A new morphology of Prussian blue microcrystals has been prepared by selective etching. By thermal decomposition, PB has been transformed into mesoporous magnetic iron(III) oxide.

Methylene Blue, Reversed Micelles, Water Content, Solubilization The solubilization of methylene blue in dodecylammonium propionate reversed micelles in cyclohexane depended strongly on the solubilized water content. Methylene blue solubilized in the micelle of which head groups are not completely hydrated by bound water exhibited the new absorption bands at 495 and 270 nm, but these bands did ...

A debate has arisen within the legal community over the existence and constitutionality of a so-called “complexity exception” to the Seventh Amendment. This exception would give a judge the discretion to deny a jury trial in a civil case if he or she feels that the issue is too complex for a jury to decide properly. This iBrief discusses the constitutionality of the complexity exception and the...

Food-storing birds, for example, marsh tits, Parus palustris, use memory to retrieve stored food and have a larger hippocampus relative to the rest of the telencephalon than do species that store little or no food such as the blue tit, P. caeruleus. The difference between food storers and nonstorers in relative hippocampal volume occurs after the young birds have fledged from the nest and is de...

A compact and portable optofluidic microresonator has been fabricated and characterized. It is based on a Fabry-Perot microcavity consisting essentially of two tailored dichroic Bragg mirrors prepared by reactive magnetron sputtering deposition. The microresonator has been filled with an ethanol solution of Nile-Blue dye. Infrared laser emission has been measured with a pump threshold as low as...

This contribution proposed a novel electrochemical approach for lentinan (LT) determination using medaylene blue (MB) as probe. The interaction conditions of LT with MB were carefully studied by cyclic voltammetry. Under the optimum conditions, the cyclic voltammetric curve of MB showed a pair of convertible oxidation and deoxidization peaks with the peak potentials of -0.157 V and -0.191 V, re...

A new polymer matrix sensitized with methylene blue for use as an optical recording material is described here. The characterization is done to determine the optimal recording conditions. These films need no chemical development and are found to be stable for several months. The matrix has excellent shelf life and needs an exposure only as short as 20 s. Direct imaging was done on this material.

In the title complex, [Cd(2)(C(17)H(14)O(4)S)(2)(C(10)H(8)N(2))(2)], which was hydro-thermally synthesized, the Cd(II) cation is hexa-coordinated in a distorted octa-hedral geometry by two N atoms from a 2,2'-bipyridine ligand and by four O atoms from two different 2-[3-carboxyl-atometh-yl-4-(phenyl-sulfan-yl)phen-yl]propano-ate ligands, forming a cyclic dimetallic complex.

We present the results of soft X-ray observations of the intermediate-age open cluster IC 4651 performed with the ROSAT PSPC. We detected 25 sources. Two are identified with a giant binary and a blue straggler respectively, both belonging to the cluster, and two with probable main-sequence members. Two other cases have ambiguous identification. Of the five bi-naries known in the cluster, the on...

The photocatalytic degradation has been considered to be an efficient process for the degradation of organic pollutants, which are present in the effluents released by industries. The photocatalytic bleaching of cationic dye methylene blue was carried out spectrometrically on irradiation of UV light using Cu(II), Ni(II), and Co(II) complexes of (2E)-2-[(2E)-3-phenylprop-2-en-1-ylidene]hydrazine...