In his book “Structural Design via Optimality Criteria”, George Rozvany articulates William Prager’s personal preferences in research on structural mechanics which may be summarized as: • Research should reveal some fundamental and unexpected features of the structural problem studied. • Closed form analytical solutions are preferable to numerical ones because the latter often obscu…
Abstract Four-point probe characterization is a standard method for studying the electrical properties of solids and thin films. The probe spacing in four-point probe technique has to be reduced to micro-scale to obtain expected surface sensitivity and spatial resolution. Therefore, microscopic four-point probes (M4PPs) need to be combined with some microscopy techniques. Two types of M4PPs sy…
Abstract. Highly active and coke-resistant Rh catalysts were developed for methane steam reforming in microchannel chemical reactors. Rh loading was optimized on a stable MgO–Al2O3 support to improve the volumetric productivity for methane conversion. Catalyst activities were stable over a wide range of steam/carbon ratios. In particular, experimental results demonstrated that Rh/MgO–Al2O3…
Abstract. We report on a stabilization effect on the structure and activity of Ag/Al2O3 for the selective catalytic reduction (SCR) of NOx with CH4 imparted by the presence of SO2 in the exhaust gasmixture. The reaction is carried out at temperature above 600 oC to keep the surface partially free of sulfates. In SO2-free gases, catalyst deactivation is fast and measurable at these temperatu…
A combined method of the time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) and sum-overstate (SOS) formula was implemented to model multiphoton absorption spectra, including two-photon absorption (2PA) and three-photon absorption (3PA), of Sc2C2@C68 and Sc3N@C68 endohedral metallofullerenes (EMFs). This method has been proved to be effective by comparisons between the calculated and experimen…