Magnesium hydride is cheap and contains 7.7 wt % hydrogen, making it one of the most attractive hydrogen storage materials. However, thermodynamics dictate that hydrogen desorption from bulk magnesium hydride only takes place at or above 300 degrees C, which is a major impediment for practical application. A few results in the literature, related to disordered materials and very thin layers, in...

Four-level nonvolatile small-molecule 4F(2) memory cells were developed with a sandwiched device structure consisting of an upper Al electrode, upper small-molecule layer (Alq(3), aluminum tris(8-hydroxyquinoline)), Ni nanocrystals surrounded by NiO tunneling barrier, lower small-molecule layer, and bottom Al electrode. In particular, an in situ O(2)-plasma oxidation process following Ni evapor...

Citation: Iglesias L, Vega V, García J, Hernando B and Prida VM (2015) Development of electrostatic supercapacitors by atomic layer deposition on nanoporous anodic aluminum oxides for energy harvesting applications. Front. Phys. 3:12. doi: 10.3389/fphy.2015.00012 Development of electrostatic supercapacitors by atomic layer deposition on nanoporous anodic aluminum oxides for energy harvesting ap...

Monolayers of the lipopeptide mycosubtilin are studied at the air/water interface. Their structure is investigated using molecular dynamics simulations. All-atom models suggest that the lipopeptide is flexible and aggregates at the interface. To achieve simulation times of several microseconds, a coarse-grained (CG) model based on the MARTINI force field was also used. These CG simulations desc...

OBJECTIVE The aim of the present investigation is to evaluate the effects of a 780-nm low-level laser on open skin wound healing. BACKGROUND DATA Optimal parameters of low-level laser therapy (LLLT) for wound healing are discussed. METHODS One full-thickness skin wound was surgically induced in the dorsum skin of 30 rats. The rats were divided into two groups. Rats in the experimental group...

Multilayer films consisting of Eu(OH)(3-x) and titanium oxide nanosheets showed strong Eu(3+) emission under UV-light irradiation, in which the titanium oxide nanosheet works as an antenna collecting UV-light, and then the Eu(OH)(3-x) nanosheet acts as an emitting layer receiving the absorbed energy.

Light-induced effects in sulfonated aluminum phthalocyanines—potential photosensitizers in the photodynamic therapy Spectroscopic and kinetic study Krystyna Palewska a,∗, Marta Sujka a,1, Barbara Urasińska-Wójcik a,2, Juliusz Sworakowski a, Józef Lipiński a, Stanislav Nešpůrek b, Jan Rakušan c, Marie Karásková c a Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Wrocław University of Technology...

MICs for clinical Candida and Cryptococcus isolates were determined by a method incorporating the colorimetric indicator 2,3-bis(2-methoxy-4-nitro-5-sulfophenyl)-5-[(phenylamino)carbonyl] -2H-tetrazolium hydroxide (XTT), and the results were compared with MICs obtained by the National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards approved standard method (M27-A). One hundred percent of all isolat...

We report here facile preparation of stabilized polymeric nanotubes with a hair-like shell using yttrium hydroxide nanotubes as the sacrificial template and block copolymer micelles as the precursor, and orientation of the polymeric nanotubes encapsulating magnetic particles under magnetic field.