Cave ecosystems are carbon limited and thus are particularly susceptible to anthropogenic pollution. Yet, how carbon quality and quantity that can modulate the pathways and amount of Mn cycling in caves remains largely unknown. To explore Mn cycling, baseline bacterial, archaeal, and fungal com-munities associated with Mn(III/ IV) oxide deposits were assessed in both relatively ‘pristine’ and a...

Superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (SPIONs) with high saturation magnetization are successfully synthesized via thermal decomposition method by doping Mn and Zn elements simultaneously. The synthesis procedure was modified according to the thermal stabilities of the precursors, in order to ensure that the stoichiometry of the synthesized samples can be retained exactly from the starting...

Nanolayered Mn oxide/poly(4-vinylpyridine) as a model for Mn cluster in photosystem II was synthesized and characterized using scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), dynamic light scattering (DLS), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and UV-Visible spectroscopy (UV-Vis). The compound is a very efficient water oxidizing catalyst, and sizable oxygen...

A cation-excess (Ni,Mn) ferrite N~o.~zMno.51Fe2.0504.0 with a single phase was synthesized by heating the mixture of corresponding metal salts and oxide in 5% 02175% C02120% N2 gas mixture for 18h at 1100C. It could be thermochemically activated to form a cation-excess ferrite Nio,5z~l+s~Mno.51~l+6~Fe2~05~1+6~0440 in N2 gas at elevated temperature: The ( value was 0.03 1 at 1100C. The activated...

Using a novel alternating target laser ablation deposition technique, Mn cations were placed in specific interstitial sites of BaFe12O19 thin films as opposed to being distributed throughout the unit cell as in conventional bulk materials. The distribution of Mn cations has been confirmed experimentally and predicted theoretically. As a result of site selection, the saturation magnetization inc...

High-valent manganese(IV or V)-oxo porphyrins are considered as reactive intermediates in the oxidation of organic substrates by manganese porphyrin catalysts. We have generated Mn(V)- and Mn(IV)-oxo porphyrins in basic aqueous solution and investigated their reactivities in C-H bond activation of hydrocarbons. We now report that Mn(V)- and Mn(IV)-oxo porphyrins are capable of activating C-H bo...

Rare-earth is an efficient refiner for surface modification of steel material. This study presents the synergistic influence Y2O3 nanoparticles (YNPs) and Mn-oxide secondary phase on microstructure mechanical properties 14CrSiMnV coating fabricated by plasma transfer arc cladding process. The results indicated that residual Y accumulated with Mn, forming a oxide particle instead inclusions or s...

The inside of the electrical double layer at perovskite oxide heterointerfaces is examined. Here, we report local polarization and valence distribution in LaNiO$_3$/LaMnO$_3$ LaMnO$_3$/LaNiO$_3$ bilayers on a SrTiO$_3$ (001) substrate. Simultaneous measurements two aspects structure are realized by using Bayesian inference based resonant- nonresonant-surface X-ray diffraction data. results show...

Rat glioma cells were labeled using electroporation with either manganese oxide (MnO) or superparamagnetic iron oxide (SPIO) nanoparticles. The viability and proliferation of SPIO-labeled cells (1.9 mg Fe/ml) or cells electroporated with a low dose of MnO (100 microg Mn/ml) was not significantly different from unlabeled cells; a higher MnO dose (785 microg Mn/ml) was found to be toxic. The cell...

Skeletal muscle dysfunction contributes to poor exercise performance in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Increased oxygen radicals and nitric oxide (NO) have been proposed as mechanisms. In this study, we assessed the levels of protein oxidation (carbonyl formation), lipid peroxidation (4-hydroxy-2-nonenal formation), catalase and Mn-superoxide dismutase (Mn-SOD) expr...