Alkali-regulated Fe6 and Fe18 molecular clusters and their structural transformation

Author(s):  
Xiao-Yu Li ◽  
Ying Zou ◽  
Song-De Han ◽  
Guo-Ming Wang

As a kind of metastable aggregation between the iron ions and iron hydroxide precipitates, Fe clusters only can be isolated in the narrow synthesis condition. Here, two Fe clusters with...

1990 ◽  
Vol 206 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. C. Papaefthymiou

ABSTRACTControlled polymerization of iron leads to the synthesis of molecular clusters of ever-increasing size, tending to extended structures. Polymerization of oxo-bridged octahedrally coordinated iron leads to clusters with 3D magnetic interactions between iron ions, while sulfide- and selenide-bridged tetrahedrally coordinated iron ions produce clusters of lower magnetic dimensionality. The magnetic properties of the resulting large molecular clusters with N ≥ 17 (where N = the number of iron ions in the cluster) are being investigated for the presence of collective magnetic correlations associated with the solid state.


Chemosphere ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 226 ◽  
pp. 834-840 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hongbo Lu ◽  
Weifang Zhang ◽  
Le Tao ◽  
Feng Liu ◽  
Jing Zhang

Author(s):  
H. W. Harvey

The nature of iron occurring in sea water, and its utilization by diatoms, is discussed.Diatoms in the sea obtain many thousand times more iron than calculation shows they can obtain by diffusion of iron ions from the surrounding water.Evidence is presented that ferric hydroxide is readily adsorbed on the surface of diatoms.It is shown that colloidal and larger particles of ferric hydroxide or phosphate can be utilized by, and support the growth of diatoms.Experiments show that the diatoms Nitzschia closterium and Lauderia borealis require, for continued growth, a very small quantity of iron compared with that found on, and in, diatoms taken from the open sea.It is contended that iron hydroxide adsorbed on diatoms is in contact with an interface where its solution, and subsequent passage into the cell, is probable.


Author(s):  
P. Hernández-Jáuregui ◽  
A. Sosa ◽  
A. González Angulo

Glycocalyx is the name given by Bennett to the extracellular glycoprotein coat present in some cell surfaces. It appears to play an important role in cell properties such as antigenicity, cell adhesivity, specific permeability, and ATP ase activity. In the sperm this coat can be directly related to such important phenomena as capacitation and fertilization. The presence of glycocalyx in invertebrate spermatozoa has already been demonstrated. Recently Yanagimachi et al. has determined the negative charges on sperm surfaces of mammalian spermatozoa including man, using colloidal iron hydroxide. No mention was made however of the outer surface coat as composed of substances other than those confering a negative charge. The purpose of this work was therefore to determine the presence of a glycocalyx in human spermatozoa using alcian blue and lanthanum staining.


Author(s):  
A.-M. Ladhoff ◽  
B.J. Thiele ◽  
Ch. Coutelle ◽  
S. Rosenthal

The suggested precursor-product relationship between the nuclear pre-mRNA and the cytoplasmic mRNA has created increased interest also in the structure of these RNA species. Previously we have been published electron micrographs of individual pre-mRNA molecules from erythroid cells. An intersting observation was the appearance of a contour, probably corresponding to higher ordered structures, on one end of 10 % of the pre-mRNA molecules from erythroid rabbit bone marrow cells (Fig. 1A). A virtual similar contour was observed in molecules of 9S globin mRNA from rabbit reticulocytes (Fig. 1B). A structural transformation in a linear contour occurs if the RNA is heated for 10 min to 90°C in the presence of 80 % formamide. This structural transformation is reversible when the denatured RNA is precipitated and redissolved in 0.2 M ammonium acetate.


Author(s):  
Jean-Luc Rouvière ◽  
Alain Bourret

The possible structural transformations during the sample preparations and the sample observations are important issues in electron microscopy. Several publications of High Resolution Electron Microscopy (HREM) have reported that structural transformations and evaporation of the thin parts of a specimen could happen in the microscope. Diffusion and preferential etchings could also occur during the sample preparation.Here we report a structural transformation of a germanium Σ=13 (510) [001] tilt grain boundary that occurred in a medium-voltage electron microscopy (JEOL 400KV).Among the different (001) tilt grain boundaries whose atomic structures were entirely determined by High Resolution Electron Microscopy (Σ = 5(310), Σ = 13 (320), Σ = 13 (510), Σ = 65 (1130), Σ = 25 (710) and Σ = 41 (910), the Σ = 13 (510) interface is the most interesting. It exhibits two kinds of structures. One of them, the M-structure, has tetracoordinated covalent bonds and is periodic (fig. 1). The other, the U-structure, is also tetracoordinated but is not strictly periodic (fig. 2). It is composed of a periodically repeated constant part that separates variable cores where some atoms can have several stable positions. The M-structure has a mirror glide symmetry. At Scherzer defocus, its HREM images have characteristic groups of three big white dots that are distributed on alternatively facing right and left arcs (fig. 1). The (001) projection of the U-structure has an apparent mirror symmetry, the portions of good coincidence zones (“perfect crystal structure”) regularly separate the variable cores regions (fig. 2).


2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (14) ◽  
pp. 997-1002
Author(s):  
Yu Wang ◽  
Lingling Yin ◽  
Xia Li ◽  
Ran Shang ◽  
Xiangli Yang ◽  
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1978 ◽  
Vol 39 (C6) ◽  
pp. C6-406-C6-407 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Fukase ◽  
T. Kobayashi ◽  
M. Isino ◽  
N. Toyota ◽  
Y. Muto

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