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  • Effect of vanadium implantation on the chemical bonding structure of glassy carbon 
    Odutemowo, Opeyemi Shakirah; Fodor, T.; Csík, A.; Tokesi, K.; Malherbe, Johan B. (Elsevier, 2024-02)
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  • Effects of helium (He) bubbles and annealing on the structural evolution and migration behavior of silver (Ag) implanted into polycrystalline SiC at 350 °C 
    Mtsi, Sive Zizo; Sohatsky, A.; Abdalla, Zaki Adam Yousif; Njoroge, Eric Gitau; Skuratov, V.A.; Motloung, S.V.; Malherbe, Johan B.; Hlatshwayo, Thulani Thokozani (Elsevier, 2023-12)
    The effects of helium (He) bubbles and annealing on the structural evolution and the migration of silver (Ag) implanted into polycrystalline silicon carbide were investigated. Ag ions of 360 keV were implanted into ...
  • Revisiting a flux recovery systematic error arising from common deconvolution methods used in aperture-synthesis imaging 
    Radcliffe, Jack Frederick; Beswick, R.J.; Thomson, A.P.; Njeri, A.; Muxlow, T.W.B. (Oxford University Press, 2024-01)
    The point-spread function (PSF) is a fundamental property of any astronomical instrument. In interferometers, differing array configurations combined with their uv coverage, and various weighting schemes can produce an ...
  • Quantum Wasserstein distance of order 1 between channels 
    Duvenhage, Rocco de Villiers; Mapaya, Mathumo (World Scientific Publishing, 2023-06)
    We set up a general theory leading to a quantum Wasserstein distance of order 1 between channels in an operator algebraic framework. This gives a metric on the set of channels from one composite system to another, which ...
  • Millimeter light curves of Sagittarius A* observed during the 2017 Event Horizon Telescope campaign 
    Wielgus, Maciek; Marchili, Nicola; Marti-Vidal, Ivan; Keating, Garrett K.; Ramakrishnan, Venkatessh; Tiede, Paul; Fomalont, Ed; Issaoun, Sara; Neilsen, Joey; Nowak, Michael A.; Blackburn, Lindy; Gammie, Charles F.; Goddi, Ciriaco; Haggard, Daryl; Lee, Daeyoung; Moscibrodzka, Monika; Tetarenko, Alexandra J.; Bower, Geoffrey C.; Chan, Chi-kwan; Chatterjee, Koushik; Chesler, Paul M.; Dexter, Jason; Doeleman, Sheperd S.; Georgiev, Boris; Gurwell, Mark; Johnson, Michael D.; Marrone, Daniel P.; Mus, Alejandro; Psaltis, Dimitrios; Ripperda, Bart; Witzel, Gunther; Akiyama, Kazunori; Alberdi, Antxon; Alef, Walter; Algaba, Juan Carlos; Anantua, Richard; Asada, Keiichi; Azulay, Rebecca; Bach, Uwe; Baczko, Anne-Kathrin; Ball, David; Baloković, Mislav; Barrett, John; Baubock, Michi; Benson, Bradford A.; Bintley, Dan; Blundell, Raymond; Boland, Wilfred; Bouman, Katherine L.; Boyce, Hope; Bremer, Michael; Brinkerink, Christiaan D.; Brissenden, Roger; Britzen, Silke; Broderick, Avery E.; Broguiere, Dominique; Bronzwaer, Thomas; Bustamante, Sandra; Byun, Do-Young; Carlstrom, John E.; Ceccobello, Chiara; Chael, Andrew; Chatterjee, Shami; Chen, Ming-Tang; Chen (陈永军), Yongjun; Cho, Ilje; Christian, Pierre; Conroy, Nicholas S.; Conway, John E.; Cordes, James M.; Crawford, Thomas M.; Crew, Geoffrey B.; Cruz-Osorio, Alejandro; Cui, Yuzhu; Davelaar, Jordy; De Laurentis, Mariafelicia; Deane, Roger; Dempsey, Jessica; Desvignes, Gregory; Dhruv, Vedant; Dzib, Sergio A.; Eatough, Ralph P.; Emami, Razieh; Falcke, Heino; Farah, Joseph; Fish, Vincent L.; Ford, H. Alyson; Fraga-Encinas, Raquel; Freeman, William T.; Friberg, Per; Fromm, Christian M.; Fuentes, Antonio; Galison, Peter; Garcia, Roberto; Gentaz, Olivier; Gold, Roman; Gomez-Ruiz, Arturo I.; Gomez, José L.; Gu (顾敏峰), Minfeng; Hada, Kazuhiro; Haworth, Kari; Hecht, Michael H.; Hesper, Ronald; Ho (何子山), Luis C.; Ho, Paul; Honma, Mareki; Huang, Chih-Wei L.; Huang (黄磊), Lei; Hughes, David H.; Ikeda, Shiro; Impellizzeri, C. M. Violette; Inoue, Makoto; James, David J.; Jannuzi, Buell T.; Janssen, Michael; Jeter, Britton; Jiang, Wu; Jimenez-Rosales, Alejandra; Jorstad, Svetlana; Joshi, Abhishek, V.; Jung, Taehyun; Karami, Mansour; Karuppusamy, Ramesh; Kawashima, Tomohisa; Kettenis, Mark; Kim, Dong-Jin; Kim, Jae-Young; Kim, Jongsoo; Kim, Junhan; Kino, Motoki; Koay, Jun Yi; Kocherlakota, Prashant; Kofuji, Yutaro; Koch, Patrick M.; Koyama, Shoko; Kramer, Carsten; Kramer, Michael; Krichbaum, Thomas P.; Kuo, Cheng-Yu; La Bella, Noemi; Lauer, Tod R.; Lee, Sang-Sung; Leung, Po Kin; Levis, Aviad; Li, Zhiyuan; Lico, Rocco; Lindahl, Greg; Lindqvist, Michael; Lisakov, Mikhail; Liu, Jun; Liu, Kuo; Liuzzo, Elisabetta; Lo, Wen-Ping; Lobanov, Andrei P.; Loinard, Laurent; Lonsdale, Colin; Lu, Ru-Sen; Mao, Jirong; Markoff, Sera; Marscher, Alan P.; Matsushita, Satoki; Matthews, Lynn D.; Medeiros, Lia; Menten, Karl M.; Michalik, Daniel; Mizuno, Izumi; Mizuno, Yosuke; Moran, James M.; Moriyama, Kotaro; Mueller, Cornelia; Musoke, Gibwa; Myserlis, Ioannis; Nadolski, Andrew; Nagai, Hiroshi; Nagar, Neil M.; Nakamura, Masanori; Narayan, Ramesh; Narayanan, Gopal; Natarajan, Iniyan; Nathanail, Antonios; Fuentes, Santiago Navarro; Neri, Roberto; Ni, Chunchong; Noutsos, Aristeidis; Oh, Junghwan; Okino, Hiroki; Olivares, Hector; Ortiz-Leon, Gisela N.; Oyama, Tomoaki; Ozel, Feryal; Palumbo, Daniel C. M.; Paraschos, Georgios Filippos; Park, Jongho; Parsons, Harriet; Patel, Nimesh; Pen, Ue-Li; Pesce, Dominic W.; Pietu, Vincent; Plambeck, Richard; PopStefanija, Aleksandar; Porth, Oliver; Potzl, Felix M.; Prather, Ben; Preciado-Lopez, Jorge A.; Pu, Hung-Yi; Rao, Ramprasad; Rawlings, Mark G.; Raymond, Alexander W.; Rezzolla, Luciano; Ricarte, Angelo; Roelofs, Freek; Rogers, Alan; Ros, Eduardo; Romero-Cañizales, Cristina; Roshanineshat, Arash; Rottmann, Helge; Roy, Alan L.; Ruiz, Ignacio; Ruszczyk, Chet; Rygl, Kazi L. J.; Sanchez, Salvador; Sanchez-Arguelles, David; Sánchez-Portal, Miguel; Sasada, Mahito; Satapathy, Kaushik; Savolainen, Tuomas; Schloerb, F. Peter; Schuster, Karl-Friedrich; Shao, Lijing; Shen, Zhiqiang; Small, Des; Sohn, Bong Won; SooHoo, Jason; Souccar, Kamal; Sun, He; Tazaki, Fumie; Tilanus, Remo P. J; Titus, Michael; Torne, Pablo; Traianou, Efthalia; Trent, Tyler; Trippe, Sascha; Bemmel, Ilse van; Van Langevelde, Huib Jan; Van Rossum, Daniel R.; Vos, Jesse; Wagner, Jan; Ward-Thompson, Derek; Wardle, John; Weintroub, Jonathan; Wex, Norbert; Wharton, Robert; Wiik, Kaj; Wondrak, Michael F.; Wong, George N.; Wu, Qingwen; Yamaguchi, Paul; Yoon, Doosoo; Young, Andre; Young, Ken; Younsi, Ziri; Yuan, Feng; Yuan, Ye-Fei; Zensus, J. Anton; Zhang, Shuo; Zhao, Guang-Yao; Zhao, Shan-Shan (IOP Publishing, 2022-05)
    The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) observed the compact radio source, Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), in the Galactic Center on 2017 April 5–11 in the 1.3 mm wavelength band. At the same time, interferometric array data from the ...
  • Helium and strontium co-implantation into SiC at room temperature and isochronal annealing : structural evolution of SiC and migration behaviour of strontium 
    Mokgadi, Thapelo Freddy; Abdalla, Zaki Adam Yousif; Abdelbagi, Hesham Abdelbagi Ali; Msimanga, Mandla; Maepa, Charity E.; Skuratov, Vladimir; Hlatshwayo, Thulani Thokozani (Elsevier, 2023-01)
    Understanding the structural evolution of SiC implanted with fission product surrogates in the presence of helium (He) is of importance for its application in both fission and fusion rectors. In this study, polycrystalline ...
  • Optimization of processing parameters for the preparation of dip-coated CuO photocathodes and modification with Au nanoparticles for water-splitting 
    Mosalakgotla, Nteseng D.M.; Kyesmen, Pannan Isa; Diale, M. (Mmantsae Moche) (Elsevier, 2023-03)
    Here, the processing parameters for preparing dip-coated CuO photocathodes such as withdrawal velocity, film thickness, and calcination temperature were optimized for photoelectrochemical (PEC) applications. CuO films were ...
  • First Sagittarius A Event Horizon Telescope results. VI. Testing the black hole metric 
    Akiyama, Kazunori; Alberdi, Antxon; Alef, Walter; Algaba, Juan Carlos; Anantua, Richard; Asada, Keiichi; Azulay, Rebecca; Bach, Uwe; Baczko, Anne-Kathrin; Ball, David; Balokovic, Mislav; Barrett, John; Baubock, Michi; Benson, Bradford A.; Bintley, Dan; Blackburn, Lindy; Blundell, Raymond; Bouman, Katherine L.; Bower, Geoffrey C.; Boyce, Hope; Bremer, Michael; Brinkerink, Christiaan D.; Brissenden, Roger; Britzen, Silke; Broderick, Avery E.; Broguiere, Dominique; Bronzwaer, Thomas; Bustamante, Sandra; Byun, Do-Young; Carlstrom, John E.; Ceccobello, Chiara; Chael, Andrew; Chan, Chi-kwan; Chatterjee, Koushik; Chatterjee, Shami; Chen, Ming-Tang; Chen (陈永军), Yongjun; Cheng, Xiaopeng; Cho, Ilje; Christian, Pierre; Conroy, Nicholas S.; Conway, John E.; Cordes, James M.; Crawford, Thomas M.; Crew, Geoffrey B.; Cruz-Osorio, Alejandro; Cui, Yuzhu; Davelaar, Jordy; De Laurentis, Mariafelicia; Deane, Roger (IOP Publishing, 2022-05-10)
    Astrophysical black holes are expected to be described by the Kerr metric. This is the only stationary, vacuum, axisymmetric metric, without electromagnetic charge, that satisfies Einstein’s equations and does not ...
  • First Sagittarius A Event Horizon Telescope results. IV. Variability, morphology, and black hole mass 
    Akiyama, Kazunori; Alberdi, Antxon; Alef, Walter; Algaba, Juan Carlos; Anantua, Richard; Asada, Keiichi; Azulay, Rebecca; Bach, Uwe; Baczko, Anne-Kathrin; Ball, David; Balokovic, Mislav; Barrett, John; Baubock, Michi; Benson, Bradford A.; Blackburn, Lindy; Blundell, Raymond; Bower, Geoffrey C.; Boyce, Hope; Bremer, Michael; Brinkerink, Christiaan D.; Brissenden, Roger; Britzen, Silke; Broderick, Avery E.; Broguiere, Dominique; Bronzwaer, Thomas; Bustamante, Sandra; Byun, Do-Young; Carlstrom, John E.; Ceccobello, Chiara; Chael, Andrew; Chan, Chi-kwan; Chatterjee, Koushik; Chatterjee, Shamiuntranslated; Chen, Ming-Tang; Chen (陈永军), Yongjun; Cheng, Xiaopeng; Cho, Ilje; Christian, Pierre; Conroy, Nicholas S.; Conway, John E.; Cordes, James M.; Crawford, Thomas M.; Crew, Geoffrey B.; Cruz-Osorio, Alejandro; Cui, Yuzhu; Davelaar, Jordy; De Laurentis, Mariafelicia; Deane, Roger (IOP Publishing, 2022-05-10)
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  • First Sagittarius A Event Horizon Telescope results. III. Imaging of the Galactic center supermassive black hole 
    Akiyama, Kazunori; Alberdi, Antxon; Alef, Walter; Algaba, Juan Carlos; Anantua, Richard; Asada, Keiichi; Azulay, Rebecca; Bach, Uwe; Baczko, Anne-Kathrin; Ball, David; Balokovic, Mislav; Barrett, John; Baubock, Michi; Benson, Bradford A.; Bintley, Dan; Blackburn, Lindy; Blundell, Raymond; Bouman, Katherine L.; Bower, Geoffrey C.; Boyce, Hope; Bremer, Michael; Brinkerink, Christiaan D.; Brissenden, Roger; Britzen, Silke; Broderick, Avery E.; Broguiere, Dominique; Bronzwaer, Thomas; Bustamante, Sandra; Byun, Do-Young; Carlstrom, John E.; Ceccobello, Chiara; Chael, Andrew; Chan, Chi-kwan; Chatterjee, Koushik; Chatterjee, Shami; Chen, Ming-Tang; Chen (陈永军), Yongjun; Cheng, Xiaopeng; Cho, Ilje; Christian, Pierre; Conroy, Nicholas S.; Conway, John E.; Cordes, James M.; Crawford, Thomas M.; Crew, Geoffrey B.; Cruz-Osorio, Alejandro; Cui, Yuzhu; Davelaar, Jordy; De Laurentis, Mariafelicia; Deane, Roger (IOP Publishing, 2022-05-10)
    We present the first event-horizon-scale images and spatiotemporal analysis of Sgr A* taken with the Event Horizon Telescope in 2017 April at a wavelength of 1.3 mm. Imaging of Sgr A* has been conducted through surveys ...
  • Resolving the inner parsec of the blazar J1924–2914 with the Event Horizon Telescope 
    Issaoun, Sara; Wielgus, Maciek; Jorstad, Svetlana; Krichbaum, Thomas P.; Blackburn, Lindy; Janssen, Michael; Chan, Chi-kwan; Pesce, Dominic W.; Gomez, Jose L.; Akiyama, K.; Moscibrodzka, Monika; Marti-Vidal, Ivan; Chael, Andrew; Lico, Rocco; Liu, Jun; Ramakrishnan, Venkatessh; Lisakov, Mikhail; Fuentes, Antonio; Zhao, Guang-Yao; Moriyama, Kotaro; Broderick, Avery E.; Tiede, Paul; MacDonald, Nicholas R.; Mizuno, Yosuke; Traianou, Efthalia; Loinard, Laurent; Davelaar, Jordy; Gurwell, Mark; Lu, Ru-Sen; Alberdi, Antxon; Alef, Walter; Algaba, Juan Carlos; Anantua, Richard; Asada, Keiichi; Azulay, Rebecca; Bach, Uwe; Baczko, Anne-Kathrin; Ball, David; Balokovic, Mislav; Barrett, John; Baubock, Michi; Benson, Bradford A.; Bintley, Dan; Blundell, Raymond; Boland, Wilfred; Bouman, Katherine L.; Bower, Geoffrey C.; Boyce, Hope; Bremer, Michael; Brinkerink, Christiaan D.; Brissenden, Roger; Britzen, Silke; Broguiere, Dominique; Bronzwaer, Thomas; Bustamante, Sandra; Byun, Do-Young; Carlstrom, John E.; Ceccobello, Chiara; Chatterjee, Koushik; Chatterjee, Shami; Chen, Ming-Tang; Chen, Yongjun; Cho; Christian, Pierre; Conroy, Nicholas S.; Conway, John E.; Cordes, James M.; Crawford, Thomas M.; Crew, Geoffrey B.; Cruz-Osorio, Alejandro; Cui, Yuzhu; De Laurentis, Mariafelicia; Dempsey, Jessica; Desvignes, Gregory; Dexter, Jason; Doeleman, Sheperd S.; Dhruv, Vedant; Quijano, Sergio Abraham Dzib; Eatough, Ralph P.; Emami, Razieh; Falcke, Heino; Farah, Joseph; Fish, Vincent L.; Fomalont, Ed; Ford, H. Alyson; Fraga-Encinas, Raquel; Freeman, William T.; Friberg, Per; Fromm, Christian M.; Galison, Peter; Gammie, Charles F.; Garcia, Roberto; Gentaz, Olivier; Georgiev, B.; Goddi, C.; Gold, Roman; Gomez-Ruiz, Arturo I.; Gu, Minfeng; Hada, Kazuhiro; Haggard, Daryl; Hecht, Michael H.; Hesper, Ronald; Ho, Luis C.; Ho, Paul; Honma, Mareki; Huang, Chih-Wei L.; Huang, Lei; Hughes, David H. (IOP Publishing, 2022-08-01)
    The blazar J1924–2914 is a primary Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) calibrator for the Galactic center’s black hole Sagittarius A*. Here we present the first total and linearly polarized intensity images of this source ...
  • A study of porous carbon structures derived from composite of cross-linked polymers and reduced graphene oxide for supercapacitor applications 
    Bakhoum, Daba T.; Oyedotun, Kabir Oyeniran; Sarr, Samba; Sylla, Ndeye Fatou; Maphiri, Vusani Muswa; Ndiaye, Ndeye Maty; Ngom, Balla D.; Manyala, Ncholu I. (Elsevier, 2022-07)
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  • Facile and sustainable technique to produce low-cost high surface area mangosteen shell activated carbon for supercapacitors applications 
    Kitenge, Vianney Ngoyi; Tarimo, Delvina Japhet; Oyedotun, Kabir Oyeniran; Rutavi, Gift; Manyala, Ncholu I. (Elsevier, 2022-12)
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  • Recycling of biomass wastes from amarula husk by a modified facile economical water salt method for high energy density ultracapacitor application 
    Tarimo, Delvina Japhet; Mirghni, Abdulmajid Abdallah; Oyedotun, Kabir Oyeniran; Rutavi, Gift; Kitenge, Vianney Ngoyi; Manyala, Ncholu I. (Elsevier, 2022-09)
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  • Waste chicken bone-derived porous carbon materials as high performance electrode for supercapacitor applications 
    Tarimo, Delvina Japhet; Oyedotun, Kabir Oyeniran; Sylla, Ndeye Fatou; Mirghni, Abdulmajid Abdallah; Ndiaye, Ndeye Maty; Manyala, Ncholu I. (Elsevier, 2022-07)
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  • An ab-initio study of P-type ZrCoY (Y[dbnd]Sb and Bi) half – Heusler semiconductors 
    Allan, Lynet; Mulwa, Winfred M.; Mwabora, Julius M.; Musembi, Robinson J.; Mapasha, Refilwe Edwin (Elsevier, 2023-08)
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  • Effects of helium ion irradiation on tungsten-based composites : neutron diffraction; as a real-time diffractometer 
    Neov, D.; Beskrovnyi, A.I.; Abiyev, A.S.; Mirzayeva, D.M.; Demir, E.; Valizade, A.H.; Hlatshwayo, Thulani Thokozani; Thabethe, Thabsile Theodora; Samedov, O.A.; Mehdiyeva, R.N.; Hasanov, K.; Sharipov, Z.A.; Doroskevich, A.S.; Mamedov, F. (Jomard Publishin, 2023-06-23)
    The weight ratio 6% was formed for this paper by B4C-2% (99.5% purity, 20 µm particle size), TiC-1% (99.5% purity, 15 µm particle size), C (99.5% purity, 21 µm particle size) and the remaining part is tungsten W (99.5% ...
  • Insecticide monitoring in cattle dip with an e-nose system and room temperature screen-printed ZnO gas sensors 
    Rohde, Archibald W.; Nel, Jacqueline Margot; Joubert, Trudi-Heleen (MDPI, 2023-07-26)
    Taktic, an Amitraz-based insecticide, is commonly used in sub-Saharan Africa to treat cattle for ticks. Due to misuse in rural dipping pools, some ticks are showing resistance to Taktic. This work presents a low-cost e-nose ...
  • Mono-doped and co-doped nanostructured hematite for improved photoelectrochemical water splitting 
    Nyarige, Justine Sageka; Paradzah, Alexander Tapera; Kruger, T.P.J. (Tjaart); Diale, M. (Mmantsae Moche) (MDPI, 2022-01-24)
    In this study, zinc-doped (a-Fe2O3:Zn), silver-doped (a-Fe2O3:Ag) and zinc/silver codoped hematite (a-Fe2O3:Zn/Ag) nanostructures were synthesized by spray pyrolysis. The synthesized nanostructures were used as photoanodes ...
  • Modeling and X-ray analysis of defect nanoclusters formation in B4C under ion irradiation 
    Mirzayev, Matlab N.; Donkov, Alexander A.; Popov, Evgeni A.; Demir, Ertugrul; Jabarov, Sakin H.; Chkhartishvili, Levan S.; Adeojo, S.A.; Doroshkevich, Aleksandr S.; Sidorin, Alexey A.; Asadov, Asif G.; Thabethe, Thabsile Theodora; Khandaker, Mayeen U.; Alamri, Sultan; Osman, Hamid; Trukhanov, Alex V.; Trukhanov, Sergei V. (MDPI, 2022-07-31)
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