A thermally enhanced pump-and-treatment method for pentachlorophenol (PCP)-contaminated soil and groundwater has shown potential advantages over the traditional pump-and-treatment method. Studies on the desorption kinetics of PCP from aquifer soil are the first step toward quantitative assessment of the newly proposed method. Five series of desorption batch tests were conducted at different tem...

Dynamic DNA nanotechnology often uses toehold-mediated strand displacement for controlling reaction kinetics. Although the dependence of strand displacement kinetics on toehold length has been experimentally characterized and phenomenologically modeled, detailed biophysical understanding has remained elusive. Here, we study strand displacement at multiple levels of detail, using an intuitive mo...

Risk-based assessment methods are commonly used at the contaminated sites by hydrocarbon pollutants. This paper presents the results of a two-dimensional finite volume model of reactive transport of biodegradable BTEX which have been developed for the saturated zone of an unconfined aquifer in the Pump station area of Tehran oil refinery, Iran. The model governing equations were numerically sol...

The master equation of two-step nucleation is numerically solved with parameters characterizing isothermal homogeneous ice crystals and water droplets in steam below the freezing temperature. time dependences crystal droplet size distributions rates as well rate are determined at different constant supersaturations. stationary values these obtained a wide supersaturation range. It found that wh...

The BvgAS two-component system controls virulence in the human respiratory pathogen Bordetella pertussis, the etiological agent of whooping cough. BvgAS is unlike orthodox two-component signal transduction systems in that it employs a four step phosphorelay from the sensor protein BvgS to the response regulator BvgA, instead of the more common two step phosphotransfer. Further, B. pertussis dis...

Dynamic DNA nanotechnology often uses toeholdmediated strand displacement for controlling reaction kinetics. Although the dependence of strand displacement kinetics on toehold length has been experimentally characterized and phenomenologically modeled, detailed biophysical understanding has remained elusive. Here, we study strand displacement at multiple levels of detail, using an intuitive mod...

In this research, Graphene Oxide- Gold nanoparticles (AuNP/GO) were easily fabricated by a redox reaction between GO and chloroauric acid without using any additional reductant and then used to stabilize Pickering emulsions. (AuNP/GO) was investigated by FT-IR spectroscopy. The changes of parameters such as contact time, pH, Amoxicillin initial concentration and temperature were tested and inve...

We demonstrate an approach to automatically generating kinetic models of metabolic networks. In a first step, the metabolic network is characterised by its stoichiometric structure. Then to each reaction a kinetic equation is associated describing the metabolic flux. For the kinetics we use a formula that is universally applicable to reactions with arbitrary numbers of substrates and products. ...