We have examined the adsorption behaviors of carbon monoxide (CO) molecule on TiO2 anatase supported Au overlayers. The results of density functional theory (DFT) calculations were used in order to gain insights into the effects of the adsorption of CO molecules on the considered hybrid nanostructures. We have investigated different adsorption geometries of CO over the nanoparticles....

J. Ciston,1 L. D. Marks,1 R. Feidenhans’l,2 O. Bunk,3 G. Falkenberg,4 and E. M. Lauridsen5 1Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA 2Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen University, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark 3Paul Scherrer Institut, Swiss Light Source, 5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland 4HASYLAB at DESY, Notkestrasse 85, 22603 Hamburg, G...

Charge inversion occurs when the effective charge of a surface exposed to solution reverses polarity due to an excess of counterions accumulating in the immediate vicinity of the surface. Using atomic force spectroscopy, we have directly measured the effect on charge inversion of changing the dielectric constant of the solvent and the surface-charge density. Both decreasing the dielectric const...

Surface potentials, tic, of mixtures of synthetic phosphatides dispersed in uni-univalent electrolyte have been calculated from the limiting molecular areas through use of the Gouy equation. Electrophoretic mobilities of the dispersed particles were measured and used to calculate { potentials from the Hehnholtz-Smoluchowski equation. In analogy with several structurally related systems, the rat...

tyrosinase is a multifunctional copper-containing enzyme. it can catalyze two distinct reactions of melanin synthesis and benzaldehyde derivatives, which are potential tyrosinase inhibitors.  to find the relationships between charge distributions of benzaldehyde and their pharmaceutical behavior, the present study aimed at investigating nuclear quadrupole coupling constants of quadrupolare nucl...

Surface charge density and distribution dependence of a nanochannel electro-osmotic flow was examined using a molecular dynamics (MD) model. Systems consisting of Na and Cl− ions in water confined between crystalline walls with varying negative charge on inner surfaces in an external electric field were investigated. At low surface charge densities, water flows as expected by common interpretat...

Measurements of electrophoretic mobility and particle size of low density lipoproteins (LDL) allowed use of standard electrokinetic theory to quantitate LDL charge characteristics from subjects with predominance of large LDL (pattern A, n = 9) or small LDL (pattern B, n = 8). Pattern A LDL was found to have significantly lower (P < or = 0.001) mobility (-0.22 +/- 0.01 micron s-1 cm V-1), surfac...

The density and distribution of electric charge on the surface of rabbit bone marrow cells was visualized by electron microscopy after the cell surfaces had been stained with charged colloidal iron particles. Expulsed erythroid nuclei are less negatively charged than any other cell in the bone marrow. They carry from about one-half to one-third of the charge density on the remaining future reti...

The transition metal dichalcogenide 1T-TaS2 is a layered material exhibiting charge density waves. Based on angleresolved photoemission experiments mapping spectral weight at the Fermi surface and density functional theory calculations we discuss possible mechanisms involved with the creation of charge density waves. At first the flat parts of the elliptically shaped Fermi surface appear to pla...