A confinement of N-heterocyclic molecules in a metal–organic framework for enhancing significant proton conductivity

A series of N-heterocyclic⊂VNU-23 materials have been prepared via the impregnation procedure of N-heterocyclic molecules into VNU-23.

New transition metal complexes with a pendent indole ring: insights into the antifungal activity and mode of action

Mixed ligand complexes containing a pendent indole showed significant proton pump ATPase targeted antifungal activity.

Phase separation and crystallization in sodium lanthanum phosphate glasses induced by electrochemical substitution of sodium ions with protons

Phase separation and crystallization forming H3PO4 occurred in sodium lanthanum phosphate glasses after electrochemical substitution of sodium ions with protons, although the glass exhibited significant proton conductivity.

A scheme for finding the front boundary of an interplanetary magnetic cloud

We develop a scheme for finding a "refined" front boundary-time (tB*) of an interplanetary magnetic cloud (MC) based on criteria that depend on the possible existence of any one or more of four specific solar wind features. The features that the program looks for, within ±2 h (i.e., the initial uncertainty interval) of a preliminarily estimated front boundary time, are: (1) a sufficiently large directional discontinuity in the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF), (2) a significant proton plasma beta (βP) drop, (3) a significant proton temperature drop, and (4) a marked increase in the IMF's intensity. Also we examine to see if the "MC-side" of the boundary has a MC-like value of βP. The scheme was tested using 5, 10, 15, and 20 min averages of the relevant physical quantities from WIND data, in order to find the optimum average to use. The 5 min average, initially based on analysis of N=26 carefully chosen MCs, turned out to be marginally the best average to use for our purposes. Other criteria, besides the four described above, such as the existence of a magnetic hole, plasma speed change, and/or field fluctuation level change, were examined and dismissed as not reliable enough, or usually associated with physical quantities that change too slowly around the boundary to be useful. The preliminarily estimated front boundary time, tB, and its initial ±2-h uncertainty interval are determined by either an automatic MC identification scheme or by visual inspection. The boundary-scheme was developed specifically for aiding in forecasting the strength and timing of a geomagnetic storm due to the passage of a MC in real-time, but can be used in post ground-data collection for imposing consistency when choosing front boundaries of MCs. This scheme has been extensively tested, first using 81 bona fide MCs, collected over about 8.6 years of WIND data (at 1 AU), and also by using 122 MC-like structures as defined by Lepping et al. (2005) over about the same period. Final statistical testing of the 81 MCs to see how close the refined boundary-time tB* lies with respect to a preliminary time tB(VI) was carried out, i.e., to find Δt1=(tB*–tB(VI)), for the full set of MCs, where tB(VI) is usually a very accurate time previously determined from visual inspection, This testing showed that 59 Δt1s (i.e., 73%) lie within ±30 min, 71 Δt1s (i.e., 88%) lie within ±45 min, and only 5 cases lie outside a |Δt1| of 1.0 h, which is only 6% of the full 81, and these 6% would be considered unsatisfactory. Since MC parameter fitting is usually done on the basis of 30 or 60 min averages, these results seem quite satisfactory. The program for this front boundary estimation scheme is located at the Website: http://wind.nasa.gov/mc/boundary.php.

Proton conductivity of functionalized zirconia colloids

ABSTRACTColloidal 60 nm ZrO2 particles have been treated with aqueous solutions of phosphoric acid and sulphophenyl-phosphonic acid (SPPA). This leads to the covalent bonding of P-OH and C6H4-SO3H acid groups onto the surface of the particles. The resulting acidity yields a significant proton conductivity at the surface of the particles.The proton conductivity of the ZrO2-H3PO4 system is quite stable against a change of relative humidity and temperature. However, it remains limited by the low acidity of the POH group. On the contrary, the proton conductivity of the ZrO2-SPPA system is almost two orders of magnitude higher at high relative humidities due to the high acidity of the C6H4-SO3H group (1.10-3 S.cm-1 in the same conditions). But, it is much more sensitive to changes in relative humidity.A mixed grafting of both H3PO4 and SPPA onto the zirconia particles allows to obtain a conductivity as high as in the SPPA case whereas it remains stable with humidity and temperature as for the phosphoric acid. This probably indicates that the conductivity arises from ionization of sulphonic acid but that the weaker phosphoric acid groups contribute to the conduction mechanism.

T-Site Trapped Molecular Hydrogen in Hot Wire a-Si:H

ABSTRACTProton NMR and proton-29Si double resonance NMR have been performed on hot wire a-Si:H films deposited from SiH4. Results are compared with those from conventional plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition a-Si:H. Proton nutational angle studies and proton-29Si spin-echo double resonance (SEDOR) signals at 80 and 294 K indicate that a significant proton resonance population arises from T-site-trapped molecular H2. The hot wire films also display a ≥80 kHz FWHM uperbroad proton line and a sharp feature diamagnetically shifted by 25 ppm.