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Inorganics, Volume 10, Issue 4

April 2022 - 16 articles

Cover Story: We have investigated a class of Schiff base oxidovanadium (V) complexes containing ligands with the potential to inhibit the growth of a representative bacterium, Mycobacterium smegmatis. An anticancerous, non-toxic Schiff base vanadium complex, the most potent of several related complexes, was, nevertheless, only a weak growth inhibitor, while free catecholates were more potent inhibitors of Mycobacterium smegmatis growth. Spectroscopic methods verified whether complexes remained intact in the cell culture medium used to evaluate vanadium complex effects on bacterial growth.  Together, these studies suggested that hydrophobicity and steric properties of vanadium-complexes were critical to their anticancer activity and bacterial toxicity. View this paper.
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Articles (16)

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,559 Views
19 Pages

Size Dependent Properties of Reactive Materials

  • Deepshikha Shekhawat,
  • Maximilian Vauth and
  • Jörg Pezoldt

The nature of the self-sustained reaction of reactive materials is dependent on the physical, thermal, and mechanical properties of the reacting materials. These properties behave differently at the nano scale. Low-dimensional nanomaterials have vari...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,933 Views
16 Pages

Mixed multidentate linkers with donor groups of different types can be fruitfully exploited in the self-assembly of coordination polymers (CPs) and Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs). In this work we develop new ligands containing a β-diketone chel...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
3,636 Views
9 Pages

Enhanced Photocatalytic Activity of WS2/TiO2 Nanofibers for Degradation of Phenol under Visible Light Irradiation

  • Engy Ahmed Nada,
  • Heba Hassan El-Maghrabi,
  • Patrice Raynaud,
  • Hager Rabea Ali,
  • Saad Abd El-Wahab,
  • Dina Yahea Sabry,
  • Yasser Mohamed Moustafa and
  • Amr Ahmed Nada

Binary composite WS2/TiO2 nanofibers (WTN) were elaborated by electrospinning technique. The photocatalytic efficiency of the binary nanofibers was changed via different ratios between WS2 and TiO2. The structural, morphological and optical propertie...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,353 Views
11 Pages

Electrocatalysts are capable of transforming water into hydrogen, oxygen, and therefore into energy, in an environmentally friendly and sustainable manner. However, the limitations in the research of high performance catalysts act as an obstructer in...

  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,433 Views
21 Pages

Iron-sulfur (Fe/S) clusters are protein cofactors that play a crucial role in essential cellular functions. Their ability to rapidly exchange electrons with several redox active acceptors makes them an efficient system for fulfilling diverse cellular...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,803 Views
16 Pages

Reduction of Hf via Hf/Zr Substitution in Mechanically Alloyed (Hf,Ti)CoSb Half-Heusler Solid Solutions

  • Ioanna Ioannou,
  • Andreas Delimitis,
  • Yaniv Gelbstein and
  • Theodora Kyratsi

(Hf,Zr,Ti)Co(Sb,Sn) Solid solutions were prepared by mechanical-alloying followed by hot-press method as an attempt to reduce Hf concentration and therefore the material’s cost without negatively affecting the thermoelectric performance. To thi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,604 Views
22 Pages

Exploring Growth of Mycobacterium smegmatis Treated with Anticarcinogenic Vanadium Compounds

  • Zeyad Arhouma,
  • Heide A. Murakami,
  • Jordan T. Koehn,
  • Xiaorong Li,
  • Deborah A. Roess,
  • Dean C. Crick and
  • Debbie C. Crans

A major problem with patient treatments using anticancer compounds is accompanying bacterial infections, which makes more information on how such compounds impact bacterial growth desirable. In the following study, we investigated the growth effects...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,022 Views
10 Pages

The Flower-like Co3O4 Hierarchical Microspheres for Methane Catalytic Oxidation

  • Changpeng Lv,
  • Dan Du,
  • Chao Wang,
  • Yingyue Qin,
  • Jinlong Ge,
  • Yansong Han,
  • Junjie Zhu and
  • Muxin Liu

The development of non-noble Co3O4 catalysts exposing highly active crystal planes to low-temperature methane oxidation is still a challenge. Hence, a facile solvothermal method was adapted to construe flower-like Co3O4 hierarchical microspheres (Co3...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,994 Views
19 Pages

An Experimental and Theoretical Study of the Optical Properties of (C2H7N4O)2BiCl5 for an Optoelectronic Application

  • Hela Ferjani,
  • Youssef Ben Smida,
  • Damian C. Onwudiwe,
  • Nuha Y. Elamin,
  • Safa Ezzine and
  • Norah S. Almotlaq

This study explores the electronic properties of (C2H7N4O)2BiCl5 using the density functional theory (DFT) method, which was compared with the experimental data. The band structure of the compound indicated that it is a direct semiconductor with a ba...

  • Review
  • Open Access
38 Citations
5,296 Views
11 Pages

An Overview of Vanadium and Cell Signaling in Potential Cancer Treatments

  • Valeria Alejandra Ferretti and
  • Ignacio Esteban León

Vanadium is an ultratrace element present in higher plants, animals, algae, and bacteria. In recent years, vanadium complexes have been studied to be considered as a representative of a new class of nonplatinum metal anticancer drugs. Nevertheless, t...

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