InorganicsPub Date : 2024-01-27DOI: 10.3390/inorganics12020044
Jordan L. Appleton, Nolwenn Le Breton, Sylvie Choua, Romain Ruppert
{"title":"The Effect of the Linking Unit on the Electronic and Magnetic Interactions in Copper(II) Porphyrin Dimers Linked by Metal Ions","authors":"Jordan L. Appleton, Nolwenn Le Breton, Sylvie Choua, Romain Ruppert","doi":"10.3390/inorganics12020044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/inorganics12020044","url":null,"abstract":"The syntheses of a series of copper(II) porphyrins and their dimers linked by palladium(II) or platinum(II) are reported. Their electronic properties and their magnetic properties were studied. In particular, the effect of the linking unit on these properties was evaluated. It was discovered that three factors influence the electronic and magnetic interactions between the two metalloporphyrins: the nature of the linking metal ion, the nature of the external coordination site of the porphyrin, and also the nature of the metal ion present in the central core of the aromatic macrocycle.","PeriodicalId":507601,"journal":{"name":"Inorganics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140491861","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
InorganicsPub Date : 2024-01-27DOI: 10.3390/inorganics12020042
H. Idriss
{"title":"A Core and Valence-Level Spectroscopy Study of the Enhanced Reduction of CeO2 by Iron Substitution—Implications for the Thermal Water-Splitting Reaction","authors":"H. Idriss","doi":"10.3390/inorganics12020042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/inorganics12020042","url":null,"abstract":"The reduction of Ce cations in CeO2 can be enhanced by their partial substitution with Fe cations. The enhanced reduction of Ce cations results in a considerable increase in the reaction rates for the thermal water-splitting reaction when compared to CeO2 alone. This mixed oxide has a smaller crystallite size when compared to CeO2, in addition to a smaller lattice size. In this work, two Fe-substituted Ce oxides are studied (Ce0.95Fe0.05O2-δ and Ce0.75Fe0.25O2-δ; δ < 0.5) by core and valence level spectroscopy in their as-prepared and Ar-ion-sputtered states. Ar ion sputtering substantially increases Ce4f lines at about 1.5 eV below the Fermi level. In addition, it is found that the XPS Ce5p/O2s ratio is sensitive to the degree of reduction, most likely due to a higher charge transfer from the oxygen to Ce ions upon reduction. Quantitatively, it is also found that XPS Ce3d of the fraction of Ce3+ (uo, u′ and vo, v′) formed upon Ar ion sputtering and the ratio of Ce5p/O2s lines are higher for reduced Ce0.95Fe0.05O2-δ than for reduced Ce0.75Fe0.25O2-δ. XPS Fe2p showed, however, no preferential increase for Fe3+ reduction to Fe0 with increasing time for both oxides. Since water splitting was higher on Ce0.95Fe0.05O2-δ when compared to Ce0.75Fe0.25O2-δ, it is inferred that the reaction centers for the thermal water splitting to hydrogen are the reduced Ce cations and not the reduced Fe cations. These reduced Ce cations can be tracked by their XPS Ce5p/O2s ratio in addition to the common XPS Ce3d lines.","PeriodicalId":507601,"journal":{"name":"Inorganics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140492805","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
InorganicsPub Date : 2024-01-17DOI: 10.3390/inorganics12010033
Sara Ghomi, A. Lamperti, M. Alia, C. Casari, C. Grazianetti, A. Molle, C. Martella
{"title":"Large Area Growth of Silver and Gold Telluride Ultrathin Films via Chemical Vapor Tellurization","authors":"Sara Ghomi, A. Lamperti, M. Alia, C. Casari, C. Grazianetti, A. Molle, C. Martella","doi":"10.3390/inorganics12010033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/inorganics12010033","url":null,"abstract":"Developing a method for the growth of ultrathin metal chalcogenides, potentially targeting the two-dimensional (2D) limit, has a pivotal impact on various nanotechnological device applications. Here, we employed a vapor deposition scheme, based on tellurization, to induce the heterogenous chemical reaction between solid Ag and Au precursors, in the form of ultrathin films, and Te vapors. We characterized the morphological and structural properties of the grown tellurides by using atomic force microscopy, Raman spectroscopy, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction techniques. The developed tellurization methodology provides a key advancement in the picture of growing ultrathin noble metal tellurides and holds great potential for applications in different technological fields.","PeriodicalId":507601,"journal":{"name":"Inorganics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139526992","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
InorganicsPub Date : 2024-01-16DOI: 10.3390/inorganics12010031
R. Irankunda, Jairo Andrés Camaño Echavarría, Cédric Paris, K. Selmeczi, Loic Stefan, Sandrine Boschi-Muller, Laurence Muhr, L. Canabady-Rochelle
{"title":"Deciphering Interactions Involved in Immobilized Metal Ion Affinity Chromatography and Surface Plasmon Resonance for Validating the Analogy between Both Technologies","authors":"R. Irankunda, Jairo Andrés Camaño Echavarría, Cédric Paris, K. Selmeczi, Loic Stefan, Sandrine Boschi-Muller, Laurence Muhr, L. Canabady-Rochelle","doi":"10.3390/inorganics12010031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/inorganics12010031","url":null,"abstract":"Various peptides can be obtained through protein enzymatic hydrolysis. Immobilized metal ion affinity chromatography (IMAC) is one of the methods which can be used to separate metal chelating peptides (MCPs) in a hydrolysate mixture. In this context, this work aims to understand deeply the interactions in IMAC and surface plasmon resonance (SPR) in order to validate experimentally the analogy between both technologies and to be further able to perform IMAC modeling in the next work using peptide sorption isotherm parameters obtained from SPR. Indeed, chromatography modeling can be used to predict separation of MCPs in IMAC and the knowledge of peptide sorption isotherm obtained from SPR is a crucial step. For this purpose, 22 peptides were selected and investigated in IMAC using HisTrap X-Ni2+ and HiFliQ NTA-Ni2+ columns and were also studied in SPR as well. Results showed that peptides with histidine residues had good affinity to Ni2+, while the high positive charge of peptides was responsible of ionic interactions. Further, most of the peptides with good retention time in IMAC showed a good affinity in SPR as well, which validated experimentally the SPR-IMAC analogy.","PeriodicalId":507601,"journal":{"name":"Inorganics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139527950","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
InorganicsPub Date : 2024-01-02DOI: 10.3390/inorganics12010022
Huahua Zhao, Tingyu Ji, Yanping Wu, Huanling Song, Jianfeng Wu, L. Chou
{"title":"Exploration of ZnO-Doped Nitrogen-Carbon Materials Derived from Polyamide-Imide for Propane Dehydrogenation","authors":"Huahua Zhao, Tingyu Ji, Yanping Wu, Huanling Song, Jianfeng Wu, L. Chou","doi":"10.3390/inorganics12010022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/inorganics12010022","url":null,"abstract":"A series of ZnO-doped nitrogen-carbon materials (xZnO-N-C) with ZnO contents of 5–40% are prepared by a vacuum curing–carbonization strategy using polyamide-imide as the N-C source and zinc nitrate as the metal source for propane dehydrogenation (PDH). 20ZnO-N-C exhibits outstanding initial activity (propane conversion of 35.2% and propene yield of 24.6%) and a relatively low deactivation rate (0.071 h−1) at 600 °C. The results of detailed characterization show that small ZnO nanoparticles (5.5 nm) with high dispersion on the catalyst can be obtained by adjusting the ZnO loading. Moreover, more nitrogen-based species, especially ZnNx species, are formed on 20ZnO-N-C in comparison with 20ZnO-N-C-air prepared via curing carbonization without vacuum, which may contribute to the higher product selectivity and catalytic stability of 20ZnO-N-C. The active sites for the PDH reaction on the catalyst system are proposed to be C=O species and Zn2+ species. Moreover, the carbon deposition and the aggregation of ZnO nanoparticles are the causes of activity loss on this catalyst system.","PeriodicalId":507601,"journal":{"name":"Inorganics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139536751","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}