Controlling of crystal size and optical band gap of CdO nanopowder semiconductors by low and high Fe contents

The CdO:Fe nanopowder semiconductors were synthesized by the sol–gel calcination for the first time. The structural properties of Fe doped CdO samples were analyzed by AFM and XRD measurements. XRD patterns of the pure and Fe-doped CdO samples reveal that the pure and Fe doped CdO nanopowders are polycrystalline of cubic CdO structure. The crystallite size of undoped and Fe-doped CdO samples is changed unsystematically with a regular increase of Fe content. The optical band gaps of Fe doped CdO samples were determined for the first time by diffused reflectance measurements. The optical band gap of the samples is increased with the increase of Fe dopant inside the host matrix (CdO) up to 15 % followed by a decrease in its value. It is evaluated that Fe doped CdO nanopowder semiconductors can be producted by sol–gel calcination for advanced technological application

Design and fabrication of dioxyphenylcoumarin substituted cyclotriphosphazene compounds photodiodes

The present study introduces cyclotriphosphazene compounds substituted by dioxyphenylcoumarin as a photodiode application. Firstly, 7,8-dihydroxy-3-(3-methylphenyl)coumarin (1b) has been obtained by conventional as well as microwave assisted methods. Novel optoelectronic device characteristics for both mono and disubstituted dioxyphenylcoumarin bearing cyclotriphosphazene compounds (HCP-2 and HCP-4) have been synthesized from the reactions of cyclotriphosphazene containing dioxybiphenyl (HCP-1 and HCP-3) with compound 1b, respectively. The structures of compounds HCP 1–4 were identified by using elemental analysis, 1H, 13C-APT, 31P NMR and 2D HETCOR NMR and FT-IR spectroscopy methods. The Al/HCP-2/p-Si/Al and Al/HCP-4/-p-Si/Al photodiodes properties have been investigated from current-voltage (I−V) and capacitance-voltage (C−V) measurements. The electrical parameters of the prepared diodes such as ideality factor n and series resistance Rs were investigated in dark and at room temperature from (I−V) curve and Nord's method. As can be seen, the Al/HCP-2/p-Si/Al diode of high rectification ratio RR and with ideality factor greater than unity. The influence of light illuminations on the diode shows that the device can be used as photodiode with good efficiency. The barrier height ϕb and series resistance Rs have been calculated from the capacitance-voltage (C−V)and conductance-voltage (G−V) measurements under various applied frequencies from 10 kHz to 1 MHz. the high difference in the results of barrier height obtained from I-V and C-V calculations confirm the influence of series resistance and localized states on transport of charge carriers and the photodiode performance.TUBITAK-110T652 Fırat University, FÜBAP-FF.161

Membrane vesicles, current state-of-the-art: emerging role of extracellular vesicles

Release of membrane vesicles, a process conserved in both prokaryotes and eukaryotes, represents an evolutionary link, and suggests essential functions of a dynamic extracellular vesicular compartment (including exosomes, microparticles or microvesicles and apoptotic bodies). Compelling evidence supports the significance of this compartment in a broad range of physiological and pathological processes. However, classification of membrane vesicles, protocols of their isolation and detection, molecular details of vesicular release, clearance and biological functions are still under intense investigation. Here, we give a comprehensive overview of extracellular vesicles. After discussing the technical pitfalls and potential artifacts of the rapidly emerging field, we compare results from meta-analyses of published proteomic studies on membrane vesicles. We also summarize clinical implications of membrane vesicles. Lessons from this compartment challenge current paradigms concerning the mechanisms of intercellular communication and immune regulation. Furthermore, its clinical implementation may open new perspectives in translational medicine both in diagnostics and therapy

Large expert-curated database for benchmarking document similarity detection in biomedical literature search

Document recommendation systems for locating relevant literature have mostly relied on methods developed a decade ago. This is largely due to the lack of a large offline gold-standard benchmark of relevant documents that cover a variety of research fields such that newly developed literature search techniques can be compared, improved and translated into practice. To overcome this bottleneck, we have established the RElevant LIterature SearcH consortium consisting of more than 1500 scientists from 84 countries, who have collectively annotated the relevance of over 180 000 PubMed-listed articles with regard to their respective seed (input) article/s. The majority of annotations were contributed by highly experienced, original authors of the seed articles. The collected data cover 76% of all unique PubMed Medical Subject Headings descriptors. No systematic biases were observed across different experience levels, research fields or time spent on annotations. More importantly, annotations of the same document pairs contributed by different scientists were highly concordant. We further show that the three representative baseline methods used to generate recommended articles for evaluation (Okapi Best Matching 25, Term Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency and PubMed Related Articles) had similar overall performances. Additionally, we found that these methods each tend to produce distinct collections of recommended articles, suggesting that a hybrid method may be required to completely capture all relevant articles. The established database server located at https://relishdb.ict.griffith.edu.au is freely available for the downloading of annotation data and the blind testing of new methods. We expect that this benchmark will be useful for stimulating the development of new powerful techniques for title and title/abstract-based search engines for relevant articles in biomedical research.Peer reviewe