Exploring the coordination, anti-oxidant, and bacterial behavior of a new azo ligand derived from 4,5-dimethylimidazole with copper and zinc divalent ions by Husham M. Mubark, Israa N. Witwit, Hussein A. Ali Salman, Mohauman M. Al Rufaie

“…The experimental findings confirmed the formation of octahedral geometrical complexes, where the coordination occurs through one nitrogen atom of azo and an N3 atom of imidazole. Evidence from spectroscopic techniques (13-CNMR, Mass, FT-IR, and UV-Vis), conductivity measurements, and magnetic susceptibility supported the structural integrity of the complexes. …”
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Synthesis and biological evaluation of some new heterocyclic derivatives from substituted thiopyrimidine by Aziz Hadil S., Al-Araj Intisar Q.M., Abdul-Raheem Linda R., Ahmed Amena A.

“…This study aimed at creation of a few new heterocyclic compounds that include sulfur and nitrogen atoms. Also, some chalcones, thiazolidine and Schiff base derivatives have been prepared. …”
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Antifungal and Antioxidant Activities of Pyrrolidone Thiosemicarbazone Complexes by Ahmed A. Al-Amiery, Abdul Amir H. Kadhum, Abu Bakar Mohamad

“…Metal complexes of (Z)-2-(pyrrolidin-2-ylidene)hydrazinecarbothioamide (L) with Cu(II), Co(II), and Ni(II) chlorides were tested against selected types of fungi and were found to have significant antifungal activities. …”
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Advance Chemical Mechanical Polishing Technique for Gallium Nitride Substrate by Xuanyi Zhao, Shouzhi Wang, Lei Liu, Qiubo Li, Jiaoxian Yu, Guodong Wang, Chang Liang, Zhongxin Wang, Han Hao, Xiangang Xu, Lei Zhang

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Sun-simulated-driven production of high-purity methanol from carbon dioxide by Jiqing Jiao, Yanbin Ma, Xiaoqian Han, Awu Ergu, Chao Zhang, Pingping Chen, Wei Liu, Qiquan Luo, Zhaolin Shi, Han Xu, Chen Chen, Yaguang Li, Tongbu Lu

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Phase-Field-Based LBM Analysis of KHI and RTI in Wide Ranges of Density Ratio, Viscosity Ratio, and Reynolds Number by Xun Zhou, Bo Dong, Weizhong Li

“…Preliminarily, the numerical stability and accuracy of this MRT model are tested by Laplace’s law under a large density ratio and high Reynolds number, including the sensitivity study to the values of mobility. …”
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Cu(II) and Ni(II) Complexes with New Tridentate NNS Thiosemicarbazones: Synthesis, Characterisation, DNA Interaction, and Antibacterial Activity by Dorian Polo-Cerón

“…The spectral data showed that the thiosemicarbazone behaves as an NNS tridentate ligand through the nitrogen atoms of the azomethine group and pyrazine ring and the sulphur atom of the thioamide group. …”
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Coating and Characterization of Mock and Explosive Materials by Emily M. Hunt, Matt Jackson

“…Energetic materials are now being coated and will be tested both mechanically and thermally. This allows for a comprehensive comparison of the morphology and reactivity of the newly coated materials to previously manufactured materials.…”
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Elastic Properties and the Band Gap of AlNxP1-x Semiconductor Alloy: A Comparative Study of Various Ab Initio Approaches by M. P. Polak, M. J. Winiarski, K. Wittek, P. Scharoch

“…Performances of the finite difference (FD) method and the density functional perturbation theory (DFPT) are tested and compared. Both of these methods are applied to two different approaches of alloy simulation, a supercell of 16 and 32 atoms (for zinc-blende and wurtzite structures, resp.) and the alchemical mixing (AM) method, where the pseudopotentials are mixed in an appropriate way to form an alloy. …”
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Tailoring graphite fiber addition to improve high-temperature wear resistance graphite fiber/ Fe composite by Boer Cao, Qinyuan Huang, Yuhao Wu, Hongli Cao, Shangyang Zou, Quan Shan

“…The study analyzed the effects of different Gf levels on the microstructure and hardness of the iron matrix. Oxidation tests defined the temperature range for wear tests, revealing that the Gf/Fe composites possess a wear temperature range from room temperature to 900 °C. …”
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Wear-resistant Ti/TiCp composite coatings via synchronous powder supplied wire arc additive manufacturing by Xinxin Guo, Ming Ma, Shuaifeng Zhang, Zhengying Wei

“…The dry sliding friction tests revealed that the larger unmelted TiC particles help support the load and resist shear forces. …”
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Thiadiazoline- and Pyrazoline-Based Carboxamides and Carbothioamides: Synthesis and Inhibition against Nitric Oxide Synthase by Fabio Arias, M. Encarnación Camacho, M. Dora Carrión, Meriem Chayah, Miguel Romero, Juan Duarte, Miguel A. Gallo

“…In contrast, pyrazolines (6a–r) behave better as iNOS than nNOS inhibitors, 6m being the best molecule of this series (76.86% at 1 mM of iNOS inhibition, IC50 = 130 μM) and the most potent of all tested compounds.…”
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Evaluation of Antimicrobial Activity Using Cadmium Oxide Nanoparticles Prepared by Physical Method (PLAL) by Nisreen Kh. Abdalameer, Tuqa A. Khaleefa

“…The antibacterial and antifungal properties of the tested substance were evaluated against two Gram-positive bacteria, namely Staphylococcus aureus and Streptococcus mutans, as well as two Gram-negative bacteria, specifically Escherichia coli and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. …”
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Nafion®-Containing Solid Lipid Nanoparticles as a Tool for Anticancer Pt Delivery: Preliminary Studies by Maddalena Sguizzato, Elisabetta Esposito, Marcus Drechsler, Eleonora Gallerani, Riccardo Gavioli, Paolo Mariani, Federica Carducci, Rita Cortesi, Paola Bergamini

“…To evaluate the in vitro cytotoxicity, NAF were tested on human cancer cell lines K562 and A2780. …”
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Synergistic mixture of Parthenium hysterophorus L. extract and potassium iodide as a novel efficient composite inhibitor on steel corrosion in sulfuric acid by Hao Wu, Shuduan Deng, Dandan Shao, Gaofei Wei, Juan Xu, Xianghong Li

“…(PHLE), derived from the invasive weed, contains flavonoids, phenylpropanoids, alkaloids, and amino acids. Weight loss tests demonstrated that PHLE moderately inhibited corrosion of cold rolled steel (CRS) in 0.50 M H2SO4, with a maximum efficiency of 74.45%. …”
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Thermomechanically induced phase separation at elevated temperatures in a CoCr0.4NiSi0.3 medium-entropy alloy by Li Zhang, Lijia Chen, Weiqiang Zhang, Hui Zhao, Feng Li

“…The directional vacancy diffusion of solute atoms along specific crystal planes of dynamically recrystallized (DRXed) grains leads to phase separation at elevated temperatures. …”
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Norfloxacin and N-Donor Mixed-Ligand Copper(II) Complexes: Synthesis, Albumin Interaction, and Anti-Trypanosoma cruzi Activity by Darliane A. Martins, Ligiane R. Gouvea, Gabriel S. Vignoli Muniz, Sonia R. W. Louro, Denise da Gama Jaen Batista, Maria de Nazaré C. Soeiro, Letícia R. Teixeira

“…Copper(II) complexes, together with the corresponding ligands, were evaluated for their trypanocidal activity in vitro against Trypanosoma cruzi, the causative agent of Chagas disease. The tests performed using bloodstream trypomastigotes showed that the Cu(II)-N-donor precursors and the metal complexes were more active than the free fluoroquinolone.…”
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Nano-Azo Ligand and Its Superhydrophobic Complexes: Synthesis, Characterization, DFT, Contact Angle, Molecular Docking, and Antimicrobial Studies by Gehad G. Mohamed, Walaa H. Mahmoud, Ahmed M. Refaat

“…The results showed that all the tested compounds have significant biological activities with different sensitivity levels. …”
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Heavy metal (Pb, Ni, Cd) elimination from water and wastewater using an antibacterial modified cellulose filter paper as an efficient filtration membrane technology: A portable fil... by Milad Kazemnejadi

“…Investigating the adsorption mechanism by high resolution XPS analyzes showed that the adsorption was done both through coordination with Schiff base ligands and through non-bonding electron pairs of N and O atoms on the surface of filter paper. Tests on shrinkage and swellability confirmed that the filter paper maintains its quality through multiple wetting and drying cycles, allowing for repeated use, wherein 0.9 mg/L and 0.4 cm changes in swellability and shrinkage was observed after five consecutive cycles. …”
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MultiChem: predicting chemical properties using multi-view graph attention network by Heesang Moon, Mina Rho

“…In our model, graph attention layers are employed to effectively capture essential local structures by jointly considering atom and bond features, while multi-head attention layers extract important global features. …”
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