This is our initial response towards fabricating a magnetic filled polymer composite samples potentially used as electromagnetic waves detector. Samples of lanthanum yttrium iron garnet Y3.0-XLaXFe5O12 (where x = 0, 0.5 ,1.0, 1.5 , 2.0, 2.5, 3.0 ) were synthesized by conventional solid state technique. We used simple casting technique to fabricate the Y3.0XLaXFe5O12-PVA composite. The samples w...

BACKGROUND In chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients, the ability to excrete a phosphate load is impaired. Compensatory increase in parathyroid hormone (PTH) and fibroblast growth factor 23 (FGF23) promote phosphaturia. Serum FGF23 concentration is considered an early biomarker of excess phosphate load and high levels of FGF23 have been associated with increased mortality. In the present study, ...

Recent experimental work on lanthanum telluride has confirmed its significant potential as an n-type material for high temperature thermoelectric (TE) power generation application. The phase of interest, La3.xTe4, has a Th3P4 defect structure where x is the lanthanum vacancy with values ranging between 0 and 1/3. Thermoelectric properties change rapidly with x since the carrier concentration, «...

We examined the effects of dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO), hyaluronidase and saponin on drug absorption through the bladder mucosa. Female Wistar rats underwent intravesical instillation of each agent prior to the administration of lanthanum solution or anticancer drug; 4'-O-tetrahydropyranyldoxorubicin (THP). The absorption of lanthanum was recognized as dense grain in bladder tissue under electron...

Among the techniques which have been reported to stain the surface coat of cells, for electron microscopy, is lanthanum staining en bloc. Similarly, the presence of the cationic dye, Alcian blue 8GX, in a primary glutaraldehyde fixative has been reported to improve the preservation of the surface coat of cells of many types; however, the preserved coat is not very electron opaque unless thin se...

In this study, Flake-like magnesium hydroxide (Mg(OH)2) and cubic-like aluminum hydroxide (Al(OH)3) nanostructures were synthesized via a simple co-precipitation method at relatively low temperature. Chemical properties and surface morphology of the magnesium hydroxide and aluminum hydroxide were characterized by X-ray diffraction analysis (XRD), scanning electron microscopy image (SEM), transm...

The structure of the 5 p 5 p R26:6 reconstruction of LaAlO3 (001) has been determined using transmission electron diffraction combined with direct methods. It has a lanthanum oxide termination with one lanthanum vacancy per surface unit cell. Density functional calculations indicate that charge compensation occurs by a fractional number of highly delocalized holes, and that the surface contains...

Experiments are performed at the Enormous Toroidal Plasma Device at UCLA to study the neutral boundary layer (NBL) between a magnetized plasma and a neutral gas along the direction of a confining magnetic field. This is the first experiment to measure plasma termination within a neutral gas without the presence of a wall or obstacle. A magnetized, current-free helium plasma created by a lanthan...

Novel Fe(3)O(4)@La(x)Si(y)O(5) affinity microspheres consisting of a superparamagnetic Fe(3)O(4) core and an amorphous lanthanum silicate shell have been synthesized. The core-shell-structured Fe(3)O(4)@La(x)Si(y)O(5) microspheres, with a mean size of ca. 480 nm, had rough lanthanum silicate surfaces and displayed relatively strong magnetism (47.2 emu g(-1)). This novel affinity material can be...