Electrospun Carbon Nanofibers Derived from Polyvinyl Alcohol Embedded with Bimetallic Nickle-Chromium Nanoparticles for Sodium Borohydride Dehydrogenation.

Bimetallic NiCr nanoparticles decorated on carbon nanofibers (NiCr@CNFs) were synthesized through electrospinning and investigated as catalysts for hydrogen generation from the dehydrogenation of sodium borohydride (SBH). Four distinct compositions were prepared, with chromium content in the catalysts ranging from 5 to 25 weight percentage (wt%). Comprehensive characterization confirmed the successful formation of bimetallic NiCr@CNFs.

Systematic Investigations of the Solid Solution Zr(V1-xAlx)2 Adopting the Laves Phase Structures.

Laves phases are an interesting field of research when it comes to structural chemistry and physical properties. Investigations of the ternary system Zr-V-Al showed, in contrast to the system Hf-V-Al, that no superstructures can be observed within the solid solution Zr(V1-xAlx)2. High values of x form aluminum rich phases that adopt the hexagonal MgZn2 type structure while low values of x lead to vanadium rich phases that adopt the cubic MgCu2 type.

Skin-brain dialogue in auto-inflammatory diseases: A new route to biomarkers?

Autoinflammatory diseases (AID) are rare systemic inflammatory disorders due to monogenic or polygenic dysfunction of innate immunity. They affect many organs including the brain and the skin. The spectrum of these diseases has been rapidly expanding recently due to newly developed diagnostic tools.

Targetoid skin lesions in a newborn: a case of erythema multiforme.

Erythema multiforme (EM) is an immune-mediated condition that manifests as targetoid skin lesions and can be triggered by various factors, including infections and vaccinations. This case report describes a 41-day-old full-term male infant who developed widespread annular, bullseye-shaped erythematous skin lesions one week after receiving the Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccination. The infant, exclusively breastfed and without a significant past medical history, presented with these lesions but no associated systemic symptoms.

Neural bases of proactive and predictive processing of meaningful sub-word units in speech comprehension.

To comprehend speech, human brains identify meaningful units in the speech stream. But whereas the English '' has 3 word-units, the Arabic equivalent '' is a single word-unit with 3 meaningful sub-word units, called morphemes: a verb stem (''), a subject suffix ('--'), and a direct object pronoun ('-'). It remains unclear whether and how the brain processes morphemes, above and beyond other language units, during speech comprehension.