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Raman spectra of activated carbon materials have been investigated by a peak-deconvolution technique. It has been found as a result of our fitting trials that four Gaussians and a linear background are necessary and enough to reproduce the spectral data throughout our experiment, with a pair of relatively sharp peaks…
Electromagnetic properties of a thermoplastic natural rubber (TPNR), a lithium–nickel–zinc (Li–Ni–Zn) ferrite and a TPNR–ferrite composite subjected to transverse electromagnetic (TEM) wave propagation were investigated. The incorporation of the ferrite into the matrix of the TPNR was found to reduce the dielectric lo…
Common-or-garden starch can render single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) readily soluble in water. The secret is to preorganize the linear amylose component in the starch into a helix with iodine prior to bringing the SWNTs on the scene. The SWNTs displace the iodine molecules in a “pea-shooting” type of mechanism (s…
The magnetic and transport properties of La$_{0.5}$Sr$_{0.5}$CoO$_{3-δ}$ film grown on a LaAlO$_3$ substrate by pulsed-laser deposition are studied. The properties are found to be influenced by a combined influence of the magnetic anisotropy and inhomogeneity. Magnetoresistance anisotropy is determined by the shape an…
We minimized the interface diffuseness in the phase-field models by introducing the parabolic double-well potential and localizing the solute redistribution (or latent heat release) into a narrow region within the phase-field interface. In spite of the parabolic potential with cusps, highly localized solute redistribu…
Thermodynamic effects of local structure fluctuations in glassformers are analyzed in terms of energy basins and inter-basin hopping. Depending on the time-scale of measurement, one observes short-time thermodynamic properties related to a narrow set of basins, or equilibrium properties that include structural relaxat…
Amphiphilic discotic molecules with hydrophilic side branches consisting of hexaphenyl hexa-peri-hexabenzocoronene and hexabiphenyl hexa-peri-hexabiphenylcoronene as the aromatic core and hexa-substituted oligoethers as the branched peripheral chains have been synthesized, and their microstructure has been characteriz…
Carboxyl-terminated single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) were successfully immobilized from solution phases onto the apexes of gold tips for scanning tunneling microscopy (STM). Gold STM tips were first modified with self-assembled monolayers of 4-mercaptobenzoic acid, and its carboxyl groups were used to anchor car…
We report on the preparation of water- and oil-repellent surfaces using surface-attached monolayers of perfluorinated polymer molecules. A covalent attachment of the polymer molecules to the substrate surfaces is achieved by generation of the polymer chains through starting a surface-initiated radical-chain polymeriza…
A magneto-optical study has been undertaken of the mixed-valence single-molecule magnet [Mn(IV)(4)Mn(III)(8)O(12)L(16)] in which the ligands, L, are acetate (Mn(12)Ac) or the long-chain carboxylic acid, C(14)H(29)COOH (Mn(12)C(15)), that confers better solubility in organic solvents. Thin polymer films of these compou…
We collected test reactions which can be applied in an easy and reproducible way to the chemical composition of the abalone organic matrix. Several chemical and biochemical test reactions were applied to the interlamellar organic matrix of abalone nacre to study the content and nature of polysaccharides. The preparati…
Catalyzed transesterification in the melt is used to produce diblock copolymers of poly([R]-3-hydroxybutyric acid), PHB, and monomethoxy poly(ethylene glycol), mPEG, in a one-step process. Bacterial PHB of high molecular weight is depolymerized by consecutive and partly simultaneous reactions: pyrolysis and transester…
The crystal structure of glutamine synthetase (GS) from Mycobacterium tuberculosis determined at 2.4 Å resolution reveals citrate and AMP bound in the active site. The structure was refined with strict 24-fold noncrystallographic symmetry (NCS) constraints and has an R -factor of 22.7% and an R -free of 25.5%. Multico…
An ab initio MO study on a model system for photochromic compounds containing a dithienylethene unit is presented. On the basis of the obtained potential energy profile, a rationalization is provided for the proposed mechanism of the experimentally observed stepwise multiphoton process in the ring-opening cycloreversi…
Organized multilayers of nanoparticles (9-, 20-, and 45-nm-diameter silica or 12-nm magnetite) and glucose oxidase (GOx) were assembled in alternation with oppositely charged polyelectrolytes on 420-nm latex particles. Stepwise growth of the multilayer films on latex was confirmed by microelectrophoresis and transmiss…
Fluoroalkylsilanes (FAS) prove to be an interesting water-repellent coating for the recently discussed “superhydrophobic surfaces”. The FAS investigated here form a self-assembled monolayer when brought into contact with a surface. They arrange at a high degree of orientation with their molecular axis perpendicular to…
Well-ordered mesostructured silica and titania films were prepared using poly(ethylene oxide)−poly(propylene oxide)−poly(ethylene oxide) triblock copolymer species (Pluronic P123) as the structure-directing agents. By varying the volume ratio between the copolymer and inorganic components of the precursor solution, si…
The best current way to prepare Au/TiO 2 catalysts is the method of deposition−precipitation with NaOH (DP NaOH) developed by Haruta and co-workers. With this method, it is possible to obtain small gold metal particles (2−3 nm), but the corresponding gold loading remains rather low (∼3 wt %). The main goal of this wor…
Carbon nanotubes are quasi one-dimensional nanostructures with unique eletrical prroperties that make them prime candidates for molecular electronics, which is certainly a most promising direction in nanotechnology. Early theoretical works predicted that the electronic properties of "ideal" carbon nanotubes depend on…
We report a new nonwrapping approach to noncovalent engineering of carbon nanotube surfaces by short, rigid functional conjugated polymers, poly(aryleneethynylene)s. Our technique not only enables the dissolution of various types of carbon nanotubes in organic solvents, which represents the first example of solubiliza…