We developed a site-specific method for precipitating inorganic compounds using organic compounds, DNA, and designed peptides with peptide nucleic acids (PNAs). Such a system for site-specific precipitation represents a powerful tool for use in nanobiochemistry and materials chemistry.

The autometallographic retrograde tracing of zinc-containing neurons by intracerebral injection of sodium selenite (Na2SeO3), introduced by Danscher in 1982, has recently been described in more detail. Intracerebral injections of both sodium selenide (Na2Se) and sodium selenite (Na2SeO3) have been successfully used; however, sodium selenite had a rather toxic effect on the injected tissue. In t...

We report a facile `metric' for the identification of structurally and dynamically (positive definite phonon structure) stable inorganic compounds. The metric considers charge-imbalance within local substructures in crystalline compounds calculated using first-principles density-functional theory. To exemplify, we chose carbon-based nitrides as it provides large pool unstable phases. showcase h...

The inorganic compounds, lithium polysilicate (Li 2 Si 5 O 11 ), sodium polyphosphate ((NaPO 3 ) n and phosphate monobasic (H LiPO 4 were investigated as the sole binders in Si-alloy graphite electrodes for Li cells. Surprisingly, coating quality cycling performance of anodes with these is similar to those using state art polyacrylate (LiPAA) organic binder. Graphite show good despite having po...