In this paper, we monitor the real-time growth of mesoporous platinum during electrodeposition using small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS). Previously, we have demonstrated that platinum films featuring the 'single diamond' (Fd3m) morphology can be produced from 'double diamond' (Pn3m) lipid cubic phase templates; the difference in symmetry provides additional scattering signals unique to the met...

The intranuclear mitosis of the plasmodial nuclei of myxomycetes permits the observation of defects in chromosomal repartition which would probably be lethal in other eukaryotic cells with open mitosis. We found that antitumoral platinum-amine compounds perturbed late mitotic events and induced the formation of giant nuclei which were polyploid in plasmodia of Physarum polycephalum. Using 26 pl...

Catalysts using suitably supported platinum show promise for the commercial production of heavy water. Carbons are potential primary supports for the platinum and metal-support interactions have been observed in this system. These interactions lower the chemical activation energy and increase the rate of reaction under conditions where it seems likely that the support donates electrons to the m...

Metallopharmaceuticals play an important role in contemporary society as therapeutic and diagnostic agents. Many metallopharmaceuticals have been developed to treat/cure a variety of cancers. Besides platinum compoundscisplatin, carboplatin, oxaliplatin, tetraplatin, satraplatin etc., non-platinum compounds viz. NAMI-A, KP1019, KP46, auranofin and As2O3 etc. have shown promising results and man...

Objectives • Elucidate rates and mechanisms of the degradation of polymer electrolyte fuel cell (PEFC) platinum electrode performance – Effect of electrolyte, potential (holding and cycling), time, and temperature • Develop non-platinum cathode electrocatalysts for PEFCs – Transition metal carbides and nitrides – Bi-metallic systems – Metal centers attached to electron-conducting polymer backbones

there has been a considerable interest in platinum group metal complexes of thiaoxa-donor macrocycles because of their unusual properties. 1 As an extension of our studies involving mixed-donor cyclic 2a and acyclic 2b ligands incorporating thiaoxa mixed-donors, we became interested in exploring their coordination chemistry of platinum group metal ions. The S2O-donor macrocycle of the title com...

Light emitting organo-transition metal complexes have found widespread use in the past. The computational modelling of such compounds is often based on time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT), which enjoys popularity due to its numerical efficiency and simple black-box character. It is well known, however, that TDDFT notoriously underestimates energies of charge-transfer excited states...