[EN] Evaporating diesel sprays from three different multi-hole nozzles have been studied by means of three different and complementary techniques: Mie scattering, double-pass schlieren, and CH radical chemiluminescence. ...

[EN] Incorporation of cellulose nanocrystals (CNC) to pea starch-poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) (1:2 ratio) blend films was carried out in order to improve their physical properties. Different ratios (1, 3 and 5 % wt) of CNC ...

High-pressure Raman-scattering measurements and ab initio calculations on NdVO4 have been carried out up to 30 GPa. Our combined experimental and theoretical study confirms that beyond 5.9 GPa NdVO4 undergoes an irreversible ...

[EN] This paper presents the results of a study carried out to elucidate the influence of the source and sink temperatures on the optimal charge of a propane water-to-water 16 kW heat pump which does not incorporate any ...

Herein, we report a way to achieve abrupt high-spin to low-spin transition with controllable transition temperature and hysteresis width, relying not on solid-state cooperative interactions, but utilizing coherency ...

[EN] Pressure is an important thermodynamic parameter, allowing the increase of matter density by reducing interatomic distances that result in a change of interatomic interactions. In this context, the long range in which ...

[EN] We report a joint experimental and theoretical investigation of the high pressure structural and vibrational properties of terbium sesquioxide (Tb2O3). Powder X-ray diffraction and Raman scattering measurements show ...

The first pressure-induced solid-phase synthesis of a zeolite has been found through compression of a common zeolite, ITQ-29 (see scheme, Si yellow, O red). The new microporous structure, ITQ-50, has a unique structure and ...

A method to determine the sublimation energy of a bulk ice in high vacuum systems, allowing other simultaneous analysis techniques, is presented. Variation in frequency of a quartz crystal microbalance, due to sublimating ...