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Hello everyone, I have an organic material functionalized with an inorganic material. When performing the FTIR analysis on the functionalized material, a kind of bands appeared in the infrared spectrum between 1000 and 500 cm-1 that were not previously found in the organic material. Could someone explain this to me?
What is the reason for the appearance of new interaction bands that were not previously found in the FTIR analysis? Thank you.
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Thank you Dear Professor Yuri Mirgorod ..
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The 3rd International Conference on Optoelectronic Information and Functional Materials (OIFM 2024) will be held in Wuhan, China from April 5 to 7, 2024.
The annual Optoelectronic Information and Functional Materials conference (OIFM) offers delegates and members a forum to present and discuss the most recent research. Delegates and members will have numerous opportunities to join in discussions on these topics. Additionally, it offers fresh perspectives and brings together academics, researchers, engineers, and students from universities and businesses throughout the globe under one roof.
---𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐏𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬---
The topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to:
1. Optoelectronic information science
- Optoelectronics
- Optical communication and optical network
- Optical fiber communication and system
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2. Information and Communication Engineering
- Communication and information system
- Wireless communication, data transmission
- Switching and broadband network
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3. Materials science and Engineering
- New materials
- Optoelectronic functional materials and devices
- Bonding material
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All accepted full papers will be published in the conference proceedings and will be submitted to EI Compendex / Scopus for indexing.
𝐈𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬:
Full Paper Submission Date: February 5, 2024
Registration Deadline: March 22, 2024
Final Paper Submission Date: March 29, 2024
Conference Dates: April 5-7, 2024
𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐃𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐬 𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐭:
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Dear Sergey Alexandrovich Shoydin ,only English manuscripts are accepted in the conference.
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I have great interest in alloys specially steel and titanium alloys, electronic materials and functional properties of materials. In experimental part I have experience in alloy development and synthesis of functional materials.
Thank You
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There are several ways to find Ph.D positions in metallurgical and materials engineering in India and abroad:
  1. Universities: Many universities offer Ph.D programs in metallurgical and materials engineering. Check the websites of universities in India and abroad that have strong reputations in this field to see if they are currently accepting applications for Ph.D positions.
  2. Research Institutes: There are several research institutes in India and abroad that specialize in metallurgical and materials engineering. Check their websites to see if they have any open Ph.D positions.
  3. Professional Organizations: Many professional organizations in the field of metallurgical and materials engineering have job boards or listings of open Ph.D positions. Some examples include the Indian Institute of Metals, the Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS), and the European Metallurgical Society (EMS).
  4. Online Job Boards: There are many online job boards that list open Ph.D positions in metallurgical and materials engineering. Some popular examples include LinkedIn, Indeed, and Glassdoor.
  5. Networking: Networking with professors, researchers, and professionals in the field of metallurgical and materials engineering can also be a great way to find Ph.D positions. Attend conferences, join professional organizations, and connect with people on LinkedIn to expand your network and learn about open Ph.D positions.
  6. Reach out to professors and researchers directly: You can reach out to professors and researchers in universities and research institutes in India and abroad directly to inquire about any open Ph.D positions in metallurgical and materials engineering.
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I have functionalized a material with an organic compound and performed different analyses such as TGA, XPS, elemental analysis (by EDS and varioMICRO) but I have a difficulty to determine the general formula. Is there any equation?
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Reconcile elemental analysis for all methods. Determine the mass average. Write a formula, such as water or hydrogen peroxide. You have determined 12% hydrogen and 88% oxygen. Write the unknown formula HxOy. Find the ratio x: y and, resulting in an integer ratio
12/1: 88/16 = 12: 5.5 = 2: 1. Hence, you have identified water, not hydrogen peroxide.
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That's my full passion to develop my personal skills and knowledge to play well in the next generation industrial applications with utilizing my background by Functional Materials program and Materials Science in general.
Currently I am learning fundamentals in e-commerce and business to implement my own ideas in which I found that I can get an investment from Angel Investors. For this reason I would appreciate your offer and advice to gain more.
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Dear Çağlar Tilkicik, to shortten the way with least efforts, I advise you to follow three strategies:
- study (not read) reviews and Books
- Attending scientific forums and conferences
- work with and engage students in research, term papers, and supervision
I did this since I was graduate students. Good Luck and My Regards
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I’m working on a project where, I want to synthesize new kinds of ionic liquid of coordination compounds using electrodialytic ion transfer device which can be used for the solvent or electrode functionalizing material on electrochemical analysis. However, I do not have much idea and literature materials.
Also, what are the effects of counter ions in the preparation of these complexes?
I will be glad if you can be of any assistance most especially the methodology.
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I think counter ions will make interference in the reaction and get different result unless make masking process and this depends on the nature of reactants and product and stability of solution and many parameters that must be in take
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I am working on a natural polymer and functionalized it to block the UV rays. However, I don't know any quantitative or qualitative test to study the UV blocking efficiency of my functionalized material and comparing it with control.
Please suggest me any lab suitable test for this
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You need to test the item in a (UV) spectrometer of some sort. A standard chemical / biological spectrometer system could do the job, there is usually one in a lab somewhere at a university. If there is not one available, a small system like this:
Would work.
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Dear Authors,
I am pleased to invite you to submit a book chapter for upcoming book “Interfacial engineering in functional materials for dye-sensitized solar cells” which will be published in Wiley Publishers. If you are interested to participate in our publishing endeavour, please submit one page abstract of your chapter with title, authors name and their affiliation along with the contributing authors biodata on or before by 3rd October 2018 to pandikumaran@gmail.com
The deadline for the submission of complete book chapter is 20 December 2018. The length of book chapter should have 25 - 35 page length having maximum 8-12 figures, tables and illustrations all together, if any. The entire book chapter will be published after peer-review.
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Is this book will be under Web of Science Book Citation Index (BkCI) ????
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the modulation depth reported by Bao Q, Zhang H, Wang Y, et al. Atomic‐layer graphene as a saturable absorber for ultrafast pulsed lasers[J]. Advanced Functional Materials, 2009, 19(19): 3077-3083. is 66%,but we know the absorption of monolayer is 2.3%,how could the modulation depth raise to ~66%?
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To consider the surface layer of a solid in general I recommend you to read the following presentation
Solid Surface and Nanoscale materials Structure
Presentation · July 2016 with 117 Reads
DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.31947.59684
Charmo, University of Charmo, University of Salahaddin, DOI:10.13140/RG.2.2.31947.59684
Cite this publication
Omar M S at Salahaddin University - Hawler, Arbil, Kurdistan, Iraq
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I have a new idea toward molecular electronics 
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Recently, the conducting polymers are grafted onto another one. so, it is possible to prepare a polymeric structures for these purpose.
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What polymer glues with heat resistance above 600 ° C are known to you? What is their composition? For bonding which substrates, these adhesives are applied? What about their durability? I would be grateful for the bibliographic references as well as links to research groups and to potential manufacturers of these functional materials.
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Pp 138
Above 500 deg C is available
The guiding formulations in tables 2 and 3 give examples for long-term temperature levels of 500 and 600°C.
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Dr. Shahryar, Thanks for your suggestion but I can't use raman spectroscopy. 
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I need stable low work function materials (lower than 1eV) which is suitable for MEMS process.
Do you know that kind of materials? or Do you know materials which make work function lower?
If you know, please tell me.
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Thank you for replying.
Your input is invaluable to me.
Thank you again,
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I would like to know if there is any paper where the Pauli potencial is represented only in terms of \nabla ^2\rho(\ vec r).
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Dear Edison,
Perhaps you can  see.The Pauli potential in relation to the differential virial ...
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Published in:Physics Letters A · 2008
Authors:N H March
Affiliation:University of Antwerp
About:Kinetic energy · Density functional theory
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I use spectroscopic ellipsometry to determine the film thickness and refractive index of oxide thin films on silicon with VASE software from JA Woollam. The thing is i am not able to extract the dielectric function of the material film layer although the software gives combined pseudodielectric function of all the layers. 
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Hello Jagannath,
I use this software almost everyday.  If you want all the optical constants to be expressed as epsilon1 and epsilon2 (dielectric function), you have to change the defaults values in VASE:  in VASE, go to 'global' (top right in the menus), select 'defaults', and choose 'e1 and e2' for 'Specify Optical Const. in'.  After this selection is made, all the optical constants will be expressed in e1 and e2, including the results of your fits.
Hope that this solve your problem.  Let me know.
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The porous metal organic framework material is very popular as an innovative functional material. The flexible tetra-carboxylic acid is one type of chelate ligand, barely used to construct metal-organic framework. The rigid di-carboxylic acid is one type of efficient ligand to construct transition metal-organic framework. However, both of the two acids are unable to meet the high coordination demand of rare earth, therefore, it is very difficult to construct a stable porous framework by using the two type of ligands alone.  By using flexible tetra-carboxylic acid and rigid di-carboxylic acid, will some new porous and stable MOFs be prepared? Thank you for your review on this project.
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Dear Maolong,
Please see follow papers:
1. Masoud Mirzaei , V. Lippolis , Hossein Eshtiagh Hosseini , milad mahjoobizadeh , Decaaquabis(μ3-4-hydroxypyridine-2,6-dicarboxylato)bis(4-hydroxypyridine-2,6-dicarboxylato)tetramanganese(II) 3.34-hydrate: a new three-dimensional open metal-organic framework based on a tetranuclear MnII complex of chelidamic acid and undecameric stitching water clusters , Acta Crystallographica Section C: Structural Chemistry , Volume ( 68 ) , 2011-12, Pages 7-11.
2. Masoud Mirzaei Shahrabi , H. Aghabozorg , Hossein Eshtiagh Hosseini , A Brief Review on Structural Concepts of Novel Supramolecular Proton Transfer Compounds and Their Metal Complexes Part(II) , Journal of the Iranian Chemical Society , Volume ( 8 ) , 2011-4, Pages 580-607.
For further papers on di-carboxylic acid transition metal complexes go to this link:
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Multinuclear solid-state NMR is an especially powerful tool to study the structural information of functional materials.
In my lab, I have a Bruker 600MHz NMR. If anyone has a good idea and wants to study materials by solid-state NMR, I can provide measurement, and also I want to collaborate with you. 
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How about Solid state for polymer? I need it. thank you
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  1. In Field Emission measurement Eturn ON (threshold voltage), Jmax (maximum current density) and Beta (field enhancement factor) are main important parameter......What is more important?
  2. Where Beta is directly dependent on surface morphology but some scholars calculating it with the help of work function of the material ..... What is most appropriate method to calculate Beta? 
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It must be remembered that of the three named parameters, only one - Beta - is a model, a virtual setting. The remaining ones are determined by measuring the experimental values - currents. Beta is introduced to configure model law Fowler-Nordheim to describe the experimental data. Beta depends also on the geometry of the emitter surface, and the properties of the composite material.
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In electrochemistry, electrolysis for instance, Nernst equation gives the final point of the process. It is determined by the Galvanic potentials of the inactive electorde and the templating metal, temperature, and the activity of the solution/electrolyte. If the inert electrode is semiconductive (i.e. transition metal oxide), I am wondering whether the Galvanic potential is marked by the work function of the material, or whether there is any relationships between the two properties of the material. 
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Regardless of the material, the work function is the the difference in energy of an electron between vacuum level and the Fermi level.  The Fermi level is indeed the same as the electrochemical potential of the electron in the solid. Since the Nernst equation does nothing else but defining how this potential, E, shifts with respect to E(0), i.e. the electrode potential under standard conditions, it is a direct measure for how the work function changes upon polarization of the electrode. The problem is that different energy scales are used. The work function and Fermi level are usually defined against the vacuum level, while the electrode potential or redox potentials in electrochemistry are defined against an arbitrary zero, which is the standard hydrogen electrode (SHE). If you can establish the difference between 0V versus SHE and the vacuum level, then the Nernst equation could be used directly to calculate changes in work function. I believe there are several approaches to this, and you can learn more about it if you look up papers that aim to develop an "absolute scale" of redox potentials. I believe Wolfgang Schmickler has done some work on this.
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Carbon fibre based composites show various advantages (light weight, less prone to corrosion, etc..) over Steel and other structural materials. For example Carbon fibre composites are already being used in cars and aerospace industries, do you think they can be used in buildings, bridges, etc...
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The question is general, so the direct answer is "no":
CFRP will not "generally" replace steel ...
... but it may do so in certain applications, and these may well be numerous. Michael Heine gave a lot of good examples. However, look for Prof. Hufenbach often-cited statement (which has in fact been made by many people, probably also in parallel) - "The right material in the right place at the right price and with the right ecology".
If you follow this thought, the future is likely to be hybrid, or multi-material, and the proportions of indivdiual materials like steel or CFRP will shift with time even for a
given application: There are the usual boundary conditions, e.g. with respect to the link between cost, process and series size, which may be altered e.g. by introduction of new processes or optimization of old ones, there are raw material prices which may even be politically influenced, and there is a ecology, which as a cost factor is very much determined by regulations .... and there are of course certain aspects steel can provide, which CFRP can't as well. Anisotropy in CFRP has been mentioned, which can be employed to advantage of course but may be a problem in other scenarios, impact performance may still turn out to be an issue in aerospace, and potential also in automotive applications (repair, damage detection, crashworthiness etc.), high temperature performance of steel vs. CFRP etc. And naturally there is also the development potential steel may still have: When Audi introduced aluminium on a larger scale in the A8 and later the A2, it turned out that steel could in fact compete: There were the ULSAB projects, and there were the developments towards TRIP and TWIP steels, to name but a few.
All such developments can be imagined for the building industry, too, hence there is surely a potential and thus a market for the material, but none to replace all that's there today.
Lest I forget to mention, if you would like to have an overview of recent developments in terms of materials for transport applications, why not have a look at this ;-)
Hope you find it interesting, even though the building topic is not covered.
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I have a background in ferroelectric materials and their structural characterization. However, I have very little idea on incommensurate structures ferromagnetic material etc... I have been reading up on magnetoelectric materials and I do not understand what violation of space-time parity means and how it is necessary for magnetoelectric effect to occur. Any answers or suggestions at an elementary level would be very helpful.
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In my opinion, any particular example is always better than any abstract explanation. Here is a very interesting discussion on this subject based on the study of quite a nontrivial material, bismuth ferrite BiFeO3 ferroelectric magnet. Take a look.
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I have been reading many papers on multiferroics but I didn't find any discussing electric or magnetic field induce phase transitions in material. Almost all papers charecterize the material on the basis of Tc or Tn.
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Hi the papers were nice. But this work is on BiFeO3 type multiferroics in which the coupling of the electrical and magnetic component is weak because of their different origins. Have the strongly coupled multiferroics been explored for electric field induced transition?
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Apart from electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS), what are the other techniques that can give light elements (such as Lithium) distribution profile (2D Mapping) with high resolution?
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Dear Sir,
just try to get access to a OMICRON NanoESCA, preferably mounted at a synchrotron beamline. Then, you will get chemical information via X-ray photoelecron spectroscopy (XPS) with lateral resolution in the range of 100-200 nm. In case you can identify Li in your batteries via changes in workfunction, the PEEM mode of the NanoESCA provides spatial resolution in 2D mapping in the range of 50 nm.
Unfortunately, these devices are not widly used and synchrotron radiation seems mandatory since in XPS the problem for Li is the same as in case of EDS/EDX, namely very low cross sections.
For further information, see
Sincerely,
FM