UV-SERS measurements offer a great potential for environmental or food (detection of food contaminats) analytics. Here, the UV-SERS enhancement potential of various kinds of metal colloids, such as Pd, Pt, Au, Ag, Au-Ag core-shell, and Ag-Au core-shell with different shapes and sizes, were studied using melamine as a test molecule. The influence of different activation (KF, KCl, KBr, K(2)SO(4))...

Synthesis, characterization, spectral and theoretical calculations of sodium tetrafluoroborate (III) (STFB) has been studied in this research. Sodium tetrafluoroborate (III) was synthesized by a sonochemical method and characterized by IR, UV/VIS, 11B-NMR and Mass spectrometer techniques. The nano compound was characterized by scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray powder diffract...

Mono and bis hexamethylenetetramine iron(III) chloride, Fe(N C ,H ) CI (I) and Fe(N C ,H ) Cl (II) were synthesized by the reaction of iron(III) chloride and hexamethylenetetramine (HMTA) in chloroform. Chemical analysis and spectral results show the coordination of HMTA to the iron(III). Electronic transition spectra of compound I and I1 were also studied in coordinating and noncoordinatin...

Objective: Gram-positive cariogenic bacteria are etiological agents in dental caries; therefore, strategies to inhibit these bacteria to reduce the incident of this disease have intensified. In this study, we investigated antibacterial activities of titanates and gold-titanates against Lactobacillus casei (Lc) and Streptococcus mutans (Sm). Materials and methods: Monosodium titanate (MST), nano...

A new phenomenon of structural reorganization is discovered and characterized for a gold-carbon system by in-situ atomic-resolution imaging at temperatures up to 1300 K. Here, a graphene sheet serves in three ways, as a quasi transparent substrate for aberration-corrected high-resolution transmission electron microscopy, as an in-situ heater, and as carbon supplier. The sheet has been decorated...

Different inorganic and organometallic gold(III) and gold(I) complexes have been tested in the addition of water and methanol to terminal alkynes. Anionic and neutral organometallic gold(III) compounds can efficiently mediate these reactions in neutral media in refluxing methanol. The compounds are added in catalytic amounts (1.6-4.5 mol % with respect to the alkyne). Thus, compounds of the gen...