Why nitric acid causes the steel surface passivation but sulfuric acid doesn't have this property?

Why nitric acid causes the steel surface passivation but sulfuric acid doesn't have this property?

02 March 2016 9,838 1 View

What is the theory behind the decrease in the inhibitive nanopigments size with an increase anticorrosion properties?

As above.

04 May 2014 7,671 2 View

How to calculate the crystallinity of cellulose film?

27 February 2021 2,753 4 View

Can anyone share his experience regards Smoothing in origin?

I am working on TiO2 composite material and the results of XRD have a lot of small/junk peaks and while I apply a smooth filter in Origin then the other characteristics peaks disappear so anyone...

26 February 2021 8,183 3 View

How to resolve Gaussian error termination " Error termination via Lnk1e in F:\G16W\l103.exe" for TS(QST3)?

When I run the job for TS(QST3) in gaseous phase, it was completed without any error. But when I add water in CPCM model it terminated with an error: Inconsistency: ModMin= 2 Eigenvalue=...

21 February 2021 3,198 2 View

How to calculate the Atomic Polar Tensor using DFT ?

Dear friends, I am a beginner at DFT calculation. I have done a structure optimization using DFT- B3LYP/6-31G*, Nevertheless, I don't know How to calculate the Atomic Polar Tensor (APT) in...

17 February 2021 9,082 3 View

Access to supercomputer resources in India?

Hello everyone, I want to perform some gaussian calculations and want to use Materials studio for my research work. Can anyone guide me how to get access to supercomputer resources in India for...

15 February 2021 8,264 3 View

Why we use feature normalization before using the Gaussian kernel in SVM?

Support vector machine

09 February 2021 6,405 3 View

Does Gaussian 09W software take too long to give a result if we have a large chemical structure ?

DFT - gaussviev - gaussian09W - HOMO - LUMO

08 February 2021 6,012 5 View

How to calculate enthalpy of formation of Polymers taking into account the terminal end groups?

I am trying to find methods for theoretical calculation of enthalpy of formation of Polymers. till now I have found the oligomeric method (Gaussian) which uses the extrapolation of results from...

05 February 2021 9,707 4 View

How to identify when a gaussian program is about terminate normally?

Dear all, I am trying to optimize a bimetallic complex using # opt=tight b3lyp/lanl2dz scf=qc geom=connectivity. The program is running for around 5 days but the size of the .chk remains same...

05 February 2021 8,721 3 View

I have started a gaussian calculations for DFT analysis of phytochemical, it is showing a error 2070?

I am doing optimization of a phytochemical but when i submitted the file for calculations it shows error 2070. Can anyone please tell me what does it mean? and what should i do to solve it. I have...

30 January 2021 7,932 1 View