Glassy Carbon (GC) electrode showing strange behavior: What could be the possible reasons and how to fix it?

08 September 2019 2,819 5 View

How do we calculate overpotential of an electrode in batteries?

As we know glassy carbon could be used as the working electrode because it has large over potential, however, what are the methods (both theoretical and experimental) to calculate the...

07 August 2018 1,719 4 View

Could anybody please guide me how to prepare samples of IL electrolyte for the Raman sepectroscopy (after charging and discharging the battery)?

I want to perform Raman spectroscopy of IL electrolyte in its pure state and then 2 other samples at fully charged and discharged state. But I don't know how to get and prepare sample from the...

01 January 1970 5,939 3 View

How Relativistic effects is one reason for lanthanide contraction?

The Lanthanide contraction which is the decrease in ionic radii of the elements in the lanthanide series from atomic number 57, lanthanum, to 71, lutetium, is due to poor shielding of the 4f...

01 March 2021 2,272 4 View

What are the new 2D nanomaterials were used for Silver nanoparticles stabilization?

In the stabilization of AgNPs are vital in current research interest. However, some of the 2D nano-materials like graphene oxide, MoS2, etc... previously used to stabilize it. But still they shown...

01 March 2021 2,207 3 View

Apart from Nanosilica and CNT's what are the other nanomaterials readily available to use in concrete mixture?

Nanotechnology in concrete materials

01 March 2021 3,379 3 View

What is the density for pva electrospining?

I'm Juan Carlos, a high school student who is working with electropinning, I made an electropinning machine with a 21g needle and a 30kv high voltage source and the distance between my needle is...

28 February 2021 298 3 View

Is there a deep reason for using the squared modulus of the wave function as the probability density of the existence of the particle?

I think we were all surprised at the first time we got to know quantum mechanics that the squared modulus of the wave function is the probability density of the existence of the particle? The role...

28 February 2021 6,282 9 View

How to calculate refractive index (n and kvalue) against energy (in eV) data for alloyed nanomaterials through Independent Phase Approximation method?

Suggest me the method or some other software to calculate the above said data for nanoparticles.

21 February 2021 3,350 7 View

How to predict the reaction pathway for electro organic synthesis?

Can anyone recommend some any software/models available that can predict substance reactivities and the reaction yield under a specific set of reaction conditions process and proposing pathways to...

17 February 2021 2,383 3 View

What is the best substrate for exfoliating few layers of hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) using traditional scotch tape method?

Unlike graphene, it is usually very difficult to exfoliate few layers (~10 nm thick) of hBN on SiO2 substrate due to lip-lip interaction at the edges. Au substrates have been proven very useful...

16 February 2021 2,635 2 View

How complex systems physics/statistical mechanics would be helpful for particle physics & Networking?

Recently, I've been selected for an ICTP program named Physics of Complex Systems. But, I have a keen interest in Particle Physics & Quantum networks. As statistical mechanics involved in...

11 February 2021 699 3 View

Reason for "reading bands namelist error" in band structure calculation in quantum espresso?

At first, I did the scf run then nscf run followed by another run with calculation set to "bands'. And finally, using command bands.x < example.in > example.out to post-process the data, I...

10 February 2021 7,970 2 View