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Ban on entry of unregistered Keralites through Talapady

Surge in number of returnees without registration




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Decks cleared for repatriation of evacuees from Maldives

They are set to arrive at Kochi port today




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HC to hold sitting on transport of returnees

A division bench of the Kerala High Court will hold a special sitting on Sunday to consider issues pertaining to the transport of Keralites from acros




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Learning app offers free service

Edusap can be downloaded from Playstore and Appstore




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Teacher of Delhi school involved in distributing ration tests COVID-19 positive

The teacher was posted at a primary school in Wazirabad under the North Delhi Municipal Corporation.




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Coronavirus | West Bengal govt forms teams for surveillance support, monitoring of treatment at hospitals

The team members will pay regular visits to these hospitals and send reports to the department, the state government said in an order.




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Stranded people can travel on ST buses free of cost in Maharashtra

Bus services for intra-State migrants to begin on Monday; non-stop journeys envisaged




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Reply to plea seeking supply of food to people without ration cards: HC to State

Migrants, tribals have no money to buy food due to lockdown: PIL




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Erode administration clarifies on list of shops that can be opened

With confusion prevailing over opening of shops, the district administration has issued clarification and released list of shops that can be opened an




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1st batch of 326 Indians stranded in U.K. arrives in Mumbai

The first batch of 326 Indian nationals stranded in the U.K. due to the coronavirus-linked global travel restrictions arrived in Mumbai from London ea




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3 members of White House virus task force in quarantine

Officials said they were stepping up safety protocols




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12 rescued so far after portion of chawl collapses in Kandivali, NDRF called in

Search and rescue operations are still under way, incident escalated to a Level II emergency




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India, China troops face off at Naku La in Sikkim, several injured

Troops disengaged after dialogue and interaction at local level, Army sources said




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Commodity arrivals surge ahead of week-long shutdown at APMC Vashi

While arrivals of vegetables remained resilient with a fewer number of trucks enter into evening also, the biggest surge was seen in fruit supply.




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Learn the art of living with Covid-19 pandemic: Nitin Gadkari to retailers

Gadkari also assured the retailers of looking into their demands of financial aid from the government




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The competition between dehydrogenation and dehydration reactions for primary and secondary alcohols over gallia: unravelling the effects of molecular and electronic structure via a two-pronged theoretical/experimental approach

Catal. Sci. Technol., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C9CY02603G, Paper
Lorella Izzo, Tommaso Tabanelli, Fabrizio Cavani, Paola Blair Vàsquez, Carlo Lucarelli, Massimo Mella
The relative dehydrogenation/dehydration reactivity imparted by nanostructured gallium(III) oxide on alcohols was investigated via electronic structure calculations, reactivity tests and DRIFT-IR spectroscopy.
To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above.
The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry




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Ahmedabad youth offers model for quicker detection

For Ujjawal Panchal, a 21-year-old undergraduate who is in his final year at a college in Chennai, getting stuck in his hometown of Ahmedabad due to the lockdown seems to have opened new doors.




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Delhi doctor takes off safety gear to help critical patient

Dr Zahid Abdul Majeed, a critical care specialist at AIIMS recently saved a critically-ill patient suffering from Covid-19 while putting his own life at risk of contracting the infection. He took off his protective goggles to re-intubate a patient keeping in mind the imminent death of the patient if he failed. Dr Zahid has now been advised quarantine for 14 days.




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HDFC Asset Management Company sees flat profit growth in march quarter

Fund house held sizeable market share in individual investors' segment




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‘Disaster could have been of a greater magnitude’

The tank behaved like a pressure cooker, say experts




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Emission of vapours has been contained, says DGP

‘But people will be allowed to return only after a few more days’





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Family members of stranded pilgrims seek govt. help

With 22 senior citizens from Madurai, who were on a pilgrimage to north India, stranded in Gaya in Bihar for over 40 days following the lockdown, fami




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‘No short supply of Aavin milk’

Minister for Dairy Development K.T. Rajenthra Bhalaji, on Saturday, said there was no short supply of Aavin milk in any part of Chennai or Tamil Nadu.




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India plans over 100 flights during second phase of evacuation abroad

To link countries where no Indian carrier presently flies




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Rashtriya Chemicals & Fertilisers records 35 per cent hike in sale of ‘Suphala’ fertilisers

A PIB press statement said that Rashtriya Chemicals & Fertilisers Ltd (RCF) has registered a hike of 35.47 per cent in the sale of fertilisers und




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Eight of top-10 firms lose Rs 2.50 lakh crore in m-cap

Bharti Airtel added Rs 8,537.95 crore to its m-cap to stand at Rs 2,89,144.54 crore




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No player makes a debut at the age of 30, BCCI doesn't entertain such players: Irfan Pathan

Pathan's statement came during an Instagram Live session with Suresh Raina.




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COVID-19: Return of Bundesliga in fresh jeopardy as Dynamo Dresden confirms two new coronavirus cases ahead of restart

The Bundesliga and Bundesliga 2 are set to be back underway on May 16.




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Rock 'n' Roll legend Little Richards dies of bone cancer

Little Richards died on Saturday at the age of 87




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'Ye bewakoof kisi aur ko banana': Mohammed Shami recalls instance when MS Dhoni told him off over a bouncer

The incident took place back in 2014 during India's test match against New Zealand.




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'Absolute chaotic disaster': Leaked call reveals Obama's take on Trump's handling of COVID-19 pandemic

During his call with 3,000 members of the Obama Alumni Association, Obama urged his supporters to show their full support towards Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden.




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Guj: 5 of family hacked to death over old enmity

Five persons of a family were brutally hacked to death in Hamirpur village, 27 km from Rapar town of Kutch, as the simmering animosity between members of two communities came to a boil on Saturday.




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Call of duty gets equal attention as her infant

As a mother of newborn baby, this 24-year-old emergency medical technician (EMT) working with the 108 emergency ambulance service was eligible for six months maternity leave. But made of sterner stuff, Riddhi Chavda, couldn’t wait to rejoin duty.




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'Sad that our PM didn't condole death of PK, Chuni'

With the nationwide lockdown in place to fight the spread of COVID-19, the first condolence meeting held on virtual platform. Banerjee had died on March 20 after a prolonged illness while Goswami succumbed to cardiac arrest on April 30.




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Two members of White House virus task force in quarantine







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Russo Brothers to recommend and discuss movies as a part of Instagram series




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Thousands of migrant workers enter Haryana from Punjab




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Punjab and Haryana HC to hold 10 benches for hearing of urgent cases over video conferencing




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This is not the best of times. It is the worst




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Have you heard of the Zone diet? Here’s all you need to know




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Banned Umar Akmal refuses to divulge details of two meetings with suspected bookies: PCB sources




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Low-dose X-ray structure analysis of cytochrome c oxidase utilizing high-energy X-rays

To investigate the effect of high-energy X-rays on site-specific radiation-damage, low-dose diffraction data were collected from radiation-sensitive crystals of the metal enzyme cytochrome c oxidase. Data were collected at the Structural Biology I beamline (BL41XU) at SPring-8, using 30 keV X-rays and a highly sensitive pixel array detector equipped with a cadmium telluride sensor. The experimental setup of continuous sample translation using multiple crystals allowed the average diffraction weighted dose per data set to be reduced to 58 kGy, and the resulting data revealed a ligand structure featuring an identical bond length to that in the damage-free structure determined using an X-ray free-electron laser. However, precise analysis of the residual density around the ligand structure refined with the synchrotron data showed the possibility of a small level of specific damage, which might have resulted from the accumulated dose of 58 kGy per data set. Further investigation of the photon-energy dependence of specific damage, as assessed by variations in UV-vis absorption spectra, was conducted using an on-line spectrometer at various energies ranging from 10 to 30 keV. No evidence was found for specific radiation damage being energy dependent.




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Fast identification of mineral inclusions in diamond at GSECARS using synchrotron X-ray microtomography, radiography and diffraction

Mineral inclusions in natural diamond are widely studied for the insight that they provide into the geochemistry and dynamics of the Earth's interior. A major challenge in achieving thorough yet high rates of analysis of mineral inclusions in diamond derives from the micrometre-scale of most inclusions, often requiring synchrotron radiation sources for diffraction. Centering microinclusions for diffraction with a highly focused synchrotron beam cannot be achieved optically because of the very high index of refraction of diamond. A fast, high-throughput method for identification of micromineral inclusions in diamond has been developed at the GeoSoilEnviro Center for Advanced Radiation Sources (GSECARS), Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, USA. Diamonds and their inclusions are imaged using synchrotron 3D computed X-ray microtomography on beamline 13-BM-D of GSECARS. The location of every inclusion is then pinpointed onto the coordinate system of the six-circle goniometer of the single-crystal diffractometer on beamline 13-BM-C. Because the bending magnet branch 13-BM is divided and delivered into 13-BM-C and 13-BM-D stations simultaneously, numerous diamonds can be examined during coordinated runs. The fast, high-throughput capability of the methodology is demonstrated by collecting 3D diffraction data on 53 diamond inclusions from Juína, Brazil, within a total of about 72 h of beam time.




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Microfluidic electrochemical cell for in situ structural characterization of amorphous thin-film catalysts using high-energy X-ray scattering

Porous, high-surface-area electrode architectures are described that allow structural characterization of interfacial amorphous thin films with high spatial resolution under device-relevant functional electrochemical conditions using high-energy X-ray (>50 keV) scattering and pair distribution function (PDF) analysis. Porous electrodes were fabricated from glass-capillary array membranes coated with conformal transparent conductive oxide layers, consisting of either a 40 nm–50 nm crystalline indium tin oxide or a 100 nm–150 nm-thick amorphous indium zinc oxide deposited by atomic layer deposition. These porous electrodes solve the problem of insufficient interaction volumes for catalyst thin films in two-dimensional working electrode designs and provide sufficiently low scattering backgrounds to enable high-resolution signal collection from interfacial thin-film catalysts. For example, PDF measurements were readily obtained with 0.2 Å spatial resolution for amorphous cobalt oxide films with thicknesses down to 60 nm when deposited on a porous electrode with 40 µm-diameter pores. This level of resolution resolves the cobaltate domain size and structure, the presence of defect sites assigned to the domain edges, and the changes in fine structure upon redox state change that are relevant to quantitative structure–function modeling. The results suggest the opportunity to leverage the porous, electrode architectures for PDF analysis of nanometre-scale surface-supported molecular catalysts. In addition, a compact 3D-printed electrochemical cell in a three-electrode configuration is described which is designed to allow for simultaneous X-ray transmission and electrolyte flow through the porous working electrode.




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Linear array detector for online diagnostics of spectral distributions at MHz repetition rates

Free-electron lasers (FELs) based on superconducting accelerator technology and storage ring facilities operate with bunch repetition rates in the MHz range, and the need arises for bunch-by-bunch electron and photon diagnostics. For photon-pulse-resolved measurements of spectral distributions, fast one-dimensional profile monitors are required. The linear array detector KALYPSO (KArlsruhe Linear arraY detector for MHz-rePetition rate SpectrOscopy) has been developed for electron bunch or photon pulse synchronous read-out with frame rates of up to 2.7 MHz. At the FLASH facility at DESY, a current version of KALYPSO with 256 pixels has been installed at a grating spectrometer as online diagnostics to monitor the pulse-resolved spectra of the high-repetition-rate FEL pulses. Application-specific front-end electronics based on MicroTCA standard have been developed for data acquisition and processing. Continuous data read-out with low latency in the microsecond range enables the integration into fast feedback applications. In this paper, pulse-resolved FEL spectra recorded at 1.0 MHz repetition rate for various operation conditions at FLASH are presented, and the first application of an adaptive feedback for accelerator control based on photon beam diagnostics is demonstrated.




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Soft X-ray varied-line-spacing gratings fabricated by near-field holography using an electron beam lithography-written phase mask

A fabrication method comprising near-field holography (NFH) with an electron beam lithography (EBL)-written phase mask was developed to fabricate soft X-ray varied-line-spacing gratings (VLSGs). An EBL-written phase mask with an area of 52 mm × 30 mm and a central line density greater than 3000 lines mm−1 was used. The introduction of the EBL-written phase mask substantially simplified the NFH optics for pattern transfer. The characterization of the groove density distribution and diffraction efficiency of the fabricated VLSGs indicates that the EBL–NFH method is feasible and promising for achieving high-accuracy groove density distributions with corresponding image properties. Vertical stray light is suppressed in the soft X-ray spectral range.