Like the high-Tc copper oxides, organic superconductors are another class of superconductors that cannot be fully explained by the conventional BCS theory, due to the repulsive effective interactions between the charge carriers. Experiments display similarities between these systems and the high-Tc copper oxides in their pairing symmetry and their phase diagram. In this paper, some results from...

A systematic solution of a general model for Copper-Oxides reveals a line of transitions T = Tp(x) for x, the doping away from half-filling less than a critical value, to a phase with broken time reversal and rotational symmetry but with translational symmetry preserved. The single-particle spectrum in this phase is calculated to have a gap of dx2−y2 symmetry. The properties in this phase are c...

We evaporated polycrystalline copper thin films of thickness between 10 and 100nm on silicon substrates with their native oxide under ultra-high-vacuum conditions. Some of them were exposed to air for a period ranging from 1 day to 2 weeks. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) revealed a clean copper surface with a trace of oxygen. These films that were exposed to air presented oxides in the ...

A highly convergent synthesis of bis(triazolylphosphane oxides) was developed by a tandem copper-mediated Huisgen reaction-oxidative coupling. The phosphane oxides were reduced by trichlorosilane and the coordination of the resulting bisphosphanes was studied with various transition metals.

Variable reflectance coatings (switchable mirrors) have significant advantages over traditional absorbing devices for radiant energy control in a variety of architectural and aerospace applications due to their large dynamic ranges in both transmission and reflection in the visible and near infrared regimes. Although electrochromic and gasochromic metal hydride films have been the primary focus...

Since the discovery of high transition-temperature (high Tc ) superconductivity in layered copper oxides [1], they have held the pole position in the race for achieving higher Tc [2]. In this race many different compounds which contain copper oxide layers has been examined. Although there are reports of Tc s up to 185K for very rare phases of complex compounds like (Sn1.0Pb0.5In0.5)Ba4Tm5Cu7O20...

Long-chain alkanehydroxamic acids adsorb on the native oxides of metals and formed oriented selfassembled monolayers (SAMs). This study examined SAMs of hydroxamic acids on the native oxides of copper, silver, titanium, aluminum, zirconium, and iron. These SAMs were characterized usingwettability, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), and polarized infrared external reflectance spectroscopy (...

The selective hydrogenation of fatty acids to fatty alcohols can be achieved under moderate conditions (180 °C, 30 bar H2) by simultaneously supporting copper and iron oxides on mesoporous silica nanoparticles. The activity of the cosupported oxides is significantly higher than that of each supported metal oxide and of a physical mixture of both individually supported metal oxides. A strong int...