Industrial development, increase in population and need for improving the living standards of people around the globe have resulted into high demand of energy worldwide. The renewable energy sources seem to be unreliable ...

Gangliosides are sialic acid-containing glycosphingolipids expressed on all vertebrate cells. They are primarily positioned in the plasma membrane, with the ceramide part anchored in the membrane and the glycan part exposed ...

The possibility for performing self-diffusion measurements by Carr-Purcell-Meiboom-Gill (CPMG) experiments using the inherent magnetic field inhomogeneities as a gradient field were tested for six sample molecules, using ...

This thesis presents experimental work on thin films of different compounds containing lithium, sodium or potassium has been synthesized by atomic layer deposition (ALD). The overall motivation for this work has been to ...

Stadig flere lider av livsstilssykdommer som forkalkning av blodårene, diabetes og fedme. Disse lidelsene fører ofte med seg de to hovedårsakene for dødsfall blant menn og kvinner, nemlig hjerte- og karsykdommer, og kreft. ...

Dette arbeidet utgjør en preliminær undersøkelse av muligheten for å stu- dere sorbentmobilitet i krystallitter av det metall-organiske rammeverket UiO-67, ved å måle selvdiffusjon med et lavfelt NMR-instrument (0,5 T). ...

In this study, association properties of aqueous solutions of anionic thermo-responsive hydrophobically end-capped amphiphilic triblock terpolymer n-octadecyl-poly(ethylene glycol)-poly(N-isopropyl acrylamide)-block-poly ...

Gull(III)-kjemi er et relativt nytt og uberørt felt innenfor metallorganisk kjemi. Tilset-gruppen har tidligere publisert artikler om gull som bærer en bidentat tolylpyridin-ligand og varierende alkyl- og fenylsystemer. ...

The fabrication of a novel CO2 sensitive silane-based matrix and the proof of its concept will be presented in this thesis. New hydrophobic sol-gel matrices were developed for direct encapsulation of the trioctylphosphin ...

A synthetic strategy towards the (aza)phenanthridine ring-system (3) employing an intramolecular Diels-Alder of furan (IMDAF) as the key step, has previously been developed in our research group (Scheme 1). The exploration ...

Syklometallerte Au(III)-komplekser har vist seg lovende som potensielle kreftmedisiner og som katalysatorer innen homogen katalyse. De syklometallerte Au(III)-kompleksene er i midlertidig relativt lite utforsket, og gode ...

Diazo compounds have great synthetic potential as versatile reagents in organic synthesis. The formation of Rh(II) carbenoids from diazo compounds allows the selective formation of C-C and C-heteroatom bonds and the ...

GOx was, to the authors knowledge, for the first time successfully immobilized in DGS. The intrinsic fluorescence of GOx was measured in both solution and a sol-gel derived matrix in both the presence and absence of glucose. ...

The Yuqiao reservoir located in Tianjin, north China, is the drinking water source for nearly six million people in Tianjin central city. Over the past decade, water quality of the reservoir has become poor due to increasing ...

Metallorganiske nettverksforbindelser (MOFer) har vært en forskningsområde ved Universitet i Oslo (UiO) de siste årene og en unik serie MOFer er blitt utviklet her. MOFene har blitt oppkalt etter UiO (UiO-66, UiO-67 og ...

In the title compound, C18H18O6, the biphenyl moiety is twisted with a dihedral angle of 29.11 (10)°. The carbometh­oxy groups form C-C-C-O torsion angles of -18.3 (3) and -27.7 (3)° with the attached rings, as a result ...

With large countries as India and China in tremendous development accompanied by a growing worldwide population, questions arise in how energy demands can be met in the post-oil society. The methanol-to-hydrocarbon process, ...

Sample preparation in bottom-up proteomics consists of denaturation, reduction and alkylation of the proteins, before enzymatic digestion of the proteins into peptides. The rate limiting step is the enzymatic digestion, ...

The purpose of this thesis was to check if it was possible to prepare a mechanical and chemical system that can reduce Seaborgium, element 106, and separate between the reduced and the oxidized state. To do this the ...

New methods for Born-Oppenheimer molecular dynamics simulations have been developed and used to study protonated water clusters and mechanochemistry of alkanes. The novel algorithms are an efficient coordinate transformation ...

There are many different solar cell technologies which aim at producing electricity from sunlight cheap and/or efficient. As the efficiency of silicon cells is slowly but continuously climbing, price plummeting, and ...

The interest in organogold compounds continues to grow. Gold(III) complexes are being investigated as catalysts for organic transformations as well as tested as potential anti-cancer drugs. Despite this wide-ranging interest ...

The N-representability problem is the problem of determining whether there exists N-particle states with some prescribed property. Here we report an affirmative solution to the fermion N-representability problem when both ...

It is well known that liquids confined to small nanoscopic pores and droplets exhibit thermal behavior very different from bulk samples. Less is known about liquids spontaneously confined through self-assembly into micellar ...

Inntak av rusmidler endrer signaliseringssystemet av nevrotransmittere i hjernen. For å kunne vurdere effekten av forskjellige rusmidler er det derfor viktig å kunne bestemme nivåene av nevrotransmittere. Dette kan studeres ...

We present the first analytic implementation of cubic and quartic force constants at the level of Kohn–Sham density-functional theory. The implementation is based on an open-ended formalism for the evaluation of energy ...

The prevalence of gold catalysis in the synthetic community has increased dramatically within the last few years, and a wide range of N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) gold(I) and, to a lesser extent, gold(III) complexes have ...

Understanding Eutrophication

Two forms, α and β, are known for the racemic amino acid DL-me­thio­nine, C5H11NO2S. The phase transition between them, taking place around 326 K, is associated with sliding at the central inter­faces of the hydro­phobic ...

A novel open tubular nanoproteomic platform featuring accelerated on-line protein digestion and high-resolution nano liquid chromatography mass spectrometry (LC-MS) has been developed. The platform features very narrow ...

Iso-octyl chain-hydroxylated oxysterols were determined in attomoles per 10,000 cells concentrations in 10,000–80,000 cultured pancreatic adenocarcinoma cells, using a sensitive, highly automated nano-LC-ESI-MS-based method. ...

In this project four oxide systems have been studied with focus on synthesis and characterization; LaxSr4-xFeO10-δ(0.00 ≤ x ≤ 1.00), LaSr3Fe3-yMnyO10-δ (0.50 ≤ y ≤ 1.50), Sr4Fe3--z(CO3)zO10-4z-δ (0.00 ≤ z ≤ 1.00) and ...

In the title compound, C9H9IO3, the mol­ecules are close to planar [maximum deviation from benzene ring plane = 0.229 (5) Å for the methyl carboxylate C atom] with the methyl groups oriented away from each other. In the ...

Aims: Investigate the use of a synthetic brominated furanone (F202) against the establishment of biofilm by Salmonella ser. Agona and E. coli O103:H2 under temperature conditions relevant for the food and feed industry as ...

Luminescent europium titanium oxides (EuxTiyOz) have been deposited as thin films by atomic layer deposition (ALD) in the temperature range 225 to 375 °C with control of the stoichiometry from pure TiO2 to pure Eu2O3, and ...

The overall aim of this work is to contribute to a better understanding of the reactions taking place at the oxygen electrode in proton ceramic fuel cells (PCFCs) and, moreover, to develop new materials with improved ...

Diffraction data were taken from the contribution named `β-DL-Me­thio­nine at 105 K' by Alagar et al. [Acta Cryst. (2005). E61, o1165-o1167]. Refinement of the coordinates of the three amino H atoms, previously constrained ...

Thin films of sodium and potassium oxides have for the first time been deposited using atomic layer deposition. Sodium and potassium complexes of tert-butanol, trimethylsilanol and hexamethyldisilazide have been evaluated ...

Currently the most promising method for capturing anthropogenic produced carbon dioxide (CO2) from suitable point sources is the technique using amines in Post-combustion CO2 Capture (PCC). However, the use of amine is ...

A method for determination of the primary nerve agent degradation products ethyl-, isopropyl-, isobutyl-, cyclohexyl- and pinacolyl methylphosphonic acid in aqueous soil extracts has been developed utilizing on-line solid ...

The authors examined the seasonal and year‐to‐year variations of mercury (Hg) concentrations in populations of perch (Perca fluviatilis) from 2 boreal freshwater lakes in southeast Norway. Fish Hg concentrations were ...

Despite an increasing focus on low level methods for determination of mercury species in water over the last decades, few studies have paid attention to direct effects of different sample preparation methods (i.e. preservation ...

The biogeochemical cycling of mercury (Hg) in the marine environment is an issue of global concern, as consumption of marine fish is a major route of human exposure to the toxic specie methylmercury (MeHg). The most widely ...