Quantity of flowback and produced waters from unconventional oil and gas exploration

AJ Kondash, E Albright, A Vengosh - Science of the Total Environment, 2017 - Elsevier
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 …

Detailed, sterically-resolved modeling of soot oxidation: Role of O atoms, interplay with particle nanostructure, and emergence of inner particle burning

M Frenklach, Z Liu, RI Singh, GR Galimova… - Combustion and …, 2018 - Elsevier
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 …

Analysis of Why Boron Avoids sp2 Hybridization and Classical Structures in the BnHn+2 Series

E Osorio, JK Olson, W Tiznado… - Chemistry–A European …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
We performed global minimum searches for the BnHn+ 2 (n= 2‐5) series and found that
classical structures composed of 2c–2e B H and B B bonds become progressively less …

A mechanistic study of the influence of graphene curvature on the rate of high-temperature oxidation by molecular oxygen

R Singh, M Frenklach - Carbon, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract Kinetic Monte-Carlo (KMC) simulations of the evolution of a graphene sheet in
combustion-like environments were performed using a set of newly established elementary …

Si6–nCnH6 (n = 0–6) Series: When Do Silabenzenes Become Planar and Global Minima?

AS Ivanov, AI Boldyrev - The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2012 - ACS Publications
In the current work we studied a structural transition from nonplanar three-dimensional
structures to planar benzene-like structures in the Si6–n C n H6 (n= 0–6) series. We …

Dimerization of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in soot nucleation

HB Zhang, X You, H Wang, CK Law - The Journal of Physical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
A possible pathway of soot nucleation, in which localized π electrons play an important role
in binding the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) molecules having multiradical …

Aluminum Avoids the Central Position in AlB9 and AlB10: Photoelectron Spectroscopy and ab Initio Study

WL Li, C Romanescu, TR Galeev… - The Journal of …, 2011 - ACS Publications
The structures and the electronic properties of two Al-doped boron clusters, AlB9–and AlB10–
, were investigated via joint photoelectron spectroscopy and high-level ab initio study. The …

Thermal decomposition of pentacene oxyradicals

X You, DY Zubarev, WA Lester Jr… - The Journal of Physical …, 2011 - ACS Publications
The energetics and kinetics of the thermal decomposition of pentacene oxyradicals were
studied using a combination of ab initio electronic structure theory and energy-transfer …

Planar to Linear Structural Transition in Small Boron−Carbon Mixed Clusters: CxB5−x (x = 1−5)

LM Wang, BB Averkiev, JA Ramilowski… - Journal of the …, 2010 - ACS Publications
Bulk carbon and boron form very different materials, which are also reflected in their clusters.
Small carbon clusters form linear structures, whereas boron clusters are planar. For …

Planarity takes over in the C x H x P 6− x (x= 0–6) series at x= 4

TR Galeev, AI Boldyrev - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
In this work we examine a structural transition from non-planar three-dimensional structures
to planar benzene-like structures in the CxHxP6− x (x= 0–6) series. The global minima of P6 …