Films of cerium-doped LaMnO3, which has been intensively discussed as an electron-doped counterpart to hole-doped mixed-valence lanthanum manganites during the past decade, were analyzed by x-ray photoemission spectroscopy with respect to their manganese valence under photoexcitation. The comparative analysis of the Mn 3s exchange splitting of La0.7Ce0.3MnO3 (LCeMO) films in the dark and under ...

I. Ulfat,1 J. Kanski,2 L. Ilver,2 J. Sadowski,3 K. Karlsson,4,* A. Ernst,5,6 and L. Sandratskii5 1Department of Physics, University of Karachi, Karachi 75270, Pakistan 2Department of Experimental Physics, Chalmers University of Technology, SE-412 96 Göteborg, Sweden 3MAX-IV laboratory, Lund University, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden 4Department of Life Sciences, University of Skövde, SE-541 28 Skövde, ...

Maximal induction of the acute-phase proteins C-reactive protein (CRP) and serum amyloid A (SAA) in the human hepatoma cell line Hep3B requires the combination of interleukin (IL)-6 and IL-1. In contrast, IL-1 inhibits fibrinogen induction by IL-6. To explore the possible participation of the sphingomyelin-ceramide pathway in the transduction of cytokine effects, the role of this pathway in exp...

To achieve malarial elimination, we must employ interventions that reduce the exposure of human populations to infectious mosquitoes. To this end, numerous antimalarial drugs are under assessment in a variety of transmission-blocking assays which fail to measure the single crucial criteria of a successful intervention, namely impact on case incidence within a vertebrate population (reduction in...

The magnetic interactions of substitutional Mn clusters in (Ga,Mn)As are investigated using density-functional total-energy supercell calculations within the projector augmented-wave method. Magnetic coupling strength values are directly calculated from the parallel and antiparallel spin alignments, and then used to estimate the Curie temperature TC. The magnetic interactions both inside the cl...

The local density of states of Mn-Mn pairs in GaAs is mapped with cross-sectional scanning tunneling microscopy and compared with theoretical calculations based on envelope-function and tight-binding models. These measurements and calculations show that the crosslike shape of the Mn-acceptor wave function in GaAs persists even at very short Mn-Mn spatial separations. The resilience of the Mn-ac...

Twelve organic Mn sources and MnSO4 were evaluated by polarographic analysis and via solubility in buffers (pH 5 and 2) and deionized water. Fractions from solubility tests were evaluated by gel filtration chromatography for structural integrity. Organic Mn sources included five Mn methionine complexes (Mn Met A to Mn Met E), two Mn proteinates (Mn Pro A and Mn Pro B), and five Mn amino acids (...

(Ga,Mn)As and (Ga,Mn)N are so called diluted magnetic semiconductors, i.e. semiconductor based materials made ferromagnetic by inclusion of a magnetic element—in this case Mn. This type of materials bridge over the incompatibilities in metal–semiconductor interfaces in electronics components and have an enormous potential for future spintronics applications, where both charge and spin degrees o...

Manganese (Mn) oxides are environmentally abundant, highly reactive mineral phases that mediate the biogeochemical cycling of nutrients, contaminants, carbon, and numerous other elements. Despite the belief that microorganisms (specifically bacteria and fungi) are responsible for the majority of Mn oxide formation in the environment, the impact of microbial spe­ cies, physiology, and growth sta...