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Toxicity assessment of nanoparticles, now widespread in our environment, is an important issue. We have focused attention on the carcinogenic potential of copper oxide (CuO) and titanium dioxide (TiO(2)). In experiment 1, a sequential pilot study, the effectiveness of a carcinogenic bioassay featuring intraperitoneal…
Electrospinning is a new method used in tissue engineering. It can spin fibers in nanoscale by electrostatic force. A series of thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU)/collagen blend nanofibrous membranes was prepared with different weight ratios and concentrations via electrospinning. The two biopolymers used 1,1,1,3,3,3,-h…
The interest in squaraine compounds, a relatively old class of cyanine-like dyes, has been recently renewed due to their potential usefulness in a large number of technologically relevant fields such as two photon absorbing materials, field effect transistors, solar cells, NIR emitting fluorescent probes and sensitize…
In this paper low-voltage high-energy spark discharges in water and associated bubble oscillations are studied experimentally. Pressure waves emitted during spark discharges and during following bubble oscillations have been recorded and analyzed to determine the radiated acoustic energy and potential energy of the bu…
Reversible control of the helical pitch length and inversion of helical handedness in an induced cholesteric liquid crystal phase were accomplished via a combination of photochemical and thermal isomerizations of a planar chiral azobenzenophane molecule.
The toxicity of engineered nanoparticles is expected to depend in part on their stability in biological systems. To assess the biodurability of engineered nanomaterials in the human digestive system, we adapted an in vitro assay previously used to evaluate the bioaccessibility of metals in contaminated soils. The comp…
Thylakoids, photosynthetic sub-cellular plant structures, have been entrapped within silica network using the sol-gel process. The photocatalytic splitting of H2O into O2 by these structures has been studied using a Clark cell reactor. The influence of the silica precursor concentration on the chemical, morphological…
The effect of hydrostatic pressure on the superconductivity in LiFeAs is investigated up to 1.8 GPa. The superconducting transition temperature, T c , decreases linearly with pressure at a rate of 1.5 K/GPa. The negative pressure coefficient of T c and the high ambient pressure T c indicate that LiFeAs is the high-pre…
The first one-dimensional compounds where [Ln(hfac)(3)] (Ln = Gd, Tb, Dy) building blocks are bridged by a verdazyl-based radical, namely 3-imidazolyl-1,5-dimethyl-6-oxoverdazyl, were prepared and their structures elucidated; the magnetic properties were measured for all compounds and quantitatively fitted for Ln = Gd…
We propose a hierarchical modeling approach for calculating diffusion coefficients and excess chemical potentials of large (non-gaseous) penetrants in polymer melts. The sequence of procedures described in this work includes accelerated, coarse grained molecular dynamics simulations of penetrant diffusion, inverse map…
The random packing of rigid objects has not only engrossed mathematicians since biblical times but is receiving attention for numerous applications and processes involving microgels, granular media, colloids, glasses, liquids, synthetic polymers and biomolecules. While dense random assemblies of single hard spheres ha…
Hydrogen forms more compounds than any other element in the Periodic Table, yet methods for accurately, precisely and rapidly determining its position in a crystal structure are not readily available. The latest generation of high-flux neutron powder diffractometers, operating under optimised collection geometries, al…
Nanoparticles dispersed in polymer melts have recently been shown to decrease the bulk viscosity. This contradicts expectations based on Einstein's well-known theory for effective viscosity of dilute, random dispersions of rigid spheres in Newtonian fluids. In this paper, we examine a continuum hydrodynamic model wher…
A novel series of heterocycle-based NLO chromophores based on different combinations of auxiliary donor (i.e., benzene, thiophene and pyrrole) and auxiliary acceptor (i.e., thiazole with different regiochemistries) were designed and synthesized. Due to the different electron-rich and poor nature of the auxiliary donor…
In this work, exclusive formation of metal oxide nanoparticles confined in ordered mesoporous supports was achieved by a hydrophobic encapsulation route illustrated with the NiO/SBA-15 system. Uniform, discrete and thermally-stable NiO nanoparticles are well-distributed in a confined space. The confined nanoparticles…
Ca(BH4)2 is a promising material for hydrogen storage due to its high gravimetric capacity and expected suitable thermodynamic properties. Experimental reports indicate a more complex reaction pathway than the previously proposed route, including formation of unknown intermediate phases. In this work, the reaction sch…
The adsorption of a collagen fragment on both a hydrophobic, hydrogen-terminated and a hydrophilic, natively oxidised Si surface is investigated using all-atom molecular dynamics. While favourable direct protein-surface interactions via localised contact points characterise adhesion to the hydrophilic surface, evenly…
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Flat left-handed metamaterial (LHM) lens can generate appropriate focusing spot in biological tissue as required in microwave tumor hyperthermia treatment.By using single flat LHM lens to concentrate microwave in a mass of tissue covered by water bolus, microwave hyperthermia scheme is proposed for superficial tumor h…
By using a two-step solid-state reaction method, we successfully fabricated the new family of fluoride-arsenide AeFeAsF compounds (Ae = alkaline-earth elements, Sr, Eu and Ca) with the ZrCuSiAs structure and with the new building block AeF instead of the REO (both the formal charge of the AeF Layer and the REO layer a…