Chemical modification of crystal-like mesoporous phenylene-silica with amino group

Amination of phenylene moieties in crystal-like mesoporous silica hybridized with phenylene is successfully achieved with close to 28% conversion of phenylene by a two-step chemical transformation process while preserving both the ordered mesostructure and crystal-like molecular scale periodicity of the parent material.     

Composite materials based on ormosil for the construction of electrochemical sensors and biosensors

Sol-gel process has gained tremendous attention in past decades for the preparation of pure and composite material for numerous applications. Organically modified sol-gel glasses (ormosils) have hybrid properties of rigid inorganic silica matrix and organic functionalities. Ormosils provide ambient environment for bio-molecules encapsulation and such systems have been used widely for biosensor applications. Biological elements including enzymes, antibodies, antigens, DNA, whole cells, tissues, proteins, biologically derived material, and biomimetic materials provide the possibility of biological recognition to the device and transducer to detect the biological signals with the help of associated electronics and software to amplify these signals into a readable form for the user. In this review we report on the formation of sol-gel based composite materials primarily on ormosil along with carbon nano tubes, metal nano particles, mediators, inorganic complexes, polymers, ionomers and biological materials and cite the electrochemical sensor/biosensor system based on it.     

From Grignard's reagents to well-defined Mg nanostructures: distinctive electrochemical and solution reduction routes

Anisotropic Mg nanowires have been successfully prepared by electrocrystallization of Grignard's reagents thought to proceed via a modified faces, steps, and kinks (FSK) mechanism. Mg nanoparticles with roughly hexagonal shapes have also been obtained via chemical reduction of the same Grignard's reagents.     

Preparation,X-ray crystallography and thermolysis of transition metal nitrates of 2,2′-bipyridine (Part 63)

Recent work has described the preparation and characterization of the two complexes [Fe₂(C₁₀H₈N₂)₄O(OH₂)₂](NO₃)₄ and [Co(C₁₀H₈N₂)₃]₂[Co(OH₂)₆]·7(OH₂) (NO₃)₈ in which both the nitrogen atoms of 2,2′-bipyridine are directly bonded with the metals. Their structures were determined by single-crystal X-ray diffraction at 296 K. Thermolysis of these complexes has been detailed by the use of TG–DTA and ignition delay measurements. Kinetics of thermal decomposition has also been established. Model free isoconversional and model fitting kinetic approaches have been applied to isothermal TG data for the decomposition of these complexes.     

Credit risk estimation using payment history data: a comparative study of Turkish retail stores

Our paper presents a comparative study applying logistic regression and multiple criteria decision analysis tools to the operations of wholesalers to assess the credit risk of their retailers using payment history data and to cluster the risky customers by ranking their risk levels. Our sample comprises approximately 6,000 retailer customers and 600.000 transactions of one of the major wholesalers of Turkey. Our findings emphasize the importance of using payment history and some non-financial factors data for predicting the creditworthiness of a firm.     

Decoupling Redox Hopping and Catalysis in Metal-Organic Frameworks -based Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction

Traditional MOF e-CRR, constructed from catalytic linkers, manifest a kinetic bottleneck during their multi-electron activation. Decoupling catalysis and charge transport can address such issues. Here, we build two MOF/e-CRR systems, CoPc@NU-1000 and TPP(Co)@NU-1000, by installing cobalt metalated phthalocyanine and tetraphenylporphyrin electrocatalysts within the redox active NU-1000 MOF. For CoPc@NU-1000, the e-CRR responsive Co^I/0 potential is close to that of NU-1000 reduction compared to the TPP(Co)@NU-1000. Efficient charge delivery, defined by a higher diffusion (D_hop=4.1×10⁻¹² cm² s⁻¹) and low charge-transport resistance ( =59.5 Ω) in CoPC@NU-1000 led FE_CO=80 %. In contrast, TPP(Co)@NU-1000 fared a poor FE_CO=24 % (D_hop=1.4×10⁻¹² cm² s⁻¹ and =91.4 Ω). For such a decoupling strategy, careful choice of the host framework is critical in pairing up with the underlying electrochemical properties of the catalysts to facilitate the charge delivery for its activation.     

Excitation of Forbidden Electronic Transitions in Atoms by Hermite–Gaussian Modes

Photoexcitation of trapped ions by Hermite–Gaussian (HG) modes from guided beam structures is proposed and investigated theoretically. In particular, simple analytical expressions for the matrix elements of induced atomic transitions are derived that depend both on the parameters of HG beams and on the geometry of an experiment. By using these general expressions, the ${}^2{S}_{1/2}\to {}^2{F}_{7/2}$ electric octupole (E3) transition is investigated in an Yb⁺ ion, localized in the low–intensity center of the HG₁₀ and HG₀₁ beams. It is shown how the corresponding Rabi frequency can be enhanced by properly choosing the polarization of incident light and the orientation of an external magnetic field, which defines the quantization axis of a target ion. The calculations, performed for experimentally feasible beam parameters, indicate that the achieved Rabi frequencies can be comparable or even higher than those observed for the conventional Laguerre–Gaussian (LG) modes. Since HG-like modes can be relatively straightforwardly generated with high purity and stability from integrated photonics, these results suggest that they may form a novel tool for investigating highly-forbidden atomic transitions.