Chinese cabbage and green onion are important vegetables for a variety of foods in Korea. Because these vegetables are used after being briefly washed with water, the disinfecting washing needs to be applied to inactivate norovirus. We evaluate the effectiveness of sodium hypochlorite (NaOCl) an...

In nanocrystalline metals, the formation of deformation twins is more likely through either random activation of partials (RAP) or cooperative slip of three partials (CSTP), which produces zero macroscopic strain. In their coarse-grained counterparts, deformation twins produce a net macroscopic ...

Nanotwinned metals exhibit outstanding radiation tolerance as twin boundaries effectively engage, transport and eliminate radiation-induced defects. However, radiation-induced detwinning may reduce the radiation tolerance associated with twin boundaries, especially at elevated temperatures. Here...

Nanotwinned metals have shown high strength and ductility. However, metals with high stacking fault energy, such as Al, typically do not contain high-density growth twins or stacking faults. Here we show that by using a small amount of Ti solutes, 0.15–5.1 at.%, fine grains with a large populat...

Materials having strong coupling between different degrees of freedom such as spin, lattice, orbital, and charge are of immense interest due to their potential device applications. Here, we have stabilized the 9R phase of BaMnO3, by Sr (Ti) doping in the Ba (Mn) site using solid-state route at a...

Nanostructured crystalline Al/amorphous AlN multilayer films with a wide layer thickness (h) range from ∼10 nm up to ∼200 nm were prepared by using magnetron sputtering. Nanotwins and 9R phase were substantially observed in the Al layers, showing a strong thickness dependence. The 9R phase pre...

The viscosities, ƞ of l-alanyl-l-alanine (Ala-Ala), l-alanyl-l-valine (Ala-Val), l-alanyl-l-leucine (Ala-Leu) with drug ampicillin (AMP) have been measured as a function of temperature at T = (305.15, 310.15 and 315.15) K. The change in viscosity of dipeptides with increase in AMP concentration ...

The performance, nitrogen removal rate, extracellular polymeric substances (EPS), microbial community and enzymatic activity of activated sludge have been assessed in a sequencing batch reactor under ampicillin stress. The chemical oxygen demand and ammonia removal kept relatively stable at 0–3...

The viscosities, η of l-serine with drug ampicillin (AMP) and amoxicillin (AMX) have been measured as a function temperature at T = (305.15, 310.15 and 315.15) K. The viscosity data have been utilized to determine viscosity B-coefficients employing the Jones–Dole equation. The trends of variat...

Experimentally determined values of density (ρ), speed of sound (u) and viscosity (η) have been used to investigate solute-solvent interactions of L-histidine in aqueous ampicillin sodium (an antibacterial drug) solutions at different concentrations (0.035, 0.055, 0.075 and 0.095) mol kg−1, ov...

The viscosities, η of l-alanine, l-valine and l-leucine with drug ampicillin (AMP) have been measured as a function of temperature at T = (305.15, 310.15 and 315.15) K. The viscosity data have been utilized to determine viscosity B-coefficients employing the Jones–Dole equation. The trends of ...

A novel poly(ethylene glycol) grafted triethylamine functionalized dicationic ionic liquid has been prepared and characterized. It was successfully used as an efficient catalyst for the three-component synthesis of 2-amino-2-chromene derivatives in water. The simple workup, mild reaction conditi...

Steam explosion of sugarcane bagasse was carried out in the absence (autocatalysis) and presence of dilute phosphoric (H3PO4) and dilute sulfuric (H2SO4) as exogenous acid catalysts. Seven experiments were designed to operate at the same combined severity factor (CSF) of 0.76 ± 0.02: three auto...

(R)-2-Chloro-1-(3-chlorophenyl)ethanol is a key pharmaceutical intermediate in the synthesis of 3-adrenoceptor receptor (3-AR) agonists. The asymmetric reduction of 2-chloro-1-(3-chlorophenyl)ethanone to (R)-2-chloro-1-(3-chlorophenyl)ethanol catalyzed by resting cells of Candida ontarioensis wa...

The molecular structures of two isomeric 2-(chlorophenyl)-3-[(chlorobenzylidene)-amino] substituted 2,3-dihydroquinazolin-4(1H)-ones have been determined via single crystal XRD. Both isomers contain chloro substitutions on each of the phenyl rings and as a result a broad spectrum of halogen medi...

The title compound, 2-benzoyl-N-(4-chlorophenyl)-3-oxo-3-phenylpropanamide compound (C22H16NO3Cl) has been synthesized and characterized by X-ray diffraction, IR, 1H and 13C NMR and UV–Vis spectra. Optimized geometrical structure, harmonic vibrational frequencies and chemical shifts were comput...

Spectroscopic profiling in terms of FT-IR, FT-Raman, UV–vis and NMR in addition to reactivity study by density functional theory (DFT) and molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of 3-(4-chlorophenyl)-N,N-dimethyl-3-pyridin-2-ylpropan-1-amine (C16H19ClN2) have been discussed. In order to assign pri...

In order to investigate the use of semi-synthetic antimicrobial compounds, the objective of this study was to evaluate the 3-(p-chlorophenyl)thio citronellal, a novel compound that is derived from the essential oil of Cymbopogon citratus, against spoilage and pathogenic bacteria in food. This st...

Fermented whole grain (WG) sorghum food products including WG-ting can be obtained from different sample sources and fermentation conditions, leading subsequently to variations in the molecular composition of the products. There is however, a lack of detailed understanding and description of dif...

Theoretical quantum chemistry calculations were used to assign the observed vibrational band frequencies of Be, Mg, Ca, Sr, and Ba acetylacetonates complexes. Density functional theory (DFT) calculations have been carried out at the B3LYP level, using LanL2DZ, def2SVP, and mixed, GenECP, (def2SV...