Recent literature has shown that buffers affect the interaction between lipid bilayers through a mechanism that involves van der Waals forces, electrostatics, hydration forces and membrane bending rigidity. This letter shows an additional peculiar effect of buffers on the mixed chain 1-palmitoyl-2-oleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (POPC) lipid bilayers, namely phase coexistence similar to what...

Flaky layered double hydroxides (FLDH) composed of cross-linked nanoflakes were prepared by the reconstruction of their oxides in alkali solution. The effect of reconstruction temperatures on the physicochemical properties was investigated. FLDH with a specific surface area of as high as 217 m(2)/g was obtained at a reconstruction temperature of 6 °C, and its derived flaky mixed metal oxides (F...

The nuclear spin relaxation behaviour in disordered ionically conducting materials is ascribed to a mechanism based on diffusion-controlled relaxation. In this targetdiffusion model, relaxation is assumed to occur at interstitialcy sites, triggered by the arrival of diffusing ions. The dependence of the spin-lattice relaxation rate on the temperature, Larmor frequency and ionic concentration ca...

The magnetic moment of V impurities in different alkali hosts is measured by means of the anomalous Hall effect. The V moment on the surface and in the bulk of Cs is about 4mB and considerably smaller than previously measured moments of V on the surface (7mB) and in the bulk (6.6mB) of Na. Furthermore the sign of the anomalous Hall resistance changes from negative for the Na host to positive fo...

Together with my partner, Pablo Solis, we demonstrate the particle-like nature of light as characterized by photons with quantized and distinct energies each dependent only on its frequency (ν) and scaled by Planck’s constant (h). Using data obtained through the bombardment of an alkali metal surface (in our case, potassium) by light of varying frequencies, we calculate Planck’s constant, h to ...

The iron selenide compound BaFe2Se3 was synthesized by a two-step high-temperature solid state method. The single-crystal X-ray determination of the prepared compound revealed a three-dimensional structure consisting of double chains of edge-sharing FeSe4 tetrahedra separated by Ba . In contrast to the case for alkali metal intercalated iron-based chalcogenides (like KxFe2 ySe2), the double cha...

Studied extensively in solution and in the solid state, Li(TMP) (TMP=2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidide) is an important utility reagent popular as a strongly basic, weakly nucleophilic tool for C-H metallation. Recently, there has been a surge in interest in mixed metal derivatives containing the bulky TMP anion. Herein, we start to develop hetero (alkali metal) TMP chemistry by reporting the N,N,N...