In recent years, dielectrophoresis based microfluidics systems have been used to manipulate colloids, inert particles, and biological microparticles, such as red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets, cancer cells, bacteria, yeast, micro‌organisms, proteins, DNA, etc. In the current study the governing electric potential equations have been solved in the presence of cell for the purpose of ...

In this research, the effects of B, O and B&O−doped on the SO2 gas adsorption on the surface of the (4, 4) armchair AlNNTs are investigated by using DFT method. From optimized structures the geometrical and electrical properties, adsorption energy, gap energy, global hardness, electrical potential, HOMO−LUMO orbitals, density of states (DOS) plots, electrostatic potential (ESP) plots and NMR pa...

The Poisson-Boltzmann theory has become widely accepted in modeling electrostatic solvation interactions in biomolecular calculations. However the standard practice of atomic point charges in molecular mechanics force fields introduces singularity into the Poisson-Boltzmann equation. The finite-difference/finite-volume discretization approach to the Poisson-Boltzmann equation alleviates the num...

Many signaling events require the binding of cytoplasmic proteins to cell membranes by recognition of specific charged lipids, such as phosphoinositol-phosphates. As a model for a protein-membrane binding site, we consider one charged phosphoinositol phosphate (PtdIns(3)P) embedded in a phosphatidylcholine bilayer. As the protein-membrane binding is driven by electrostatic interactions, continu...

DNA shape variation and the associated variation in minor groove electrostatic potential are widely exploited by proteins for DNA recognition. Here we show that the hydroxyl radical cleavage pattern is a quantitative measure of DNA backbone solvent accessibility, minor groove width, and minor groove electrostatic potential, at single nucleotide resolution. We introduce maps of DNA shape and ele...

We report a new class of MEMS resonant potential sensor based on the mode localization effect using a 3-degree-of-freedom (DoF) electrically weakly coupled resonator system. As opposed to previously reported electrically coupled 2DoF mode-localized resonant sensors, it can be shown in theory that the 3DoF structure has an improved sensitivity without sacrificing signal transduction, in addition...

Human lysozyme is a key component of the innate immune system, and recombinant forms of the enzyme represent promising leads in the search for therapeutic agents able to treat drug-resistant infections. The wild type protein, however, fails to participate effectively in clearance of certain infections due to inherent functional limitations. For example, wild type lysozymes are subject to electr...

Telecommunications providers expect products to perform reliably during operation in the field. Achieving the expected hardware reliability is due to an amalgamation of multiple factors. A significant contribution to reliable performance results from the incorporation of specific materials, which are very corrosion resistant and electrostatic discharge (ESD) safe during the design and manufactu...