We developed a method for production of arrays of platinum nanocrystals of controlled size and shape using templates from ordered silica bead monolayers. Silica beads with nominal sizes of 150 and 450 nm were self-assembled into monolayers over strontium titanate single crystal substrates. The monolayers were used as shadow masks for platinum metal deposition on the substrate using the three-st...

Influences on electronic structure induced by platinum (Pt) deposited on monolayer graphene grown on SiC(0001) are investigated by photoelectron spectroscopy (PES), selected area low energy electron diffraction (l-LEED) and angle resolved photoelectron spectroscopy (ARPES) techniques at the MAX Laboratory. Stable monolayer graphene electronic properties are observed after Pt deposition and afte...

1- and 1,5-Aminoalkylamine substituted anthraquinones (AAQs, 1C3 1,5C3) were peptide coupled to 1-, 2-, 3-pyrrole lexitropsins generate compounds that incorporated both DNA minor groove intercalating moieties. The corresponding platinum(II) amidine complexes synthesized through a synthetically facile amine-to-platinum mediated nitrile ‘Click’ reaction. precursors as well the biologically evalua...

Although the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) is one of the fastest electrocatalytic reactions, modern polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) electrolysers require larger platinum loadings (∼0.5-1.0 mg cm(-2)) than those in PEM fuel cell anodes and cathodes altogether (∼0.5 mg cm(-2)). Thus, catalyst optimization would help in substantially reducing the costs for hydrogen production using this tec...

Spontaneously adsorbed monolayers of [Co(ttp-CH2-SH)2](PF6 ) 2 have been formed on platinum microelectrodes by exposure to micromolar solutions of the complex in 0.1 M TBABF4 in acetonitrile, ttp-CH2-SH is 4'-(p-(thiolmethyl)-phenyl)-2,2':6',2''terpyridine. Resonance Raman spectroscopy on roughened polycrystalline platinum macro electrodes show that the molecule undergoes adsorption by sulphur ...

To study endothelial injury in vitro, we established a three-dimensional (3-D) blood vessel model in which human umbilical vein endothelial cells were grown in the presence of basic fibroblast growth factor and vascular endothelial growth factor. We then performed comparative studies on cisplatin (cis-platinum-diammine-dichloride, CDDP)-induced endothelial injury in 3-D and monolayer cultures. ...