One-pot reduction of HAuCl4 in a DMF solution containing a porphyrin-cored tetradentate passivant gives horizontal porphyrin monolayer-coated gold nanoparticles, whose particle size is significantly smaller than that made by using monodentate passivants under identical conditions.

The fluorescence quantum yield of cis-stilbene-cored rigid polyphenylene dendrimer (cis-G2) is 20% even at room temperature. Moreover, the fluorescence lifetime of cis-G2 is twice as long as that of the corresponding trans-isomer.

Cored Nb-Ti Rutherford cables with high crossover resistance R, a re being investigated to minimize ac losses in a set of superconducting dipole magnets for the proposed rapid cycling heavy ion synchrotron facility a t the Gesellschaft fiir Schwerionenforschung (GSI) in Darmstadt, Germany. This ring of magnets is based on the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) design. R, in cored cables is ...

Zn(ii) complexation drives the formation of a light-harvesting antenna constituted by two multicomponent luminescent ligands: a cyclam-cored dendrimer decorated at the periphery with 16 naphthyl units and an anthracene-based molecular clip.

A low band-gap alternating copolymer of indolocarbazole and benzothiadiazole-cored oligothiophene demonstrated balanced crystallinity and solubility; a solar cell combining this polymer with PC(61)BM in a preliminary test demonstrated power conversion efficiencies of 3.6%.

Different polysaccharide-based supramolecular polycations were readily synthesized by assembling multiple β-cyclodextrin-cored star polycations with an adamantane-functionalized dextran via host-guest interaction in the absence or presence of bioreducible linkages. Compared with nanoplexes of the starting star polycation and pDNA, the supramolecular polycation/pDNA nanoplexes exhibited similarl...

This paper presents a comprehensive analysis and comparison of air-cored axial flux permanent magnet (AFPM) machines with different types of coil configurations. Although coil factor is particularly more sensitive to coil band width and coil pitch in air-cored machines than conventional slotted machines, remarkably no comprehensive analytical equations exist. Here new formulae are derived to co...

Most research on the anterior pituitary (adenohypophysis) has concentrated on the endocrine cells characterized by their complement of cytoplasmic dense-cored vesicles containing the classic anterior pituitary hormones. However it has become increasingly clear over the last 20 years that cells first identified more than 50 years ago in the basis that they lack such dense-cored vesicles and now ...

Flywheel systems based on fibre composites can have power densities which are significantly better than for electrochemical batteries. Hence, they have considerable potential for use as peak power buffers in drive-trains for electric and hybrid vehicles. As the rotational speed is increased, however, bearing friction power loss and iron losses in the motor/generator become more significant. Thu...