Synthesis and Properties of New Fluorine-Containing Thieno[2,3-b]pyridine Derivatives

Russian Journal of General Chemistry - Cyanothioacetamide reacted with 1,1,5,5-tetrafluoroacetylacetone to give 4,6-bis(difluoromethyl)-2-thioxo-1,2-dihydropyridine-3-carbonitrile, and alkylation...     

Quantum chemical insight on the uranyl benzoates association with cetylpyridinium

Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry - The possibility of analytical determination of the uranyl cation UO22+ (taken in the form of the complex uranyl benzoate anion) by using the...     

Predictive tracking of an object by a pan–tilt camera of a robot

Nonlinear Dynamics - Moving-object tracking using a pan–tilt camera setup is quite a well-known task in robotics. However, the presented research addresses specific properties of the tracked...     

Formation of InAs quantum dots and wetting layers in GaAs and AlAs analyzed by cross-sectional scanning tunneling microscopy

We have used cross-sectional scanning-tunneling microscopy (X-STM) to compare the formation of self-assembled InAs quantum dots (QDs) and wetting layers on AlAs (1 0 0) and GaAs (1 0 0) surfaces. On AlAs we find a larger QD density and smaller QD size than for QDs grown on GaAs under the same growth conditions (500 °C substrate temperature and 1.9 ML indium deposition). The QDs grown on GaAs show both a normal and a lateral gradient in the indium distribution whereas the QDs grown on AlAs show only a normal gradient. The wetting layers on GaAs and AlAs do not show significant differences in their composition profiles. We suggest that the segregation of the wetting layer is mainly strain-driven, whereas the formation of the QDs is also determined by growth kinetics. We have determined the indium composition of the QDs by fitting it to the measured outward relaxation and lattice constant profile of the cleaved surface using a three-dimensional finite element calculation based on elasticity theory.     

Recording long-term potentiation of synaptic transmission by three-dimensional multi-electrode arrays

Background  

Multi-electrode arrays (MEAs) have become popular tools for recording spontaneous and evoked electrical activity of excitable tissues. The majority of previous studies of synaptic transmission in brain slices employed MEAs with planar electrodes that had limited ability to detect signals coming from deeper, healthier layers of the slice. To overcome this limitation, we used three-dimensional (3D) MEAs with tip-shaped electrodes to probe plasticity of field excitatory synaptic potentials (fEPSPs) in the CA1 area of hippocampal slices of 129S5/SvEvBrd and C57BL/6J-Tyr^C-Brd mice.     

Equilibrium bi-domain configuration in cylindrical magnetic microparticles

This report is on the equilibrium bi-domain structure in magnetic microparticles of cylindrical shape with circular or elliptic cross-section and finite thickness. The model is for two coaxial 180 degree domains. The dependence of the inner domain dimensions on bias magnetic field was estimated for a series of particle aspect ratios. It is shown that a change in bias field leads to significant variation in the inner domain radius and that such variations occur at decreasing field strength as the particle height increases. Results of our model are of importance for magnetic particles ground state calculations and analysis of spin-wave oscillations in ferrite micro- and nano-resonators with non-uniform internal magnetization.