The aim of this study was to measure the levels of nickel in the skin contaminant layer of workers involved in specific processes and tasks within the primary nickel production and primary nickel user industries. Dermal exposure samples were collected using moist wipes to recover surface contamination from defined areas of skin. These were analysed for soluble and insoluble nickel species. Pers...

An immunoaffinity-based method was developed to determine zearalenone in corn. Corn samples were extracted in acetonitrile-water (90 + 10, v/v), applied to an immunoaffinity column, and eluted with methanol. The isolated toxin was quantitated either by reaction with aluminum chloride hexahydrate (AlCl3.6H2O) prior to measurement with a fluorometer or injection into a liquid chromatographic (LC)...

Artificial, anisotropic fibre phantoms are nowadays increasingly used in the field of diffusion-weighted MRI. Such phantoms represent useful tools for, among others, the calibration of pulse sequences and validation of diffusion models since they can mimic well-known structural features of brain tissue on the one hand, but exhibit a reduced complexity, on the other. Among all materials, polyeth...

A set of multicomponent perovskite oxide nanoparticles based on La1-xSrxCo1-yFeyO3-δ(LSCF) were prepared by a simple chemical precipitation method for application in low temperature solid oxide fuel cells (LT-SOFC) as cathode materials.  The precursor materials used in this synthesis were lanthanum nitrate hexahydrate [La(NO3)<su...

The title compound, 4,4'-(1,1,1,3,3,3-hexafluoroisopropylidene)diphthalic acid hexahydrate, C(19)H(10)F(6)O(8).6H(2)O, crystallizes in the centrosymmetric space group Pbcn, with half of the diphthalic acid residue and three water molecules in the asymmetric unit. The organic molecule is located on a crystallographic twofold axis. In the solid, cyclic water hexamers in chair conformations have c...

Possibility of application of wavelet analysis in EPR spectroscopy is investigated. Basic mathematics of the method is summarized, with emphasis on the relation between EPR experiment and physical interpretation of wavelet transform. The fact that first derivative of the Lorentzian function can be used as a base wavelet is employed and the specific rules of the interpretation of the final wavel...

The association of a commercially-available iron (III) chloride hexahydrate (FeCl3∙6H2O) with cationic 2,2′-bipyridyl in water was proven to be an operationally simple and reusable catalytic system for the highly-selective reduction nitroarenes anilines. This procedure conducted under air using 1–2 mol% catalyst presence 4 equiv hydrazine monohydrate (H2NNH2∙H2O) neat at 100 °C 12 h, provided h...