The metal–molecule interface provides highly attractive fields that interact with each other, such as in charge transfer. However, little is known about the materials localised at the interface. Polarised Raman measurement represents an attractive research field related to metal surfaces. The polarised SERS signal has a highly polarised character because of the anisotropic EM feature on the met...

The metal–molecule interface provides highly attractive fields that interact with each other, such as in charge transfer. However, little is known about the materials localised at the interface. Polarised Raman measurement represents an attractive research field related to metal surfaces. The polarised SERS signal has a highly polarised character because of the anisotropic EM feature on the met...

Value networks underpinned by global and localised virtual teams are believed to have high potential for SMEs. Yet, the successful migration to value-added alliances is blended in the right combination of organizational, legal, economic, socio-cultural, and technical factors, and requires further research into innovative business models. These models should leverage existing SME competences and...

An unusual case is presented featuring chromoblastomycosis lesions localised in three different sites. The patient was a 52-year-old male farm worker from Barra do Corda, State of Maranhão, Brazil, who had had the disease for 2 years. Physical examination revealed extensive plaques situated on the left leg, left arm, forehead, and on the left side of the face. Direct examination of biopsies sho...

Plasmonic resonance properties of a series of lithographically patterned gold nanorod arrays, spin coated by thin films of an iron(II)-triazole type spin crossover complex, were investigated upon heating/cooling and also under 633 nm laser irradiation. In both cases a reversible shift of the localised surface plasmon resonance wavelength was observed and quantitatively linked to the refractive ...

The characteristics of electronic states of Cd-vacancies in CdTe, an important semiconductor for various technological applications, are under debate both from theoretical and experimental points of view. Experimentally, the Cd-vacancy in its negative charge state is found to have C3v symmetry and a (-1/-2) transition level at 0.4 eV. Our first principles density functional calculations with hy...

The spherical limit of strongly commensurate dirty-bosons is studied perturbatively at weak disorder and numerically at strong disorder in two dimensions (2D). We argue that disorder is not perfectly screened by interactions, and consequently that the ground state in the effective Anderson localisation problem always remains localised. As a result there is only a gapped Mott insulator phase in ...

The photo-excitation and relaxation of a new cyclometalated complex, Ir(ppy)2fppy, is investigated through the measurement of absorption and photoluminescence spectra. Comparison of Ir(ppy)2fppy with Ir(ppy)3 reveals that the lowest energy excited state of Ir(ppy)2fppy is localised on the aldehyde-substituted ligand, thus giving the complex its characteristic orange emission (lmax # 600 nm). OL...