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Zinc inverted opals are fabricated by means of electrochemical deposition templated on polystyrene artificial opals grown on indium tin oxide and n-doped substrates. Several differences in the infiltration are observed between samples infilled by linear cyclic voltammetry and square wave pulsating potential approaches, leading to the fabrication of metallic photonic crystals with different topologies on semiconducting substrates.

The assembly kinetics of a membrane protein, the bc1 complex, is investigated using a newly developed continuous-angle laser light scattering technique. The assembly process of the bc1 complex increases both the size of the aggregates and the compactness of the internal structure. The assembly rate is controlled by the presence of zinc as well as by the concentration of PEG, the crystallizing reagent.

ZnS-passivated CdS:Mn nanocrystals are synthesized for a yellow emitting nanocrystal phosphor. The different roles of the conjugated polymer and the nanocrystal layers for hole transport and electron transport are discussed.

A study is conducted to clarify the nature of the zinc phase present in Zn/SiO2 samples not only after calcination, but also after drying. It is found that after drying at 25 or 50 degree C, the supported zinc phase is an amorphous nitrate, whereas after drying at 200 degree C, it is almost already fully transformed into zinc silicate.

The synthesis of zinc blende (InP)ZnCdSe2 core-shell quantum dots (QDs) is reported. The quality of the epitaxially grown shells was monitored by adsorption and emission spectra and transmission electron microscopy (TEM).

Nonlocal DFT provides an excellent description of the structural and conformational properties of metallohydroporphyrins and related complexes. The nickel (II) complexes are found to be strongly ruffled and the zinc (II) complexes planar, consistent with experimental results.

The nanostructured multilayer of porphyrin/fullerene pairs obtained by codeposition of Zn-tetraphenyl-porphyrin (ZnTPP) and [C.sub.70] in ultrahigh-vacuum by powder sublimation is described. The studies have shown the existence of charge-transfer interactions between the electron-rich Zn-tetraphenyl-porphyrin (ZnTPP) and the electron-deficient fullerene.

The comparative analysis of the apo-peptide and the holo-peptide which provide evidence for influence of zinc binding on the conformational distribution of amyloid-[beta] monomer dramatically is presented.

The sum frequency generation (SFG) spectroscopy, cyclic voltammetry (CV) and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) are used to show that octadecanethiol (ODT) forms ordered monolayers at either electrochemically reduced or oxidized Zn surfaces. ODT monolayers show corrosion protection to underlying zinc at the early immersion stage in base, salt and acid media, but the protection efficiency is reduced with immersion due to the presence of defects within the monolayers.

An electrostatic interaction mechanism is proposed to reveal the nature of the zinc(II)-ion-induced ionochromic effect of bipyridine (bpy)-containing pi-conjugated polymers. The results have shown that the zinc(II)-induced ionochromic effect is attributed to the electrostatic interaction between the zinc(II) ion and the polymer.

The first step of the copper-zinc superoxide dismutase enzymatic cycle, involving the binding of a superoxide anion, and the simultaneous detachment of His63 is investigated. Results show that the protein-solvent environment fluctuations are essential to understand the reaction mechanism, which is based on the concerted rupture of the copper-histidine coordination bond and the copper-superoxide bond in the active site.

Hydrothermal crystal growth and microstructure development in water-synthesized nanocrystalline ZnS (H2O-ZnS) and its comparison to growth of organically capped ZnS is investigated. The results show that novel particle morphologies and defect microstructures can be achieved via OA based crystal growth.

Cubic and hexagonal phases of ZnS are modeled using interatomic potential based simulations and density functional theory. Results obtained with this new potential model show good agreement with those obtained with density functional theory calculations and with experimental results.

The relationship between metal particle structure and the reactivity and selectivity of oxide-supported metal catalysts is explored, and the effect of the 2D island size and 3D island height are studied. The results show that when the Pt islands are 2-3 layers thick, methanol decomposition is similar to that on low-index Pt faces.

The reduction of all Cd(super 2+)ions by Zn vapor at 480 degree C , and some Si(super 4+)ions, in a single crystal of fully dehydrated fully Cod(super 2+) exchanged elite X (Cd46Si100Ai92O384 per unit cell) is investigated. The approximate unit-cell composition of the product crystal is found to be Zn64Si96Ai96O384.7SiO4(super 4-),1AiO4(super 5-) (a0=24.713(3) angstrom).