With ever-increasing energy demand, more efforts are dedicated to designing innovative electrode materials providing higher storage capability and power output. As it has been demonstrated recently, the use of mixed cation–anion redox reactions opens up new possibilities for significant rise material's capacity unusual electrochemical characteristics lithium-ion battery electrodes. In this pape...

Considerable interest is currently focused on the interactions of beta-2 glycoprotein I (beta2GPI) and anti-phospholipid antibodies with anionic phospholipids in an attempt to understand the association between these antibodies and clinical diseases such as thrombosis. The interactions of beta2GPI and anionic phospholipids have only been characterized partially, and the physiological role of th...

The title compound catena-poly[potassium [tri-μ-disulfido-μ-tetra-thiophos-pha-to-di[niobate(IV)/tantalate(IV)(0.885/0.115)]]], has been obtained through the reaction of the elements with KCl. The title compound is isostructural with KNb2PS10, with the Nb sites occupied by statistically disordered Nb (88.5%) and Ta (11.5%) atoms. The structure is composed of anionic ∞ (1)[M 2PS10](-) chains alo...

Ephs are transmembrane receptors that mediate cell-cell signaling. The N-terminal ectodomain binds ligands and enables receptor clustering, which activates the intracellular kinase. Relatively little is known about the function of the membrane-proximal fibronectin domain 2 (FN2) of the ectodomain. Multiscale molecular dynamics simulations reveal that FN2 interacts with lipid bilayers via a site...

The peripheral anionic site of acetylcholinesterase lies at the entrance to the active site gorge. It is composed of five residues (Tyr 70, Asp 72, Tyr 121, Trp 279 and Tyr 334; Torpedo numbering); associated with it are a number of surface loops, conferring a high degree of conformational flexibility on the area. The site is involved in the allosteric modulation of catalysis at the active cent...

Atomic and electronic structures of neutral and anionic gold clusters (AuN and AuN 2 , 2<N<10) are investigated using the density-functional theory with scalar-relativistic ab initio pseudopotentials and a generalized gradient correction. The ground state optimal geometries of the neutral and anionic clusters are found to be planar up to N57 and 6, respectively, with the much studied Au6 2 clus...

Utilizing the anionic redox reaction opens new approaches for development of cathode materials with extra capacities. Although, it suffers from several obstacles such as voltage hysteresis and sluggish kinetics. In this paper, a layered chalcogenide-based on dual anionic-redox is reported. The newly designed NaCrSSe exhibits capacity almost all Na + intercalation/deintercalation (137 mAh g−1 at...

Metallic zinc is a promising negative electrode for high energy rechargeable batteries due to its abundance, low-cost and non-toxic nature. However, the formation of dendritic zinc and low Columbic efficiency in aqueous alkaline solutions during charge/discharge processes remain a great challenge. Here we demonstrate that the dendritic growth of zinc can be effectively suppressed in an ionic li...