Irene Rusakova

TL;DR: An ultrasensitive SnO(2)-based chemical sensor resulting from the microstructural miniaturization was demonstrated and its ability to detect grain boundaries at elevated temperatures was demonstrated.

TL;DR: This work reports the nanoscale loading and confinement of aquated Gd3+n-ion clusters within ultra-short single-walled carbon nanotubes (US-tubes) that are linear superparamagnetic molecular magnets with Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) efficacies 40 to 90 times larger than any Gd 3+-based contrast agent (CA) in current clinical use.

TL;DR: In this paper, a new high-temperature superconducting compound system, Ba2Can−1CunOx[02(n−1) n−Ba] interstitially doped with calcium or (Ca,Cu) has been identified to exhibit a transition temperature up to 126 kelvin, the highest for a superconductor without a volatile toxic element.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used dynamic light scattering, static light scattering and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) to characterize the propensity of two Gd-based metallofullerenes to aggregate in aqueous solution, since aggregation is known to enhance proton relaxivities of MRI contrast agents by increasing their rotational correlation times.

TL;DR: Rod-shaped nanostructures of Bi2S3 were synthesized by the solution decomposition of the two new bismuth(III) complexes [Bi6pydc)8(HpydC)2(tu)8] as mentioned in this paper.