The paper presents a comparison of the performance of voltage-switching devices and voltage-limiting devices for late seventies-vintage SPDs as marketed and installed in service panels in the USA and in Europe. Artifacts in the response of a typical oscilloscope to a nearby gap sparkover, and the effect of lead dress inside the panels and outdoor installation are described. Predictably, the per...

Manganese (Mn) oxide is a ubiquitous metal oxide in sub-environments. The adsorption of Cd(II) on Mn oxide as function of adsorption time, pH, ionic strength, temperature, and initial Cd(II) concentration was investigated by batch techniques. The adsorption kinetics showed that the adsorption of Cd(II) on Mn oxide can be satisfactorily simulated by pseudo-second-order kinetic model with high co...

QM/MM studies were performed to explore the energetics of exchange reactions of glutathione disulfide (GSSG) and the active site of thioredoxin [Cys32-Gly33-Pro34-Cys35] with and without zinc(II), in vacuum and solvated models. The activation energy for exchange, in the absence of zinc, is 29.7 kcal mol(-1) for the solvated model. This is 3.3 kcal mol(-1) higher than the activation energy for e...

The removal of the chromium (VI) ion from aqueous solutions with the Lewatit FO36 ion-exchange resin is described at different conditions. The effects of adsorbent dose, initial metal concentration, contact time and pH on the removal of chromium (VI) were investigated. The batch ion exchange process was relatively fast and it reached equilibrium after about 90 min of contact. The ion exchange p...

Spin-orbital coupling: The study of orbital degeneracy in transition metal oxides is motivated, e.g., by the large variety of spin-charge-orbital ordered phases, the possible control of the orbital degree of freedom at interfaces and heterostructures, the switching from orbital ordered to metallic phases in applied magnetic fields, and the colossal magnetoresistance. The rather complex interpla...

Reversible covalent reactions have become an important tool in supramolecular chemistry and materials science. Here we introduce the acid-catalyzed exchange of O,O,O-orthoesters to the toolbox of dynamic covalent chemistry. We demonstrate that orthoesters readily exchange with a wide range of alcohols under mild conditions and we disclose the first report of an orthoester metathesis reaction. W...

Control over catenation in a pillared paddlewheel metal−organic framework was achieved via solventassisted linker exchange. The linker exchange was demonstrated on the noncatenated structure of DO-MOF, by using 4,4′-bipyridine (L4) and 4,4′-azobis(pyridine) (L5) as linkers, leading to noncatenated materials SALEM-3 and SALEM-4. The de novo synthesized analogues of SALEM-3 and SALEM4 can only be...

1) Introduction Recent systems are built of MOSFET transistors. Here, MO stands for metal oxide and FE for field effect. This means, that – in contrast to bipolar transistors – the gate is isolated by a metal oxide (today SiO2) and the channel is just controlled by the field through this oxide. Thus theoretically, the principal of MOSFET devices is that there is no current flowing through the g...

This paper reports the results of intermatrix synthesis (IMS) of silver metal nanoparticles (Ag-MNPs) in Purolite C100E sulfonic ion exchange polymer of the gel-type structure. It has been shown that the surface morphology of the initial MNP-free polymer is absolutely smooth, but it dramatically changes after the kinetic loading of Ag on the polymer and then IMS of Ag-MNPs. These morphological ...