A pair of trans,trans-muconate ligands have been successfully aligned in two novel Au(I) macrocycles by design from phosphino metal precursors that undergo photochemical cycloaddition reactions quantitatively, resulting in the formation of cyclooctadiene derivatives.

The charging of a mesoscopic TiO2 layer in a metal halide perovskite solar cell can influence the overall power conversion efficiency. By employing CsPbBr3 films deposited on a mesoscopic TiO2 film, we have succeeded in probing the influence of electrochemical bias on the charge carrier recombination process. The transient absorption spectroscopy experiments conducted at different applied poten...

In contrast to pseudobinary alloys, the relative number of bonds in quaternary alloys cannot be determined uniquely from the composition. Indeed, we do not know if the Ga0.5In0.5As0.5N0.5 alloy should be thought of as InAs+GaN or as InN+GaAs. We study the distribution of bonds using Monte Carlo simulation and find that the number of In-N and Ga-As bonds increases relative to random alloys. This...

Accurate simulation of multicomponent alloys demands a first-principles approach because empirical potentials become increasingly inaccurate and difficult to develop with each additional constituent element. In contrast, the computational difficulty of simulating an alloy from first principles remains essentially independent of the number of elements. However, equilibration times increase with ...

Oxygen and nitrogen introduced in three Ni-Cr alloy castings were significantly varied according to both different alloys and different melting methods. The arc melting in Ar blow caused significant increases in the amounts of oxygen and nitrogen uptake, which were influenced by alloy composition. The severe gas absorption by the arc melting in Ar blow resulted in the marked occurrence of poros...

Rational material design can accelerate the discovery of materials with improved functionalities. This approach can be implemented in Heusler compounds with tunable magnetic sublattices to demonstrate unprecedented magnetic properties. Here, we have designed a family of Heusler alloys with a compensated ferrimagnetic state. In the vicinity of the compensation composition in Mn-Pt-Ga, a giant ex...

PtMo alloy and MoO(x)@Pt core-shell nanoparticles (NPs) were successfully synthesized by a chemical coreduction and sequential chemical reduction method, respectively. Both the carbon-supported alloy and core-shell NPs show substantially higher CO tolerance, compared to the commercialized E-TEK PtRu alloy and Pt catalyst. These novel nanocatalysts can be potentially used as highly CO-tolerant a...

Presented work shows the results of DSC measurement for six Sn based solders. The alloys Sn96Ag4, Sn99Cu1, Sn97Cu3, Sn96.5Ag3Cu0.5, Sn95.5Ag3.8Cu0.7 and Sn63Pb37 were studied in the temperature range from room temperature up to 400◦C. The transformation temperatures for melting as well as for solidification were influenced by the composition and thermal history of the alloys. The thermal histor...

Several chalcogenide alloys exhibit a pronounced contrast between the optical absorption in the metastable rocksalt and in the amorphous phase. This phenomenon is the basis for their application in optical data storage. Here we present ab initio calculations of the optical properties of GeTe and Ge1Sb2Te4 in the two phases. The analysis of our computations and experimental data reveal the corre...