In this paper we report on the study of electrical switching in thin film MOM structures on the basis of transition metal oxides under AC conditions. The materials studied are Nb2O5, TiO2, and WO3, obtained by electrochemical oxidation of the metal, as well as MoO3, obtained by thermal deposition in vacuum. Transformations of dynamic switching characteristics with changes in temperature and fre...

I give a brief overview of a polaron formation in three distinct transition metal oxides: (i) spin polaron when a hole is added to the antiferromagnetic (AF) ordered plane in La2CuO4, (ii) orbital polaron when a hole is added to the alternating orbital (AO) ordered plane in LaMnO3, and (iii) spin-orbital polaron when a hole is added to the AF and AO ordered plane in LaVO3. Comparison of the dis...

The results of a mechanistic study using ab initio theoretical methods are used to outline plausible mechanistic sequences for alkane, alcohol, and alkene oxidation by chromyl and molybdyl chlorides. We suggest that the second oxo group is intimately involved in the reaction sequence. This spectator oxo group is suggested to play a central role in stabilizing critical intermediates in these rea...

Session I" Overview of the Chemistry and Biochemistry of Nitrogen Oxides Prof. L. Ignarro, UCLA: The Biology of Nitric Oxide Prof. J. Enemark, Arizona: Transition Metal Complexes of Nitrogen Oxides Prof. W. Koppenol, ETH Zurich: Fundamental Chemistry of Nitrogen Oxides Prof. S. Bohle, Wyoming: Synthesis and Characterization of Higher Nitrogen Oxides Prof. J. Lipscomb, Minnesota: Nitric Oxide as...

The spin dynamics of an arbitrary localized impurity in an insulating two-dimensional antiferromagnet, across the host transition from a paramagnet with a spin gap to a Neel state, is described. The impurity spin susceptibility has a Curie-like divergence at the quantum-critical coupling, but with a universal effective spin that is neither an integer nor a half-odd integer. In the Neel state, t...

Perovskite and related Ruddlesden-Popper type transition metal oxides synthesised at high pressures and temperatures during the last decade are reviewed. More than 60 such new materials have been reported since 1995. Important developments have included perovskites with complex cation orderings on A and B sites, multiferroic bismuth-based perovskites, and new manganites showing colossal magneto...

Transition metal oxides are considered as prototype models of reactions involving oxidative processes [1]. In this way, the detailed understanding of their electronic and molecular structure is of great interest in the prediction of their catalytic behavior and chemical reactivity toward inert organic molecules which are of industrial interest. In particular, it is possible to highlight the sel...

The use of fast surface redox storage (pseudocapacitive) mechanisms can enable devices that store much more energy than electrical double-layer capacitors (EDLCs) and, unlike batteries, can do so quite rapidly. Yet, few pseudocapacitive transition metal oxides can provide a high power capability due to their low intrinsic electronic and ionic conductivity. Here we demonstrate that two-dimension...