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Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Yijie Wu, Xin Wang, Tiantian She, Taozhu Li, Yunheng Wang, Zhe Xu, Xin Jin, Haiou Song, Shaogui Yang, Shiyin Li, Shicheng Yan, Huan He, Limin Zhang, Zhigang Zou
Summary: Transition metals serve as excellent active sites for peroxymonosulfate activation in water treatment, but the electronic structures governing the reaction mechanism are still unclear. The authors constructed d-orbital configurations in spinel ZnFe2O4 and FeAl2O4 and found that ZnFe2O4 had higher specific activity for tetracycline removal by PMS activation. By analyzing charge amount, spin state, and orbital arrangement, it was confirmed that ZnFe2O4 mainly produced nonradical reactive oxygen species while FeAl2O4 preferred radical species.
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Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Long Liu, Sheng Chang, Yan Wang, Hexiang Zhao, Shuteng Wang, Chengfeng Zheng, Yingying Ding, Shixue Ren, Jiguo Zhang, Yuan-Ru Guo
Summary: A Fe3O4/carboxymethyl cellulose magnetic biosorbent with good adsorption properties and high selectivity for La(iii) was prepared and shown to have only a slight decrease in adsorption capacity after 5-time reuse in cycling experiments. The newly-synthesized biosorbent has broad application potential in treating La(iii)-containing wastewater.
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Chemistry, Physical
Wenxiang Chen, Xun Zhan, Renliang Yuan, Saran Pidaparthy, Adrian Xiao Bin Yong, Hyosung An, Zhichu Tang, Kaijun Yin, Arghya Patra, Heonjae Jeong, Cheng Zhang, Kim Ta, Zachary W. Riedel, Ryan M. Stephens, Daniel P. Shoemaker, Hong Yang, Andrew A. Gewirth, Paul Braun, Elif Ertekin, Jian-Min Zuo, Qian Chen
Summary: The formation of oriented phase domains and the development of strain gradient during the electrochemical ion-insertion process are quantitatively mapped. Results show the formation of domains with similar chemical identity but different orientations at the nanoscale. Electrolytes have a substantial impact on the transformation microstructure. The development of phase domains leads to large strain gradients and significantly affects the chemical diffusion coefficient.
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Chemistry, Physical
Liyan Liu, Fujia Wang, Xinyi Liu, Lide Guo, Xiujun Gao, Hongge Tan
Summary: This study investigates the self-assembly behaviors of diblock polyelectrolytes (PEs) in trivalent salt solutions using molecular dynamics simulations. The electrostatic correlation between PE chains and trivalent counterions is found to show a non-monotonic dependence on salt content. Different supra-micellar structures, including one-dimensional chain-like and two-dimensional planar network structures, are formed at different concentrations of PEs and are confirmed by experiments.
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS
(2023)
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Cell Biology
Marc A. J. Morgan, Irina K. Popova, Anup Vaidya, Jonathan M. Burg, Matthew R. Marunde, Emily J. Rendleman, Zachary J. Dumar, Rachel Watson, Matthew J. Meiners, Sarah A. Howard, Natalia Khalatyan, Robert M. Vaughan, Scott B. Rothbart, Michael-C. Keogh, Ali Shilatifard
Summary: This study reveals that PHIP functions as a chromatin-associated CRL4 ubiquitin ligase substrate receptor and is required for CRL4 recruitment to chromatin. PHIP binds to chromatin through a trivalent reader domain consisting of a H3K4-methyl binding Tudor domain and two bromodomains (BD1 and BD2). Through analysis of semisynthetic nucleosomes with specific histone modifications, PHIP's BD1 and BD2 are identified as readers of H3K14ac and H4K12ac, respectively.
GENES & DEVELOPMENT
(2021)
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Engineering, Environmental
Chao Pan, Yongqin Jiao, Annie B. Kersting, Mavrik Zavarin
Summary: The redox and complexation processes of plutonium in the presence of natural organic matter and associated iron can affect its environmental fate and transport. The study found that H2O2-driven oxidation plays a role in the transient mobilization of Pu(V/VI) in organic-rich redox transition zones.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
(2021)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Tomohiro Ohuchi, Yuji Higo, Yoshinori Tange, Takeshi Sakai, Kohei Matsuda, Tetsuo Irifune
Summary: The occurrence of deep-focus earthquakes, which has been puzzling due to the unlikelihood of conventional brittle failure at high pressures, is increasingly believed to be caused by pressure-induced phase transitions of olivine. This study conducted deformation experiments on mantle olivine and found that fault sliding occurs at limited temperatures, accompanied by intense acoustic emissions. The study suggests that transformational faulting on the isothermal surface of metastable olivine wedges in slabs leads to deep-focus earthquakes in limited regions and depths.
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
(2022)
Article
Thermodynamics
N. Saheb, S. Lamara, F. Sahnoune, S. F. Hassan
Summary: This work investigates the formation kinetics of magnesium aluminate spinel from alpha-Al2O3 and MgO nanopowders, using thermodilatometric analysis and X-ray diffraction. The results show that the use of nano-oxide powders reduces the formation temperature and activation energy of spinel.
JOURNAL OF THERMAL ANALYSIS AND CALORIMETRY
(2022)
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Chemistry, Physical
Julia H. Yang, Gerbrand Ceder
Summary: In this study, a class of earth-abundant, cation-excess partially disordered spinel materials with superior rate performance as Li-ion cathodes compared to disordered rocksalt materials is computationally investigated. The partial disorder creates solid solution lithiation at the atomic level and allows for low-voltage capacity gain past the rock salt stoichiometry. The high rate performance in partially disordered spinel materials is attributed to newly activated internetwork pathways, which is not possible in normal spinel. These findings motivate the incorporation of partial spinel ordering in future disordered rocksalt electrodes to enable superior rate performance.
ADVANCED ENERGY MATERIALS
(2022)
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Physics, Multidisciplinary
Hilal Saglam, Ayhan Duzgun, Aikaterini Kargioti, Nikhil Harle, Xiaoyu Zhang, Nicholas S. Bingham, Yuyang Lao, Ian Gilbert, Joseph Sklenar, Justin D. Watts, Justin Ramberger, Daniel Bromley, Rajesh V. Chopdekar, Liam O'Brien, Chris Leighton, Cristiano Nisoli, Peter Schiffer
Summary: This paper introduces the phenomenon of long-range ordering driven by increasing entropy in certain special cases of artificial spin-ice arrays. Taking the tetris artificial spin-ice structure as an example, two-dimensional magnetic ordering is achieved by creating regular vacancies on the square ice lattice. Unlike other systems, tetris artificial spin ice has binary and observable discrete degrees of freedom, and the system's entropy can be precisely calculated in simulations.
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Polymer Science
Qili Li, Kehui Wang, Linlin Fan, Zhong Zeng, Meng Huo
Summary: Reaction-induced phase transition (RIPT) is a promising strategy for the self-assembly of polymers and the regulation of nanoparticle morphology. In this study, the order-disorder-order multiple-phase transitions driven by changes in amphiphilicity and sulfone bonding were investigated. Oxidation-responsive vesicles were prepared via RAFT-mediated dispersion polymerization-induced self-assembly (PISA), and the transition mechanism was explored in terms of oxidation-induced changes in polymer structure, amphiphilicity, chain mobility, and morphology. The results demonstrated that sulfone bonding could be used as the driving force for RIPT, providing a new paradigm for oxidation-responsive multiple-phase transitions in polymer vesicles.
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Chemistry, Physical
Roman Solovov, Verbina Orlichenia, Boris Ershov
Summary: Zerovalent iron nanoparticles with spherical shape and narrow size distribution were prepared by photochemical reduction of iron(III) in isopropyl alcohol.
JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR LIQUIDS
(2022)
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Physics, Multidisciplinary
Benjamin Verlhac, Lorena Niggli, Anders Bergman, Umut Kamber, Andrey Bagrov, Diana Iusan, Lars Nordstrom, Mikhail Katsnelson, Daniel Wegner, Olle Eriksson, Alexander A. Khajetoorians
Summary: This study presents an unusual magnetic transition in neodymium, where long-range multi-Q magnetic order emerges from a self-induced spin glass with increasing temperature. The local order of the spin glass phase is characterized using temperature-dependent spin-polarized scanning tunnelling microscopy, and the emergence of long-range multi-Q order is quantified. Analysis tools are developed to determine the glass transition temperature from measurements of spatially dependent magnetization. Atomistic spin dynamics simulations reproduce the observed phase transition and trace the origin of the high-temperature order. These findings demonstrate an example of order from disorder and provide a platform for studying the magnetization dynamics of a self-induced spin glass.
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Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Wenyu Liang, Wenjuan Yang, Sadman Sakib, Igor Zhitomirsky
Summary: This research reports the advanced pseudocapacitive properties of magnetic CuFe2O4 nanoparticles in the negative potential range, suggesting their potential as a promising MOPC and advanced electrode material for supercapacitors. The material exhibits high capacitance and nearly ideal pseudocapacitive behavior in a large potential window, and good electrochemical performance is achieved with the use of additives and co-dispersants.
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Materials Science, Ceramics
Luo Shilin, Zhang Shengtai, Xu Baoliang, Wang Lingkun, Duan Siyihan, Ding Yi, Zhao Qian, Duan Tao
Summary: Yttrium iron garnet (YIG) samples doped with Nd were successfully synthesized, and the solubility limit of Nd in YIG as well as its influence on the ceramics' phase and microstructure were studied. The results suggest that YIG ceramics are a potential candidate for solidifying trivalent actinides.
JOURNAL OF INORGANIC MATERIALS
(2022)
Article
Mineralogy
Fernando Camara, Lisa Baratelli, Marco E. Ciriotti, Fabrizio Nestola, Gian Carlo Piccoli, Ferdinando Bosi, Erica Bittarello, Ulf Halenius, Corrado Balestra
Summary: The translation describes two new minerals, lombardoite and aldomarinoite, their physical and chemical properties, as well as their discovery in an abandoned mine in the Val Maira region of Italy. The minerals are named after Italian scientists and mineral collectors.
MINERALOGICAL MAGAZINE
(2022)
Article
Mineralogy
Alessandro Guastoni, Fabrizio Nestola, Federico Zorzi, Arianna Lanza, Michelle Ernst, Paolo Gentile, Sergio Ando, Alessandra Lorenzetti
Summary: Marchettiite is a newly discovered mineral that is the natural equivalent of ammonium hydrogen urate. It was found in Piedmont, Italy and has distinctive physical and chemical properties.
MINERALOGICAL MAGAZINE
(2022)
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Tingting Gu, Martha G. Pamato, Davide Novella, Matteo Alvaro, John Fournelle, Frank E. Brenker, Wuyi Wang, Fabrizio Nestola
Summary: This study reveals the nature and composition of the 660 km boundary between the mantle transition zone and lower mantle by analyzing mineral inclusions in a rare gem diamond from Botswana. The recovered lower-mantle minerals and hydrous phases found at this boundary suggest that the peridotitic composition and hydrous conditions extend across the transition zone and into the lower mantle.
Article
Geochemistry & Geophysics
Anatoly Kasatkin, Galina S. Anisimova, Fabrizio Nestola, Jakub Plasil, Jiri Sejkora, Radek Skoda, Evgeniy P. Sokolov, Larisa A. Kondratieva, Veronika N. Kardashevskaia
Summary: A new mineral called amgaite has been discovered near Aldan town in Eastern Siberia, Russia. It is dark reddish brown to black and is often found intergrown with other minerals. Its crystal structure is the same as synthetic Tl23+Te6+O6.
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Fabrizio Nestola, Margo E. E. Regier, Robert W. W. Luth, D. Graham Pearson, Thomas Stachel, Catherine McCammon, Michelle D. D. Wenz, Steven D. D. Jacobsen, Chiara Anzolini, Luca Bindi, Jeffrey W. W. Harris
Summary: The introduction of volatile-rich subducting slabs to the mantle creates large redox gradients, affecting various geological processes. A study on diamonds from Kankan, Guinea reveals the presence of enstatite, ferropericlase, and a highly magnesian olivine inclusion, indicating the formation under highly variable redox conditions near the 660 km seismic discontinuity. The proposed model suggests that the formation of these minerals is driven by dehydration, rehydration, and dehydration processes occurring in the underside of a warming slab at the transition zone-lower mantle boundary.
Article
Geochemistry & Geophysics
Marco Venier, Luca Ziberna, Francesco Princivalle, Maurizio Petrelli, Vanni Lughi, Alla Logvinova, Nikolay V. V. Sobolev, Gianluca Turco, Davide Lenaz
Summary: We analysed the chemistry of 42 Cr-spinels from Siberian kimberlites and found a wide range in Mg# and Cr# with a common trend of increasing Cr# with decreasing Mg#. The trace element analysis showed differences between spinels from peridotitic and kimberlitic sources. Simulation calculations were also performed to determine the composition of possible melts in equilibrium with Cr-spinels.
Article
Mineralogy
Yanjuan Wang, Rujun Chen, Xiangping Gu, Zengqian Hou, Fabrizio Nestola, Zhusen Yang, Guang Fan, Guochen Dong, Lijuan Ye, Kai Qu
Summary: This article reports the discovery of a new mineral, tennantite-(Ni), from the Luobusa Chromitite in southwestern China. The mineral exhibits isotropic yellow-greenish grey color under reflected light microscopy. Its crystal structure, chemical formula, and powder X-ray diffraction data have been determined. The mineral and its name have been officially approved by the International Mineralogical Association.
MINERALOGICAL MAGAZINE
(2023)
Article
Mineralogy
Yanjuan Wang, Xiangping Gu, Guochen Dong, Zengqian Hou, Fabrizio Nestola, Zhusen Yang, Guang Fan, Yufei Wang, Kai Qu
Summary: Calcioancylite-(La), a La-bearing calcioancylite mineral, has been discovered in the Gejiu alkaline complex in Yunnan Province, China. It occurs as aggregates of subhedral grains with a size range of 5-20 μm. The mineral is colorless to pale pinkish grey and exhibits transparent to translucent lustre. It belongs to the orthorhombic crystal system and has been structurally characterized using single-crystal X-ray diffraction.
MINERALOGICAL MAGAZINE
(2023)
Article
Mineralogy
Anatoly V. Kasatkin, Oleg I. Siidra, Fabrizio Nestola, Igor V. Pekov, Atali A. Agakhanov, Natalia N. Koshlyakova, Nikita V. Chukanov, Evgeny V. Nazarchuk, Simone Molinari, Manuela Rossi
Summary: Napoliite is a new mineral found in a fumarole formed after the 1944 eruption of Vesuvius volcano. It has a unique structure and is named after the city of Naples.
MINERALOGICAL MAGAZINE
(2023)
Article
Chemistry, Physical
Luciana Sciascia, Davide Lenaz, Andrei Rotaru, Francesco Princivalle, Filippo Parisi
Summary: A new synthetic protocol for producing carbon fiber precursors with high molecular weight and excellent thermal stability is proposed. In this method, the oscillating Belousov-Zhabotinsky (BZ) reaction is utilized to initiate the radical polymerization of polyacrylonitrile (PAN) and polyethylene glycol (PEG) block copolymers. The addition of anionic micelle-forming surfactant sodium dodecyl sulphate (SDS) improves the solubility of the polymeric chains and contributes to the increase of molecular weight. This synthetic protocol provides a valuable alternative to conventional methods for producing high-performance carbon fiber precursors.
SURFACES AND INTERFACES
(2023)
Article
Mineralogy
Anatoly V. Kasatkin, Anna Vymazalova, Fabrizio Nestola, Vladislav V. Gurzhiy, Atali A. Agakhanov, Radek Skoda, Dmitry I. Belakovskiy, Mikhail E. Generalov
Summary: An investigation of sample 41647 from the Platinum Placer of Ugol'nyi Ruchei, Norilsk Cu-Ni deposit, Russia, stored in the systematic collection of the Fersman Mineralogical Museum, revealed the presence of an original stannopalladinite mineral. The mineral was re-investigated using modern analytical techniques due to controversial literature information. Stannopalladinite occurs as spherical and ovoid-shaped grains, closely intergrown with tetraferroplatinum, and exhibits specific physical, chemical, and optical properties that distinguish it from other minerals in the Pd-Sn and Pd-Cu-Sn systems.
MINERALOGICAL MAGAZINE
(2023)
Article
Mineralogy
Ross J. J. Angel, Mattia L. L. Mazzucchelli, Kira A. A. Musiyachenko, Fabrizio Nestola, Matteo Alvaro
Summary: Elastic thermobarometry (or piezobarometry) is the process of determining the pressure and temperature of entrapment of inclusions by measuring their pressure, stress or strain when their host mineral is at room conditions. Current methods and software for piezobarometry are limited to single-phase inclusions. This study introduces the theory of elasticity of mixtures of different phases and combines it with the existing analysis of elastic interactions between single-phase inclusions and their hosts to calculate the inclusion pressures of mixed-phase inclusions. The calculated entrapment conditions for mixed-phase inclusions depend on the contrasts between the elastic properties of the host and the phases in the inclusion. The methods to calculate the entrapment conditions of mixed-phase inclusions have been incorporated into the EosFit7c program (version 7.6) available as freeware.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF MINERALOGY
(2023)
Article
Mineralogy
Yanjuan Wang, Fabrizio Nestola, Huaikun Li, Zengqian Hou, Martha G. Pamato, Davide Novella, Alessandra Lorenzetti, Pia Antonietta Antignani, Paolo Cornale, Jacopo Nava, Guochen Dong, Kai Qu
Summary: We conducted a non-destructive investigation on natural diamonds from the Changma Kimberlite Belt in Shandong Province, China, and successfully analyzed the crystal structure of an olivine inclusion trapped within a lithospheric diamond using single-crystal X-ray diffraction. The composition of the olivine was determined to be Mg1.82Fe0.18SiO4 and the unit-cell volume was calculated to be V = 292.70 angstrom(3). The residual pressure and entrapment depth of the diamond-olivine pair were estimated to be P-inc = 1.4 +/- 0.1 GPa and P-trap = 6.3 +/- 0.4 GPa, respectively.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF MINERALOGY
(2023)
Article
Mineralogy
Yanjuan Wang, Fabrizio Nestola, Zengqian Hou, Xiangping Gu, Guochen Dong, Zhusen Yang, Guang Fan, Zhibin Xiao, Kai Qu
Summary: A second occurrence of bobtraillite from Gejiu nepheline syenite in southwestern China is described. The mineral is associated with various other minerals and has a trigonal crystal structure. Analysis reveals the empirical formula of bobtraillite and its ideal chemical formula.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF MINERALOGY
(2023)
Article
Mineralogy
Luca Faccincani, Valerio Cerantola, Fabrizio Nestola, Paolo Nimis, Luca Ziberna, Leonardo Pasqualetto, Aleksandr I. I. Chumakov, Jeffrey W. W. Harris, Massimo Coltorti
Summary: The physical and chemical conditions of diamond formation and the redox state of the Siberian craton were investigated through the study of inclusions in a diamond from Siberia. The results provide valuable information about the stability of the lithosphere and the fluids responsible for the formation of diamonds.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF MINERALOGY
(2022)