Canada-Wide Science Fair 2014 Windsor, Ontario Best Project Award Sponsor: BlackBerry Award, $10,000 cash Picture This!: A Novel Approach to Limb Donor Identification & Prosthetic Design Daniel McInnis [16] – Ottawa ON Platinum Award Best Senior Project Sponsor: BlackBerry Award, $5,000 cash Picture This!: A Novel Approach to Limb Donor Identification & Prosthetic Design Daniel McInnis [16] – O...

Platinum and platinum-based catalysts are some of the most effective used in fuel cells. However, electrocatalysts for direct liquid cells (DLFCs) electrolyzers high cost suffer from several other problems, thus hindering their commercialization as power sources to produce clean energy. Common issues low stability durability, slow kinetics, catalyst poisoning, loading, catalytic materials, pois...

Stable platinum nanoparticles were synthesized by the self-assembly of alkene derivatives onto the platinum surface, possibly forming platinum-vinylidene (Pt═C═CH-) or -acetylide (Pt-C≡) interfacial bonds as a result of dehydrogenation and transformation of the olefin moieties catalyzed by platinum. Transmission electron microscopic measurements showed that the nanoparticles were well-dispersed...

Human copper transporters ATP7B (Wilson's disease protein) and ATP7A (Menkes' disease protein) have been implicated in tumour resistance to cisplatin, a widely used anticancer drug. Cisplatin binds to the copper-binding sites in the N-terminal domain of ATP7B, and this binding may be an essential step of cisplatin detoxification involving copper ATPases. In the present study, we demonstrate tha...

This paper reviews some recent studies of the borides, silicides and phosphides of the platinum metals. These phases, especially those with a high metal content, have very similar properties. After some general information on the binary systems, brief comments are made on the preparation and properties of the intermediate phases while some features of their crystal chemistry are presented in mo...

The ability of the in vitro sister chromatid exchange (SCE) assay to predict in vivo tumor drug sensitivity was investigated using a spontaneous hepatocarcinoma in C3Hf/Kam mice and 3 chemotherapeutic agents: melphalan; cis-platinum; and 1,3-bis(2-chloroethyl)-1-nitrosourea (BCNU). For hepatocarcinoma cells grown in monolayer culture, melphalan was the most efficient at inducing SCEs, and BCNU,...

Samples taken during deuteration of methyl linoleate with the title catalysts were separated into saturate, monoene and diene fractions. Monoenes were further separated into cis and trans fractions. A comparison of the double bond distribution in monoenes with those from hydrogenation of alkaliconjugated !inoleate indicated that up to 59% of the !inoleate was reduced through a conjugated interm...

In this work, sodium borohydride was used as a strong reductant of traces platinum complex ions. The investigations the kinetics redox reaction between platinum(IV) chloride ions and were carried out. For first time, kinetic experiments out in basic medium (pH~13), which prevents NaBH4 from decomposition suppresses release hydrogen to environment. rate constants Pt(IV) reduction Pt(II) under di...