Sealed membrane vesicles were isolated from homogenates of sugarbeet (Beta vulgaris L.) taproot by a combination of differential centrifugation, extraction with KI, and dextran gradient centrifugation. Relative to the KI-extracted microsomes, the content of plasma membranes, mitochondrial membranes, and Golgi membranes was much reduced in the final vesicle fraction. A component of ATPase activi...

Evolutionary structure searches predict two hitherto unknown phases of KCl that are the most stable in the pressure regime of 200-600 GPa. I41/amd-KCl, which has the lowest enthalpy between ∼200-350 GPa, can be thought of as being composed of two three-connected nets. This structure can be compared with that of the Cs-IV electride (Cs(+)e(-)): the potassium ions assume the positions of the cesi...

A ditopic receptor is shown to have an impressive ability to recognize and extract the ion pairs of various alkali halides into organic solution. X-ray diffraction analysis indicates that the salts are bound in the solid state as contact ion pairs. Transport experiments, using a supported liquid membrane and high salt concentration in the source phase, show that the ditopic receptor can transpo...

Densities of molten AgBr-AX (A = Li, Na, K, Rb, Cs; X = Br or CI), AgBr-AgCl, KBr-NaBr, KBr-CsBr, KCl-KBr, and KCl-CsBr mixtures have been measured at 0.5 mole fraction using the method of Archimedean displacement. The excess volumes of mixing are all positive, except for the AgBr-LiBr system. Attempts to relate the excess volumes of the binary AgBr-ABr systems to the second order conformal sol...

The principal effects of plastic deformation on the low-temperature conductivity of alkali halide crystals are summarised and interpreted as follows : 1. The high conductivity during deformation is due to the movement of charged dislocations under the forces exerted simultaneously by the stress and the applied electric field. 2. The increased conductivity following deformation which subsequentl...

The properties of aqueous ammonium salt solutions at the air/water surface are presented. By comparison of the properties of ammonium halides solutions with those of sodium halide, we note a close similarity, which indicates that the increments in surface tension may be explained in relation to the hydration enthalpy of anions. We find that the behaviors of the salts with nitrate anions which a...

We review the results of theoretical modelling of scanning force microscopy and discuss the possibility of obtaining atomic and chemical resolution in contact and non-contact mode SFM, and a related issue of a working model for interpretation of SFM images. As a prototype system we consider the interactions of hard tips with softer alkali halide surfaces in UHV. We briefly review experimental d...

A new set of i-TTM potential energy functions describing the interactions between alkali metal ions and water molecules is reported. Following our previous study on halide ion-water interactions [J. Phys. Chem. B, 2016, 120, 1822], the new i-TTM potentials are derived from fits to CCSD(T) reference energies and, by construction, are compatible with the MB-pol many-body potential, which has been...