CO oxidation over polycrystalline ruthenium dioxide was monitored in an in-situ XRD setup. The evolution of the bulk state of the catalyst was followed by in-situ XRD during reaction, while the surface morphology and chemical state before and after reaction were investigated by HRSEM and EDX. The commercial RuO2 powder was calcined prior reaction to ensure the formation of completely oxidized R...

HemAT from Bacillus subtilis (HemAT-Bs) is a heme-based O2 sensor protein that acts as a signal transducer responsible for aerotaxis. HemAT-Bs discriminates its physiological effector (O2) from other gas molecules (CO and NO), although all of them bind to a heme. To monitor the conformational changes in the protein moiety upon binding of different ligands, we have investigated ultraviolet reson...

OPV3-CHO molecules are employed to prepare assembly on highly oriented pyrolytic graphite, and the so-prepared assembly is investigated by scanning tunneling microscopy. In the assembly chiral domains are observed with various structures such as linear and windmill. The chiral structural formation, stability, transition, and possible unification are intensively studied. After thermal annealing,...

When photosynthetic bacteria Rhodocyclus gelatinosus and Rhodospirillum rubrum were cultured with CO in the gas phase, a CO-linked pathway was quickly induced. These bacteria perform a water-gas shift reaction with CO and H2O, and produce H2 and CO2 in nearly stoichiometric quantities. The hydrogenase, a terminal enzyme of the linked pathway, is extremely O2 resistant. In order to further inves...

The adsorption of CO on an oxygen precovered Pds111d surface was investigated between 60 and 300 K. Applied methods were variable temperature scanning tunneling microscopy sSTMd and video STM to analyze the coadsorption structures. The STM data are compared with simulated STM images for the various surface phases in order to identify the appropiate structural model for each case. Low-energy ele...

A hydrogenase linked to the carbon monoxide oxidation pathway in Rubrivivax gelatinosus displays tolerance to O2. When either whole-cell or membrane-free partially purified hydrogenase was stirred in full air (21% O2, 79% N2), its H2 evolution activity exhibited a half-life of 20 or 6 h, respectively, as determined by an anaerobic assay using reduced methyl viologen. When the partially purified...

We present the results of an extensive calorimetric study of krypton coadsorbed on graphite precoated with a saturated monolayer of carbon tetrachloride. Combining the heat capacity data with film equation of state measurements from a previous study @W. J. Weber and D. L. Goodstein, Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 3888 ~1999!# permits construction of the Kr/CCl4 coadsorption phase diagram between 77 and 1...

a significant reduction in arterial blood oxygen saturation during fiberoptic bronchoscopy has been proved but it is not yet known whether all patients need supplemental oxygen during this procedure. the aim of study is to examine the relationship between peak expiratory flow rate (pefr) before bronchoscopy and oxygen desaturation during bronchoscopy. measurement of pefr (% predicted) performed...