Ras-induced senescence mediated through ASPP2 represents a barrier to tumour formation. It is initiated by ASPP2's interaction with Ras at the plasma membrane, which stimulates the Raf/MEK/ERK signaling cascade. Ras to Raf signalling requires Ras to be organized in nanoscale signalling complexes, called nanocluster. We therefore wanted to investigate whether ASPP2 affects Ras nanoclustering. He...

In spite of much research progress in the science and synthesis of carbon nanotubes (CNTs), control over the location and orientation of CNTs on substrates remains a major challenge. A key breakthrough was the synthesis of vertically aligned CNT (VA-CNT) arrays using thermal chemical vapor deposition (CVD) and plasma-enhanced CVD, where the CNTs self-orient perpendicular to the substrate surfac...

Nitric oxide (NO) reduction pathways are systematically studied on a (111) facet of the octahedral nickel (Ni85) nanocluster in the presence/absence of hydrogen. Thermodynamic (reaction free energies) and kinetic (free energy barriers, and temperature dependent reaction rates) parameters are investigated to find out the most favoured reduction pathway for NO reduction. The catalytic activity of...

Nanoclusters of noble metals like Ag and Au have attracted great attention as they form a missing link between isolated metal atoms and nanoparticles. Their particular properties like luminescence in the visible range and nontoxicity make them attractive for bioimaging and biolabelling purposes, especially with use of proteins as stabilising agents. In this context, this study intends the synth...

Monodisperse silicon nanowires were synthesized by exploiting well-defined gold nanoclusters as catalysts for one-dimensional growth via a vapor–liquid–solid mechanism. Transmission electron microscopy studies of the materials grown from 5, 10, 20, and 30 nm nanocluster catalysts showed that the nanowires had mean diameters of 6, 12, 20, and 31 nm, respectively, and were thus well defined by th...

Langmuir–Blodgett technique is utilized to deposit ultrathin films of Au38(SC2H4Ph)24 nanocluster onto solid surfaces such as mica and silicon. The morphologies the transferred at various surface pressures within mono/bi/trilayer regime are studied by atomic force microscopy (AFM). time spent on water before deposition has a decisive effect final ordering nanoclusters network fast AFM, X-ray re...

The selective synthesis and in situ characterization of aqueous Al-containing clusters is a long-standing challenge. We report a newly developed integrated platform that combines (i) a selective, atom-economical, step-economical, scalable synthesis of Al-containing nanoclusters in water via precision electrolysis with strict pH control and (ii) an improved femtosecond stimulated Raman spectrosc...

A soluble Pt nanocluster catalyst (Pt-GLY) is efficient in the absence of base for aqueous-phase aerobic oxidation of, in particular, non-activated alcohols with high recyclability.

adsorption of nh3 and h2o molecules on pristine and b–doped al12n12 nano–cage was investigated using density functional theory, by means of b3lyp and x3lyp functionals. both nh3 and h2o molecules were found to bind to an al atom of al12n12 via chemisorption, releasing energies ranging from –1.48 to –1.53 and –1.16 to –1.22 ev, respectively. the binding energies of x3lyp functional are somewhat ...