Recent interest in low and negative thermal expansion materials has led to significant research on compounds that exhibit this property, much of which has targeted the A₂M₃O12 family (A = trivalent cation, M = Mo, W). The expansion and phase transition behavior in this family can be tuned through the choice of the metals incorporated into the structure. An undesired phase transition to a monocl...

A recombinant clone encoding enzymes for Klebsiella pneumoniae O12-antigen lipopolysaccharide (LPS) was found when we screened for serum resistance of a cosmid-based genomic library of K. pneumoniae KT776 (O12:K80) introduced into Escherichia coli DH5alpha. A total of eight open reading frames (ORFs) (wb(O12) gene cluster) were necessary to produce K. pneumoniae O12-antigen LPS in E. coli K-12....

This work reports on the synthesis of rare earth-doped Li₄Ti₅O12 nanosheets with high electrochemical performance as anode material both in Li half and Li₄Ti₅O12/LiFePO₄ full cell batteries. Through the combination of decreasing the particle size and doping by rare earth atoms (Ce and La), Ce and La doped Li₄Ti₅O12 nanosheets show the excellent electrochemical performance in terms of high speci...

UNLABELLED The O-specific antigen (OSA) in Pseudomonas aeruginosa lipopolysaccharide is highly varied by sugar identity, side chains, and bond between O-repeats. These differences classified P. aeruginosa into 20 distinct serotypes. In the past few decades, O12 has emerged as the predominant serotype in clinical settings and outbreaks. These serotype O12 isolates exhibit high levels of resistan...

The effects of exchange coupling on magnetic switching properties of all-garnet multilayer thin film structures are investigated. All-garnet structures are fabricated by sandwiching a magneto-soft material of composition type Bi1.8Lu1.2Fe3.6Al1.4O12 or Bi₃Fe₅O12:Dy₂O₃ in between two magneto-hard garnet material layers of composition type Bi₂Dy₁Fe₄Ga₁O12 or Bi₂Dy₁Fe₄Ga₁O12:Bi₂O₃. The fabricated ...

The semi-solid flow battery (SSFB) is a promising storage energy technology featured by employing semi-solid fluid electrodes containing conductive additive and active Li-ion battery materials. The state of art anode material for SSFB is Li4 Ti5 O12 (LTO). This work shows that LTO improves drastically the performance in fluid electrode via hydrogen annealing manifesting the importance of the el...

Using the evolutionary algorithm USPEX and DFT+U calculations, we predicted a high-symmetry geometric structure of the bare Ti8 O12 cluster composed of 8 Ti atoms forming a cube, in which O atoms are at midpoints of all of its edges, in excellent agreement with experimental results. Using natural bond orbital analysis, adaptive natural density partitioning algorithm, electron localization funct...

We determine the p-rank of the incidence matrix of hyperplanes of PG(n, pe) and points of a nondegenerate quadric. This yields new bounds for ovoids and the size of caps in finite orthogonal spaces. In particular, we show the nonexistence of ovoids in O10(2e), O10(3e), O9(5e), O12(5e) and O12(7e). We also give slightly weaker bounds for more general finite classical polar spaces. Another applic...

Article history: Received 24 June 2011 Revised 12 May 2012 Available online 25 May 2012 JEL classification: O12 O17 O50 P48