Shape‐directed platinum nanoparticle synthesis: nanoscale design of novel catalysts

Platinum‐based catalytic materials have received significant attention, particularly in the shape and size control of faceted materials for catalysis. More recently, there has been a rapid increase in the number of reports of successful preparations in this field; however, a fundamental understanding of controlled growth towards catalytic material design is essential for future implementation and broad application. In this review, we provide an overview of the recent findings reported since 2009, focusing on methods for shape control as well as the effects of exposed surface facets on select catalytic reactions. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Determination of uranium and thorium isotopes in soil samples by coprecipitation

Summary The paper presents a procedure to prepare soil samples for U and Th isotope measurement by alpha-spectrometry after coprecipitation with LaF₃. In this procedure the reduction of U(VI) to U(IV) was performed by Zn metal in 4M HCl solution. The recoveries of chemical separation equal to e_U-chemistry = 78±4% for uranium and e_Th-chemistry = 82±4% for thorium. Canberra alpha-spectrometer was used with PIPS detectors of A-1200-37-AM Model of 1200 mm² active area. The counting efficiency of the measuring system equals to e_counting = 18% and the total efficiencies were e_U = e_counting ^.e_U-chemistry = 14.0±0.7% for uranium and e_Th = e_counting ^.e_Th-chemistry = 14.7±0.7% for thorium. The recoveries of chemical separation were rather high (about 80%), that leads to the use of a small weight of soil sample (about 0.5 g). The efficiencies were also stable, that allows analyzing the soil sample without using radiotracers. They are advantages of the sample preparation procedure of this work.     

Fe-MCM-41 with highly ordered mesoporous structure and high Fe content: synthesis and application in heterogeneous catalytic wet oxidation of phenol

Raman spectroscopy has been successfully employed in order to investigate the formation of β-cyclodextrin host–guest inclusion molecular complexes with several different azo-dye structures. The Raman pattern of the carbohydrate framework results negligible when neared to the magnificent intensity of the highly polarisable guest systems and a complete and feasible comparison of the spectral features between the free and the complexed situation of the guest molecule is allowed. In general, with respect to the free guest state, it was found within the complex that a hampering of Raman intensity displays, accompanied by a levelling directed variation of the relative peak intensities, and peculiar Raman peak broadening with shifts occur, relatable to the host–guest settling of inclusive intermolecular interactions. Supportively to the other commonly established characterising methods, or in valid alternative, Raman technique has proved astoundingly useful under the perspective of the diagnostic evaluation of cyclodextrin host–guest molecular inclusion for azo-dyes and, more generally, for a highly polarisable guest structure. It features sample non-destructivity, handiness, fastness and sensitive reproducibility, occasionally providing useful suggestions about the complexation topology.     

Fast and continuous chemical isolation of short-lived isotopes of Hf,Ta and W as homologs of elements 104, 105 and 106

Some short-lived isotopes of Hf, Ta and W, synthesized at the U-400 cyclotron of JINR-Dubna, have been isolated using a previously elaborated fast continuous method of chemical isolation of element 104 from nuclear reaction products. The products were transported by a NaCl aerosol jet, from the irradiated targets to a separation device in which Hf, Ta and W were isolated by using three coupled ion-exchange columns.     

Equidistribution for meromorphic transforms and the dd<Superscript>c</Superscript>-method

In this paper we give an introduction to the notion of meromorphic transform. We describe some equidistribution problems and their solution, using the dd^c-method. In particular, we give some statistical properties of the equilibrium measure for meromorphic maps on compact Kähler manifolds: K-mixing, exponential decay of correlations and central limit theorem.     

Fast and continuous isolation of short-lived mercury isotopes from diluted sulphuric acid solution

The seconds living mercury isotopes have been isolated from nuclear reaction products arising in the bombardment of ¹⁴⁷Sm target with ⁴⁰Ar ions at the U-400 cyclotron of JINR-Dubna.     

Une Etude Cohomologique de la Partie 2-Primaire deK2O

Résumé On étudie par voie cohomologique les parties 2-primaires de pertains noyaux de laK-théorie associée à un corps de nombres totalement réel.

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We use cohomological methods to study the 2-primary parts of certain kernels ofK-theory associated with totally real number fields.

     

Random Version of the Theorems of the Alternative

Three theorems of the alternative for abstract linear inequality systems which depend on random parameter are produced in infinite dimensions.     

Self-interaction correction in a simple model

We discuss various ways to handle self-interaction corrections (SIC) to Density Functional Theory (DFT) calculations. To that end, we use a simple model of few particles in a finite number of states together with a simple zero-range interaction for which full Hartree-Fock can easily be computed as a benchmark. The model allows to shed some light on the balance between orthonormality of the involved states and energy variance.