Fabrication of Aluminum Oxide Thin-Film Devices Based on Atomic Layer Deposition and Pulsed Discrete Feed Method.

This study demonstrates the low-temperature (<100 °C) process for growing a thin silica buffer layer and aluminum oxide by atomic layer deposition (ALD) in the same reaction chamber. Heterogeneous multilayer thin films are prepared by a dual-mode equipment based on atomic layer deposition and plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) techniques. The pulse discrete feeding method (DFM) was used to divide the precursor purging steps into smaller intervals and generate discrete feeds, which improved the saturated distribution of gas precursors, film density and deposition selectivity.

Calcineurin Regulates Conidiation, Chlamydospore Formation and Virulence in f. sp. .

Fusarium wilt of tomato caused by the ascomycetous fungus f. sp. () is widespread in most tomato planting areas.

The antibiotic polymyxin B exhibits novel antifungal activity against Fusarium species.

The genus Fusarium comprises many species, including Fusarium oxysporum, Fusarium solani, Fusarium graminearum and Fusarium verticillioides, and causes severe infections in plants and humans. In clinical settings, Fusarium is the third most frequent mould to cause invasive fungal infections after Aspergillus and the Mucorales. F.

A pyrene-based highly selective turn-on fluorescent chemosensor for iron(III) ions and its application in living cell imaging.

A new pyrene-based chemosensor (1) exhibits excellent selectivity for Fe(3+) ions over a wide range of tested metal ions Ag(+), Ca(2+), Cd(2+), Co(2+), Cu(2+), Fe(2+), Hg(2+), K(+), Mg(2+), Mn(2+), Ni(2+), Pb(2+), and Zn(2+). The binding of Fe(3+) to chemosensor 1 produces an emission band at 507 nm due to the formation of a Py-Py* excimer that is induced by Fe(3+)-binding. The binding ratio of 1-Fe(3+) was determined to be 1:1 from a Job plot.