Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) is used to study two dinuclear organometallic molecules, meta-Fe2 and para-Fe2, which have identical molecular formulas but differ in the geometry in which the metal centers are linked through a central phenyl ring. Both molecules show symmetric electron density when imaged with STM under ultrahigh-vacuum conditions at 77 K. Chemical oxidation of these molecu...

The catalytic activity of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase in rat liver cytosol is stimulated by incubating with Fe2+, Mn2+, Co2+, and Cd2+. When purified, the enzyme no longer responds to Fe2+, Co2+, or Cd2+ but retains a response to Mn2+. Low concentrations of SO4(2-) in the incubation medium with enzyme and divalent transition metal allow stimulation by Fe2+ and Co2+ and enhance the respons...

Cu2+, Zn2+, Fe2+ and I- are often supplemented to the diet of suckling and early weaning piglets, but little information is available regarding the effects of different Cu2+, Zn2+, Fe2+ and I- mixtures on bacteria growth, diversity and fermentation characteristics of fermented liquid diet for piglets. Pyrosequencing was performed to investigate the effect of Cu2+, Zn2+, Fe2+ and I- mixtures on ...

Nitriding has long been used to engineer the surfaces of engineering steels improve their surface and subsurface properties. The role compound layer (γ′-Fe4N and/or ε-Fe2-3N) in improving tribological corrosion-resistant properties nitrided established. However, there have very few studies on response tribocorrosion corrosive environments. In this work, behavior a 5 μm thick γ′-Fe4N nitride pro...

Heart failure is the leading cause of mortality in patients with transfusional iron (Fe) overload in which myocardial iron uptake ensues via a transferrin-independent process. We examined the ability of L-type Ca2+ channel modifiers to alter Fe2+ uptake by isolated rat hearts and ventricular myocytes. Perfusion of rat hearts with 100 nmol/L 59Fe2+ and 5 mmol/L ascorbate resulted in specific 59F...

In this note, we present a Γ-convergence type result for ferromagnetic films. We propose a model of films for which we could ensure the strong convergence of minimizers when the exchange parameter vanishes. In this model, the plate thickness is kept constant and the magnetization stays constant in the thickness of the film.

We consider the Gamma limit of the Abelian Chern-SimonsHiggs energy

The complement system is an important regulator of both adaptive and innate immunity, implicating complement as a potential target for immunotherapeutics. We have recently presented lymph node-targeting, complement-activating nanoparticles (NPs) as a vaccine platform. Here we explore modulation of surface chemistry as a means to control complement deposition, in active or inactive forms, on pol...