Long chiral metal-organic nanofibers can be grown using conventional coordination chemistry and biologically derived components in a diffusion controlled growth procedure.

Organic production and consumption provide a delineated food system that can be explored for its potential contribution to sustainable diets. While organic agriculture improves the sustainability performance on the production side, critical reflections are made on how organic consumption patterns, understood as the practice of people consuming significant amounts of organic produce, may also be...

in this research, the effects of organic fertilizers (bovine, sheep, leaf mould and vermicompost fertilizers) combined with foliar application of salicylic acid (sa) at the rate of 0, 10-2, 10-4 and 10-6 m on essential oil percentage and some secondary metabolites of lemon balm were investigated. the experiment was conducted as complete randomized block design with factorial arrangement in pots...

The formation of secondary organic aerosols (SOAs) combined with the partitioning of semivolatile organic components can impact numerous aerosol properties including cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) activity, hygroscopicity, and volatility. During the summer 2013 Southern Oxidant and Aerosol Study (SOAS) field campaign in a rural site in the southeastern United States, a suite of instruments inc...

In this paper, a genetic algorithm (GA) has been used to predict the vapor pressure of pure organic compounds based on Riedel equation. Initially, the coefficients of Riedel equation were optimized. Then, a new term was added to the original Riedel equation to reduce error of the model in prediction of vapor pressures of pure materials. 110 components at two different pressures (10 and 100 kPa)...

Quantum information processing (QIP) would require that the individual units involved--qubits--communicate to other qubits while retaining their identity. In many ways this resembles the way supramolecular chemistry brings together individual molecules into interlocked structures, where the assembly has one identity but where the individual components are still recognizable. Here a fully modula...

HPLC is a separation technique in which the mobile phase is an aqueous solution or an organic solvent that is miscible with water, and the compounds of interest are dissolved in water or an organic solvent such as methanol. The major advantage of the technique is the flexibility it allows in choosing the stationary and mobile phases that best separate the particular sample components. More than...

A new method, photoionization aerosol mass spectrometry (PIAMS), is described for real-time analysis of organic components in airborne particles below approximately 300 nm in diameter. Particles are focused through an aerodynamic lens assembly into the mass spectrometer where they are collected on a probe in the source region. After a sufficient amount of sample has been collected, the probe is...

Organic components associated with diatom cell wall silica are important for the formation, integrity, and function of the cell wall. Polysaccharides are associated with the silica, however their localization, structure, and function remain poorly understood. We used imaging and biochemical approaches to describe in detail characteristics of insoluble organic components associated with the cell...