Adding carbon black (CB) particles to elastomeric polymers is essential to the successful
industrial use of rubber in many applications, and the mechanical reinforcing effect of CB in …

The mechanism of carbon particulate (soot) inception has been a subject of numerous
studies and debates. The article begins with a critical review of prior proposals, proceeds to …

The management and disposal of flowback and produced waters (FP water) is one of the
greatest challenges associated with unconventional oil and gas development. The …

Catalytic decomposition of hydrocarbons on transition metals attracts a renewed interest as
a route toward high-quality graphene prepared in a reproducible manner. Here we employ …

A novel model called Surface Shell Formation (SSF) is developed which predicts soot
maturity based on the equilibrium nanostructure of poly aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) …

The formation mechanism of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) with three fused
aromatic rings starting from naphthalene has been studied using accurate ab initio G3 (MP2 …

Using low-energy electron microscopy (LEEM), we have measured the local concentration
of mobile carbon adatoms from which graphene sheets form on a Ru (0001) surface, and …

Graphene forms from a relatively dense, tightly bound C-adatom gas when elemental C is
deposited on or segregates to the Ru (0001) surface. Nonlinearity of the graphene growth …

A newly-developed detailed mechanism of soot oxidation was tested against experimental
observations. The computations were performed at an atomistic level and with a detailed …

A new detailed chemical-kinetic Monte Carlo model of graphene-edge growth is presented.
The model employs a fine-grained approach to chemically resolved species, allows for …