[ASAP] Electrochemical Properties and Theoretical Capacity for Sodium Storage in Hard Carbon: Insights from First Principles Calculations

Chemistry of Materials

DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.8b01390

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Combined Experimental and Theoretical Study of Long-Range H F Interactions in α Fluoro Amides

Chem. Commun., 2019, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C8CC09987A, Communication

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Elena Cosimi, Nils Trapp, Marc-Olivier Ebert, Helma Wennemers
A combined experimental and computational approach provided insight into the nature and conformational dependence of long range 4JHF couplings in α fluoro amides. The dependence of 4JHF on substituents and...
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Will media retract?! Climatologist Dr. Roy Spencer: Media Reports of +40% Adjustment in Ocean Warming Were Greatly Exaggerated – Actually only up estimated 11%

http://bit.ly/2ssXRld by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. Summary: The recently reported upward adjustment in the 1971-2010 Ocean Heat Content (OHC) increase compared to the last official estimate from the IPCC is actually 11%, not 40%. The 40% increase turns out to be relative to the average of various OHC estimates the IPCC addressed in their 2013 [...]

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[ASAP] Coordination-Driven Self-Assembled Metallacycles Incorporating Pyrene: Fluorescence Mutability, Tunability, and Aromatic Amine Sensing

Journal of the American Chemical Society

DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b12749

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[ASAP] Complex Molecules That Fold Like Proteins Can Emerge Spontaneously

Journal of the American Chemical Society

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[ASAP] Deciphering Determinants in Ribosomal Methyltransferases That Confer Antimicrobial Resistance

Journal of the American Chemical Society

DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b10277

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[ASAP] Nitrosyl Linkage Isomers: NO Coupling to N2O at a Mononuclear Site

Journal of the American Chemical Society

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[ASAP] Neighboring Protonation Unveils Lewis Acidity in the B3NO2 Heterocycle

Journal of the American Chemical Society

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[ASAP] Catalytic Carbonyl-Olefin Metathesis of Aliphatic Ketones: Iron(III) Homo-Dimers as Lewis Acidic Superelectrophiles

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[ASAP] Toward Long-Term Stability: Single-Crystal Alloys of Cesium-Containing Mixed Cation and Mixed Halide Perovskite

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[ASAP] Generation of Phosphonium Sites on Sulfated Zirconium Oxide: Relationship to Brønsted Acid Strength of Surface -OH Sites

Journal of the American Chemical Society

DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b13204

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The top 12 warmist climate change ‘facts’ debunked in 2018

http://bit.ly/2TVJvFI By Rick Moran You'd never know it from media coverage of the climate change issue, but over the past year, several "facts" about global warming have been debunked entirely or were radically altered. Almost all Democratic candidates who ran in the mid term elections tried to push climate change as a major issue. It didn't [...]

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Winning! Warmists write at CNN: ‘EPA nominee Andrew Wheeler is even worse than Scott Pruitt’

https://cnn.it/2RwRIDx By Ken Kimmel, the president of the Union of Concerned Scientists, a nonprofit science advocacy organization. The views expressed in this commentary are his own. View more opinion on CNN. (CNN)When Scott Pruitt stepped down as the Environmental Protection Agency administrator and his deputy Andrew Wheeler took over as acting administrator, many of us [...]

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WATCH LIVE: EPA nominee Andrew Wheeler’s confirmation hearing

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EPA’s Andrew Wheeler opening statement excerpts: ‘Trump Admin is proving that burdensome federal regulations are not necessary to drive environmental progress’

  https://abcn.ws/2RuToxe A top Senate Democrat is describing President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the Environmental Protection Agency as "just as extreme" as his predecessor. Watch Now 1.00 Who is Andrew Wheeler? Acting EPA chief Andrew Wheeler is appearing Wednesday before a Senate committee considering his nomination to head the agency. Democratic Sen. Tom Carper told [...]

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French President Deploying Police Armed with High Capacity Live Ammunition Weapons to Intimidate Carbon Tax Protestors

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Green globalist President Macron has deployed non specialist police armed with semi-automatic weapons with large magazines to try to intimidate yellow vest carbon tax protestors. French riot police are now using semi-automatic weapons with live ammunition against Yellow Vest protestors as Macron's law and order crisis spirals Officers were filmed…

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Benzobis(imidazolium) salts as templates for the self-assembly of starburst [24]pseudorotaxanes and their corresponding carbene-based classic [22]pseudorotaxanes

Chem. Commun., 2019, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C8CC09936G, Communication

Mathew W Foster, Benjamin T Mehl, Ed Treadwell, Radu F Semeniuc, Kraig A Wheeler
Benzobis(imidazolium) salts ([BBI-H₂-R₄]²⁺, R = alkyl, aryl) interact with crown ethers through a combination of hydrogen bonds, ion-dipole, and π – π stacking interactions to form starburst [2₄]pseudorotaxanes. This new...
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What Would a No-Borders World Look Like?

Good intentions aren't enough. Once broken, some things cannot be mended.


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[ASAP] Evidence of Isotope Selective Diffusion of Ambient CO2 Gas in WO3 Nanostructures

The Journal of Physical Chemistry C

DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.8b10962

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[ASAP] Acetonitrile Adsorption on Pt Single-Crystal Electrodes and Its Effect on Oxygen Reduction Reaction in Acidic and Alkaline Aqueous Solutions

The Journal of Physical Chemistry C

DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.8b10690

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[ASAP] Ni–Ti Layered Double Hydroxide@Graphitic Carbon Nitride Nanosheet: A Novel Nanocomposite with High and Ultrafast Sonophotocatalytic Performance for Degradation of Antibiotics

Inorganic Chemistry

DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.8b02575

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Removal of indigo carmine dye by electrocoagulation using magnesium anodes with polarity change

Abstract

The aim of this study was to evaluate the performance of high purity magnesium and the magnesium-aluminum-zinc alloy AZ31 as sacrificial anodes in an electrocoagulation process with polarity change for the treatment of synthetic indigo carmine solution. It was studied the effect of the main parameters such as temperature, anodic material, current density, initial dye concentration, and agitation speed on the diminishing of indigo carmine concentration and non-purgeable organic carbon. Also, image analysis was used in conjunction with zeta potential measurements to understand the mechanism of flocs formation. The best results were 80% and 96% removal for non-purgeable organic carbon and dye content respectively at room temperature, by using turbulent regime, initial dye concentration of 100 mg L⁻¹ and 50 A m⁻² as current density with AZ31 alloy as electrodes. Particularly, high purity magnesium reached 75% in non-purgeable organic carbon removal and 86% in dye removal at the conditions described above. Finally, an additional improvement of 43% in the diminishing of the organic carbon content was observed when polarity change was used, a phenomenon that was attributed to the distribution of the oxidation reaction between electrodes, avoiding the saturation of the surface with oxide and hydroxide layers. Major areas and major fractal dimension were obtained by using a polarity change.

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700,000 Square Kilometers Of Added Green Vegetation, Climate Change Shrinks Sahara Desert By Whopping 8%!

Almost daily the CO2 Science site brings reports on the impact of climate change on the living world. Hat-tip: Die kalte Sonne here

Recently, CO2 Science brought up a paper in Nature Communications.

Using satellite images, Venter et al. 2018 found an eight percent increase in woody vegetation in sub-Saharan Africa over the last three decades, underscoring the global "greening trend".

Recent study by Venter et al finds that the Sahara has shrunk by 8% over the past three decades. NASA image, public domain.

According to Wikipedia, the Sahara covers a vast area of some 9.2 million square kilometers. Eight percent of that translates into more than 700,000 square kilometers. That's an area that's almost as big as Germany and France combined! This is profound.

In other words, it's well over 10,000 Manhattans!

If the added green area were effectively used for agriculture, it could produce enough food to feed the African continent. Unfortunately, this is a fact that the doomsday-obsessed media, activists and ruling politicians fear will become publicly known. They instead would prefer that the globe returns to a climate of the 1980s, when drought and famine ravaged the vast North African region.

According to the recent study, the cause was a decline in vegetation fires in a warmer and more humid climate. Abstract:

Drivers of woody plant encroachment over Africa
While global deforestation induced by human land use has been quantified, the drivers and extent of simultaneous woody plant encroachment (WPE) into open areas are only regionally known. WPE has important consequences for ecosystem functioning, global carbon balances and human economies. Here we report, using high-resolution satellite imagery, that woody vegetation cover over sub-Saharan Africa increased by 8% over the past three decades and that a diversity of drivers, other than CO₂, were able to explain 78% of the spatial variation in this trend. A decline in burned area along with warmer, wetter climates drove WPE, although this has been mitigated in areas with high population growth rates, and high and low extremes of herbivory, specifically browsers. These results confirm global greening trends, thereby bringing into question widely held theories about declining terrestrial carbon balances and desert expansion. Importantly, while global drivers such as climate and CO₂ may enhance the risk of WPE, managing fire and herbivory at the local scale provides tools to mitigate continental WPE.

Read more at CO₂ Science.

Another element that is unmentioned is the fertilization effect of the added CO2 into the atmosphere surely provides.

Relotian media

This is positive news that no one will find in the Relotian mainstream media, which are fixated on purveying propaganda, falsehoods, half truths and censorship with the aim of distorting public opinion and vigorously marginalizing dissenting views.

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Potassium Perylene-tetracarboxylate with Two-electron Redox Behaviors as a Highly Stable Organic Anode for K-ion Batteries

Chem. Commun., 2019, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C8CC09596E, Communication

Chuan Wang, Wu Tang, Zeyi Yao, Bei Cao, Cong Fan
Potassium perylene-3,4,9,10-tetracarboxylate was exploited as the new organic anode for potassium-ion batteries, which exhibited two-electron redox behaviors and the theoretical capacity of 93 mAh g-1. After optimizations, the K4PTC electrode...
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PROTAC-mediated crosstalk between E3 ligases

Chem. Commun., 2019, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C8CC09541H, Communication

Christian Steinebach, Hannes Kehm, Stefanie Lindner, Lan Phuong Vu, Simon Köpff, Álvaro López Mármol, Corinna Weiler, Karl G Wahner, Michaela Reichenzeller, Jan Krönke, Michael Gütschow
Small-molecule heterobifunctional degraders can effectively control protein levels and are useful research tools. We assembled proteolysis targeting chimeras (PROTACs) from a cereblon (CRBN) and a von-Hippel-Lindau (VHL) ligase ligand and...
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Claim: We Need “Planetary Sovereignty” to Address the Climate Crisis

Guest essay by Eric Worrall According to political theorists Geoff Mann and Joel Wainwright, people will increasingly turn to international institutions to address problems like climate change. How Governments React to Climate Change: An Interview with the Political Theorists Joel Wainwright and Geoff Mann By Isaac Chotiner January 14, 2019 … In "Climate Leviathan: A…

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PG&E’s bankruptcy could slow California’s fight against climate change, says the LA Times

California wildfire [image credit: NASA]

Well, they would say that as firm believers in the man-made climate change scare, which they blame for anything bad that's related to the weather, and talk up the need to 'fight' it. But what happens if or when the money dries up?

California is counting on PG&E to keep investing in clean energy to fight climate change, says the LA Times.

But its bankruptcy could imperil solar and wind contracts.

Climate change helped fuel the deadly fires that prompted California's largest power company to announce Monday that it would file for bankruptcy in the face of $30 billion in potential liabilities.

In a grim twist, the bankruptcy of PG&E Corp. could now slow California's efforts to fight climate change.

The Golden State has dramatically reduced planet-warming emissions from the electricity sector, largely by requiring utilities to increase their use of solar and wind power and fund energy efficiency upgrades for homes and businesses. Lawmakers recently set a target of 100% climate-friendly electricity by 2045.

But those government mandates have depended on PG&E's Pacific Gas & Electric unit and other utilities being able to invest tens of billions of dollars in clean energy technologies.

PG&E's ability to keep making those investments could be in serious jeopardy once it files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, some energy experts say. Even before the company said it would file for bankruptcy, the looming threat of wildfire liabilities had decimated its credit rating, which raises the cost of borrowing capital.

The massive Topaz Solar Farm in California's San Luis Obispo County, an electricity supplier to PG&E owned by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Energy, also saw its credit rating downgraded to junk status last week amid fears the San Francisco-based utility won't be able to pay its bills in full.

In the short term, PG&E might stop signing renewable energy contracts, although contracting had already slowed in the last few years as customers departed in droves for newly established local energy providers run by city and county governments. In the long term, renewable energy developers and their lenders may hesitate to do business with PG&E — and, potentially, with other California utilities that could also face significant future wildfire costs.

"If we're having a couple billion dollars a year of fire damage and insurance losses, quite apart from PG&E, this is going to put the entire state of California at risk," said V. John White, executive director of the Center for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Technologies, a Sacramento-based trade group.

Continued here.

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Identification of photoproducts of florasulam in water using UPLC-QTOF-MS

Abstract

Here, we aimed to investigate florasulam photodegradation in aquatic environments under UV-visible irradiation. LC-MS/MS was used to explore the photolysis kinetics of florasulam degradation with respect to different light source types, florasulam concentrations, water sources, and pH. We also tested whether the addition of the nitrate ions, Fe³⁺, or I⁻ to the reaction solution influences florasulam photolysis kinetics. NO₃⁻ accelerates florasulam degradation at low concentrations (0.01–1 mg L⁻¹), but decreases the process at higher concentrations. At low concentrations (≤ 0.1 mg L⁻¹), Fe³⁺ enhanced florasulam photodegradation obviously. However, the addition of 0.01–10 mg L⁻¹ I⁻ decreased the degradation rate linearly. The florasulam photolysis rates in alkaline and neutral solutions were higher than that in acidic solutions. The florasulam degradation rate under mercury light irradiation was greater than that under xenon light. The rate of florasulam degradation in distilled water was greater than in tap water, lake water, and rice paddy water. As the concentration of florasulam increased, the photodegradation rate decreased. Six kinds of transformation products (TPs) were isolated and identified using UPLC/Q-TOF-MS. Based on these TPs and their evolutionary processes, we inferred the florasulam degradation mechanisms, identifying four possible florasulam degradation pathways. Cleavage of the florasulam sulfonamide bond yielded TPs2. TPs2 was intermolecularly rearranged to form a SO₂ extrusion compound, TPs3. Cleavage of the [C-F] bonds led to the formation of TPsl, TPs4, and TPs5, while hydroxylation led to the formation of TPs6. We then predicted the stability of each of the florasulam TPs in water. TPs2 and TPs3 rapidly degraded after reaching maximum concentration due to poor light stability. TPs4 and TPs6 were more photostable than florasulam (the parent compound) and may be important contributors to water pollution.

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Man-made US bushfires apparently caused by PG&E, which is being sued for $30b and may take down some renewables too

Everyone "knows" fires are caused by climate change, but how many Australians know that when it comes to the huge Californian fires of October 2017 as many as 750 civil suits have been filed against  Pacific Gas & Electric  (PG&E),the 150 year old utility in California? The fire bill is running at around $30 billion dollars. PG&E are facing financial ruin, calling in a Chapter 11, and going broke.

That's bad news for people filing the claims, but it is also bad news for renewable energy.PG&E are a major holder of some $35 billion dollars in long term green energy contracts many of which are at above market rates. PG&E may not have to pay out those high prices which means the Green industry will be hurt too.

What goes around comes around. Bad science begets bad business. The Green Industry could have cared enough about the environment to speak out about reducing fire risks through managing fuel loads. Instead they were busy putting up windfarms to stop bushfires instead.

Meanwhile their friends are still doing their best to increase fuel loads in order to reduce CO2 (and stop bushfires).

PG&E Bankruptcy Threatens California Wildfire Suits, Green-Power Contracts

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Targetable Fluorescent Probe for dSTORM Super-Resolution Imaging of Live Cell Nucleus DNA

Chem. Commun., 2019, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C8CC08575G, Communication

Xiaodong Zhang, Zhiwei Ye, Xinfu Zhang, Huizi Man, Zhenlong Huang, Ning Li, Yi Xiao
HoeSR, a nucleus specific probe for dSTORM super-resolution imaging of nucleus DNA in live cells, was designed by conjugating a rhodamine fluorophore and a Hoechst tag. HoeSR labels the cell...
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Rare blizzard warning issued for California – massive snow expected

A rare blizzard warning has been issued for the Sierra Nevada mountains of California. Up to 5 feet of snow is expected to fall Wednesday night into Thursday as a strong cold core low pressure system pushes moisture inland from the Pacific Ocean. National Weather Service forecasters in Reno said Tuesday as much as 5…

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