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Light elements like carbon may enter unintentionally into a material during material processing owing to their ubiquitous nature, and may significantly influence its observed electronic and magnetic properties. In the present work, the energetics and kinetics of carbon impurity related defects in BiFeO3 (BFO) are studied using first principles calculations in order to gain insight into the ongoing controversial aspects of conductivity of BFO. The results suggest that oxygen deficient conditions provide a favorable chemical environment for incorporation of carbon in BFO. Calculations based on the formation energy predict that carbon can spontaneously occupy interstitials, O, and Fe sites in BFO (where it is found to introduce impurity induced shallow acceptor type states at an energy of 0.05 eV above the valence band maximum). Carbon occupying cationic sites (CBi and CFe) tends to ionize their vacancies (VBi and VFe), resulting in the formation of a CO3 cluster, whereas it induces localized electron traps with energy levels composed of impurity states near the center of the band gap (0.9 eV above the valence band maximum) when occupying interstitial sites in BFO. Abraxane ic50 An understanding of the migration of C impurity in BFO is developed, which suggests the favorable incorporation of carbon impurity via a vacancy mechanism. In order to confirm the theoretical results, experimental studies are carried out where BFO and carbon doped BFO (BCFO) thin films are grown by the pulsed laser deposition technique. Polycrystalline pure phase (R3c) thin films of BFO and BCFO are obtained. The presence of defect states in the deposited thin films is optically analyzed by the photoluminescence (PL) technique. In order to highlight the critical role of carbon in modifying the electrical conductivity of BFO, a BCFO/BFO/ITO based p-i-n heterojunction is prepared. The electrical characteristics depict remarkable rectifying characteristics, thus suggesting the p-type nature of carbon dopant in otherwise intrinsic BFO.The reactions of thioformaldehyde (H2CS) with OH radicals and assisted by a single water molecule have been investigated using high level ab initio quantum chemistry calculations. The H2CS + ˙OH reaction can in principle proceed through (1) abstraction, and (2) addition pathways. The barrier height for the addition reaction in the absence of a catalyst was found to be -0.8 kcal mol-1, relative to the separated reactants, which has a ∼1.0 kcal mol-1 lower barrier than the abstraction channel. The H2CS + ˙OH reaction assisted by a single water molecule reduces the barrier heights significantly for both the addition and abstraction channels, to -5.5 and -6.7 kcal mol-1 respectively, compared to the un-catalyzed H2CS + ˙OH reaction. These values suggest that water lowers the barriers by ∼6.0 kcal mol-1 for both reaction paths. The rate constants for the H2CSH2O + ˙OH and OHH2O + H2CS bimolecular reaction channels were calculated using Canonical Variational Transition state theory (CVT) in conjunction with the Small Curvature Tunneling (SCT) method over the atmospherically relevant temperatures between 200 and 400 K. Rate constants for the H2CS + ˙OH reaction paths for comparison with the H2CS + ˙OH + H2O reaction in the same temperature range were also computed. The results suggest that the rate of the H2CS + ˙OH + H2O reaction is slower than that of the H2CS + ˙OH reaction by ∼1-4 orders of magnitude in the temperatures between 200 and 400 K. For example, at 300 K, the rates of the H2CS + ˙OH + H2O and H2CS + ˙OH reactions were found to be 2.2 × 10-8 s-1 and 6.4 × 10-6 s-1, respectively, calculated using [OH] = 1.0 × 106 molecules cm-3, and [H2O] = 8.2 × 1017 molecules cm-3 (300 K, RH 100%) atmospheric conditions. Electronic structure calculations on the H2C(OH)S˙ product in the presence of 3O2 were also performed. The results show that H2CS is removed from the atmosphere primarily by reacting with ˙OH and O2 to form thioformic acid, HO2, formaldehyde, and SO2 as the main end products.Operando Raman spectroscopy and electrochemical techniques were used to examine carbon deposition on niobium doped SrTiO3 (STN) based SOFC anodes infiltrated with Ni, Co, Ce0.9Gd0.1O2 (CGO) and combinations of these materials. Cells were operated with CH4/CO2 mixtures at 750 °C. Raman data shows that carbon forms on all cells under operating conditions when Ni is present as an infiltrate. Additional experiments performed during cell cool down, and on separate material pellets (not subject to an applied potential), show that chemically labile oxygen available in the CGO infiltrate will preferentially oxidize all deposited surface carbon as temperatures drop below 700 °C. These observations highlight the benefit of CGO as a material in SOFC anodes but more importantly, the value of operando spectroscopic techniques as a tool when evaluating a material's susceptibility to carbon accumulation. Solely relying on ex situ measurements will potentially lead to false conclusions about the studied materials' ability to resist carbon and improperly inform efforts to develop mechanisms describing electrochemical oxidation and material degradation mechanisms in these high temperature energy conversion devices.AIM To describe a method of digitally customizing 3D-printed face mask designs using 3D face scans and free software. MATERIALS AND METHODS The procedure of creating customized face masks initially involved importing and aligning STL files of face scans and mask components in free CAD software. The imported mask described in this article is composed of three different STL files (body, filter structure, and grid). The body of the mask was then edited to fit precisely into the face scan STL by using the software's offset tool, followed by adjustments and smoothening of the surfaces of the edges. The resulting customized body of the mask plus the filter and grid STL files were exported and 3D printed with polylactic acid (PLA) filament using a fused deposition modeling (FDM) 3D printer. For the purposes of comparison, a conventional 3D-printed mask (from the original STL files, without being customized for the face scan) was also 3D printed from the original STL files. Both face masks were tested on the same two volunteers.
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