Publications related to Thrash metal

Orientational Self-Sorting in Octahedral Palladium Cages: Scope and Limitations of the “cis Rule”

Kay Severin, Farzaneh Fadaei Tirani, Damien Wen Chen, Jean Charles Edouard de Montmollin, Atena-Bianca Solea

Octahedral coordination cages of the general formula Pd6L1212 were obtained by combining Pd(CH3CN)42 with heteroditopic N-donor ligands. Four different ligands were employed. These ligands have 3-pyridyl donor groups at one end and 4-pyridyl, ...

2024

Atomic doping & coating for Electrocatalysis & Li-ion batteries

Albert Claude Jean-Pierre Daubry

Molybdenum atomic-doping on bio-waste derived nitrogen-doped conductive carbon electrocatalyst was synthesized and investigated for the dinitrogen reduction to ammonia in alkaline media. The assessment of the catalytic activity was found to be non-trivial ...

EPFL2022

Beyond 8 THz Displacement-field Nano-switches for 5G and 6G Communications

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Elison de Nazareth Matioli, Mohammad Samizadeh Nikooytabalvandani, Riyaz Mohammed Abdul Khadar, Pirouz Sohi

The rapid progress in high capacity communication systems is reaching extremely high data rates of 100 Gb s−1, which demands electronic switches with cut-off frequencies well above 1 THz. The excellent electron transport properties of III-V heterojunctions ...

IEEE2022

Probiotics and gut microbiome-Prospects and challenges in remediating heavy metal toxicity

Edgard Gnansounou, Ranjna Sirohi

The gut microbiome, often referred to as "super organ", comprises up to a hundred trillion microorganisms, and the species diversity may vary from person to person. They perform a decisive role in diverse biological functions related to metabolism, immunit ...

ELSEVIER2021

Optical absorption properties of metal-organic frameworks: solid stateversusmolecular perspective

Berend Smit, Ivano Tavernelli, Anne-Clémence Corminboeuf, Maria Fumanal Quintana

The vast chemical space of metal and ligand combinations in Transition Metal Complexes (TMCs) gives rise to a rich variety of electronic excited states with local and non-local character such as intra-ligand (IL), metal-centered (MC), metal-to-ligand (MLCT ...

2020

Quantifying the role of surface plasmon excitation and hot carrier transport in plasmonic devices

Giulia Tagliabue

Harnessing photoexcited “hot” carriers in metallic nanostructures could define a new phase of non-equilibrium optoelectronics for photodetection and photocatalysis. Surface plasmons are considered pivotal for enabling efficient operation of hot carrier dev ...

Nature Research2018

Understanding the interactions of diruthenium anticancer agents with amino acids

Paul Joseph Dyson, Christian Hartinger, Alexey Nazarov, Muhammad Hanif

The dinuclear anticancer agents 1,n-bis{chlorido3-(oxo-kappa O)-2-methyl-4-(1H)-pyridinonato-kappa O4-ruthenium(II)}alkane (PyRu2n) exhibit high antiproliferative activity in human cancer cell. Reactivity studies with DNA and protein rev ...

SPRINGER2018

Suppressing Nucleation in Metal–Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition of MoS2

Andras Kis, Dmitry Ovchinnikov, Dmitrii Unuchek, Hokwon Kim, Davide Deiana

Toward the large-area deposition of MoS2 layers, we employ metal–organic precursors of Mo and S for a facile and reproducible van der Waals epitaxy on c-plane sapphire. Exposing c-sapphire substrates to alkali metal halide salts such as KI or NaCl together ...

American Chemical Society (ACS)2017

First-principles Hubbard U approach for small molecule binding in metal-organic frameworks

Berend Smit, Matteo Cococcioni

We apply first-principles approaches with Hubbard U corrections for calculation of small molecule binding energetics to open-shell transition metal atoms in metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). Using density functional theory with van derWaals dispersion-corre ...

American Institute of Physics2016

Dinuclear DOTA-Based Gd-III Chelates - Revisiting a Straightforward Strategy for Relaxivity Improvement

Lothar Helm, Shima Karimi

The need for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) contrast agents with improved relaxivity maintains the development of new Gd-III chelates as an intensive and demanding field of research. In this work, we introduce the new dimeric chelators bis{1,4,7,10-tetra ...

Wiley-Blackwell2015

Ultrafast Photophysics of Transition Metal Complexes

Majed Chergui

CONSPECTUS: The properties of transition metal complexes are interesting not only for their potential applications in solar energy conversion, OLEDs, molecular electronics, biology, photochemistry, etc. but also for their fascinating photophysical properti ...

American Chemical Society2015

Two-Dimensional Metal-Organic Networks as a New Class of Electrocatalysts

Benjamin Wurster

This thesis deals with the electrocatalytic properties of two-dimensional metal organic coordination networks (2D-MOCNs) self-assembled on electrode surfaces and catalytic activity of 2D-MOCNs is demonstrated for the first time. The low-coordinated metal c ...

EPFL2015

Synthesis and electronic properties of a pentafluoroethyl-derivatized nickel pincer complex

Xile Hu, Oleg Vechorkin, Peng Ren

The synthesis of a bis(amino)amide nickel pincer complex bearing a perfluoroethyl ligand was effected by reaction of the corresponding nickel chloride complex with cesium fluoride and trimethyl(pentafluoroethyl)silane. Electrochemical experiments revealed ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2012

Cell-wall-dependent effect of carboxyl-CdSe/ZnS quantum dots on lead and copper availability to green microalgae

Miguel Garcia

The present study examines the effect of carboxyl-CdSe/ZnS quantum dots (QDs) on Cu and PI) availability to microalgae with different cell wall characteristics: Chlorella kesslerii possessing a cellulosic cell wall and two strains of Chlamydomonas reinhard ...

2012

Pressure and temperature dependence of interlayer spin diffusion and electrical conductivity in the layered organic conductors kappa-(BEDT-TTF)(2)Cu[N(CN)(2)]X (X = Cl, Br)

László Forró, Bálint Náfrádi, Agnes Antal

A high frequency (111.2-420 GHz) electron spin resonance study of the interlayer spin diffusion is presented in the conducting phases of the layered organic compounds, kappa-( BEDT-TTF)(2)Cu[N(CN)(2)]X (kappa-ET2-X), X = Cl or Br. The interlayer spin cross ...

2011

Superconducting phase in the layered dichalcogenide 1T-TaS_{2} upon inhibition of the metal-insulator transition

László Forró, Marco Grioni, Henrik Moodysson Rønnow, Helmuth Berger, Julian Piatek, Ping-Hui Lin, Balazs Sipos, Peng Xu

When a Mott metal-insulator transition is inhibited by a small amount of disorder in the layered dichalcogenide 1T-TaS2, an inhomogeneous superconducting state arises below T=2.1 K and coexists with a nearly commensurate charge-density wave. By angle-resol ...

2010

Structural, Spectroscopic, and Thermodynamic Consequences of Anti-Chelate Effect in Nine-Coordinate Lanthanide Podates

Jean-Claude Bünzli, Frédéric Gumy

The connection of three tridentate 2,6-bis(1-ethyl-benzimidazol-2-yl)pyridine binding units to an extended sulfurcontaining tripodal anchor in the ligand L9 yields nine-coordinate podates [Ln(L9)]3+ upon reaction with trivalent lanthanides, Ln(III). Struct ...

2009

Influence of the Arene Ligand, the Number and Type of Metal Centers, and the Leaving Group on the in Vitro Antitumor Activity of Polynuclear Organometallic Compounds

Kay Severin, Christian Hartinger, Alexey Nazarov

Dinuclear ruthenium complexes were shown to exhibit strong antiproliferative properties in human tumor cell lines. In order to extend the structure−activity relationships (SARs), a series of new RuII(arene)X complexes (X = Cl, Br, I) linked by pyridinone-b ...

2009

Matthiessen's rule in MgB2: Resistivity and T-c as a function of point defect concentration

László Forró, Richard Gaal, Balazs Sipos, Janusz Andrzej Karpinski, Neven Barisic

We present the results of a systematic study of the temperature-dependent resistivity and of T-c of a single crystal MgB2 sample as a function of point defect concentration. We have found linear, albeit weak, correlation between the decreasing superconduct ...

2007

Nanofibres de carbone sur filtre métallique comme support catalytique structuré

Pascal Tribolet

The main objectives of this work are 2-fold : The development of a novel type of composite material based on carbon nanofibers supported on sintered metal fibers filters (CNF/SMF) and to explore the use of this material as a catalytic support for a model r ...

EPFL2006