In this study a facile approach to employ Copper nanoparticle (CuNPs) and multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNT) as the nanomaterial for selective detection of asulam have been investigated. This work reports the electrocatalytic oxidation of asulam on glassy carbon electrodes (GCE) modified with multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNT), ionic liquids (IL), chitosan (Chit) and copper nanoparticles ...

Solar devices based on semiconductor nanoparticles require the use of conductive ligands; however, replacing the native, insulating ligands with conductive metal chalcogenide complexes introduces structural defects within the crystalline nanostructure that act as traps for charge carriers. We utilized atomically thin semiconductor nanoplatelets as a convenient platform for studying, both micros...

Near-infrared surface plasmon resonance imaging (SPRI) microscopy is used to detect and characterize the adsorption of single polymeric and protein nanoparticles (PPNPs) onto chemically modified gold thin films in real time. The single-nanoparticle SPRI responses, Δ%RNP, from several hundred adsorbed nanoparticles are collected in a single SPRI adsorption measurement. Analysis of Δ%RNP frequenc...

COVER: Colorized, high-resolution transmission electron microscope lattice-fringe image of seven nanoparticles of UO 2 produced by the activity of sulfate-reducing bacteria. Note that the largest uraninite particle is <3 nm in diameter (Suzuki and Banfield, in preparation). Example: Predominantly inorganic nanoparticle formation in acid drainage 3 Other inorganic pathways for formation of nanop...

oxide nanoparticles can exhibit unique physical and chemical properties due to their limited size and a high density of corner or edge surface sites. in this study, mgo nanoparticle was synthesized using mg(ch3coo)2 and hexamethylenetetramine as starting materials. the structure and optical properties of these particles are investigated by using x-ray diffraction (xrd), scanning electron micros...

Diminazene aceturate is a trypanocide with unwanted toxicity and limited efficacy. It was reasoned that conjugating diminazene aceturate to functionalized nanoparticle would lower untoward toxicity while improving selectivity and therapeutic efficacy. Silver and gold nanoparticles were evaluated for their capacities to serve as carriers for diminazene aceturate. The silver and gold nanoparticle...

Magnetic modification of microbial cells enables to prepare smart biocomposites in bioremediation. In this study, we constructed an efficient biocomposite by assembling Fe3O4 nanoparticles onto the surface of Sphingomonas sp. XLDN2-5 cells. The average particle size of Fe3O4 nanoparticles was about 20 nm with 45.5 emu g-1 saturation magnetization. The morphology of Sphingomonas sp. XLDN2-5 cell...