films.Comment: 10 pages 8 figures submitted to PR

3D semiconducting nanostructures via inverse lipid cubic phases.

Well-ordered and highly interconnected 3D semiconducting nanostructures of bismuth sulphide were prepared from inverse cubic lipid mesophases. This route offers significant advantages in terms of mild conditions, ease of use and electrode architecture over other routes to nanomaterials synthesis for device applications. The resulting 3D bicontinous nanowire network films exhibited a single diamond topology of symmetry Fd3m (Q227) which was verified by Small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) and Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and holds great promise for potential applications in optoelectronics, photovoltaics and thermoelectrics