The dinuclear bis(2,2'-bipyridine)ruthenium complex of 4,5-di(2-pyridyl)imidazolate has been prepared and separated into its (meso and rac) diastereoisomers. The 2-phenyl substituted analogue forms the meso isomer selectively. All three complexes have been characterised by 1H NMR and X-ray crystallography. Electrochemical measurements and spectroelectrochemistry of the mixed-valence states reve...

A Cu-doped zeolite ZSM-5 (Cu-ZSM-5-M) with a micro-meso-macroporous structure was directly synthesized, and it exhibits excellent catalytic activity and good recyclability in the cross-coupling of aryl halides with diphenyl disulfides. This feature should be attributed to the structural characteristics of meso-macropores and homogeneous dispersion of active Cu(δ+) (δ < 2) species in Cu-ZSM-5-M.

1.—Department of Physics, The Ilse Katz Center for Nano and Meso Scale Science and Technology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, P.O. Box 653, Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel. 2.—Department of Electrical Engineering, Solid State Institute and Microelectronic Center, Technion, Haifa 32000, Israel. 3.—Department of Materials Engineering, The Ilse Katz Center for Nano and Meso Scale Science and Technol...

Two types of porphyrin free base, meso-tetra(4-vinylphenyl)porphyrin and meso-tetra(4-stilbenyl)porphyrin, were synthesized and characterized. Metallation was achieved by insertion of MnCl24H2O. Oxidative electropolymerization of the manganese porphyrin monomers by cyclic scans would anchor the resulting materials on glassy carbon electrodes. It was found that both poly (manganese tetra(4-vinyl...

The dinuclear bis(2,2’-bipyridine)ruthenium complex of 4,5-di(2-pyridyl)imidazolate has been prepared and separated into its (meso and rac) diastereoisomers. The 2-phenyl substituted analogue forms the meso isomer selectively. All three complexes have been characterised by H NMR and X-ray crystallography. Electrochemical measurements and spectroelectrochemistry of the mixedvalence states reveal...

This introduction to the special issue, Nonlinear dynamics in meso and nano scales: fundamental aspects and applications, gives a short overview about different contexts and current challenges posed by the emergence of nonlinearities at meso and nano characteristic sizes. It also addresses different aspects related to classical and quantum chaos. Moreover, it comments on the articles in this th...

We use a high quality five-hour sequence of images of the solar photosphere taken at the Swedish Solar Vacuum Telescope, La Palma, to study the relation of meso-scale divergence with the amplitudes of photospheric intensity oscillations. Meso-scale flows are determined by local correlation tracking of the granulation. Statistical evaluation of the co-location probability of regions with more th...

Dissipative particle dynamics is a relatively new technique for simulating fluid flow at meso scales that is more computationally efficient but at the same time able to reproduce some of the detail of molecular dynamics simulations. This report gives an introduction to the background of the technique, along with examples of applications in the fields of microfluidics, hydrodynamic behaviour at ...

Calixphyrins are a class of hybrid molecules that lie at the structural crossroads between porphyrins and calixpyrroles. Porphyrins, long known for their versatile metal cation coordination chemistry, are macrocycles that contain only sp2-hybridized bridging meso carbon atoms within their framework. Calix[n]pyrroles, on the other hand, are porphyrin analogs that contain pyrroles bridged exclusi...