L-type calcium channels are Ca(2+) binding proteins of great biological importance. They generate an essential intracellular signal of living cells by allowing Ca(2+) ions to move across the lipid membrane into the cell, thereby selecting an ion that is in low extracellular abundance. Their mechanism of selection involves four carboxylate groups, containing eight oxygen ions, that belong to the...

Electrochemical nitrate reduction reaction (eNO3RR) has been considered as an alternative route for decentralized ammonia (NH3) synthesis. However, a major challenge is products selectivity at low overpotentials, namely, the competition between nitrite (HNO2) and ammonia. Herein, we employed single-atom catalyst (FeN4) model to study competitive mechanism of NH3 HNO2 by density functional theor...

an extensive study of fischer-tropsch synthesis (fts) on alumina-supported cobalt catalysts promoted with different amounts of ruthenium and rhenium is reported. up to 2 wt% of promoters, are added to the catalyst by coimpregnation. the catalysts are characterized by different methods including: bet physisorption, x-ray diffraction, hydrogen chemisorption, and temperature-programmed reduction. ...

hydrogenation reaction with n-heptane on pt/al2o3 catalyst was investigated under the steady state condition in a fixed bed reactor. the catalyst was prepared under a variety of conditions, but the one chosen was non-acidic that is not considered a hydrocracking catalyst. the main objective was to vary the selectivity of n-heptane as a function of reaction variables especially the partial press...

wild barley has invaded wheat fields ever since flamprop-isopropyl was outdated in iran. newly developed herbicides such as sulfosulfuron or sulfosulfuron plus metsulfuron-methyl can control it at higher than recommended dosages, but causing significant wheat injury. hence, two dose-response experiments were conducted to evaluate their efficacy when tank-mixed with thirteen different vegetable ...

co2/ch4 gas separation is a very important applicatable process in upgrading the natural gas and landfil gas recovery. in this work, to investigate the membrane separation process performance, the gas permeation results andco2/ch4 separation characteristics of different prepared membranes (via blending different molecular weights of polyethylene glycol (peg) as a modifier with acrylonitrile-but...