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Colloidal transport and deposition through dense vegetation

David Andrew Barry, Li Chen, Congrong Yu

The effectiveness of submerged synthetic aquatic vegetation on removal of colloids from flowing water was investigated to explore retention of particulate nonpoint source pollutants in aquatic systems. In colloid transport experiments, the deposition rate ...

Elsevier2022

Investigating users' eye movement behavior in critiquing-based recommender systems

Pearl Pu Faltings, Li Chen, Feng Wang

Recommender systems have increasingly become popular in various web environments (such as e-commerce and social media) for automatically generating items that match to individual users' personal interests. Among different types of recommender systems that ...

Ios Press2017

Comparison of liquid hot water (LHW) and high boiling alcohol/water (HBAW) pretreatments for improving enzymatic saccharification of cellulose in bamboo

Li Chen, Li Shuai, Jing Liu, Meng Li, Yubo Zhao

Liquid hot water (LHW) and high-boiling point alcohol/water (HBAW) pretreatments were compared to improve enzymatic saccharification of cellulose in moso bamboo. When pretreatments were conducted at 200 degrees C for 40 min, HBAW (20% (v/v) 1,4- butanediol ...

Elsevier Science Bv2017

The Negligible Role of C-H Stretch Excitation in the Physisorption of CH4 on Pt(111)

Rainer Beck, Li Chen, Helen Jane Chadwick, Hirokazu Ueta

We report a molecular beam study of the effect of vibrational excitation on the physisorption of methane on a Pt(111) surface. Our experiments use a continuous molecular beam of CH4, prepared in its antisymmetic C-H stretch mode ν3 by infrared laser pumpin ...

American Chemical Society2015

State-Resolved Methane Dissociation on Pt(111) Studied by Reflection Absorption Infrared Spectroscopy

Rainer Beck, Hirokazu Ueta, Li Chen

The dissociation of methane on Pt(111) was studied using quantum state-resolved methods and reflection absorption infrared spectroscopy (RAIRS), at a surface temperature of 150 K where the nascent reaction products methyl(ads) and H(ads) are stable and acc ...

2015

Experiments on user experiences with recommender interfaces

Pearl Pu Faltings, Li Chen

Recommender systems have been increasingly adopted as personalisation services in e-commerce. They facilitate users to locate items which they would be interested in viewing or purchasing. However, most studies have emphasised on the algorithm's performanc ...

Taylor & Francis Ltd2014

Quantum state-resolved CH4 dissociation on Pt(111): coverage dependent barrier heights from experiment and density functional theory

Rainer Beck, Hirokazu Ueta, Li Chen

The dissociative chemisorption of CH4 on Pt(111) was studied using quantum state-resolved methods at a surface temperature (Ts) of 150 K where the nascent reaction products CH3(ads) and H(ads) are stable and accumulate on the surface. Most previous experim ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2013

Quantum state-resolved gas/surface reaction dynamics probed by reflection absorption infrared spectroscopy

Rainer Beck, Régis Bisson, Li Chen, Hirokazu Ueta

We report the design and characterization of a new molecular-beam/surface-science apparatus for quantum state-resolved studies of gas/surface reaction dynamics combining optical state-specific reactant preparation in a molecular beam by rapid adiabatic pas ...

American Institute of Physics2013

Multifaceted polymer coated, gold nanoparticles

Harm-Anton Klok, Li Chen

Gold nanoparticles modified with a two (or multi-) component polymer brush coating are an exciting class of nanomaterials. The presentation of two (or more) different polymer components can lead to truly multifaceted nanoparticles that can incorporate mult ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2013

Vibrationally Bond-Selective Chemisorption of Methane Isotopologues on Pt(111) Studied by Reflection Absorption Infrared Spectroscopy

Li Chen

In this thesis, I describe the design and first applications of a new molecular-beam/surface-science ultra-high vacuum apparatus. The new machine combines rovibrational state-selective infrared pumping of gas-phase reactants with reflection absorption infr ...

EPFL2012