A strategy to covalently attach biological molecules to the electrochemically active surface of indium oxide nanowire (In2O3 NW) mat devices is presented. A self-assembled monolayer (SAM) of 4-(1,4-dihydroxybenzene)butyl phosphonic acid (HQ-PA) was generated on an indium tin oxide (ITO)-coated glass and In2O3 NWs surface. The chemical steps required for surface derivatization were optimized on ...

Mechanochemistry is well-established in the solid-phase synthesis of inorganic materials but has rarely been employed for molecular syntheses. In recent years, there has been nascent interest in 'greener' synthetic methods with less solvent, higher yields, and shorter reaction times being especially appealing to the fine chemicals and inorganic catalyst industries. Herein, we demonstrate that m...

InGaN thin films with near entire indium composition range have been successfully grown on GaN/sapphire (0001) by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE). X-ray absorption fine structure have been used to study the local structure of some typical InxGa1-xN alloys with high indium (In) composition of x=0.78 and 0.86. A detailed analysis of the extended x-ray absorption fine structure of In K-edge by using ...

Structures constructed from supertetrahedral clusters of TX4 tetrahedra may have giant pores representing more than 80% of their crystal volume and cation-exchange properties.[1] As well as creating porous materials we note that larger clusters are comparable in size with the individual nanocrystallites of tetrahedral sulfide (e.g. CdS) “quantum dots” which show great promise and are currently ...

Z. Naturforsch. 54 b, 573-576 (1999); eingegangen am 28. Dezember 1998 Fused Salts, Monosilane, Methylsilanes, Hydrosilylation, Chloroaluminate Silanes of technical interest as starting compounds for semiconducting materials or hydrosi­ lylation reactions, (CH3)xSiH4_x (x = 0, 1,2, 3), are obtained by direct hydrogenation of the corresponding chlorosilanes in the presence of various interstitia...

We show that the inclusion of nonlocality in the constitutive relations in photonic structures has important repercussions in their eigenmode configuration and distribution. In the case of optical activity, the primary manifestation of nonlocality, these features are traced to a photospin-orbit interaction analogous to the electron spin-orbit interaction in asymmetric semiconducting compounds; ...