Nickel-titanium-oxide (Ni-Ti-O) nanotube arrays (NTAs) prepared on nearly equiatomic NiTi alloy shall have broad application potential such as for energy storage and biomedicine, but their precise structure control is a great challenge because of the high content of alloying element of Ni, a non-valve metal that cannot form a compact electronic insulating passive layer when anodized. In the pre...

Spinach chloroplasts catalyse the incorporation of Fe(2+) into protoporphyrin, mesoporphyrin and deuteroporphyrin to form the corresponding haems. This ferrochelatase activity was detected by pyridine haemochrome formation with acetone-dried powders of chloroplasts, or from the formation of [(59)Fe]haems by intact chloroplasts. Decreasing the mitochondrial contamination of the chloroplasts by d...

M1-M2-N-C bimetallic catalysts with M1 as Fe and Co and M2 as Fe, Co, Ni and Mn were synthesized and investigated as cathode catalysts for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR). The catalysts were prepared by Sacrificial Support Method in which silica was the template and aminoantipyrine (AAPyr) was the organic precursor. The electro-catalytic properties of these catalysts were investigated by using ...

Ruthenium-based bimetallic electrocatalysts with non-noble metals such as Ti, Cr, Fe, Co and Pb were synthesized on a porous carbon support sing a chelation process. Rotating ring disk electrode measurements indicated that RuFeNx/C showed the catalytic activity and selectivity toward he four-electron reduction of oxygen to water comparable to those of the conventional Pt/C catalysts. The perfor...

An anti-fouling ability of diamond-like carbon (DLC) electrodes to biological macromolecules has been investigated from a decrease in the electrochemical redox current of Fe(CN)(6)(4-/3-), used as a redox marker. A DLC electrode and a glassy carbon (GC) electrode were immersed in a solution containing bovine serum albumin (BSA) or DNA. The GCs treated with biological macromolecules gave rise to...

Interfacial oxidation and reduction of Prussian Blue (PB), KFe[Fe(CN)6]‚nH2O (n ≈ 10), powder were probed in situ with Fourier transform infrared attenuated total reflection (FT-IR/ATR) spectroscopy. The combination of electrochemistry in the absence of liquid electrolyte with internal reflectance FT-IR spectroscopy was accomplished using a simple two-electrode sandwich-type cell in which a cry...

The development of iron and nitrogen co-doped carbon (Fe?N?C) electrocatalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) in proton-exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) is a grand challenge due to low density accessible Fe?N4 sites. Here, an situ trapping strategy using nitrogen-rich molecules (e.g., melamine, MA) demonstrated enhance amount sites Fe?N?C electrocatalysts. melamine can participate...

430 nature materials | VOL 7 | JUNE 2008 | www.nature.com/naturematerials salts — the charged material causes the reduction of Cu2+ ions to Cu metal and the latter is deposited on the electrode (Fig. 1b). By analysis of the product, the charge density is estimated to be similar to that found in the previous experiment, around 7 × 1014 cm–2. Further electrochemical reactions were possible — incl...

The development of effective oxygen electrode catalysts for renewable energy technologies such as metal-air batteries and fuel cells remains challenging. Here, we prepared a novel high-performance oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) catalyst comprised of Fe₂N nanoparticles (NPs) in situ decorated over an N-doped porous carbon derived from pomelo peel (i.e., Fe₂N/N-PPC). The decorated Fe₂N NPs provi...