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• The platinum riddle
  

  What happens when a cat climbs onto a sunflower? The sunflower is unstable, will quickly bend, and the cat will fall to the ground. However, if the cat only needs a quick boost to catch a bird from there, then the sunflower can act as a "metastable intermediate step". This is essentially the mechani more

• Unexpected energy storage capability where water meets metal surfaces
  

  A new method can measure the electrical (re-)charging of boundary layers between very small, metallic particles and aqueous solutions and understand it at a molecular level. Researchers from the RESOLV Cluster of Excellence at Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) have used current and voltage measurements more

• Binary mesocrystals from the nanobuilding kit
  

  Research team led by Constance produces three-dimensional mesocrystals from two different types of nanocrystals - platinum and magnetite - for the first time. This lays the foundation for the synthesis of novel nanostructured solids with previously unexplored properties. Mesocrystals are a class of more

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The Chemistry of Diamond Rings

Diamonds might purportedly be ‘a girl’s best friend’, but they’re also quite interesting from a chemical perspective. You could be forgiven for thinking that there’s not a whole lot to them; after all, they’re simply one of the possible forms of carbon, formed at high pressure beneath the Earth’s su more

The Chemical Elements of a Smartphone

There are an isolated few graphics online that look at elements involved in the manufacture of a smartphone – for example, this ‘Periodic Table of iPhones’ – but there’s actually remarkably little easily accessible information out there that details the specific compounds used for specific purposes more

Transition Metals

This graphic looks at some general properties of the transition metals – I had a little less space to work with than with the previous graphics, on account of the large number of elements that the transition metals encompass, but hopefully what’s included is still of use. more

Publications Platinum

• Fabrication of single-chain nanoparticles through the dimerization of pendant anthracene groups via photochemical upconversion

  We report on the use of visible light as the driving force for the intramolecular dimerization of pendant anthracene groups on a methacrylic polymer to induce the formation of single-chain nanoparticles (SCNPs). Using a 532 nm green laser light source and platinum octaethylporphyrin as a sensitizer, more

• IJMS, Vol. 19, Pages 1882: Glutathione in Ovarian Cancer: A Double-Edged Sword

  IJMS, Vol. 19, Pages 1882: Glutathione in Ovarian Cancer: A Double-Edged Sword International Journal of Molecular Sciences doi: 10.3390/ijms19071882 Authors: Sofia C. Nunes Jacinta Serpa Glutathione (GSH) has several roles in a cell, such as a reactive oxygen species (ROS) scavenger more

• Novel fluorinated platinum(II) complexes with pyridine-2-carboxylate ligand as potent radiosensitizer and antiviral agent

  Publication date: August 2018 Source:Inorganic Chemistry Communications, Volume 94 Author(s): Xiaoxiao Zhang, Fang Wang, Chao Zhang, Shuang Wu, Xuyang Zheng, Tuotuo Gong, Ruike Ding, Kai Chen, Dan Bai Novel Pt(II) complexes, (TFPPy)PtPic and (TFPQ)PtPic, containing fluorinate more