Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) still causes a chronic infection that affects millions of individuals worldwide. The infection remains incurable and presents a huge challenge for treatment, as it tends to disable ...
This master’s thesis is focused on the LIBS technique for compositional differentiation and relative hardness quantification of selected geological samples. The experimental part of this thesis was conducted at the National ...
Marshy soil and sediment samples were collected during dry and rainy seasons within Warri, and Agbarho, 20km away as control. Levels of 16 USEPA priority Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons PAHs were determined using GC-FID. ...
Low field microwave absorption (LFMA) or non-resonant microwave absorption (NRMA)
phenomenon has turned out to be a powerful and exciting technique in characterizing
superconductors and magnetic materials. The technique ...
Un-doped, Tb3+ as well as Yb3+ doped ZnO nanocrystals with different concentrations of RE3+ (Tb3+, Yb3+) ions were successfully synthesized via sol-gel method to produce rare earth activated zinc oxide nanophosphors. The ...
Radioactive decay of nuclei via emission of ??-particles is studied using three different
theoretical approaches, viz: the quasi-bound state wavefunction approach (QSWA), the
superasymmetric ??ssion model (SAFM) and the ...
Transition metal hydrides, including CrH and others, have a significant impact on
chemical synthesis, serving as intermediates and in solid matrix samples for infrared
spectroscopy. Moreover, the CuLi molecule provides ...
As an electromagnetic response detection technique, non-resonant microwave absorption (NRMA) has been without doubt, one of the fundamental tools in characterizing high temperature superconductors (HTSC). The technique can ...
A scheme, analogous to the linear combination of atomic orbitals (LCAO), is used
to calculate rates of reactions for the fusion of nuclei con¯ned in molecules. As an
example, the possibility of nuclear fusion in rotationally ...
The emperical pseudopotential method in the large basis approach was used to calculate
the electronic bandstructures of bulk semiconductor materials and layered semiconductor
heterostructures. The crucial continuous ...
Imaging techniques have been developed for decades for the detection of biomolecules in
biomedicine cells, in vitro or in living cells and organisms. The application however, often
constrained by the available probes, ...
Radionuclide liquid wastes generated from nuclear facilities can affect humans and the environment, thus substantial attention for their safe management has been received worldwide. Treatment of radionuclide liquid wastes ...
In the present research we successfully synthesized NaAlSiO2 crystals and doped (co- doped) them with various concentrations of Er3+, and Yb3+ ions via a hydrothermal method to unveil their up-conversion absorption bands ...
Titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanostructures were synthesized by sol-gel method and co polymers polyethylene glycol (PEG), polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) and pluronic F127
were used as pore forming agents. The samples were then ...
Deuteration is the replacement of a hydrogen atom by deuterium atom in a molecule. The replacement begins at the most acidic hydrogen in the molecule. In ATP, the deshielded hydrogen is C8-H which is the first replaced ...
Mathematics plays a pertinent role in physics. Students' understanding of this role has significant implications in their understanding of physics. Studies have shown that some students prefer the use of mathematics in ...
Bound state systems consisting of three nonrelativistic particles are numerically
studied. Calculations are performed employing two-body and three-body forces as
input in the Hamiltonian in order to study the role or ...