Recent molecular-beam experiments of high-velocity atomic oxygen (O), atomic nitrogen
(N), and molecular oxygen (O 2) impacting carbon material at high temperature produced …

The formation of two-electron chemical bonds requires the alignment of spins. Hence, it is
well established for gas-phase reactions that changing a molecule's electronic spin state …

The thermal protection system is essential for the safe and reliable flying of any high-speed
aircraft. A carbon fiber-reinforced phenolic resin (PR) composite is one of the most important …

To understand the gas–surface chemistry above the thermal protection system of a
hypersonic vehicle, it is necessary to map out the kinetics of key elementary reaction steps …

The nonplanar character of graphene with a single carbon vacancy (SV) defect is
investigated utilizing a pyrene-SV model system by way of complete-active-space self …

Nano-periodic arrays of atomic oxygen are visualized on epitaxial graphene on Ru (0001)
via STM following supersonic beam exposure to non-equilibrium fluxes of atomic oxygen …

Thermal protection systems (TPSs) in hypersonic vehicles are primarily made from carbon-
based materials and are used to protect against damage in re-entry conditions. These …

We investigated the scattering of nitric oxide, NO, off graphene supported on gold. This is of
fundamental importance to chemistry as collisions are the necessary first step to chemical …

The interaction of hyperthermal oxygen atoms with graphitic carbon surfaces is of
fundamental interest due to its importance in aerospace material degradation and in …

In this work, energy transfer between nitric oxide radicals and graphene was measured as a
function of incidence energy, and residence times of the trapped NO molecules were …