KIMA: Noise: A visual sound installation on urban noise

KIMA: Noise is a participatory art piece inviting audiences to explore impact of urban noises interactively. Using specific urban sound sources, the audience experiences noise as spatial soundscapes, responding to it, physically engaging and interacting with it. KIMA: Noise creates awareness for the phenomenon of noise pollution. The paper looks at preeminent research in the field, and draws conclusions of how sound affects us as individuals. The art project KIMA: Noise is introduced technically and conceptually

Spin distributions in antiferromagnetically coupled Mn2+Cu2+ systems: from the pair to the infinite chain

Probably the most informative description of the ground slate of a magnetic molecular species is provided by the spin density map. Such a map may be experimentally obtained from polarized neutron diffraction (PND) data or theoretically calculated using quantum chemical approaches. Density functional theory (DFT) methods have been proved to be well-adapted for this. Spin distributions in one-dimensional compounds may also be computed using the density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) formalism. These three approaches, PND, DFT, and DMRG, have been utilized to obtain new insights on the ground state of two antiferromagnetically coupled Mn2+Cu2+ compounds, namely [Mn(Me-6-[14]ane-N-4)Cu(oxpn)](CF3SO3)(2) and MnCu(pba)(H2O)(3) . 2H(2)O, with Me-6-[14]ane-N-4 = (+/-)-5,7,7,12,14,14-hexamethyl-1,4,8,11-tetraazacyclotetradecane, oxpn = N,N'-bis(3-aminopropyl)oxamido and pba = 1,3-propylenebis(oxamato). Three problems in particular have been investigated: the spin distribution in the mononuclear precursors [Cu(oxpn)] and [Cu(pba)](2-), the spin density maps in the two Mn2+Cu2+ compounds, and the evolution of the spin distributions on the Mn2+ and Cu2+ sites when passing from a pair to a one-dimensional ferrimagnet

Synthesis, EPR and DFF calculations of rare Ag(II)porphyrins and the crystal structure of [Zn(II)tetrakis(4-bromo-2-thiophene)porphyrin]

Meso-tetrakis (4-bromo-2-thiophene) and (5-bromo-2-thiophene) porphyrins were synthesized in 18% yield from freshly distilled pyrrole and the corresponding aldehydes in refluxing propionic acid. Reaction of both porphyrins with either Zn(OAc)(2)center dot 2H(2)O Or Ag(OAc) afforded the corresponding metal complexes in 20% yield. The free bases and metal complexes were characterized by IR, NMR, EPR, MS and XPS. The crystal structure of 5,10,15.20(4-bromo-2-thiophene)porphyrinato Zn(II) was determined by X-ray diffraction and shows a 'zigzag-like' packing pattern due to S S intermolecular interaction. Structural features of these molecules are discussed by DFT quantum chemical calculations. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved

Chiral Lanthanum Metal-Organic Framework with Gated CO2 Sorption and Concerted Framework Flexibility br

A metal-organic framework (MOF)CTH-17based on lanthanum-(III) and the conformationally chiral linker 1,2,3,4,5,6-hexakis(4-carboxyphenyl)-benzene, cpb6-: [La2(cpb)]middot1.5dmf was prepared by the solvothermal method indimethylformamide (dmf) and characterized by variable-temperature X-raypowder diffraction (VTPXRD), variable-temperature X-ray single-crystal diffrac-tion (SCXRD), and thermogravimetric analysis (TGA).CTH-17is a rod-MOFwith new topologyoch. It has high-temperature stability with Sohncke spacegroupsP6122/P6522 at 90 K andP622 at 300 and 500 K, all phases characterizedwith SCXRD and at 293 K also with three-dimensional (3D) electron diffraction. VTPXRD indicates a third phase appearing after620 K and stable up to 770 K. Gas sorption isotherms with N2indicate a modest surface area of 231 m2g-1forCTH-17, roughly inagreement with the crystal structure. Carbon dioxide sorption reveals a gate-opening effect ofCTH-17where the structure opens upwhen the loading of CO2reaches approximately similar to 0.45 mmol g-1or 1 molecule per unit cell. Based on the SCXRD data, this isinterpreted asflexibility based on the concerted movements of the propeller-like hexatopic cpb linkers, the movementintramolecularly transmitted by the pi-pi stacking of the cpb linkers and helped by thefluidity of the LaO6coordination sphere. Thiswas corroborated by density functional theory (DFT) calculations yielding the chiral phase (P622) as the energy minimum and acompletely racemic phase (P6/mmm), with symmetric cpb linkers representing a saddle point in a racemization proces