Muonium centres in Cu2O, Ag2O and CdO show hyperfine parameters spanning four orders of magnitude. They exemplify the three different categories of hydrogen defect centre in semiconducting and dielectric solids, with very different electronic structure and electrical activity, namely quasi-atomic (possibly deep acceptor), deep donor and shallow donor.

Lagerstroemia speciosais commonly known as Banaba or Jarul which is used to get rid of various ailments such fever, urinary infection, decongestion, diarrhoea, mouth ulcers, astringent, diabetes mellitus, kidney diseases, abdominal pains etc. The present work, describes the green synthesis silver nanoparticles from ethanolic extract fruits L.speciosa (Ls-Ag NPs) and their analysis for antimicro...

Reaction of [Ru(OAc)2(PPh3)2] with a P-functionalized imidazolium bromide easily affords a cationic abnormal carbene Ru system. Metalation with Ag2O yields a Ru-Ag complex containing an anionic dicarbene ligand, while subsequent transmetalation with Au(tht)Cl leads to the corresponding Ru-Au system. The bimetallic complexes were characterized by single crystal X-ray diffraction and are the firs...

The chiral carbene bis[bis(R-1-phenylethyl)amino]cyclopropenylidene 2 and its dicarbene-silver complex [Ag(2)2]BF4 (3) have been isolated in good yields from the reactions of bis[bis(R-1-phenylethyl)amino]cyclopropenylium tetrafluoroborate (1)BF4 with potassium bis(trimethylsilyl)amide or with Ag2O, respectively; the molecular structures of (1)ClO4, 2 and 3 have been determined by X-ray diffrac...

The release of microplastics (MPs) into the environment has engendered considerable ecosystem and human health concerns. Herein, we propose light-driven photocatalytic upcycling MPs using heterojunction photocatalysts. A novel synthesis method was developed through in-situ conversion unstable metal sites on bimetallic metal-organic frameworks (MOF), resulting in nanometer-sized particles with s...

We report progress towards understanding how phonon anharmonicity contributes to negative thermal expansion (NTE). Some contribution to the NTE is from "quasiharmonic" behavior, where phonon frequencies decrease as a crystal expands. A second "anharmonic" effect from phonon-phonon interactions is sometimes calculated by perturbation theory, but sometimes the anharmonic effects are too large to ...

A Pt-Ag/graphene composite (Pt-Ag/GNs) was synthesized by the facile aqueous solution method, in which Ag+ was first transformed into Ag2O under UV light irradiation, and then Ag2O, Pt2+, and graphene oxide (GO) were simultaneously reduced by formic acid. It was found that Pt-Ag bimetallic nanoparticles were highly dispersed on the surface of graphene, and their size distribution was narrow wit...