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Structural and electronic properties of nickel–cobalt carbonate hydroxide hydrate nanostructures for high performance supercapacitor applications
Bimetallic (nickel–cobalt) carbonate hydroxide hydrate with varying concentrations of Co and Ni have shown great potential as electrode materials for high performance supercapacitors. However, the crystal stru...
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Open AccessFortified relaxor ferroelectricity of rare earth substituted 4-layered BaBi3.9RE0.1Ti4O15 (RE = La, Pr, Nd, and Sm) Aurivillius compounds
In this report, the effect of rare-earth (RE3+) ion substitution on structural, microstructural, and electrical properties in barium bismuth titanate (BaBi4Ti4O15) (BBTO) Aurivillius ceramics has been investigate...
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Study on the Influence of Prior Cold Work on Precipitation Behavior of 304HCu Stainless Steel During Isothermal Aging
The precipitation strengthening behavior of 304HCu austenitic stainless steel during isothermal aging at 650 °C is studied under 10 and 20 pct prior cold-worked conditions. The age hardening behavior under the...
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Structural investigations of pulsed laser-deposited NiO epitaxial layers under different fluence values
The epitaxial NiO layers deposited with higher fluence values are found to be strained, and the strain increases with the fluence values. The X-ray diffraction (XRD) profile taken from the synchrotron beam sho...
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Studies on ω Phase Formation in Ti-Mo Alloys Using Synchrotron XRD
This paper presents the results of synchrotron based x-ray diffraction experiments in Ti-Mo alloys, to examine the formation of metastable ω phase, which could not be detected using conventional XRD (x-ray dif...
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A correlation between the magnetic and structural properties of isochronally annealed Cu-free FINEMET alloy with composition Fe72B19.2Si4.8Nb4
In this paper, structural changes in Cu-free FINEMET alloy (Fe72B19.2Si4.8Nb4) invoked by isochronal thermal annealing were investigated by synchrotron X-ray diffraction (SXRD) and X-ray absorption near-edge sp...
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Genetic diversity studies and identification of SSR markers associated with Fusarium wilt (Fusarium udum) resistance in cultivated pigeonpea (Cajanus cajan)
Genetic diversity and identification of simple sequence repeat markers correlated with Fusarium wilt resistance was performed in a set of 36 elite cultivated pigeonpea genotypes differing in levels of resistance ...
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Open AccessPigeonpea genomics initiative (PGI): an international effort to improve crop productivity of pigeonpea (Cajanus cajan L.)
Pigeonpea (Cajanus cajan), an important food legume crop in the semi-arid regions of the world and the second most important pulse crop in India, has an average crop productivity of 780 kg/ha. The relatively low ...
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Comparison of global and local response surface techniques in reliability-based optimization of composite structures
This paper discusses the development and application of two alternative strategies, in the form of global and sequential local response surface (RS) techniques, for the solution of reliability-based optimizati...
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Cloning and Sequencing of Coat Protein Gene of an Indian Potato Leaf Roll Virus (PLRV) Isolate and its Similarity with other Members of Luteoviridae
An Indian strain of potato leaf roll virus (PLRV) was purified to generate complementary DNA corresponding to the coat protein (CP) gene. Virus cDNA was synthesized from purified viral RNA using oligo (dT)-anc...
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Generating Relations of the Hypergeometric Functions by the Lie Group-Theoretic Method
In this paper, the generating relations for a set of hypergeometric functions ψα,β,γ,m (x) are obtained by using the representation of the Lie group SL(2,C) giving a suitable interpretation to the index m in orde...
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Organogenesis in Female Gametophyte and Embryo Cultures of Cycads: Cycas circinalis and Zamia integrifolia
Female gametophyte of Cycas circinalis and Zamia integrifolia and embryo of C. circinalis were cultured in vitro on MS medium supplemented with various auxins and cytokinins. In female gametophyte cultures of C. ...
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Environmental factors influencing aphid transmission of potato virus Y and potato leafroll virus
The effect of temperature, relative humidity (RH) and light on aphid transmission of potato virus Y (PVY) and potato leafroll virus (PLRV) was studied using as vectorsMyzus persicae Sulz. andAphis gossypii Glov. ...
