As an important subclass of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), homochiral MOFs show special ability of asymmetric catalysis and enantioselective separation via the open chiral channels or cavities. A new homochiral MOF membrane [Ni2(mal)2(bpy)]•2H2O (Ni-MB) was synthesized by a secondary growth technique, in which high energy ball milling was employed to prepare nanosized MOF seeds, and their syn...

A series of HKUST-1 supported catalysts (also known as Cu-BTC, or MOF-199 [copper(II)-benzene-1,3,5-tricarboxylate]) modified with different loadings manganese were synthesized and characterized by powder X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy/energy dispersive spectroscopy, nitrogen sorption, thermogravimetric analysis, temperature-programmed desorption NH3. The structural textural pr...

MOF membranes have gained widespread attention due to their unprecedented gas separation performance. Relying on physical interactions, we successfully deposited MOF seeds on a substrate modified with a network of vertically aligned LDH walls before secondary growth of the MOF layer. ZIF-8 membranes thus prepared show considerable H2 permeance with high H2-CH4 selectivity. This approach is in g...

The Meta Object Facility (MOF) forms one of the core standards of the Object Management Group’s Model Driven Architecture. It has several use-cases, including as a repository service for storing abstract models used in distributed objectoriented software development, a development environment for generating CORBA IDL, and a metamodeling language for the rapid specification, construction, and ma...

The Meta Object Facility (MOF) is the core component of OMGt’s ModelDriven Architecture (MDA). MOF defines the metamodeling language, which is used to define the languages which are used to model apllications, such as the Unified Modeling Language (UML). The importance of MOF will grow in the future, because more and more domain-specific modeling languages will be defined as extensions to or ad...

We enclose octahedral silver nanocrystals (Ag NCs) in metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) to make mesoscopic constructs O(h)-nano-Ag⊂MOF in which the interface between the Ag and the MOF is pristine and the MOF is ordered (crystalline) and oriented on the Ag NCs. This is achieved by atomic layer deposition of aluminum oxide on Ag NCs and addition of a tetra-topic porphyrin-based linker, 4,4',4″,4‴-...

Introduction: Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) is a curable and partially preventable complication, with a substantial incidence, leading to severe morbidity and mortality. The aim of the present study was to find out the incidence of CTEPH secondary to acute pulmonary thromboembolism (PTE) using non-invasive procedures such as ventilation/perfusion (V/Q) scintigraphy and p...

The Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) and North Pacific Gyre Oscillation (NPGO) are the two dominant lowfrequency modes in the North Pacific. This study focused on the simulation capability of the two leading lowfrequency modes in current-coupled models, based on 24 coupled model outputs from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5). Results showed that most of these models cap...

Lamellarin D (Lam-D) is a hexacyclic pyrole alkaloid isolated from marine invertebrates, whose biologic properties have been attributed to mitochondrial targeting. Mitochondria contain their own DNA (mtDNA), and the only specific mitochondrial topoisomerase in vertebrates is mitochondrial topoisomerase I (Top1mt). Here, we show that Top1mt is a direct mitochondrial target of Lam-D. In vitro Lam...