Hematite (α-Fe2O3) nanorods were synthesized by hydrothermal method using Cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) as a surfactant agent. To study optical, nanostructural properties, and to control the morphology and shape of nanorods, 0.025 mol L-1, 0.05 mol L-1 and 0.1 mol L-1 concentration of CTAB were used. Moreover, the effect of interaction between bovine serum albumin (BSA) A9418-5G protein...

Spontaneous formation of curved nanorods is generally unexpected, since curvature introduces strain energy. However, electron microscopy shows that under hydrothermal conditions, some nanorods grown by oriented attachment of small anatase particles on {101} surfaces are curved and dislocation free. Molecular dynamics simulations show that the lattice energy of a curved anatase rod is actually l...

Photodeposition of Pt on the Sc-doped La5Ti2CuS5O7 (Sc-LTC) photocathode, a visible-light-responsive semiconducting oxysulfide, is accomplished in a solution containing H2PtCl6 and K2C2O4. Pt particles are selectively deposited on the top surface of rod-like Sc-LTC particles as a result of one-dimensional transfer of photogenerated electrons.

The limbal ring-rod and the proportional geometric drawing method provide a simple, inexpensive, and fairly accurate measure for the radiological localisation of ocular foreign bodies, and the results simulate those of orbital tomography.

The idea that chloroplasts are the sites of virus formation is not new. Since Kausche and Ruska (4) published an electron micrograph showing filamentous particles of tobacco mosaic virus associated with chloroplast fragments, the speculation that virus particles are formed within chloroplasts and released from them into the surrounding cytoplasm, has been widely supported by successive investig...

We study the influence of acoustic fields on the evaporative self-assembly of solute particles suspended inside sessile droplets of complex fluids. The self-assembly process often results in an undesirable ring-like heterogeneous residue, a phenomenon known as the coffee-ring effect. Here we show that this ring-like self-assembly can be controlled acoustically to form homogeneous disc-like or c...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to assess the clinical results of treatment for unstable posterior pelvic fractures using a pedicle screw-rod fixator compared to use of a locking compression plate. MATERIAL AND METHODS A retrospective study was performed between June 2010 and May 2014 and the data were collected from 46 patients with unstable posterior pelvic ring fractures. All patients w...