Schematic illustration of layered transition metal oxide applicating in dual purpose as oxygen evolution reaction electrocatalyst and aqueous Li-ion batteries cathode.

The gas-liquid transition is a first-order transition terminating at a finite-temperature critical point with diverging density fluctuations. Mott transition, a metal-insulator transition driven by Coulomb repulsion between electrons, has been identified with this textbook transition. However, the critical temperature of the Mott transition can be suppressed, resulting in unusual quantum critic...

Levulinic acid (LA), 4-oxo-pentanoic acid, is a new platform chemical with various potential uses. In this paper, catalytic hydrogenation and oxidation of levulinic acid were studied. It was shown from experiments that levulinic acid can be hydrogenated to γ-valerolactone (GVL) over transition metal catalysts and oxidative-decarboxylated to 2-butanone (methyl-ethyl-ketone, MEK) and methyl-vinyl...

a r t i c l e i n f o From an interplay between variable temperature scanning tunneling microscopy and density–functional theory calculations, the evolution of oxygen chemisorption-induced surface reconstructions of the Cu(110) surface is determined. The surface reconstructions proceed via a sequential pathway with increasing oxygen surface coverage. The (2 × 1) reconstruction occurs first and ...

Session I" Overview of the Chemistry and Biochemistry of Nitrogen Oxides Prof. L. Ignarro, UCLA: The Biology of Nitric Oxide Prof. J. Enemark, Arizona: Transition Metal Complexes of Nitrogen Oxides Prof. W. Koppenol, ETH Zurich: Fundamental Chemistry of Nitrogen Oxides Prof. S. Bohle, Wyoming: Synthesis and Characterization of Higher Nitrogen Oxides Prof. J. Lipscomb, Minnesota: Nitric Oxide as...

Polyoxomolybdates form an interesting class of inorganic materials, which exhibit a wide range of intriguing architectures [1]. They also have a great potential for applications based on their interesting physical behavior, e. g. in catalysis, for electrical conduction, optical response, and magnetism [2]. Many of these organic-inorganic hybrid molybdates are synthesized in the presence of orga...

Bacterial gene regulators containing transition metal cofactors that function as binding sites for small ligands were first described in the 1990s. Since then, numerous metal-containing regulators have been discovered, and our knowledge of the diversity of proteins, their cofactors and the signals that they sense has greatly increased. The present article reviews recent developments, with a par...

Two-dimensional (2D) transition-metal oxide perovskites greatly expand the field of available 2D multifunctional material systems. Here, based on density functional theory calculations, we predicted presence ferromagnetism orders accompanying with an insulator-metal phase transition in bilayer $KNbO_{3}$ and $KTaO_{3}$ by applying strain engineering and/or external electric field. Our results w...

the use of an inorganic phase in water-in-oil (w/o) microemulsion has recently received considerable attention for preparing metal oxide nanoparticles. this is a technique, which allows preparation of ultrafine metal oxide nanoparticles within the size range 40 to 80 nm. preparation of nano chromium (iii) oxide studied investigated in the inverse microemulsion system. therefore the nucleation o...