The reaction of Mn(OAc)2 x 4H2O with 2,6-dimethoxybenzoylsalicylhydrazide (H3dmbshz) leads to a dodecanuclear manganese metallamacrocycle [Mn12(dmbshz)12(EtOH)6], 1. The successive manganese centers are connected by the hydrazide N-N groups of the ligands in an alternating pentadentate binding mode, hexadentate binding mode. The alternation results in two alternating chelation modes around the ...

The ring of locally-constant integer-valued functions on the dominant chamber of the Shi arrangement is endowed with a filtration and a new basis, compatible with this filtration, is found. This basis is compared to the trivial basis. The ring is given a presentation by generators and relations.

Highly efficient and chemically compatible LnxSr1-xCoO3-delta (Ln = La, Sm, Gd, ...)/Co3O4 electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction reaction are presented and the very low cathode polarization resistances and excellent performances implied their promising application for developing intermediate-temperature solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs), as well as potential application for oxygen separation membr...

We present the first system penalty measurements for all-optical wavelength conversion in an integrated ring resonator. We achieve wavelength conversion over a range of 27.7nm in the C-band at 2.5 Gb/s by exploiting four wave mixing in a CMOS compatible, high index glass ring resonator at ~22 dBm average pump power, obtaining < 0.3 dB system penalty.

Ustilago maydis contains one repellent and two class I hydrophobin genes in its genome. The repellent gene rep1 has been described previously. It encodes 11 secreted repellent peptides that result from the cleavage of a precursor protein at KEX2 recognition sites. The hydrophobin gene hum2 encodes a typical class I hydrophobin of 117 aa, while hum3 encodes a hydrophobin that is preceded by 17 r...

Consider a commutative ring $R$ and simplicial map, $X\mathop {\longrightarrow }\limits ^{\pi }K,$ of finite complexes. The cochain complex $X$ with coefficients, $\Delta ^*X,$ then has the structure an $(R,K)$ chain complex, in sense Ranicki . Therefore it Ranicki-dual $T \Delta ^*X$ This (contravariant) duality functor $T:\mathcal {B} R_K\to \mathcal R_K$ was defined algebraically on category...

Parabolic equations with unbounded coefficients and even generalized functions (in particular Dirac–delta functions) model large–scale of problems in the heat–mass transfer. This paper provides estimates for the convergence rate of difference scheme in discrete Sobolev like norms, compatible with the smoothness of the differential problems solutions, i.e with the smoothness of the input data.

Nisin is a cationic antimicrobial peptide that belongs to the group of lantibiotics. It is thought to form oligomeric pores in the target membrane by a mechanism that requires the transmembrane electrical potential delta psi and that involves local pertubation of the lipid bilayer structure. Here we show that nisin does not form exclusively voltage-dependent pores: even in the absence of a delt...

The Zykov ring of signed finite simple graphs with topological join as addition and compatible multiplication is an integral domain but not a unique factorization domain. We know that because by the graph complement operation it is isomorphic to the strong Sabidussi ring with disjoint union as addition. We prove that the Euler characteristic is a ring homomorphism from the strong ring to the in...

The structure of an iridolactone isolated from Valeriana laxiflora was established as (4R,4aR,6S,7S,7aS)-6-hydroxy-7-hydroxymethyl-4-methylperhydrocyclopenta[c]pyran-1-one chloroform solvate, C(10)H(16)O(4).CHCl(3). The two rings are cis-fused. The delta-lactone ring adopts a slightly twisted half-chair conformation with approximate planarity of the lactone group and the cyclopentane ring adopt...