We studied the thermoelectric and thermophysical properties of Cu 2 Te-Tl 2 Te pseudo binary system. Polycrystalline samples of CuTl 9 Te 5 , Cu 2 Te and Tl 2 Te were prepared and characterized. All samples indicated positive values of the Seebeck coefficient and very low values of the thermal conductivity. The values of the thermal conductivity of CuTl 9 Te 5 and Tl 2 Te at room temperature were 0.49 and 0.35 Wm À1 K À1 , respectively. These very low thermal conductivity values could be associated with the material's thermophysical properties such as the average sound velocity. CuTl 9 Te 5 was found to show relatively high thermoelectric figure of merit ZT; the maximum ZT value was 0.38 obtained at 592 K.
The authors propose metal-polysilicate complexes as new inorganic polymer coagulants for the removal of colloidal suspensions. In the first part of this paper, procedures of silicic acid polymerization to attain very higher molecular weight polysilicates in a much more stable state than conventional methods are discussed. Then, a procedure for introducing metal ions such as aluminum and iron into the polymerized silicic acid is presented to give coagulation capability, i.e. charge-neutralizing capacity, to the polysilicic acid. Several new inorganic polymers are thus prepared as cationic coagulants. In the final part, the effectiveness of the proposed aluminum- or ferric-polysilicate coagulants for coagulation and flocculation is evaluated by means of conventional jar tests and pilot plant experiments. These studies show that both the resulting water quality and the rate of removal after sedimentation are greatly improved in comparison with conventional inorganic coagulants. Unlike conventional organic coagulants, these inorganic polymer coagulants are considered to be safe for human health because the safety of silicates and metal coagulants has been demonstrated by many years of utilization.
The authors tried to enhance the thermoelectric figure of merit of AgTlTe with extremely low thermal conductivity by controlling the carrier concentration. Pd- or Cu-doped AgTlTe was prepared and characterized. Pd did not dissolve in AgTlTe, whereas Cu fully dissolved up to x=0.4 in Ag1−xCuxTlTe. The effect of Cu doping was investigated by measuring the thermoelectric properties of polycrystalline Ag1−xCuxTlTe (x=0−0.4) from room temperature to slightly below the melting temperature. Cu doping resulted in a net increase in the hole concentration of AgTlTe. Cu doping improved the power factor of AgTlTe while keeping the thermal conductivity extremely low, leading to an enhancement of the thermoelectric figure of merit.
The hypothesis that in tumor-bearing animals an increase of host hepatic zinc metallothionein (Zn-MT) causes a restriction of zinc in the tumor tissue was studied. Three types of tumors were induced in laboratory mice by cell transplant. Tumor growth appears to be inhibited under zinc-deficient conditions, even in cases where zinc deficiency was started after tumor cell transplant. The survival times of tumor-bearing mice were prolonged by administration of cadmium chloride, which induces the synthesis of a combined zinc-cadmium metallothionein derivative in the host liver, but not in the tumor tissue, leading to an increase of hepatic zinc in the treated animals. The uptake of 65Zn by the liver of Cd-treated, tumor bearing mice was significantly higher than that of controls whereas uptake of 65Zn by tumor cells was significantly higher in controls than in the treated animals. These results suggest that restriction of zinc intake suppresses tumor growth.
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