Dissociative and molecular oxygen chemisorption channels on reduced rutile TiO2(110): An STM and TPD study

High-resolution scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and temperature-programmed desorption (TPD) were used to study the interaction of O₂ with reduced TiO₂(110)–(1 × 1) crystals. STM is the technique of choice to unravel the relation between vacancy and non-vacancy assisted O₂ dissociation channels as a function of temperature. It is revealed that the vacancy-assisted, first O₂ dissociation channel is preferred at low temperature (~ 120 K), whereas the non-vacancy assisted, second O₂ dissociation channel operates at temperatures higher than 150 K–180 K. Based on the STM results on the two dissociative O₂ interaction channels and the TPD data, a new comprehensive model of the O₂ chemisorption on reduced TiO₂(110) is proposed. The model explains the relations between the two dissociative and the molecular O₂ interaction channels. The experimental data are interpreted by considering the available charge in the near-surface region of reduced TiO₂(110) crystals, the kinetics of the two O₂ dissociation channels as well as the kinetics of the diffusion and reaction of Ti interstitials.     

Runge–Kutta Lawson schemes for stochastic differential equations

In this paper, we present a framework to construct general stochastic Runge–Kutta Lawson schemes. We prove that the schemes inherit the consistency and convergence properties of the underlying Runge–Kutta scheme, and confirm this in some numerical experiments. We also investigate the stability properties of the methods and show for some examples, that the new schemes have improved stability properties compared to the underlying schemes.

     

Interface formation in CdTe solar cells: Nucleation of CdTe on CdS(0001) and (10$ \bar 1 $0)

The growth of CdTe on (0001) and (10 0) surfaces of CdS was studied using low energy electron diffraction and photoelectron spectroscopy. The results indicate oriented growth of the CdTe films with a faster nucleation of CdTe on CdS(0001), explaining the preferred (111) orientation of CdTe films on polycrystalline substrates. The faster nucleation on the (0001) surface is attributed to the formation of a stable CdS(0001):Te surface termination, which is identified from surface sensitive Te 4d spectra and a 2√3 × 2√3 surface reconstruction. (© 2008 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Dextramabs: A Novel Format of Antibody-Drug Conjugates Featuring a Multivalent Polysaccharide Scaffold

Antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) are multicomponent biomolecules that have emerged as a powerful tool for targeted tumor therapy. Combining specific binding of an immunoglobulin with toxic properties of a payload, they however often suffer from poor hydrophilicity when loaded with a high amount of toxins. To address these issues simultaneously, we developed dextramabs, a novel class of hybrid antibody-drug conjugates. In these architectures, the therapeutic antibody trastuzumab is equipped with a multivalent dextran polysaccharide that enables efficient loading with a potent toxin in a controllable fashion. Our modular chemoenzymatic approach provides an access to synthetic dextramabs bearing monomethyl auristatin as releasable cytotoxic cargo. They possess high drug-to-antibody ratios, remarkable hydrophilicity, and high toxicity in vitro.     

Spatially Localized Structures in Lattice Dynamical Systems

Journal of Nonlinear Science - We investigate stationary, spatially localized patterns in lattice dynamical systems that exhibit bistability. The profiles associated with these patterns have a long...     

Bier Spheres and Posets

In 1992 Thomas Bier presented a strikingly simple method to produce a huge number of simplicial (n – 2)-spheres on 2n vertices, as deleted joins of a simplicial complex on n vertices with its combinatorial Alexander dual. Here we interpret his construction as giving the poset of all the intervals in a boolean algebra that “cut across an ideal.” Thus we arrive at a substantial generalization of Bier’s construction: the Bier posets Bier(P, I) of an arbitrary bounded poset P of finite length. In the case of face posets of PL spheres this yields cellular “generalized Bier spheres.” In the case of Eulerian or Cohen–Macaulay posets P we show that the Bier posets Bier(P, I) inherit these properties. In the boolean case originally considered by Bier, we show that all the spheres produced by his construction are shellable, which yields “many shellable spheres,” most of which lack convex realization. Finally, we present simple explicit formulas for the g-vectors of these simplicial spheres and verify that they satisfy a strong form of the g-conjecture for spheres.     

A Runge-Kutta method for index 1 stochastic differential-algebraic equations with scalar noise

The paper deals with the numerical treatment of stochastic differential-algebraic equations of index one with a scalar driving Wiener process. Therefore, a particularly customized stochastic Runge-Kutta method is introduced. Order conditions for convergence with order 1.0 in the mean-square sense are calculated and coefficients for some schemes are presented. The proposed schemes are stiffly accurate and applicable to nonlinear stochastic differential-algebraic equations. As an advantage they do not require the calculation of any pseudo-inverses or projectors. Further, the mean-square stability of the proposed schemes is analyzed and simulation results are presented bringing out their good performance.     

Angular distributions in quasi-fission reactions: Evidence for incomplete relaxation of the tilting mode

The integral β^?-spectra of²³⁵U and²³⁹Pu fission products have been measured with a plastic scintillator telescope at an external neutron guide tube at the high flux reactor of the ILL in Grenoble. The highly enriched targets (150 – 800 γg/cm²) were placed in a fission chamber at a distance of approximately 110 m from the reactor core. From the measured beta-spectra absolute counting rates per MeV and fission have been calculated, which are compared with the results of earlier experiments of other authors and with recent theoretical calculations.     

The Cartan,Choquet and Kellogg properties for the fine topology on metric spaces

We prove the Cartan and Choquet properties for the fine topology on a complete metric space equipped with a doubling measure supporting a p-Poincaré inequality, 1 < p < ∞. We apply these key tools to establish a fine version of the Kellogg property, characterize finely continuous functions by means of quasicontinuous functions, and show that capacitary measures associated with Cheeger supersolutions are supported by the fine boundary of the set.