A new chiral silicon-linked tridentate amido-indenyl ligand was developed from indene and enantiopure 1,2-cyclohexanediamine. Its yttrium complex was synthesized, characterized and applied to efficiently catalyze the intramolecular hydroamination of non-activated olefins with up to 97% ee.

Tracheal squamous cell carcinoma detected early in a high-risk patient has been treated twice with local neodymium-yttrium aluminium garnet laser therapy with good result so far. Ongoing bronchoscopic monitoring continues.

In reducing the high operating temperatures (≥800 °C) of solid-oxide fuel cells, use of protonic ceramics as an alternative electrolyte material is attractive due to their high conductivity and low activation energy in a low-temperature regime (≤600 °C). Among many protonic ceramics, yttrium-doped barium zirconate has attracted attention due to its excellent chemical stability, which is the mai...

In this article we explore sources and magnitude of positive and negative error in soil ingestion estimates for children on a subject-week and trace element basis. Errors varied among trace elements. Yttrium and zirconium displayed predominantly negative error; titanium and vanadium usually displayed positive error. These factors lead to underestimation of soil ingestion estimates by yttrium an...

This paper reports on the supercontinuum generation in yttrium orthosilicate bulk crystal and 6-mm-long ion implanted planar waveguide. The waveguide is fabricated by 6 MeV oxygen ions implantation with fluence of 5 × 10(14) ions/cm(2) at room temperature. The yttrium orthosilicate bulk crystal and waveguide are pumped using a mode-locked Ti:Sapphire laser with a center wavelength of 800 nm. Th...

Yttrium fluoride (YF₃) and yttrium oxide (Y₂O₃) protective coatings prepared using an atmospheric plasma spraying technique were used to investigate the relationship between surface erosion behaviors and their nanoparticle generation under high-density plasma (1012-1013 cm-3) etching. As examined by transmission electron microscopy, the Y₂O₃ and YF₃ coatings become oxyfluorinated after exposure...

The study of IIIA-IIIB-V type thin films has recently been receiving a great deal of attention as possible solutions to optimize and to further engineer the electronic, optical and structural properties of optoelectronic materials. In this work we studied the influence of yttrium addition to InN films, in connection with YN band-gap, and explored the possibility of tuning the optical and electr...

The study was carried out by determining the effect of calcium ethylenediaminetetraacetate on the excretion and distribution in rats of a number of rare earths and yttrium, and correlating the magnitude of these effects with the stability constants of the chelates formed with some of the rare earths. These rare earths were selected because they form a long series of closely related elements wit...

We study the thermal behaviour of a tri-layer multilayer, designed by inserting a third material, yttrium, into the previously studied Co/Mo2C system. The system is designed to work at near-normal incidence at the wavelength of 14.1 nm. The theoretical reflectivity of Co-based multilayer (Co/Mo2C/Y system) is improved up to 54% after the addition of yttrium. Two types of multilayers with differ...