The development of targeted vehicles for systemic drug delivery relies on optimizing both the cell-targeting ligand and the physicochemical characteristics of the nanoparticle carrier. A versatile platform based on modification of gold nanoparticles with thiolated polymers is presented in which design parameters can be varied independently and systematically. Nanoparticle formulations of varyin...

Ceria, zirconia and mixed cerium-zirconium mesoporous oxides were synthesized and 12 used as supports for sulfur and gold species. The materials were characterised using selected 13 advanced techniques (ICP-OES, elemental analysis, XPS, XRD, N2 adsorption and desorption 14 isotherms, UV-vis, ATR-FTIR, TPR-H2, TG-DTA) which allowed monitoring of the oxidation state 15 of metals (cerium and gold)...

Since a high toxicity of cyanide which use as a reagent in the gold processing plant, thiosulfate has been recognized as a environmental friendly reagent for leaching of gold from ore. After gold leaching process it's important for recovery of gold from solution using adsorption or extraction methods, One of these methods is activated carbon.The loading of gold from industrial thiosulfate solut...

Aims. We constrain the dust distribution and its properties (temperature, emissivity) in inner proto-planetary disks Methods. We performed sub-arcsecond high-sensitivity interferometric observations of the thermal dust emission at 1.4 mm and 2.8 mm in the disks surrounding LkCa 15 and MWC 480, with the new 750 m baselines of the IRAM PdBI array. This provides a linear resolution of ∼ 60 AU at t...

The increasing interest in the use of gold salts as chemotherapeutic agents in the treatment of certain diseases (Hartfall, et al., 1937) has made apparent the necessity of an accurate, specific, and sensitive method for the determination of gold in various biological materials. Moreover, the lack of information regarding the metabolism and pharmacology of this element further emphasizes this n...

However, the conventional gold recovery process is cyanidation, due to the recent environmental laws; researchers are looking for alternative methods for the recovery of gold. Furthermore, the copper anode slime is one of the most important secondary sources of gold (about 1200 ppm). So, the main objective of the current work is gold separation from copper anode slime as a rich secondary source...

The bonding of sulfur to surfaces of gold is an important subject in several areas of chemistry, physics, and materials science. Synchrotron-based high-resolution photoemission and first-principles density-functional (DF) slab calculations were used to study the interaction of sulfur with a well-defined Au(111) surface and polycrystalline gold. Our experimental and theoretical results show a co...

Computer architects have long used simulators to explore microarchitectures and quantitatively analyze design tradeoffs. Though attractive because of their low cost and ease of modification, these software simulators suffer from poor performance. In this paper, we present RAMP Gold, an FPGA-based manycore simulator that outperforms software simulators by orders of magnitude. It models up to 64 ...

several methods have been developed for gold exploration in the past, among which biological base method is known to be the most efficient with least expenses. this method can also be used for latent gold prospects exploration. in the present study, the possibility of applying bacillus cereus frequency in soil as a biological marker was investigated for the exploration of latent gold prospectin...