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A patient with chronic zinc poisoning from denture cream retained gadolinium after a magnetic resonance imaging procedure, likely due to transmetallation. During chelation therapy, high levels of gadolinium in excreted urine (up to 89 μg/d, 29 days after gadolinium administration) were present, indicating that gadolin…
While Black’s equation for electromigration (EM) in interconnects with n = 1 is rigorously based on the principles of electrotransport, n > 1 is more commonly observed empirically. This deviation is usually attributed to Joule heating. An alternative explanation is suggested by the recent discovery of EM plasticity. T…
We have demonstrated that the ability of fullerenes to form clusters is essential for the filling of single-walled carbon nanotubes in solution. In solutions where C60 exists in the form of discrete solvated molecules (e.g., in CS2) no fullerene encapsulation in nanotubes takes place, as the large molar excess of solv…
Glass transition constitutes one of main problems of condensed matter physics and material engineering that remains unsolved. The common acceptance of the Vogel-Fulcher-Tammann (VFT) equation for portraying the primary relaxation time or shear viscosity indicated a possible phase transition, hidden below the glass tra…
Polymorphs of carboxylic acids crystallize from solvent evaporation experiments as crystals with needle or plate morphology. Experimentally, it has been observed that the crystallization solvent does not sensibly modify the crystal morphology of a given polymorph. Hence, a theoretical study of the morphology of these…
Pressure-dependent isomerization: Pressure has been applied to manipulate the structure–property relationship of the copper(II)-based coordination network CuF2(H2O)2(pyz) (pyz=pyrazine). The elongated Jahn–Teller axis was found to switch sequentially from the NCuN (<0.9 GPa), to the OCuO (0.9–3.1 GPa), to the FCu…
Successful isolation of single-layer graphene, the two-dimensional allotrope of carbon from graphite, has fuelled a lot of interest in exploring the feasibility of using it for fabrication of various electronic devices, particularly because of its exceptional electronic properties. Graphene is poised to save Moore's l…
Silver nanoparticles are being developed for applications in plasmonics, catalysts and analytical methods, amongst others. Herein, we demonstrate the growth of silver nanoparticles using an atomic layer deposition (ALD) process for the first time. The silver was deposited from pulses of the organometallic precursor (h…
PURPOSE: To evaluate the sequential injection of a low-molecular-weight (gadoterate meglumine [Gd-DOTA], 0.5 kDa) and a macromolecular (P846, 3.5 kDa) contrast media in monitoring the effect of antitumor therapies (antiangiogenic therapy and/or microbeam radiation therapy [MRT]) on healthy brain tissue and implanted t…
We have synthesized nanoporous silica, SBA-15, in the 1 μm size range with the pore diameter of 7.6 nm. The redox enzyme horseradish peroxidase (HRP) was entrapped in the pores to form nanostructured hybrid materials. The catalytic activity of free and immobilized enzyme was first compared at room temperature. Details…
Diatoms have evolved an obligate requirement for silica for their ornamented cell wall. Diatom productivity and subsequent burial of their siliceous remains on the ocean floor is a major control on the marine silica cycle. The ecological success of the diatoms over the Mesozoic and Cenozoic is associated with biogeogr…
This study deals with the effect of chemical modification of wood flour by components including alkaline, silane, acrylic acid and benzoyl chloride, and PP-g-MA coupling agent concentration (0 and 3 wt%) on the mechanical performance of WPCs. The samples were fabricated by melt compounding in an internal mixer and the…
Hydrophobicity and the ability to absorb light that penetrates through living tissues make carbon nanotubes (CNTs) promising intracellular drug delivery agents. Following insertion of a drug molecule into a CNT, the latter is delivered into a tissue, is heated by near-infrared radiation, and releases the drug. To asse…
Polypropylene and hemp fiber composites were prepared by melt compounding, followed by injection molding. Maleic anhydride grafted polypropylene (PP—MAH), maleic anhydride grafted styrene—(ethylene-co-butylene)—styrene copolymer (SEBS—MAH) and maleic anhydride grafted Poly(ethylene octane) (POE—MAH) were used as compa…
The existing commercial software packages for equilibrium data correlation, or analogous tools included in chemical process simulators, have been widely used and their extensive capabilities are well-known. Nevertheless, and as far as LLE calculations are concerned, they have been designed for the simplest equilibrium…
Luminescent nanocrystals hold great potential for bioimaging because of their exceptional optical properties, but their use in live cells has been limited. When nanocrystals enter live cells, they are taken up in vesicles. This vesicular sequestration is persistent and precludes nanocrystals from reaching intracellula…
Fabry-P\'erot resonances in the transmission through single and double, graphene-based barriers (of height $V$) and wells are investigated and their dependence on an applied perpendicular magnetic field. For rectangular barriers the conductance decreases with increasing magnetic field while the resonances weaken (beco…
We have recently shown that silica nanoparticles grafted with polystyrene chains behave akin to block copolymers due to the “dislike” between the nanoparticles and the grafts. These decorated nanoparticles, thus, self-assemble into various morphologies, from well-dispersed nanoparticles to anisotropic superstructures,…
Silver screen: Thin silver nanoparticle layers embedded within a 1 μm thick semiconducting WO3 film on conducting glass substrates enhance optical absorption over a broad wavelength region. The combination of light scattering and nearby electromagnetic-field effects causes a large increase of photocurrents associated…
ortho-Phenylenes represent a fundamental but relatively unexplored class of conjugated molecular architecture. We have developed a robust synthetic approach to monodisperse o-phenylene oligomers which we have demonstrated by synthesizing a homologous series up to the dodecamer. The o-phenylenes exhibit complex conform…