and porcelain-fused-to-metal restorations instead of gold or silver alloys. This tendency seems to be the same a]1 over the world, However, the expanded use of nickel-containing base metal alloys in dentistry has raised questions concerning their biological s fety, namely, carcinogenic and sensitivity risks.i) On the other hand, since pure titanium or titanium-based alloys have excellent biocom...

Electrochemically grown cobalt on graphene exhibits exceptional performance as a catalyst for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) and provides the possibility of controlling the morphology and the chemical properties during deposition. However, the detailed atomic structure of this hybrid material is not well understood. To elucidate the Co/graphene electronic structure, we have developed a flo...

The synthesis, physicochemical properties and interactions with metal ions of three new reagents of the N-phenylthiosemicarbazone family, namely pyridoxal phenylthiosemicarbazone, 3-hydroxypyridine-2-aldehyde phenylthiosemicarbazone and 2,6-diacetylpyridine bis(phenylthiosemicarbazone), as well as their ionization constants and the spectral features of their complexes with transition-element ca...

Two cobalt(ii) compounds, namely, {[Co(HL)(bpy)(H2O)2]·DMF}n (1), and {[Co(HL)(bpe)]·0.5bpe}n (2) (H3L = 1,3-bis(2-carboxylphenoxy)benzoic acid, bpy = 4,4'-bipyridine, bpe = 4,4'-vinylenedipyridine), have been synthesized using cobalt(ii) transition metal salt with phenolic carboxylic acid and different N-donor ligands. The compounds were fully characterized by elemental analysis, infrared spec...

Shards of Blue-and-White Ming porcelain from shipwrecks Portuguese ships found on the coasts South Africa plus a shard Mombasa (Kenya) were analyzed by optical microscopy, SEM-EDS and Raman microspectroscopy (458 nm). Whereas signature body paste compositions which are based mullite, quartz an amorphous phase with minor presence anatase feldspar very comparable whatever variable alumina content...

Strain Engineering of Magnetic Anisotropy In article number 2101034, Hiroshige Onoda, Hideto Yanagihara, and co-workers demonstrate that the strain engineering technique is a promising way to induce large magnetic anisotropy without using heavy metals or rare earth elements. The spins (red arrows) Co ions (light blue) on octahedral sublattice spinel structure change their preferred direction in...

A unicellular blue-green alga, Agmenellum quadruplicatum, and a filamentous blue-green alga, Lyngbya lagerheimíi, were grown heterotrophically in dim light with glucose as major source of carbon and possibly energy. The dim-light conditions did not support autotrophic growth. The two blue-green algae appeared to have the same metabolic block, namely an incomplete tricarboxylic acid cycle, as ha...