Introduction To facilitate radiotracers' development, a screening methodology using a biomathematical model and clinical usefulness index (CUI) was proposed to evaluate radiotracers' diagnostic capabilities. Methods A total of 31 amyloid positron emission tomography radiotracers were evaluated. A previously developed biomathematical model was used to simulate 1000 standardized uptake value ra...

The crystal structures of two mixed-valence copper cyanide compounds involving N-methyl-ethylenedi-amine (meen), are described. In compound (I), poly[bis(μ3-cyanido-κ3C:C:N)tris(μ2-cyanido-κ2C:N)bis(N-methylethane-1,2-di-amine-κ2N,N')tricopper(I)copper(II)], [Cu4(CN)5(C3H10N2)2] or Cu4(CN)5meen2, cyanide groups link CuI atoms into a three-dimensional network containing open channels parallel to...

Ever since Czech writer Karel Capek's well-known play " R.U.R. – Rossum's universal robots " [Capek], first published in 1920 and performed in 1921, man-made robots of human-like shape have inspired fiction writers to envision worlds with artificial creatures far superior to human beings – either in friendly coexistence or taking over by eliminating their creators and leaving them behind as an ...

Morphological and structural control of organic semiconductors through structural templating is an efficient route by which to tune their physical properties. The preparation and characterisation of iron phthalocyanine (FePc)-copper iodide (CuI) bilayers at elevated substrate temperatures is presented. Thin CuI(111) layers are prepared which are composed of isolated islands rather than continuo...

Reactions between copper(I) iodide and triphenylphosphine have been explored in solution and in the solid state and six luminescent coordination complexes have been obtained and characterized by X-ray diffraction and UV-vis spectroscopy and photophysics. Solid-state reactions of CuI with PPh(3) in different conditions (kneading, vapour digestion) and stoichiometries resulted in the formation of...

In this work, we present a facile, low-cost, and effective approach to fabricate the UV photodetector with a CuI/ZnO double-shell nanostructure which was grown on common copper microwire. The enhanced performances of Cu/CuI/ZnO core/double-shell microwire photodetector resulted from the formation of heterojunction. Benefiting from the piezo-phototronic effect, the presentation of piezocharges c...

The reaction of [Cp(Bn) Fe(η(5) -P5 )] (1) (Cp(Bn) =η(5) -C5 (CH2 Ph)5 ) with CuI selectively yields a novel spherical supramolecule (CH2 Cl2 )3.4 @[(Cp(Bn) FeP5 )12 {CuI}54 (MeCN)1.46 ] (2) showing a linkage of the scaffold atoms which is beyond the Fullerene topology. Its extended CuI framework reveals an outer diameter of 3.7 nm-a size that has not been reached before using five-fold symmetr...