PtPd nanoparticles are among the most widely studied nanoscale systems, mainly because of their applications as catalysts in chemical reactions. In this work, a combined experimental-theoretical study is presented about dependence growth shape alloy nanocrystals on composition. The particles grown gas phase and characterized by STEM-HRTEM. nanoalloys present bimodal size distribution. larger po...

Density functional theory calculations have been used to study the incorporation of helium in perfect and defect-containing palladium tritides, where we have calculated the energetics of incorporation and the migration behaviour. Helium atoms preferably occupy the octahedral interstitial and substitutional sites in the perfect and Pd vacancy-containing tritides, respectively. The energetics rev...

Octahedral PbSe colloidal nanocrystals (NCs) are used to assemble a solid. Because of the special feature of the apexes of the octahedrons, the cross-sectional area of the inter-dot tunneling junctions is much smaller than that formed between spherical NCs. The inter-dot separation between NCs is easily adjusted by mild thermal treatment. Like a spherical NC-solid, the resistance of the octahed...

We have studied the octahedral rotations in LaVO3/SrVO3 superlattices, keeping the thickness of the orthorhombic LaVO3 layers constant and increasing the thickness of cubic SrVO3 layers. We have found that for a small thickness of SrVO3, the octahedral rotations in LaVO3 are maintained, while for an increasing thickness, these rotations are suppressed. This observation cannot be explained by pu...

Di-tri-octahedral smectite was effective in neutralizing Clostridium difficile toxins A and B as well as Clostridium perfringens enterotoxin in vitro. However, di-tri-octahedral smectite did not inhibit the growth of Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens, nor did it interfere with the activity of metronidazole. Di-tri-octahedral smectite may be a useful option for the treatment of c...

We report herein the synthesis of the first structurally characterized homoleptic actinide aryl complexes, [Li(DME)3]2[Th(C6H5)6] (1) and [Li(THF)(12-crown-4)]2[Th(C6H5)6] (2), which feature an anion possessing a regular octahedral (1) or a severely distorted octahedral (2) geometry. The solid-state structure of 2 suggests the presence of pseudo-agostic ortho C-H···Th interactions, which arise ...

Abstract A new two-dimensional (2D) metal–organic complex, [Pb(L)(I)(sba) 0.5 ] 2 ( 1 , L = 2-(2,4-difluorophenyl)-1 H -imidazo[4,5- f ][1,10]phenanthroline, sba suberic acid), was synthesized under hydrothermal conditions. The single-crystal X-ray analysis indicates that the asymmetric unit of complex has a distorted [:PbIN O octahedral geometry. It is further extended by two π–π stacking inte...

Phenanporphodimethene (1) is a porphyrin analogue which has a dipyrromethene unit replaced by a 1,10-phenanthroline moiety. This modification effectively coverts a dianionic porphyrin to a monoanionic porphyrin analogue with a porphyrin-like N4 coordination sphere. The ligand 1 forms copper and nickel hexafluorophosphate complexes, Cu-1 and Ni-1, respectively. X-ray crystallographic analysis of...

"Phycomyces blakesleeanus" sporangiophores contain octahedral crystals throughout their cytoplasm and vacuole. More octahedral crystals were found in the wild-type strain G5 (+) than in the beta-carotene-deficient mutant C5 (-), and much more than in the mutant C141 (-), which is sensitive to only high light intensity. In the wild type, the number of crystals per sporangiophore increased until ...