A soluble Pt nanocluster catalyst (Pt-GLY) is efficient in the absence of base for aqueous-phase aerobic oxidation of, in particular, non-activated alcohols with high recyclability.

In paper I [M. Znojil and G. Lévai, Phys. Lett. A 271 (2000) 327] we introduced the Coulomb Kratzer bound-state problem in its cryptohermitian, PT −symmetric version. An instability of the original model is revealed here. A necessary stabilization is achieved, for almost all couplings, by an unusual, negative choice of the bare mass in Schrödiner equation.

We discuss several PT -symmetric deformations of superderivatives. Based on these various possibilities, we propose new families of complex PT -symmetric deformations of the supersymmetric Korteweg-de Vries equation. Some of these new models are mere fermionic extensions of the former in the sense that they are formulated in terms of superspace valued superfields containing bosonic and fermioni...

The electrocatalysis of the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) on carbon supportedPt-V (1:1) catalyst in polymer electrolyte fuel cells (PEFC) was investigated. Atan oxygen pressure of one atm an enhanced electrocatalytic property of Pt-V/Ccompared with Pt/C is revealed. These results indicate the occurrence of adifferent electrocatalytic mechanism for the ORR on Pt/C and Pt-V/C. Anincrease of mas...

Chemical properties of epitaxially grown bimetallic layers may deviate substantially from the behavior of their constituents. Strain in conjunction with electronic effects due to the nearby interface represent the dominant contribution to this modification. One of the simplest surface processes to characterize reactivity of these substrates is the dissociative adsorption of an incoming homo-nuc...

We for the first time report a facile, wet-chemical strategy for the high-yield (approximately 100%) synthesis of ultralong Pt-on-Pd bimetallic nanowires (NWs) with the cores being Pd NWs and the shells being made of dendritic Pt, which exhibit high surface area and enhanced electrocatalytic activity towards methanol oxidation reaction.

The new phosphaalkenyl(chloro)tin(II) compound NHC-Sn(Cl)[C(SiMe3)=PMes*] was isolated and fully characterized including molecular structure determination by a single crystal X-ray diffraction analysis. Its reaction with Me2SAuCl led to the formation of an unprecedented P=C-bridged trinuclear gold complex [AuC(SiMe3)=PMes*]3 through the transfer of the phosphaalkenyl substituent to the gold atom.

We investigated the wall-motion and nucleation activation volumes of Co/Pt multilayer films prepared by dc magnetron sputtering under various Ar sputtering pressures. Delicate analysis of time-resolved domain evolution patterns reveals that the nucleation activation volume is generally smaller than the wall-motion activation volume in all the samples, which is consistent with the nucleation-dom...