The contribution of gluconeogenesis to glucose production can be measured by enriching body water with (2)H(2)O to approximately 0.5% (2)H and determining the ratio of (2)H that is bound to carbon-5 vs. carbon-2 of blood glucose. This labeling ratio can be measured using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry after the corresponding glucose carbons are converted to formaldehyde and then to hexame...

Anatase TiO2 structures with nanorice-like morphology and high exposure of (001) facet has been successfully synthesized on an ITO surface using ammonium Hexafluoro Titanate and Hexamethylenetetramine as precursor and capping agent, respectively, under a microwave-assisted liquid-phase deposition method. These anatase TiO2 nanoparticles were prepared within five minutes of reaction time by util...

Co-crystals of hexamethylenetetramine and resorcinol were investigated by X-ray diffraction. The structure was refined in the superspace group Xmcm(0beta0)s0s, X=(1/2 1/2 0 1/2). In the average structure the resorcinol molecules are disordered between two orientations. The main effect of the modulation in the structure is a harmonic modulation of the occupation probabilities of the two orientat...

Reinforcing the visible photon absorption and charge separation are key issues to maximize photocatalytic performance of graphitic carbon nitride. Herein, holey bridging-nitrogen-defected nitride nanosheets were prepared through solid-state copolymerization subsequently thermal annealing with melamine hexamethylenetetramine as precursors. Numerous pores bridging nitrogen defects that embedded i...

Oxide nanoparticles can exhibit unique physical and chemical properties due to their limited size and a high density of corner or edge surface sites. In this study, MgO nanoparticle was synthesized using Mg(CH3COO)2 and hexamethylenetetramine as starting materials. The structure and optical properties of these particles are investigated by using X-ray diffraction (XRD), sc...

In this study, the nano-SiO2/hexamethylenetetramine as a new basic heterogeneous nanocatalyst was prepared and used for the synthesis of pyranopyrazole via the four-component reaction. Various aldehydes, hydrazine hydrate, ethyl acetoacetate and malononitrile were reacted at room temperature under solvent-free and grinding conditions. The morphology and structure of nano-cat...