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Shinya Nomoto, Mitsuru Satou, Takahiro Yoshida, Hajime Mita, Gen Kumag ...
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Etioporphyrin, one of the most common sedimentary porphyrins, was heated at 300 to 450 °C to investigate the diagenetic formation of benzoporphyrins. Chromic acid oxidation of the resulting products afforded maleimides, as well as phthalimides, indicating the formation of benzopyrrole units in the substrate. Isomer ratios of dimethylphthalimides formed during heating were in accordance with those obtained by chromic acid oxidation of the Cretaceous/Tertiary sediments at Rumoi, Hokkaido, which suggests that alkylporphyrins could be transformed into benzoporphyrins in sediments.
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Kun Jiang, Fangting Chi, Bo Li, Bo Jiang
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Hollow polyphenylsilsesquioxane microspheres were fabricated under mild conditions from a mixture of water and phenyltriethoxysilane (PTES) with ammonia as catalyst. The pH value and the temperature of the reaction mixture are the crucial factors contributing to the formation of stable and regular polyphenylsilsesquioxane hollow spheres. A possible mechanism for the formation of hollow structure was proposed.
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Akira Iida, Ryo Nakamura, Kenichi Komura, Yoshihiro Sugi
2008 Volume 37 Issue 5 Pages
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Dimethyl ether to olefin (DTO) reaction was examined over CeO
2-modified Ca-MFI as a catalyst. The CeO
2-modified Ca-MFI (Ce/Ca-MFI) showed excellent catalytic performance to give propene as a main product. Activity was 28 times higher than conventional MFI type zeolite and seven times higher than Ca-MFI.
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Nishi Bhati, Kuladip Sarma, Amrit Goswami
2008 Volume 37 Issue 5 Pages
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Amberlite IR-120 acidic resin, an age old polymer matrix, plays a significant role as catalyst in the oxidation of aromatic alcohols with urea–hydrogen peroxide in ionic liquid at 70 °C to disproportionate into phenols and carbonyl compounds in 30–60 min following two pathways. Under similar condition tertiary aromatic alcohol gave exclusively monohydroxyphenol accompanied by acetone. However, aliphatic and alicyclic alcohols yielded carbonyl compounds in moderate to good yields in 1–5 h.
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Wenjie Xie, Yachong Wang, Xin Xu, Chusheng Chen
2008 Volume 37 Issue 5 Pages
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We discovered the stabilization effect of only 1 wt % Ba on synthesizing Eu
2+-doped pure Sr–S-phase(Sr
2Al
xSi
12−xN
16−xO
x+2) under a moderate condition and studied their luminescent properties. The excitation band is at UV–vis spectral region which is about 300–370 nm, and the emission band at 508–538 nm. The emission wavelength changes from 508 to 538 nm as a function of Eu
2+ concentration, and the maximum emission intensity could be obtained with the Eu
2+ concentration of 0.2. This phosphor can be the potential candidate for using as the green phosphor for UVLED-based white light.
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Yoshifumi Tanimoto, Hiromi Yamamoto, Yoshihisa Fujiwara, Masao Fujiwar ...
2008 Volume 37 Issue 5 Pages
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Liquid thin films having 13–25-mm diameter of water, ethanol, benzene, etc., which cannot be prepared under the earth’s surface gravity, were prepared on a metallic ring using magnetically simulated microgravity. In a magnetic field, poly(vinyl alcohol) and poly(acrylic acid) solid thin films of 20-mm diameter were prepared, for the first time, from liquid films of the respective aqueous solutions.
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Junko Takaki, Hiromichi Egami, Kazuhiro Matsumoto, Bunnai Saito, Tsuto ...
2008 Volume 37 Issue 5 Pages
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The vanadium(V)(salalen) complex prepared in situ from the corresponding vanadium(IV) complex
4 under aerobic conditions was found to be an excellent catalyst for asymmetric transcyanation of aliphatic aldehydes with acetone cyanohydrin as the cyanide source, showing high enantioselectivity of 91–95% ee.
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Yusuke Yoshida, Katsuya Inoue, Mohamedally Kurmoo
2008 Volume 37 Issue 5 Pages
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We report the rare occurrence of a reversible loss of crystallinity upon dehydration and regain upon rehydration by in situ X-ray diffraction on a single crystal of [Mn
II(enH)(H
2O)][Cr
III(CN)
6]·H
2O and the associated thermal and magnetic properties characterized by an increase of the Curie temperature of the soft ferrimagnet from 42 to 75 K.
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Setsuo Funasaka, Koji Kato, Teruaki Mukaiyama
2008 Volume 37 Issue 5 Pages
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The use of pyridine-3-sulfonyl chloride (3-PSC) in dehydrating condensation was investigated. This novel reagent was successfully employed as a mild dehydrating reagent for preparing various carboxamides in good to excellent yields from the corresponding carboxylic acids and amines.
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Toru Yoshino, Hiroyuki Kagi
2008 Volume 37 Issue 5 Pages
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The dissolution rate and solubility of calcite, a polymorph of CaCO
3, were determined in aspartic acid (Asp) solutions: Asp inhibited the surface reaction of calcite dissolution but accelerated the transport process. The crossover of these contrastive effects caused a local maximum of the dissolution rate constant and the transition of rate-determining processes. The calcite solubility increased with increasing Asp concentration, which may reflect its association with the change of the calcite surface structure derived from the addition of Asp.
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Jianhua Ma, Yihong Du
2008 Volume 37 Issue 5 Pages
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Nanocrystalline TaB
2 has been prepared via a simple inorganic solvent thermal route by the reaction of metallic magnesium powders with tantalum pentoxide and boric acid in an autoclave at 650 °C. X-ray powder diffraction patterns indicate that the product was hexagonal tantalum diboride. Scanning electron microscopy images show that it consisted of particles with an average size of about 40 nm. The product was also studied by BET and TGA.
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Biswanath Das, Boddu Shashi Kanth, Kongara Ravinder Reddy, Gandham Sat ...
2008 Volume 37 Issue 5 Pages
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PPh
3/CCl
4 system has been employed for the stereoselective synthesis of (
Z)- and (
E)-allyl chlorides from Baylis–Hillman adducts in excellent yields.
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Yingpu Bi, Gongxuan Lu
2008 Volume 37 Issue 5 Pages
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The morphologies of silver nanocrystals have been successfully tuned from wire to versatile rod, cube, and sphere by varying the molecular structure of polyols. Effects of crystal shape on the catalytic performance of silver for hydrogen generation from HCHO solution have also been investigated. It was found that silver nanocubes were more active than nanorods, nanowires, and nanospheres.
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Kin-ya Tomizaki, Shinkichi Shimizu, Masami Onoda, Yuichi Fujioka
2008 Volume 37 Issue 5 Pages
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We describe an acid dissociation constant (p
Ka)-based screening of chemical absorbents to treat a gas stream containing carbon dioxide (CO
2) in a wide range of partial pressures (0.1–4 MPa). The solubility differences of CO
2 in aqueous amine solutions at 40 and 70 °C plotted against p
Ka revealed volcano-shaped profiles. The availability of amines with p
Ka values suitable for capture/release cycles of CO
2 with targeted partial pressures shows that the p
Ka-based screening method would be useful to develop advanced greenhouse gas control technologies.
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Shigetaka Hayano, Yasuo Tsunogae
2008 Volume 37 Issue 5 Pages
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A new method for catalytic block copolymerization of cyclic olefins was developed for the first time. Cross metathesis was successfully utilized as a reversible chain-transfer reaction. Sequential addition of plural monomers to the polymeric terminal olefin provided a block copolymer of
Mw⁄
Mn≈2.0. This paper also focuses on the development of a new crystalline–amorphous block copolymer, hydrogenated stereoblock copoly(
endo-dicyclopentadiene).
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Takeaki Iwamoto, Dongzhu Yin, Sven Boomgaarden, Chizuko Kabuto, Mitsuo ...
2008 Volume 37 Issue 5 Pages
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1,3-Digermabicyclo[1.1.0]butane
2 was synthesized as yellow crystals. The molecular structure,
13C NMR and UV–vis spectra, and theoretical calculations have revealed that
2 is a typical long bond isomer, similarly to the silicon congener
1. Structural comparison between
1 and
2 is achieved.
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Takakazu Nakabayashi, Hui-Ping Wang, Kazuo Tsujimoto, Seiji Miyauchi, ...
2008 Volume 37 Issue 5 Pages
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Effects of an external electric field have been measured for
Halobacterium salinarum loaded with fluorescent dye BCECF. Aggregates of the halobacteria are effectively formed by an electric field. The fluorescence lifetime of BCECF remains unchanged after the formation of the aggregates, suggesting that intracellular environments are not affected significantly by an external electric field in spite of the aggregate formation.
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Sang Kyun Chae, Seong Hun Kim, Jong-Man Kim
2008 Volume 37 Issue 5 Pages
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A simple and straightforward strategy for the fabrication of layered conjugated polydiacetylene supramolecules on electrospun polymer fibers, based on the layer-by-layer deposition technique, was developed.
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Xinyu Zhang, Sumedh P. Surwade, Vineet Dua, Ryan Bouldin, Neha Manohar ...
2008 Volume 37 Issue 5 Pages
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Bulk quantities of parent polythiophene nanofibers can be synthesized rapidly and in one step by chemical oxidative polymerization of thiophene by FeCl
3 using freeze-dried vanadium pentoxide nanofibers as seeds.
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Y. Thirupathi Reddy, P. Narsimha Reddy, P. Raghotham Reddy, Peter A Cr ...
2008 Volume 37 Issue 5 Pages
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An efficient method for the synthesis of simple and sterically hindered carboxamides from various carboxylic acids and amines using tetrabenzylpyrophosphate (TBPP) as a coupling agent in the presence of 4-(dimethylamino)pyridine (DMAP) is described. The reaction is operationally straightforward, proceeds under mild conditions at room temperature, and affords the desired product in high yield.
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Feng Dang, Naoya Enomoto, Junichi Hojo, Keiji Enpuku
2008 Volume 37 Issue 5 Pages
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Monodispersed ca. 30 nm magnetite nanoparticles were synthesized in a 20/80 ethanol–water solution under ultrasonic irradiation. Both the ethanol–water solution and ultrasonic irradiation were important for the synthesis of the monodispersed magnetite nanoparticles. The ethanol–water solvent improved the monodispersibility of the magnetite particles, on the other hand, limited the formation of magnetite under mechanical stirring. The 100% cubic magnetite particles were successfully synthesized in ethanol–water solution under ultrasonic irradiation.
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Reiko Shibata, Kazuhide Koike, Hisao Hori, Hitoshi Tamiaki
2008 Volume 37 Issue 5 Pages
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Zinc chlorophyll derivatives possessing (multi)-perfluoroalkyl chain(s) in the 17-propionate residue were dissolved in liquid carbon dioxide to form their oligomers (=J-aggregates), while the alkyl-type analog was insoluble in the medium. These results indicated solubilization and stabilization of their supramolecules by an interaction between the perfluoroalkyl substituents and liquid carbon dioxide.
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Gangyi Shen, Xinling Yang, Jian Cui, Meiyang Zhou, Yun Ling
2008 Volume 37 Issue 5 Pages
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A new pyridine heterocyclic β-cyclodextrin derivative, heptakis[2,6-di-
O-pentyl-3-
O-(2-chloro-5-pyridyl)methyl]-β-CD, was synthesized and explored as chiral stationary phase in capillary gas chromatographic separation. Cyclopropane derivatives with two chiral centers including four configurational isomers or three chiral centers including eight configurational isomers were well separated, which indicated the new pyridyl β-CD derivative possessing excellent chiral selectivity for separation of complex compounds including multichiral centers.
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Yuki Kudo, Moeka Nishiwaki, Yoriko Inoue, Nobuko Seino, Tatsuro Nakaga ...
2008 Volume 37 Issue 5 Pages
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IgA ELISA was performed in a droplet using an ink-jet microchip for shortening the reaction time, saving the reaction reagents. Forty-five dimples (500-μm i.d., 100-μm depth) were prepared on a PDMS (polydimethylsiloxane) microchip plate (30×30 mm) for the reaction vessels. After the dimple was pored with nanoliter water containing glycerin, an antibody solution was firstly added for immobilization on the dimple, and then nanoliter reaction regents for ELISA (enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay) were added sequentially using an ink-jet chip. A good linear relationship between the fluorescence intensity of Ample
®Red and concentration of IgA was obtained with each reaction time of 150 s.
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Sanami Yazaki, Yuko Kamikawa, Masafumi Yoshio, Atsushi Hamasaki, Tomoh ...
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Liquid-crystalline (LC) behavior and ionic conductivities of imidazolium salts containing an
L-glutamic acid moiety have been studied. The ionic conductivities of the (CF
3SO
2)
2N
− salt forming the columnar LC phase are higher than those of the Br
− salt in the columnar LC state. The ionic conductivity shows a sudden decrease at the columnar–micellar cubic LC transition of the Br
− salt.
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Babak Kaboudin, Hazegh Zahedi
2008 Volume 37 Issue 5 Pages
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A simple, efficient, and general method has been developed for the one-pot synthesis of α-aminophosphonic esters, under solvent-free conditions, with the use of CaCl
2 as a Lewis base catalyst. The esters were obtained under mild conditions and in high yield (80 to 96%) and purity. They were synthesized by the reaction of diethyl phosphite with a mixture of aldehydes and amines, in the presence of CaCl
2, and under solvent-free conditions. Major advantages of this protocol are: high yields, inexpensive method, making use of a non-toxic catalyst and finally mild and solvent-free conditions.
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Atsunori Mori, Atsushi Sugie, Hirotoshi Furukawa, Yuji Suzaki, Kohtaro ...
2008 Volume 37 Issue 5 Pages
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The reaction of aryl(halo)platinum(II)(bpy) complexes with thiophene derivatives causes novel electrophilic substitution in the presence of AgNO
3/KF as an activator to form thienyl complexes in 65–91% yields. The related reaction with (dihalo)platinum(II) also takes place to afford dithienylplatinum(II) complexes.
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Jong-Hyung Kim, Mohamed E. El-Khouly, Yasuyuki Araki, Osamu Ito, Kwang ...
2008 Volume 37 Issue 5 Pages
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Photoinduced processes of a newly synthesized subphthalocyanine–diazobenzene–fullerene triad have been studied by the time-resolved spectroscopic techniques. On photo-excitation of subphthalocyanine (SubPc) moiety, the fluorescence quenching of SubPc was observed, suggesting the energy-transfer process from singlet excited energy of the light-harvesting SubPc to C
60 through diazobenzene. This finding is confirmed by the nanosecond transient absorption of the triplet excited state of C
60.
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Yoshifumi Yamaguchi, Shinsuke Haraguchi, Naotoshi Nakashima
2008 Volume 37 Issue 5 Pages
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Shortened single-walled carbon nanotubes having anionic charges were immobilized in a cationic vinyl monomer-photografted poly(ethylene terephthalate) film. The present method is simple and useful for preparing polymer/nanotube hybrid films via the polyion-complexation of cationic photografted polymer films and anionic CNTs.
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Tomohisa Moriguchi, Fumisada Yamato, Kazuo Shinozuka
2008 Volume 37 Issue 5 Pages
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This paper deals with the synthesis and properties of novel oligodeoxynucleotide containing 6,3′-methanodeoxyuridine which is connected between C-6 of pyrimidine base and C-3′ of deoxyribose by a methylene group. The modified base was successfully introduced into the oligodeoxynucleotide by the standard method. The modified oligodeoxynucleotide formed the less stable duplex with both complementary DNA and RNA. The CD spectra indicated that the duplex formed the noncanonical duplex structure distinct from the A-form or B-form structure.
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Darshak R. Trivedi, Yuzo Fujiki, Yuta Goto, Norifumi Fujita, Seiji Shi ...
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A colorimetric indicating system has been developed using solid-state charge-transfer complexation to demonstrate color changes in response to various aromatic compounds and their isomers that provide no color changes under diluted solution conditions.
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Atsushi Shirai, Yasuhisa Ikeda
2008 Volume 37 Issue 5 Pages
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Kinetic studies on complexation reactions of Li
I with cryptand C211 in
N,
N-diethyl-
N-methyl-
N-(2-methoxyethyl)ammonium bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide (DEMETFSI) and 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide (EMITFSI) have been carried out using
7Li NMR. It was found that the reaction rates in both solutions depend on concentrations of free Li
I and that their kinetic parameters are almost same. From these results, it is proposed that the Li
I complexation reactions in DEMETFSI and EMITFSI solutions proceed though bimolecular mechanism.
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Yu Cao, Li Ming Tang, Yu Jiang Wang, Bo Yuan Zhang, Lian Kun Jia
2008 Volume 37 Issue 5 Pages
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A new gelator synthesized from 1,3,5-benzenetricarboxylic acid (BTA) and 4-hydroxypyridine (PHP) was capable of gelling water under different ultrasound power. The resulting gels were investigated by gel-to-sol dissociation temperature (
Tgel), SEM, DSC, and rheology measurement, which showed that the assembling structures and gel properties were correlated to the ultrasound power.
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Kei Shimoda, Sou Sakamoto, Nobuyoshi Nakajima, Hatsuyuki Hamada, Hirok ...
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Farnesol and geraniol were glucosylated to the corresponding unnatural β-glucosides, which were two new biotransformation products, by cultured plant cells of
Eucalyptus perriniana,
Strophanthus gratus, and
Phytolacca americana. Cultured
E. perriniana cells glycosylated (
S)-perillyl alcohol to two β-glycosides, i.e., β-glucoside and unnatural β-gentiobioside, whereas only perillyl β-glucoside was produced by
S. gratus and
P. americana. Perillyl β-glucoside was further converted into two unnatural β-maltooligosaccharides, i.e., β-maltoside and β-maltotrioside, by cyclodextrin glucanotransferase.
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Shunsuke Kondo, Chiyo Yamamoto, Masami Kamigaito, Yoshio Okamoto
2008 Volume 37 Issue 5 Pages
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Two novel amylose derivatives
1a and
1b bearing different substituents at 2-, 3-, and 6-positions of a glucose ring have been successfully synthesized, and their abilities of enantiomer resolution in high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) have been evaluated. These derivatives exhibited the ability comparable or better to the commercial amylose-based column, Chiralpak AD.
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Kazuya Kitada, Masafumi Kobune, Wataru Adachi, Tetsuo Yazawa, Hiroyuki ...
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Bi(Ni
0.5Ti
0.5)O
3 (BNT) ceramics with a perovskite structure, which were almost impossible to fabricate under atmospheric pressure, were synthesized at a high pressure of 6 GPa using a multianvil-type high-pressure apparatus. It was confirmed that the synthesized samples had a multidomain structure and ferroelectricity on the basis of scanning nonlinear dielectric microscopy (SNDM) and polarization–electric field (
P–
E) hysteresis loop measurements.
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