How reduction temperature influences the structure of perovskite-oxide catalysts during the dry reforming of methane.

Dry reforming of methane is a promising reaction to convert CO and combat climate change. However, the reaction is still not feasible in large-scale industrial applications. The thermodynamic need for high temperatures and the potential of carbon deposition leads to high requirements for potential catalyst materials.

Exsolution on perovskite oxides: morphology and anchorage of nanoparticles.

Perovskites are very promising materials for a wide range of applications (such as catalysis, solid oxide fuel cells…) due to beneficial general properties ( stability at high temperatures) and tunability - doping both A- and B-site cations opens the path to a materials design approach that allows specific properties to be finely tuned towards applications. A major asset of perovskites is the ability to form nanoparticles on the surface under certain conditions in a process called "exsolution". Exsolution leads to the decoration of the material's surface with finely dispersed nanoparticles (which can be metallic or oxidic - depending on the experimental conditions) made from B-site cations of the perovskite lattice (here, doping comes into play, as B-site doping allows control over the constitution of the nanoparticles).

The CECAM electronic structure library and the modular software development paradigm.

First-principles electronic structure calculations are now accessible to a very large community of users across many disciplines, thanks to many successful software packages, some of which are described in this special issue. The traditional coding paradigm for such packages is monolithic, i.e.

Microbial transglutaminase treatment in pasta-production does not affect the immunoreactivity of gliadin with celiac disease patients' sera.

The effect of microbial transglutaminase (MTG)-treatment of pasta-dough on the immunoreactivity with celiac disease patient's sera has been investigated. Modification by MTG has been proven by determination of the MTG reaction product ε-(γ-glutamyl)lysine (3.63 μmol/g protein), which was not detectable in non-MTG-treated pasta.