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- Bo, Qi-Bing, et al.
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Simple directed material design through in situ substitution of proton with Cu+ ions
- 2009
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Ingår i: Journal of Inorganic and Organometallic Polymers and Materials. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1574-1443 .- 1574-1451. ; 19:4, s. 485-493
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- A new inorganic-organic hybrid material (C10H8N2H)2(Mo8O26) · 2NH4 (1) was prepared under solvothermal conditions (H2O/ethanol), which was then used as a starting material in the synthesis of another material, (C10H8N2Cu)2(Mo8O26) · 2NH4 (2). Each compound has been characterized by single-crystal X-ray diffraction, X-ray powder diffraction, elemental analysis, thermogravimetric analysis, fluorescence, FT-IR, and bond valence sum calculations. The comparative study focuses on the transformation and structural change between 1 and 2, which arises from the simple substitution of the proton in 1 with the Cu+ ions. The other surprising feature is that Cu+ ions can not only directly be used to substitute the proton of 1 but also ameliorate its photoluminescence property. It means that 1 appears to have recognizable functional protons in the solid-state structure and, hence, can very well be considered as an ideal precursor agent to design the functional materials with special architectures and photoactive properties.
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- Bentham, James, et al.
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A century of trends in adult human height
- 2016
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Ingår i: eLIFE. - : eLife Sciences Publications Ltd. - 2050-084X. ; 5
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Being taller is associated with enhanced longevity, and higher education and earnings. We reanalysed 1472 population-based studies, with measurement of height on more than 18.6 million participants to estimate mean height for people born between 1896 and 1996 in 200 countries. The largest gain in adult height over the past century has occurred in South Korean women and Iranian men, who became 20.2 cm (95% credible interval 17.5–22.7) and 16.5 cm (13.3– 19.7) taller, respectively. In contrast, there was little change in adult height in some sub-Saharan African countries and in South Asia over the century of analysis. The tallest people over these 100 years are men born in the Netherlands in the last quarter of 20th century, whose average heights surpassed 182.5 cm, and the shortest were women born in Guatemala in 1896 (140.3 cm; 135.8– 144.8). The height differential between the tallest and shortest populations was 19-20 cm a century ago, and has remained the same for women and increased for men a century later despite substantial changes in the ranking of countries.
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- Bo, Qi-Bing, et al.
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A new family of 3D 3d-4f heterometallic frameworks comprising 1D inorganic lanthanide ladders and organic Cu-bipyridine chains
- 2008
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Ingår i: CrystEngComm. - : Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC). - 1466-8033 .- 1466-8033. ; 10:2, s. 232-238
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- A new family of the 3D heterometallic coordination polymers [{Ln2(SO4)2(H2O)2(pydc)2Cu2 (bpy)2·2(H2O)}]n (Ln = Sm ( 1), Eu ( 2), Gd ( 3), Tb ( 4) and Dy ( 5); pydc = 2,6-pyridine-dicarboxylate anion; bpy= 4,4-bipyridine) have successfully been synthesized under solvothermal conditions (H2O/ethanol). All the coordination polymers obtained were characterized by elemental analysis, FT-IR analysis, differential thermal analysis/thermogravimetry (DTA/TG), fluorescent spectra and single crystal X-ray diffraction analysis. The most intriguing structural feature is that all the compounds exhibit 3D frameworks with 1D inorganic lanthanide ladders and organic CuI-bipyridine chains, which represent two types of 3d/4f coordination polymers (form I: Ln = Sm and Eu; form II: Ln = Gd, Tb and Dy) as the result of a so-called gadolinium break effect. Additionally, compounds 2 and 4 showed the characteristic emission spectra of the EuIII and TbIII ions, respectively, and appeared to have good fluorescence properties, while 1, 3 and 5 emitted fluorescence resembling CuI complexes. To our knowledge, the investigation of the
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- Sun, Zhong-Xi, et al.
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Effects of calcination temperature on the pore size and wall crystalline structure of mesoporous alumina
- 2008
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Ingår i: Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. - : Elsevier BV. - 0021-9797 .- 1095-7103. ; 319:1, s. 247-251
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this paper, mesoporous alumina with different pore sizes and wall crystalline structures was synthesized at calcination temperatures over 550 °C. The characterization of the samples calcined at 550, 800, 1100, and 1300 °C, respectively, was performed using TEM, XRD, FTIR, TG/DTA, and N2 adsorption/desorption techniques. The correlation between pore size and wall crystalline structure on calcination temperature was systematically investigated.
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- Zhang, Wei-Min, et al.
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Synthesis of mesoporous ZnS synergistically templated by butylamine and alkanols
- 2012
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Ingår i: Microporous and Mesoporous Materials. - : Elsevier BV. - 1387-1811 .- 1873-3093. ; 147:1, s. 222-228
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Pore size and pore volume adjustable mesoporous ZnS was synthesized through a co-template method, which was achieved by the combined interaction between butylamine and some alkanols with proper lengths of the straight carbon chain. The pore size for mesoporous ZnS templated by butyl amine alone was 4.29 nm, and could be enlarged to 6.96 and 8.33 nm respectively through adding certain amounts of hexanol and octanol. Correspondingly, the pore volume also exhibited an augmentation with increasing carbon chain lengths of alkanols from C6 to C8. However, the pore size and pore volume dropped abruptly when decanol was added as the auxiliary agent. The formation of mesopores for ZnS prepared using butylamine molecules as the only templating agent is considered to be attributed to the coordination between N atoms in amines and Zn2+ ions at the surfaces of zinc suphide. The templating effect of butylamines might be improved by adding hexanols and octanols to form aggregates through solubilization to tailor the pore size and pore volume of ZnS effectively, while the function of decanols for changing the porous structure is restricted by its low solubility.
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- Zheng, Juanrong, et al.
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Study on the Strength Development of Cemented Backfill Body from Lead-Zinc Mine Tailings with Sulphide
- 2018
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Ingår i: Advances in Materials Science and Engineering. - : Hindawi Publishing Corporation. - 1687-8434 .- 1687-8442. ; 2018
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The unconfined compressive strength (UCS) development of cemented backfill materials for lead-zinc mine tailings with sulphide was studied. The results showed that the UCS of the cemented backfill body with ordinary Portland cement (OPC) as binder decreased in the later curing days, regardless of particle size. Under the same conditions, the higher the OPC content, the higher the UCS of the cemented backfill body, and the UCS of the cemented backfill body began to decrease at the longer curing days. Under the same conditions, the finer the tailings, the lower the UCS of the cemented backfill body at each age, and the UCS of the cemented backfill body began to decrease at the earlier curing age. X-ray diffraction analysis (XRD) showed that the reduction of the UCS of the cemented backfill body was related to the formation of an expansive substance (expansive gypsum) in the cemented backfill body, which led to the cracking of the test sample. In the cemented backfill materials of coarse tailings of lead-zinc mine, the composite binder formed by OPC and calcined kaolin (CK) containing metakaolin was used; the amount of calcium hydroxide, the hydration product of cement, was reduced or eliminated due to the pozzolanic reaction of metakaolin; and the amount of expansive gypsum was reduced or eliminated, so the UCS of the cemented backfill body increased within 360 days of curing.
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