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Summary Recently, we have reported a noble method of preparing Ag/Rh bimetallic nanoparticles with a pseudo-core/shell structure. We simply mix the dispersions of poly(N-vinyl-2-pyrrolidone)(PVP)-protected Ag and Rh nanoparticles in solution at room temperature. We found that the mixture of dispersions forms bimetallic nanoparticles in a pseudo-core/shell structure on standing. We call this process the ‘self-assembling’ or ‘self-organizing’. In this study we seek for a thermodynamic driving force for this process by determining the enthalpy of the interaction among three pairs of nanoparticles by isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC). The results indicate that the interaction between each pair is strongly exothermic, and that among the pairs studied here the strength of the exothermic interaction is in the order of Ag/Pt<Ag/Pd<Ag/Rh.
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The time dependences of the thermal power of aqueous myoglobin solutions were measured by microcalorimeter at 298.15 K. Exothermic reactions occurred in aqueous myoglobin solutions due to the metabolism of aerobic microbes, and these roughly consisted of four phases. The generation times obtained were about (555) min for the logarithmic exothermal reaction phase. The total energies were considerably dependent on the amount of oxygen present, suggesting strongly that the exothermic reaction was caused by aerobic microbes. The apparent thermal metabolic rates were positively dependent on the concentration of myoglobin, probably because of the effects of myoglobin as a food source and/or as a donor of oxygen.
