Carbon-supported precious metal catalysts are widely used in heterogeneous catalysis and electrocatalysis, and enhancement of catalyst dispersion and stability by controlling the interfacial structure is highly desired. Here we report a new method to deposit metal oxides and metal nanoparticles on graphene and form stable metal-metal oxide-graphene triple junctions for electrocatalysis applicat...

Transition metal reagents and catalysts are generally effective to cleave all three bonds (one σ and two π) in a triple bond despite its high bonding energy. Recently, chemistry of single-bond cleavage by using main-group element compounds is rapidly being developed in the absence of transition metals. However, the cleavage of a triple bond using non-transition-metal compounds is less explored....

The free layer thickness tfree in double barrier magnetic tunnel junctions DMTJs based on crystalline MgO barriers and CoFeB ferromagnetic layers has been varied from 0.5 to 3.0 nm in order to investigate its effect on the magnetic and electrical properties. One obvious feature of DMTJs with tfree 1 nm is the absence of sharp free layer switching in the TMR curves, which can be explained by the...

Chemokine receptors belong to the superfamily of G protein-coupled receptors, which regulate the trafficking and activation of leukocytes, and operate as coreceptors in the entry of HIV-1. To investigate the early steps in the signal transmission from the chemokine-binding site to the G protein-coupling region we engineered metal ion-binding sites at putative extracellular sites in the chemokin...

We explore the design of metal binding sites to modulate triple-helix stability of collagen and collagen-mimetic peptides. Globular proteins commonly utilize metals to connect tertiary structural elements that are well separated in sequence, constraining structure and enhancing stability. It is more challenging to engineer structural metals into fibrous protein scaffolds, which lack the extensi...

Density functional theory calculations are used to investigate the energetics of protons crossing triple phase boundaries based on a metal catalyst, Pd or Ni, and barium zirconate. Our calculations show that the proton transfer reaction at these interfaces is controlled by the terminal layer of the electrolyte in contact with the metallic and gas phases. The hydrogen spilling process onto the e...

A novel non-metal catalyzed oxidation of organic azides to nitriles under solvent-free conditions is presented employing catalytic amounts of KI, and DABCO in aq. TBHP at room temperature. This non-metal catalyzed oxidation of azides provides good selectivity as double and triple bonds were not oxidized under the present reaction conditions.

In this paper, we present a proposal for compact photonic wavelength filtering and 3-dB splitting device based on nanoplasmonic metal-insulator-metal structure. The operating performance of the has been accurately simulated using temporal coupled-mode theory. We use numerical simulation method eigenmode expansion propagation in overall design process. show that transmission efficiency drop filt...

A simple method for designing a triple-mode bandpass filter is presented in this paper. Triple-mode is achieved by using half-mode substrate integrated waveguide (HMSIW) cavity. Three perturbation metal vias were introduced for shifting resonant modes. The resonant frequencies of these modes can be adjusted by the location and the diameter of perturbation vias properly. In order to improve the ...