Organic solar cells (OSCs) have gained serious attention during the last decade and are now considered as one of the future photovoltaic technologies for low-cost power production. The first dream of attaining 10% of power coefficient efficiency has now become a reality thanks to the development of new materials and an impressive work achieved to understand, control and optimize structure and m...

It is widely believed that the dehydrogenation of organic compounds is a thermodynamically unfavorable process, and thus requires stoichiometric oxidants such as dioxygen and metal oxides or sacrificial hydrogen acceptors to remove the hydrogen from the reaction mixture to drive the equilibrium towards the products. Here we report a previously unappreciated combination of common commercial Pd/C...

Weighted finite-state acceptors and transducers (Pereira and Riley, 1997) are a critical technology for NLP and speech systems. They flexibly capture many kinds of stateful left-toright substitution, simple transducers can be composed into more complex ones, and they are EMtrainable. They are unable to handle long-range syntactic movement, but tree acceptors and transducers address this weaknes...

Cu2ZnSnSe4 thin films were synthesised by selenisation of magnetron sputtered metal precursors. The band gap determined from the absorption spectra increases from 1.01 eV at 300 K to 1.05 eV at 4.2 K. In lower quality films photoluminescence spectra show a broad, low intensity asymmetric band associated with recombination of free electrons and holes localised on acceptors in the presence of spa...

the photocatalytic degradation of nonionic surfactant triton x-100 was studied by a batch process using znocommercial powders as the catalyst on irradiation with uv light and its behaviour comparatively with respect tozno nanoparticles with diameter size 20 nm. the effects of different conditions such as catalyst type, amount ofthe photocatalyst, ph of the system, initial concentration and elec...

BACKGROUND Influenza vaccination is the most efficient and cost-effective method to prevent influenza. To increase vaccination coverage, health authorities use various intervention programs (IPs), such as cost subsidies or placing vaccination centers in malls to make vaccination more accessible. Nevertheless, vaccination coverage has been sub-optimal in most developed countries, including in Is...

Single electron transfer (SET)-photochemical decarboxylation of free carboxylic acids was performed in a polar solvent using several arenes such as phenanthrene, naphthalene, 1-methylnaphthalene, biphenyl, triphenylene, and chrysene in the presence of various electron acceptors such as 1,2-, 1,3-, and 1,4-dicyanobenzenes, methyl 4-cyanobenzoate, and 1,4-dicyanonaphthalene. The decarboxylation r...

Electrophilic probes that covalently modify a cysteine thiol often show enhanced pharmacological potency and selectivity. Although reversible Michael acceptors have been reported, the structural requirements for reversibility are poorly understood. Here, we report a novel class of acrylonitrile-based Michael acceptors, activated by aryl or heteroaryl electron-withdrawing groups. We demonstrate ...

An enzymatic reaction has been identified in the isthmus of hen oviduct in which sulfate is transferred from 3’-phosphoadenosine 5’-phosphosulfate to mucopolysaccharide acceptors (1). From studies of the reaction with monosaccharides and oligosaccharides as model acceptors (‘2) it was concluded that one or more enzymes in the preparations employed catalyze a direct transfer of sulfate from PAPS...