Living By Chemistry is a full-year high school curriculum that incorporates science practices with a guided-inquiry approach. Due to effects of reduced dimensionality, Bi2Te3 nanowires are predicted to have increased thermoelectric efficiency relative to bulk Bi2Te3, one of the most efficient thermoelectric materials known. X-ray near-edge absorption spectroscopy (XANES) measurements are reported at the Cu K-edge for La2-xKxCuO4 superconductors with x = 0. Citric acid was used as a complexing agent for HTeO2+ shifting the reduction potential of HTeO2+/Te closer to that of Pb2+/Pb. A low field microwave absorbtion peak was observed with an EPR spectrometer in the new superconducting oxides‥ The peak disappeared above the superconducting transition temperature after exponential decrease with temperature in the transition region.

These cuprates were synthesized by precipitation from NaOH/KOH at 350-400°C under ambient conditions.Anomalies in the properties of Hf(S2-xTex)1-y and Hf(Se2-xTex)1-y near the metal-insulator transition Journal of Solid State Chemistry. We are also using our plasma chamber for the development of chemistries for emission reduction of perfluorocarbon compounds produced by plasma processing of semiconductor devices. The peak was sensitive to the magnetic fields the sample has been exposed before in the superconduc.

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High-temperature superconductivity in Y-Ba-Cu-O: Identification of a copper-rich superconducting phase Journal of the American Chemical Society. A high-surface-area (190 m2/g) amorphous aluminum trifluoride material (“plasma-AlF3”) was synthesized by plasma decomposition of zeolite, and its structural and reactivity properties were investigated. It is important to us that we understand the behavior of our materials, as well as the conditions of our syntheses so we can more carefully control which products we get. Liberati M, Neulinger JR, Chopdekar RV, Bettinger JS, Arenholz E, Butler WH, Stacy AM, Idzerda YI, Suzuki Y.