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Theoretical study of the CO2 adsorption by Zeolitic Imidazolate Frameworks (ZIFs) (2017)
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Izzaouihda, S., Abou El Makarim, H., Benoit, D. M., & Komiha, N. (2017). Theoretical study of the CO2 adsorption by Zeolitic Imidazolate Frameworks (ZIFs). Journal of physical chemistry. C, 121(37), 20259-20265. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.7b04977

Density functional theory with Grimme's empirical correction, DFT-D3, has been used to examine the adsorption of a carbon dioxide molecule by different sets of zeolitic imidazolate framework materials (ZIF-1 to -4, -6 to -10, and -zni). We have calcu... Read More about Theoretical study of the CO2 adsorption by Zeolitic Imidazolate Frameworks (ZIFs).

Precise measurement of the thermal and stellar Fe 54 (n,γ) Fe 55 cross sections via accelerator mass spectrometry (2017)
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Wallner, A., Buczak, K., Belgya, T., Bichler, M., Coquard, L., Dillmann, I., Golser, R., Käppeler, F., Karakas, A., Kutschera, W., Lederer, C., Mengoni, A., Priller, A., Reifarth, R., Steier, P., Szentmiklosi, L., Kaeppeler, F., & Pignatari, M. (2017). Precise measurement of the thermal and stellar Fe 54 (n,γ) Fe 55 cross sections via accelerator mass spectrometry. Physical Review C, 96(2), Article ARTN 025808. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.96.025808

© 2017 authors. Published by the American Physical Society. Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the a... Read More about Precise measurement of the thermal and stellar Fe 54 (n,γ) Fe 55 cross sections via accelerator mass spectrometry.

Student difficulties regarding symbolic and graphical representations of vector fields (2017)
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Bollen, L., van Kampen, P., Baily, C., Kelly, M., & De Cock, M. (2017). Student difficulties regarding symbolic and graphical representations of vector fields. Physical Review Physics Education Research, 13(2), Article 020109. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.13.020109

The ability to switch between various representations is an invaluable problem-solving skill in physics. In addition, research has shown that using multiple representations can greatly enhance a person’s understanding of mathematical and physical con... Read More about Student difficulties regarding symbolic and graphical representations of vector fields.

Climbing the cosmic ladder with stellar twins in RAVE with Gaia (2017)
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Jofré, P., Traven, G., Hawkins, K., Gilmore, G., Sanders, J. L., Mädler, T., Steinmetz, M., Kunder, A., Kordopatis, G., McMillan, P., Bienaymé, O., Bland-Hawthorn, J., Gibson, B. K., Grebel, E. K., Munari, U., Navarro, J., Parker, Q., Reid, W., Seabroke, G., & Zwitter, T. (2017). Climbing the cosmic ladder with stellar twins in RAVE with Gaia. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 472(3), 2517-2533. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx1877

© 2017 The Author. We apply the twin method to determine parallaxes to 232 545 stars of the RAVE survey using the parallaxes of Gaia DR1 as a reference. To search for twins in this large data set, we apply the t-student stochastic neighbour embedding... Read More about Climbing the cosmic ladder with stellar twins in RAVE with Gaia.

The evolutionary sequence of post-starburst galaxies (2017)
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Wilkinson, C. L., Pimbblet, K. A., & Stott, J. P. (2017). The evolutionary sequence of post-starburst galaxies. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 472(2), 1447-1457. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx2034

© 2017 The Authors. There are multiple ways in which to select post-starburst galaxies in the literature. In this work, we present a study into how two well-used selection techniques have consequences on observable post-starburst galaxy parameters, s... Read More about The evolutionary sequence of post-starburst galaxies.

Convective–reactive nucleosynthesis of K, Sc, Cl and p-process isotopes in O–C shell mergers (2017)
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Ritter, C., Andrassy, R., Côté, B., Herwig, F., Woodward, P. R., Pignatari, M., & Jones, S. (2018). Convective–reactive nucleosynthesis of K, Sc, Cl and p-process isotopes in O–C shell mergers. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Letters, 474(1), L1-L6. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnrasl/slx126

© 2017 The Author(s). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. We address the deficiency of odd-Z elements P, Cl, K and Sc in Galactic chemical evolution models through an investigation of the nucleosynthesis... Read More about Convective–reactive nucleosynthesis of K, Sc, Cl and p-process isotopes in O–C shell mergers.

Conditions for thermally induced all-optical switching in ferrimagnetic alloys: Modeling of TbCo (2017)
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Moreno, R., Ostler, T. A., Chantrell, R. W., & Chubykalo-Fesenko, O. (2017). Conditions for thermally induced all-optical switching in ferrimagnetic alloys: Modeling of TbCo. Physical Review B, 96(1), Article 014409. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.96.014409

We present atomistic spin dynamics modeling of thermally induced magnetization switching (TIMS) of disordered ferrimagnetic TbCo alloys varying the Tb concentration, laser pulse fluence, and its duration. Our results indicate that deterministic TIMS... Read More about Conditions for thermally induced all-optical switching in ferrimagnetic alloys: Modeling of TbCo.

Very metal-poor stars observed by the RAVE survey (2017)
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Matijevič, G., Chiappini, C., Grebel, E. K., Wyse, R. F. G., Zwitter, T., Bienaymé, O., Bland-Hawthorn, J., Freeman, K. C., Gibson, B. K., Gilmore, G., Helmi, A., Kordopatis, G., Kunder, A., Munari, U., Navarro, J. F., Parker, Q. A., Reid, W., Seabroke, G., Siviero, A., Steinmetz, M., & Watson, F. (2017). Very metal-poor stars observed by the RAVE survey. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 603, A19. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201730417

© ESO, 2017. Metal-poor stars trace the earliest phases in the chemical enrichment of the Universe. They give clues about the early assembly of the Galaxy as well as on the nature of the first stellar generations. Multi-object spectroscopic surveys p... Read More about Very metal-poor stars observed by the RAVE survey.

PLATO as it is: A legacy mission for Galactic archaeology (2017)
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Miglio, A., Chiappini, C., Mosser, B., Davies, G. R., Freeman, K., Girardi, L., Jofré, P., Kawata, D., Rendle, B. M., Valentini, M., Casagrande, L., Chaplin, W. J., Gilmore, G., Hawkins, K., Holl, B., Appourchaux, T., Belkacem, K., Bossini, D., Brogaard, K., Goupil, M.-J., …Worley, C. C. (2017). PLATO as it is: A legacy mission for Galactic archaeology. Astronomische Nachrichten, 338(6), 644-661. https://doi.org/10.1002/asna.201713385

Deciphering the assembly history of the Milky Way is a formidable task, which becomes possible only if one can produce high-resolution chrono-chemo-kinematical maps of the Galaxy. Data from large-scale astrometric and spectroscopic surveys will soon... Read More about PLATO as it is: A legacy mission for Galactic archaeology.

Beam electrons as a source of Hα flare ribbons (2017)
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Druett, M., Scullion, E., Zharkova, V., Matthews, S., Zharkov, S., & Rouppe Van der Voort, L. (2017). Beam electrons as a source of Hα flare ribbons. Nature communications, 8, 13. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15905

The observations of solar flare onsets show rapid increase of hard and soft X-rays, ultra-violet emission with large Doppler blue shifts associated with plasma upflows, and Hα hydrogen emission with red shifts up to 1–4 Å. Modern radiative hydrodynam... Read More about Beam electrons as a source of Hα flare ribbons.

The neutron capture process in the He shell in core-collapse supernovae: Presolar silicon carbide grains as a diagnostic tool for nuclear astrophysics (2017)
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Pignatari, M., Hoppe, P., Trappitsch, R., Fryer, C., Timmes, F., Herwig, F., & Hirschi, R. (2018). The neutron capture process in the He shell in core-collapse supernovae: Presolar silicon carbide grains as a diagnostic tool for nuclear astrophysics. Geochimica et cosmochimica acta, 221, 37-46. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2017.06.005

Carbon-rich presolar grains are found in primitive meteorites, with isotopic measurements to date suggesting a core-collapse supernovae origin site for some of them. This holds for about 1-2 % of presolar silicon carbide (SiC) grains, so-called Type... Read More about The neutron capture process in the He shell in core-collapse supernovae: Presolar silicon carbide grains as a diagnostic tool for nuclear astrophysics.

Stellar origin of 15N-rich presolar SiC grains of type AB: Supernovae with explosive hydrogen burning (2017)
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Liu, N., Nittler, L. R., Pignatari, M., Alexander, C. M. O., & Wang, J. (2017). Stellar origin of 15N-rich presolar SiC grains of type AB: Supernovae with explosive hydrogen burning. The Astrophysical journal, 842(1), L1. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/aa74e5

© 2017. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. We report C, N, and Si isotopic data for 59 highly 13 C-enriched presolar submicron-to micron-sized SiC grains from the Murchison meteorite, including eight putative nova grains (PNGs)... Read More about Stellar origin of 15N-rich presolar SiC grains of type AB: Supernovae with explosive hydrogen burning.

Universal switching of plasmonic signals using optical resonator modes (2017)
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McPolin, C. P., Olivier, N., Bouillard, J.-S., O'Connor, D. P., Krasavin, A. V., Dickson, W., Wurtz, G. A., & Zayats, A. V. (2017). Universal switching of plasmonic signals using optical resonator modes. Light Science & Applications, 6(6), e16237. https://doi.org/10.1038/lsa.2016.237

We propose and investigate, both experimentally and theoretically, a novel mechanism for switching and modulating plasmonic signals based on a Fano interference process, which arises from the coupling between a narrow-band optical Fabry-Pérot cavity... Read More about Universal switching of plasmonic signals using optical resonator modes.

Coherent control in quantum transport: Amplification, filtering and switching at finite bias (2017)
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Thethi, R., & Emary, C. (2017). Coherent control in quantum transport: Amplification, filtering and switching at finite bias. Quantum Science and Technology, 2(2), 024011. https://doi.org/10.1088/2058-9565/aa72c8

We consider coherent feedback control of quantum transport and focus on the application of simple controllers and the effects of a finite bias voltage. We show that simple single-parameter controllers can give rise to a range of useful effects such a... Read More about Coherent control in quantum transport: Amplification, filtering and switching at finite bias.

Modelling and simulation analysis for the prediction of the performance of intrinsic conducting polymer current limiting device (2017)
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Jabarullah, N. H., Mauldin, C., Navarro, L. A., Golden, J., Madianos, L., & Kemp, N. T. (2017). Modelling and simulation analysis for the prediction of the performance of intrinsic conducting polymer current limiting device. Advanced science letters, 23(6), 5117-5120. https://doi.org/10.1166/asl.2017.7322

© 2017 American Scientific Publishers All rights reserved. Previous studies have shown that the current limiting concept and interruption of short-circuit currents in low power applications have been introduced, particularly in polymer switch based o... Read More about Modelling and simulation analysis for the prediction of the performance of intrinsic conducting polymer current limiting device.

Iron and nickel isotope compositions of presolar silicon carbide grains from supernovae (2017)
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Kodolányi, J., Stephan, T., Trappitsch, R., Hoppe, P., Pignatari, M., Davis, A. M., & Pellin, M. J. (2018). Iron and nickel isotope compositions of presolar silicon carbide grains from supernovae. Geochimica et cosmochimica acta, 221, 127-144. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2017.05.029

© 2017 Elsevier Ltd. We report the carbon, silicon, iron, and nickel isotope compositions of twenty-five presolar SiC grains of mostly supernova (SN) origin. The iron and nickel isotope compositions were measured with the new Chicago Instrument for L... Read More about Iron and nickel isotope compositions of presolar silicon carbide grains from supernovae.

Optical diagnostics of laser-produced aluminium plasmas under water (2017)
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Walsh, N., Costello, J. T., & Kelly, T. J. (2017). Optical diagnostics of laser-produced aluminium plasmas under water. Applied physics. B, Lasers and optics, 123(6), Article 179. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-017-6754-3

We report on the findings of double-pulse studies performed on an aluminium target submerged in water using Nd:YAG laser pulses. Shadowgraphy measurements were performed to examine the dynamic behaviour of the cavitation bubble that eventually forms... Read More about Optical diagnostics of laser-produced aluminium plasmas under water.

Periodic dispersion-corrected approach for isolation spectroscopy of N2 in an argon environment: Clusters, surfaces, and matrices (2017)
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Makina, Y., Mahjoubi, K., Benoit, D. M., Jaidane, N.-E., Al-Mogren, M. M., & Hochlaf, M. (2017). Periodic dispersion-corrected approach for isolation spectroscopy of N2 in an argon environment: Clusters, surfaces, and matrices. The journal of physical chemistry. A, 121(21), 4093-4102. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpca.7b00093

© 2017 American Chemical Society. Ab initio and Perdew, Burke, and Ernzerhof (PBE) density functional theory with dispersion correction (PBE-D3) calculations are performed to study N 2 -Ar n (n ≤ 3) complexes and N 2 trapped in Ar matrix (i.e., N 2 @... Read More about Periodic dispersion-corrected approach for isolation spectroscopy of N2 in an argon environment: Clusters, surfaces, and matrices.

On a role of quadruple component of magnetic field in defining solar activity in grand cycles (2017)
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Popova, E., Zharkova, V., Shepherd, S., & Zharkov, S. (2018). On a role of quadruple component of magnetic field in defining solar activity in grand cycles. Journal of atmospheric and solar-terrestrial physics, 176, 61-68. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jastp.2017.05.006

In this paper we revise our prediction of solar activity using a solar background magnetic field as a proxy by the inclusion of eigen vectors of solar magnetic waves produced by quadruple magnetic sources, in addition to the principal eigen modes gen... Read More about On a role of quadruple component of magnetic field in defining solar activity in grand cycles.

Observing the metal-poor solar neighbourhood: A comparison of galactic chemical evolution predictions (2017)
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Mishenina, T., Pignatari, M., Côté, B., Thielemann, F.-K., Soubiran, C., Basak, N., Gorbaneva, T., Korotin, S. A., Kovtyukh, V. V., Wehmeyer, B., Bisterzo, S., Travaglio, C., Gibson, B. K., Jordan, C., Paul, A., Ritter, C., & Herwig, F. (2017). Observing the metal-poor solar neighbourhood: A comparison of galactic chemical evolution predictions. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Letters, 469(4), 4378-4399. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx1145

© 2017 The Authors. Atmospheric parameters and chemical compositions for 10 stars with metallicities in the region of -2.2 < [Fe/H] < -0.6 were precisely determined using high-resolution, high signal-tonoise, spectra. For each star, the abundance... Read More about Observing the metal-poor solar neighbourhood: A comparison of galactic chemical evolution predictions.