Magnetic CoFe2O4 nanoparticles were synthesized via a simple chemical reaction using precipitation method. The obtained materials consist of ferrite particles with average diameter of 25 nm. The effect of different surfactants such as cationic, anionic and neutral on the morphology of the products was investigated. Scanning electron microscopy was used to study the structure and particle size o...

Anionic carbosilane dendrimers of generations 1-3 have been synthesized containing carboxylate G(n)X(C(2)H(4)CO(2)Na)(m) and sulfonate G(n)X(C(2)H(4)SO(3)Na)(m) peripheral groups and derived from two different cores, 1,3,5-(HO)(3)C(6)H(3) (X = O(3)) and Si(C(3)H(5))(4) (X = Si). The peripheral anionic groups make these dendrimers water soluble, despite their highly hydrophobic framework. These ...

The asymmetric unit of the title Cd(II) coordination polymer, [Cd(2)(C(8)H(6)O(8))(H(2)O)(3)](n), contains two crystallographically independent Cd(II) cations, one-half each of two independent anionic butane-1,2,3,4-tetra-carboxyl-ate units (L) and three water mol-ecules. Both anionic units lie on inversion centers. One of the Cd(II) ions is six-coordinated by four carboxyl-ate O atoms from fou...

Complexes of anionic DNA and cationic liposomes self-assemble into a multilamellar structure where two-dimensional lipid sheets confine a periodic one-dimensional lattice of parallel DNA chains, between which Cd(2+) ions can condense, and be subsequently reacted with H(2)S to form CdS nanorods. In this work, we identify the synergistic roles of the anionic and cationic components within the DNA...

Conventionally, the sorption methods of rare earth elements were done with cationic ion exchangers. The present work was mainly oriented to find an alternative method for sorption of light rare earth elements (LREEs) based on anionic ion exchangers. Two different anionic exchangers have been tested including Dowex-1 and Sybron SR-7. The selection of these two exchangers was mainly done to inves...

The synthesis of nanostructured anionic-surfactant-templated mesoporous silica (AMS) recently appeared as a new strategy for the formation of nanostructured silica based materials. This method is based on the use of anionic surfactants together with a co-structure-directing agent (CSDA), mostly a silylated ammonium precursor. The presence of this CSDA is necessary in order to create ionic inter...

The mechanism of lithium insertion that occurs in an iron oxyfluoride sample with a hexagonal-tungsten-bronze (HTB)-type structure was investigated by the pair distribution function. This study reveals that upon lithiation, the HTB framework collapses to yield disordered rutile and rock salt phases followed by a conversion reaction of the fluoride phase toward lithium fluoride and nanometer-siz...

Spherical materials with yolk-shell structure have great potential for a wide range of applications. The main advantage of the yolk-shell geometry is the possibility of introducing different chemical or physical properties within a single particle. Here, a one-step hydrothermal synthesis route for fabricating amphoteric yolk-shell structured aluminum phenylphosphonate microspheres using urea as...

The flavin adenine dinucleotide cofactor has an unusual bent configuration in photolyase and cryptochrome, and such a folded structure may have a functional role in initial photochemistry. Using femtosecond spectroscopy, we report here our systematic characterization of cyclic intramolecular electron transfer (ET) dynamics between the flavin and adenine moieties of flavin adenine dinucleotide i...