Journal Article

Magnetron discharge in a cold buffer gas represents a liquid-free approach to the synthesis of metal nanoparticles (NPs) with tailored structure, chemical composition and size. Despite a large number of metal NPs that were successfully produced by this method, the knowledge of the mechanisms of their nucleation and growth in the discharge is still limited, mainly because of the lack of in situ experimental data. [...]

The two-level organization of $\mathrm{C_{60}}$ fullerene clusters in solutions of $\mathrm{C_{60}}$ in pure toluene and toluene/N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone solvent mixtures is studied by small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS). The SAXS data for freshly prepared solutions are compared with the data obtained by dynamic light scattering, a technique we use to assess the temporal stability of the prepared solutions [...]

The structure of glutathione, γ-l-Glutamyl-l-cysteinyl-glycine (C$_{10}$H$_{17}$N$_3$O$_6$S), was studied by multi-temperature single-crystal X-ray diffraction. Residual density maps from conventional independent atom model refinement gave indication of anharmonic motion in the molecule [...]

The room-temperature crystal structure of trimethyltin hydroxide, (CH$_3$)$_3$SnOH, has been described by Anderson et al. [Cryst [...]

During the past decade, CoFe$_{2}$O$_4$ (hard)/Co–Fe alloy (soft) magnetic nanocomposites have been routinely prepared by partial reduction of CoFe$_{2}$O$_4$ nanoparticles. Monoxide (i.e., FeO or CoO) has often been detected as a byproduct of the reduction, although it remains unclear whether the formation of this phase occurs during the reduction itself or at a later stage [...]

The major challenge of Research in bone surgery is to develop strategies to repair large bone defects. Bone grafting technique is the gold standard to fill and heal these kind of defects. [...]

In a joint experimental and theoretical endeavor, photoionization of metastable $C^{4+}$($1s\,2s\; ^3S_ 1)$ ions via intermediate levels with hollow, double-K-vacancy configurations $2s2p, 2s3p, 2p3s, 2p3d, 2s4p, 2p4s$, and $2p4d$ has been investigated. High-resolution photon-ion merged-beams measurements were carried out with the resolving power reaching up to 25 800 which is sufficient to separate the leading fine-structure components of the $2s2p^{3}P$ term. [...]

We provide experimental and theoretical evidence for a pressure-induced Mott insulator-metal transition in $Fe_{2}O_3$ characterized by site-selective delocalization of the electrons. Density functional plus dynamical mean-field theory ($DFT+DMFT$) calculations, along with Mössbauer spectroscopy, x-ray diffraction, and electrical transport measurements on $Fe_{2}O_3$ up to 100 GPa, reveal this site-selective Mott transition between 50 and 68 GPa, such that the metallization can be described by $(^{VI}Fe^{3+HS})_{2}O_{3} [R\bar{3}c$  structure]$\begin{matrix}\longrightarrow \\ 50 GPa \end{matrix} (^{VIII}Fe^{3+HS} ^{VI}Fe^{M})O_3$ $[P21/n$  structure] $\begin{matrix}\longrightarrow \\ 68 GPa \end{matrix}(^{VI}Fe^{M})_{2}O_{3}[Aba2/PPv$  structure]. [...]