Synthesis and Cytotoxic Activity of 1,3,5-Triazinane Derivatives Based on Primary Amines and Amino Acids Esters

Russian Journal of General Chemistry - A series of 1,3,5-triazinane derivatives was synthesized and their cytotoxic activity was studied in vitro on normal cell line (HEK293) and tumor cell lines...     

Adsorption kinetics of Eu(III) and Am(III) onto bentonite: analysis and application of the liquid membrane tidal diffusion model

Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry - A new liquid membrane tidal diffusion model (LMTD) was applied based on three assumptions to analyze the kinetics of Eu(III) adsorption on...     

Synthesis of an Extractant Based on Neodecanoic Acid for Rare Earth Metal Preconcentration and Separation

Russian Journal of Applied Chemistry - N,N'-(Iminodiethane-2,2'-diyl)di(neodecanamide) was synthesized by thermal condensation of diethylenetriamine with neodecanoic acid. The possibility...     

Complexes of Phosphorus-containing Cyclophanes and Cryptands with Metals,Anions, and Organic Substrates

Russian Journal of Organic Chemistry - New data since about 2010 concerning complex formation of phosphorus-containing cyclophanes and cryptands with transition metals, as well as guest-host...     

Metamorphic InAs(Sb)/InGaAs/InAlAs nanoheterostructures grown on GaAs for efficient mid-IR emitters

High-efficiency semiconductor lasers and light-emitting diodes operating in the 3–5?μm mid-infrared (mid-IR) spectral range are currently of great demand for a wide variety of applications, in particular, gas sensing, noninvasive medical tests, IR spectroscopy etc. III-V compounds with a lattice constant of about 6.1?Å are traditionally used for this spectral range. The attractive idea to fabricate such emitters on GaAs substrates by using In(Ga,Al)As compounds is restricted by either the minimum operating wavelength of ～8?μm in case of pseudomorphic AlGaAs-based quantum cascade lasers or requires utilization of thick metamorphic In_xAl_1-xAs buffer layers (MBLs) playing a key role in reducing the density of threading dislocations (TDs) in an active region, which otherwise result in a strong decay of the quantum efficiency of such mid-IR emitters. In this review we present the results of careful investigations of employing the convex-graded In_xAl_1-xAs MBLs for fabrication by molecular beam epitaxy on GaAs (001) substrates of In(Ga,Al)As heterostructures with a combined type-II/type-I InSb/InAs/InGaAs quantum well (QW) for efficient mid-IR emitters (3–3.6?μm). The issues of strain relaxation, elastic stress balance, efficiency of radiative and non-radiative recombination at T?=?10–300?K are discussed in relation to molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) growth conditions and designs of the structures. A wide complex of techniques including in-situ reflection high-energy electron diffraction, atomic force microscopy (AFM), scanning and transmission electron microscopies, X-ray diffractometry, reciprocal space mapping, selective area electron diffraction, as well as photoluminescence (PL) and Fourier-transformed infrared spectroscopy was used to study in detail structural and optical properties of the metamorphic QW structures. Optimization of the growth conditions (the substrate temperature, the As₄/III ratio) and elastic strain profiles governed by variation of an inverse step in the In content profile between the MBL and the InAlAs virtual substrate results in decrease in the TD density (down to 3?×?10⁷ cm^?2), increase of the thickness of the low-TD-density near-surface MBL region to 250–300?nm, the extremely low surface roughness with the RMS value of 1.6–2.4?nm, measured by AFM, as well as rather high 3.5?μm-PL intensity at temperatures up to 300?K in such structures. The obtained results indicate that the metamorphic InSb/In(Ga,Al)As QW heterostructures of proper design, grown under the optimum MBE conditions, are very promising for fabricating the efficient mid-IR emitters on a GaAs platform.     

狄拉克材料BaMnBi2的单晶制备和物理性质研究

在本工作中,我们成功制备了层状过渡金属磷族化合物BaMnBi2单晶样品,并研究了该化合物的磁学性质和电学输运性质.准二维化合物BaMnBi2具有四方晶体结构,主要包含有两个Bi四方格子层和一个共边的MnBi4四面体层.磁化率显示BaMnBi2在TN ＝288 K以下发生反铁磁相变,并表现出很强的磁各向异性.在反铁磁相变温度TN 以上,磁化率随温度呈线性关系,暗示体系在顺磁态具有很强的反铁磁关联.电阻率随温度变化曲线和在磁场下电阻率随角度的变化曲线都表明BaMnBi2具有准二维的电子结构.磁场导致的金属-绝缘体转变和低温下大的非饱和线性磁阻,与Bi四方格子层存在狄拉克费米子是一致的.     

Synthesis and Acid–Base Properties of β-Octabromo-Substituted Unsymmetrical Nitrophenylporphyrins

Russian Journal of Organic Chemistry - The bromination of [5-(4-nitrophenyl)-10,15,20-triphenylporphyrinato]cobalt(II) and [5,10,15-tris-(4-nitrophenyl)-20-phenylporphyrinato]cobalt(II) with...     

Oxidative Transformations of Ethane and Ethylene on VMoTeNbO Catalysts

Russian Journal of Applied Chemistry - Comparative studies of oxidative transformations of ethane and ethylene were performed on multi-component oxide catalysts of the preset cationic composition,...     

Selective Decrosslinking in Liquid Crystal Polymer Actuators for Optical Reconfiguration of Origami and Light‐Fueled Locomotion

The ability to optically reconfigure an existing actuator of a liquid crystal polymer network (LCN) so that it can display a new actuation behavior or function is highly desired in developing materials for soft robotics applications. Demonstrated here is a powerful approach relying on selective polymer chain decrosslinking in a LCN actuator with uniaxial LC alignment. Using an anthracene‐containing LCN, spatially controlled optical decrosslinking can be realized through photocleavage of anthracene dimers under 254 nm UV light, which alters the distribution of actuation (crosslinked) and non‐actuation (decrosslinked) domains and thus determines the actuation behavior upon order‐disorder phase transitions. Based on this mechanism, a single actuator having a flat shape can be reconfigured in an on‐demand manner to exhibit reversible shape transformation such as self‐folding into origami three‐dimensional structures. Moreover, using a dye‐doped LCN actuator, a light‐fueled microwalker can be optically reconfigured to adopt different locomotion behaviors, changing from moving in the laser scanning direction to moving in the opposite direction.