This is my first publication where I am the first author!
It took a while, but here is the final version:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41396-021-01034-5
These bacteria use iodine oxyanions for breathing instead of oxygen. We found the genes involved and their distribution in metagenomes globally. There's also a pretty picture of the main character! This is an emerging field, and I hope to put out more in the coming year. I hope you all like it!
These bacteria use iodine oxyanions to breathe instead of oxygen. We identified the genes involved, and their distribution in meta genomes globally.
Our group just published a preprint on this emerging metabolism:
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.28.424624v1.full
Thoughts and feedback are greatly appreciated.
I got a himalayan salt it also contains pottasium iodate is it a good source of iodine?
Hi I'm located in Canada and I'm doing a study relating to iodine stability in multi fortified salt but I need salt iodized with potassium iodate instead of potassium iodide (which is the standard here and in the U.S.). Does anyone know how to prepare it or where I can obtain it. I've had trouble to spread the tiny amount of iodate over the large quantity of sodium chloride. I've tried puttong the iodate in solution and spraying it but it does not mix homogeneously. Any help is appreciated.
Hello,
I am reaching out because I am generally quite ignorant to how one goes about acquiring/finding certain minerals. I am a researcher that is interested in iodine geochemistry, and I am currently looking for iodine containing minerals. My questions for the community are two fold:
- Does anyone know any minerals that contain iodine? I currently know about Dietzeite, Bruggenite, and Lautarite, but I'd be interest to know if there are any other ones that I may have missed while looking around.
- Where would one go about acquiring these minerals? I have looked on some websites that claim to sell minerals, but I have not been able to find anyone selling samples of these minerals. Any recommendations would be highly appreciated.
Thanks!
For those assisting Lord Jean in the pursuit of collection perfection, I humbly thank you and ask this question...how accurate is the map now that weβre a few days post update? Iβve been away more than Iβd like, so Iβm unable to join the hunt in collecting goodies.
Iβve been seeing we have some new cycles...can anyone break it down for certain, or explain it since weβre almost at a week into the new content?
- Title spelling fail...
Multitalented: The introduction of ammonium into a bismuth iodate fluoride to give (NH4)Bi2(IO3)2F5 led to a crystal showing a subtle balance of a strong second harmonic generation effect, large birefringence, and a high laser damage threshold. In particular, the crystal exhibited unusual thermochromism. Such multifunctional behavior expands the potential of nonlinear optical materials (see picture).
Abstract
An ammoniumβcontaining metal iodate fluoride compound, (NH4)Bi2(IO3)2F5, featuring a twoβdimensional doubleβlayered framework constructed by [BiO2F5]6β and [BiO4F4]9β polyhedra, as well as [IO3]β groups, was successfully synthesized. The wellβordered alignment of these SHGβactive units leads to an extraordinary strong SHG response of 9.2 times that of KDP. Moreover, this compound possesses a large birefringence (Ξn=0.0690 at 589.3β nm), a wide energy band gap (Eg=3.88β eV), and a high laser damage threshold (LDT; 40.2ΓAgGaS2). In particular, thermochromic behavior was observed for the first time in this type of compound. Such multifunctional crystals will expand the application of nonlinear optical materials.
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