Magnetic tuning of the electrochemical reactivity through controlled surface orientation of catalytic nanowires

Nanowires have received considerable attention owing to their broad potential applications. We report here on the application of nanowires for magnetic control of the electrochemical reactivity and demonstrate how one can modulate the electrocatalytic activity by orienting catalytic nanowires at different angles. Unlike early "on/off" magnetic switching studies based on functionalized magnetic spheres, the present magnetoswitchable protocol relies on modulating the electrochemical reactivity without removing the magnetic material from the surface. Such behavior is attributed to the reversible blocking of the redox processes and to changes in the tortuosity-dependent flux rate. The nanowire-based magnetoswitchable protocol may be extremely useful for adjusting the electrochemical reactivity, such as for tuning the power output of fuel cells (rather than switching the power on/off).     

Ionic solid-state dimers and polymers derived from imidazolium dicarboxylic acids

A series of imidazolium dicarboxylic acids have been prepared from the reaction of the 1,3‐bis(carboxymethyl)imidazolium zwitterion with the Brønsted acids HX (X=F, Br, Cl, ClO₄). The structures of these acids have been established in the solid state by single‐crystal X‐ray diffraction, which revealed that the cations and anions form strong hydrogen bonds through O? H???X interactions, leading to the formation of dimeric and polymeric networks. These acids react with elemental zinc and cobalt to form stable polymeric coordination complexes, some of which have also been characterised by X‐ray diffraction.     

Density functional theory study of 10-atom germanium clusters: effect of electron count on cluster geometry

Density functional theory (DFT) at the hybrid B3LYP level has been applied to Ge10z germanium clusters (z = -6, -4, -2, 0, +2, +4, +6) starting from 12 different initial configurations. The D4d 4,4-bicapped square antiprism found experimentally in B10H102- and other 10-vertex clusters with 22 skeletal electrons is calculated for the isoelectronic Ge102- to be the global minimum by more than 15 kcal/mol. The global minima found for electron-rich clusters Ge104- and Ge106- are not those known experimentally. However, experimentally known structures for nido-B10H14 and the pentagonal antiprism of arachno-Pd@Bi104+ are found at higher but potentially accessible energies for Ge104- and Ge106-. The global minimum for Ge10 is the C3v 3,4,4,4-tetracapped trigonal prism predicted by the Wade-Mingos rules and found experimentally in isoelectronic Ni@Ga1010-. However, only slightly above this global minimum for Ge10 (+3.3 kcal/mol) is the likewise C3v isocloso 10-vertex deltahedron found in metallaboranes such as (eta6-arene)RuB9H9 derivatives. Structures found for more electron-poor clusters Ge102+ and Ge104+ include various capped octahedra and pentagonal bipyramids. This study predicts a number of 10-vertex cluster structures that have not yet been realized experimentally but would be interesting targets for future synthetic 10-vertex cluster chemistry using vertex units isolobal with the germanium vertices used in this work.     

Molecular and Crystal Structure of 4-Amino-4'-Nitrodiphenyl Ether

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Synthesis and Crystal Structure of (4R, 5R)(5-Hydroxymethyl-2,2-dimethyl- [1,3]dioxolan-4-yl)-bis-(4-methoxy-phenyl)-methanol

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Fe~(3 )/TiO_2/SiO_2复合纳米微粒的合成及光催化降解NO_2~-

采用溶胶 -凝胶法制备了 Ti O2 / Si O2 和不同浓度 Fe3 掺杂的 Fe3 / Ti O2 / Si O2 复合纳米粉末 ,并利用XRD、BET、UV-vis等手段研究了 Ti O2 / Si O2 及掺铁形成的 Fe3 / Ti O2 / Si O2 复合微粒的表面结构形态变化 ,以及对污染物 NO- 2 光催化降解的影响 .结果表明 ,Fe3 / Ti O2 / Si O2 (ω( Fe3 ) =1 .5 % ,m( Ti)∶ m( Si) =2∶ 1 )具有最佳活性 ,样品呈晶化度较低的锐钛矿结构 .Fe3 掺杂导致晶粒的增大 ,稳定性降低 ,大大提高了半导体的光催化活性 ,有利于对低浓度 NO- 2 的光催化降解     

Cr(VI)在Mg-Al型类水滑石上的吸附-脱附性研究I.吸附性

研究了Cr(VI)在带结构正电荷的Mg-Al型类水滑石(HTlc)上的吸附性能,考察了pH、无机电解质添加剂NaCl,NaNO3,Na2SO4和Na3PO4及有机添加剂EDTA和柠檬酸等因素的影响,并结合红外光谱和XRD实验结果探讨了吸附机理.研究表明,Mg-Al型HTlc对Cr(VI)有很强的吸附能力,其吸附动力学和吸附等温线分别符合准二级速率方程和Langmuir方程,饱和吸附量达105mg/g,有望成为一种优良的含Cr(VI)污水处理剂和Cr(VI)污染土壤修复剂.初始pH增大,吸附量降低.无机电解质和有机添加剂均能明显抑制Cr(VI)在HTlc上的吸附,其抑制吸附作用的强弱顺序分别为Na3PO4≥Na2SO4≥NaCl>>NaNO3和柠檬酸>EDTA.Cr(VI)在HTlc上的吸附可分为层间的离子交换吸附和外表面的吸附,其中外表面的吸附层在微观上又可分为因化学键合作用而形成的内络合层和因静电作用而形成的外络合层.     

First approach to radionuclide mixtures quantification by using plastic scintillators. Influence of the diameter of the plastic beads

Recent studies have evaluated the capability of plastic scintillation (PS) as an alternative to liquid scintillation (LS) in radionuclide activity determination without mixed waste production. In order to complete the comparison, we now assess the extent to which PS can be used to quantify mixtures of radionuclides and the influence of the diameter of the plastic scintillation beads in detection efficiency.

The results show that the detection efficiency decreases and the spectrum shrink to lower energies when the size of the plastic scintillation beads increases, and that the lower the energy of the beta particle, the greater the variation takes place. Similar behaviour has been observed for beta–gamma and alpha emitters.

Two scenarios for the quantification of mixtures are considered, one including two radionuclides (¹⁴C and ⁶⁰Co) whose spectra do not overlap significantly, and the other including two radionuclides (¹³⁷Cs and ⁹⁰Sr/⁹⁰Y), where the spectra of one the isotopes is totally overlapped by the other The calculation has been performed by using the conventional window selection procedure and a new approach in which the selected windows correspond to those with lower quantification errors. Relative errors obtained using the proposed approach (less than 10%) are lower than those of the conventional procedure, even when a radionuclide is completely overlapped, except for those samples with extreme activity ratios that were not included in the window optimization process.     

Investigation of the interaction of DNA and neutral red by?uorescence spectroscopic analysis

The binding characteristics of neutral red (NR) with DNA were investigated by fluorescence spectrometry. Chemometrics approach as singular value decomposition (SVD) was used to evaluate the number of spectral species in the drug-DNA binding process, and then the intrinsic binding constant of 1.6 104 in base pairs and the binding site number of 0.97 were obtained from the Scatchard plot.     

Synthesis and structural characterization of cobalt(II) and zinc(II) complexes with 2-(indazol-1-yl)-2-thiazoline (TnInA). X-ray characterization of [CoCl2(TnInA)2] · C2H6O and [(M)(TnInA)2(H2O)2](NO3)2 (M = Co, Zn)

Several complexes of 2-(indazol-1-yl)-2-thiazoline (TnInA) with the divalent ions Co and Zn have been synthesized by the direct combination of the ligand and the metal chloride or nitrate hydrated salts in ethanol. These complexes have been characterized by a variety of physical–chemical techniques. Moreover, the structures of [CoCl₂(TnInA)₂] · C₂H₆O (1) and [(M)(TnInA)₂(H₂O)₂](NO₃)₂ (M = Co, 3; Zn, 4) were determined by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. In all the complexes, the ligand TnInA bonds to the metal ion through the indazole and thiazoline nitrogen atoms. In complex 1 the environment around the cobalt ion may be described as a distorted octahedron with two TnInA ligands and two chlorine ligands. Compounds 3 and 4 are isostructural with a distorted octahedral geometry around the metal center, being linked to two water molecules and two TnInA ligands. However, in complex [ZnCl₂(TnInA)] (2) the zinc atom is four-coordinated with a probable tetrahedral environment with two chloro ligands and one TnInA ligand bonded to the metal ion.