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Abstract
Tellurium has gained significant attention due to its photoconductivity, piezoelectricity, and thermo conductivity
properties. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of biofield energy treatment on thermal, physical and atomic
properties of tellurium powder. The tellurium powder was equally divided in two parts: control and treated (T). The
treated part was subjected to Mr. Trivedis biofield energy treatment, whereas the control part was remained untreated.
Subsequently, the control and treated samples were characterized using differential scanning calorimetry (DSC),
thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), X-ray diffraction (XRD), and Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy. The
DSC data showed that latent heat of fusion was decreased by 14.13, 21.90, and 5.55% in treated samples T1, T2, and
T3, respectively as compared to the control. However, the melting temperature did not show any change in treated
samples as compared to the control. The TGA data showed that the peak width (difference in onset and endset) was
increased from 213.67C (control) to 234.82C in treated tellurium sample. Besides, XRD results exhibited an alteration
in lattice parameter, unit cell volume, density, atomic weight and nuclear charge volume of the treated tellurium powder
as compared to the control. In addition, the crystallite sizes were significantly changed on crystalline plane (102) and
(110) as 146.0548.67 nm and 63.0188.21 nm, respectively in the treated tellurium. The FT-IR spectra did not show
any significant change in absorption frequencies in treated sample as compared to the control. Therefore, DSC, TGA
and XRD data suggested that Mr. Trivedis biofield energy treatment has significantly altered the thermal and physical
properties of tellurium powder. Thus, biofield energy treatment could be applied to modulate the thermal and physical
properties in semiconductor and chalcogenide glass industries.
Introduction
Tellurium (Te), chemically related to selenium and sulfur, is a rare,
brittle and silver white metalloid. Tellurium and its related materials
have attracted significant attention due to its photoconductivity,
piezoelectricity, thermo conductivity and catalytic activities in organic
reactions [1-3]. Commercially, it is used in several alloys such as steel
and copper to enhance the machinability property. The considerable
fraction of tellurium is used in cadmium telluride (CdTe) solar panels
and as a semiconductor in various electronics industries [4]. For
semiconductor applications, the orientations and size of crystallites
play the vital role [5]. Furthermore, tellurium is widely used in the
infrared detectors, optical modulators, fluorescent, gas sensor and
chalcogenide glasses [6]. In these applications, its thermal properties
such as melting point, latent heat of fusion, and thermal conductivities
are the important parameters, which control the overall efficiency of
the product [7]. Currently, the thermal properties are modulated by
using different pressure based techniques, which are studied by various
researchers [8,9]. Thus, after considering the importance of crystal
structure parameters and thermal properties in industrial application,
it is important to use an approach which can modify physical and
thermal properties of tellurium.
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the motion of charged particles such as protons, electrons, and ions in
the human body is well known [10,11]. Recently, it is reported that the
various scientific instruments such as Kirlian photography, polycontrast
interference photography (PIP) and resonance field imaging (RFI)
can measure the biofield of human body [12]. Furthermore, a human
has the ability to harness the energy from environment/Universe and
Citation: Trivedi MK, Tallapragada RM, Branton A, Trivedi D, Nayak G, et al. (2015) Evaluation of Atomic, Physical and Thermal Properties of Tellurium
Powder: Impact of Biofield Energy Treatment. J Electr Electron Syst 4: 162. doi:10.4172/2332-0796.1000162
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FT-IR spectroscopy
The treated samples were handed over to Mr. Trivedi for biofield
energy treatment under standard laboratory conditions. Mr. Trivedi
provided the biofield treatment through his energy transmission
process, which includes bioenergy emission treated sample without
touching. After treatment, sample was handed over in the same
condition and stored at standard conditions as per the standard
experimental protocol. An optimum precautionary measure was taken
while evaluating the antibiogram analysis throughout the experiments.
The differences in parameters before and after the treatment were noted
and compared [23]. Subsequently, the control and treated samples
were characterized using DSC, TGA, XRD, and FT-IR.
Thermal analysis
To study the impact of biofield treatment on thermal properties,
the tellurium powder was characterized using DSC and TGA. The DSC
thermograms of control and treated tellurium samples are shown in
Figures 1a-1d. The control tellurium sample showed the presence of
Thermal analysis
The thermal analysis of tellurium powder was performed using
DSC and TGA-DTG techniques. For DSC study, Pyris-6 Perkin Elmer,
with a heating rate of 10C/min under air atmosphere was used. The
melting point and latent heat of fusion (H) of control and treated
tellurium sample were recorded from respective DSC thermogram.
The percent change in melting point was computed using following
equation:
[T T ]
% change in melting po int = treated control *100
Tcontrol
Where, T Control and T Treated are the melting point of control and
treated samples, respectively. Similarly, the percent change in H was
calculated.
Citation: Trivedi MK, Tallapragada RM, Branton A, Trivedi D, Nayak G, et al. (2015) Evaluation of Atomic, Physical and Thermal Properties of Tellurium
Powder: Impact of Biofield Energy Treatment. J Electr Electron Syst 4: 162. doi:10.4172/2332-0796.1000162
Page 3 of 5
in thermal properties, the control and treated tellurium powders were
examined by X-ray diffraction.
XRD study
Control
T1
T2
T3
451.61
451.45
451.90
452.41
130.16
111.77
101.66
122.94
-14.13
-21.90
-5.55
Percent change in H
Control
Treated T1
391.33
453.96
511.88
652.78
605.00
688.78
Peak width(C)
213.67
234.82
Control
Treated
Crystalline
2
FWHM Crystallite
2
FWHM
plane
(degree) (degree) size (nm) (degree) (degree)
Crystallite
size (nm)
100
23.05
0.16
60.33
23.02
0.16
60.33
101
27.55
0.14
71.01
27.57
0.14
71.01
102
38.33
0.08
146.05
38.27
0.20
48.67
110
40.45
0.16
63.01
40.43
0.12
88.21
111
43.32
0.24
40.48
43.36
0.36
26.20
003
45.88
0.20
49.94
45.92
0.20
49.94
225.69
200
47.04
0.12
90.29
47.01
0.06
201
49.69
0.24
41.47
49.65
0.20
50.68
202
56.87
0.20
52.31
56.88
0.12
94.17
113
63.75
0.20
54.18
63.74
0.20
54.18
Table 3: Effect of biofield treatment on Braggs angle and crystallite size of tellurium
powder.
Citation: Trivedi MK, Tallapragada RM, Branton A, Trivedi D, Nayak G, et al. (2015) Evaluation of Atomic, Physical and Thermal Properties of Tellurium
Powder: Impact of Biofield Energy Treatment. J Electr Electron Syst 4: 162. doi:10.4172/2332-0796.1000162
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Group
Lattice parameter ()
Density
(g/cc)
Atomic weight
(g/mol)
Control
4.456
10.1695
6.32363
129.10937
179517
Treated
4.460
10.1861
6.31333
129.32012
179082
Percent change
0.08
0.16
-0.16
0.15
-0.24
Table 4: Effect of biofield treatment on lattice parameter, unit cell volume density atomic weight, nuclear charge per unit volume of tellurium powder.
FT-IR Spectroscopy
The FT-IR spectra of control and treated tellurium samples are
presented in Figure 3. In control spectra, the absorption peak was
observed at 3730 and 3124 cm-1, which can be attributed to -OH
stretching vibrations. However, treated sample showed these peaks at
3637, and 3145 cm-1. Moreover, the absorption peaks were observed
at 2360 and 2362 cm-1 in control and treated sample respectively,
which could be due to CO2 absorption by the samples. Furthermore,
the absorption peaks observed was at 667 and 665 cm-1 in control and
treated sample, which could be attributed to stretching vibrations of
Te-O bond [30]. Thus, the FT-IR data did not show any significant
change in absorption wavenumbers of treated tellurium as compared
to the control.
Conclusion
Altogether, the biofield energy treatment has altered the atomic,
thermal and physical properties of the tellurium powder. The latent
heat of fusion was significantly reduced up to 21.90% in the treated
sample as compared to the control. It could be due to decrease in
interatomic attraction of the treated tellurium powder after biofield
energy treatment. TGA showed that the peak width was increased
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