The microporous structure of pillared interlayered clays is determined by their interlayer separation and the distribution of the pillars that separate their layers. The pillars provide stability to these quasi-two-dimensional high surface area materials. In this work we present a topological analysis of available and accessible volumes within various simple models of pillared interlayered clay...

Two pillared metal phosphonates: [Mn3(4,4'-bipy)(L)2].(4,4'-bipy)0.5 (1) and [Co3(4,4'-bipy)(H2O)2(L)2].(4,4'-bipy)0.5 (2) (L = O3PCH(OH)CO2), have been synthesized hydrothermally, and characterized by single-crystal X-ray diffraction along with powder XRD, EA, IR and TGA. In compounds 1-2, Mn(II) and Co(II) ions are in octahedron coordination geometries and bridged by 2-hydroxyl(phosphono)acet...

Nano-scale nipple array on the body surface has been described from various invertebrates including endoparasitic and mesoparasitic copepods, but the functions of the nipple array is not well understood. Using the hydrophilized nanopillar sheets made of polystyrene as a mimetic material of the nipple arrays on the parasites’ body surface, we assayed the cell spreading and phagocytosis of the he...

Two novel metal pyridylmethylphosphonates, namely, [Co(4-pmp)] (1) and [Cu(4-pmp)(H2O)] (2), (4-pmpH2 = 4-pyridylmethylphosphonic acid), have been hydrothermally synthesized and characterized by X-ray diffraction, infrared spectroscopy, elemental analysis, and thermogravimetric analysis. In compound 1, each {PO3C} tetrahedron is corner-shared with three {CoNO3} tetrahedra and vice versa, thus f...

We propose a new generation of materials to maximize reversible H2 storage at room temperature and modest pressures (<20 bars). We test these materials using grand canonical Monte Carlo simulations with a first-principles-derived force field and find that the Li pillared graphene sheet system can take up 6.5 mass% of H2 (a density of 62.9 kg/m(3) at 20 bars and room temperature. This satisfies ...

The industrial practice used to produce furfural is the dehydration of pentoses, which is carried out using highly corrosive and contaminating mineral acid catalysts. Because of the ecological and toxicological threats of this process and the complexity of product separation associated with these substances, the development of new acid solid catalysts has expanded in recent years. The present w...

Two new metal phosphite-oxalates, CN3H6·Co(H2PO3)(C2O4) (1) and (CN3H6)2·Mn2.5(HPO3)(C2O4)2.5(H2O)·H2O (2), have been prepared under solvent-free conditions. The two open-framework compounds have diamondoid and pillared-layered structures, respectively. Their photoluminescence and magnetic properties were also investigated.

The solvothermal reaction of elemental zinc with sulfur in ethylenediamine (en) as solvent yields [ZnS-0.5(NH2CH2CH2NH2)], 1, an unprecedented ethylenediamine pillared ZnS layered compound, containing two dimensional (2-D) boat-type 6-membered rings, which was characterized by ab initio structure solution from powder diffraction data (SDPD).

The reaction of Cu(ClO4)(2).6H2O and 1,2-bis(4-pyridyl)ethane (bpe) in basic aqueous solution yields a 3D compound, {[Cu3(CO3)2(bpe)3].2ClO4}n (1) through the atmospheric fixation of CO2 composing Cu(CO3) kagomé layers pillared by the bpe linker that exhibit weak antiferromagnetic interaction in the kagomé layer and interlayer ferromagnetic coupling at low temperature.