We have measured the X-ray absorption spectra of CdTel.,SX nanocrystals grown in a borosilicate matrix, for X = 0, 0.1, 0.4 and 0.7. The appearance and the growth of the nanocrystals in isothermal heat-treatment at 580°C, observed in optical measurements, were correlated to the evolution of the XANES at the cadmium edge corresponding to the progressive substitution of oxygen atoms by chalcogens...

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Mesoporous silica metal oxide (ZnO and CdO) thin films have been used as metal ion precursors to produce the first examples of mesoporous silica metal sulfide (meso-SiO(2) @ZnS, meso-SiO(2) @CdS) or silica metal selenide (meso-SiO(2) @ZnSe, meso-SiO(2) @CdSe) thin films, in which the pore walls are made up of silica and metal sulfide or metal selenide nanoflakes, respectively. A gentle chemical...

In this work, we investigated the controlled growth of nanocrystalline CdE (E ~ S, Se, and Te) via the pyrolysis of CdO and Cd(O2CCH3)2 precursors, at the specific Cd to E mole ratio of 0.67 to 1. The experimental results reveal that while the growth of CdS produces only a spherical morphology, CdSe and CdTe exhibit rod-like and tetrapod-like morphologies of temporally controllable aspect ratio...

Hepatic cysteine dioxygenase (CDO) activity is a critical regulator of cellular cysteine concentration and availability of cysteine for anabolic processes and is markedly higher in animals fed diets containing excess sulfur amino acids compared with those fed levels at or below the requirement. Rat hepatocytes responded to a deficiency or excess of cysteine in the culture medium with a decrease...

This paper intends to provide insights about the topical issue of risk managing synthetic CDOs. We stand in the grey zone between mathematical finance and financial econometrics, between academic and market practitioners approaches. We chose to first present two scholar models, each of them leading to perfect replication of CDO tranches with credit default swaps. Though they rely upon rather si...

Because hepatic cysteine dioxygenase (CDO) appears to play the major role in controlling cysteine catabolism in the intact rat, we characterized the effect of a lack of hepatic CDO on the regulation of cysteine and its metabolites at the whole body level. In mice with liver-specific deletion of CDO expression, hepatic and plasma cysteine levels increased. In addition, in mice with liver-specifi...