Recycling rare earth elements (REEs) used in advanced materials such as Nd magnets is important for the efficient use of REE resources when the supply of several REEs is limited. In this work, the feasibility of using salmon milt for REE recovery and separation was examined, along with the identification of the binding site of REEs in salmon milt. Results showed that (i) salmon milt has a suffi...

Introduction Chromatography is an effective and very useful method for separation and purification of organic compounds that can be used even for complex mixtures. Chromatography separates components of a mixture based upon how well they are adsorbed on an inert phase (the stationary phase) versus how well they dissolve in a liquid phase (the mobile phase) (Figure 1). A mixture is introduced t...

Introduction Chromatography is an effective and very useful method for separation and purification of organic compounds that can be used even for complex mixtures. Chromatography separates components of a mixture based upon how well they are adsorbed on an inert phase (the stationary phase) versus how well they dissolve in a liquid phase (the mobile phase) (Figure 1). A mixture is introduced t...

Computerization is necessary to build the database of chromatography coupled mass spectrometric analytical data. On the basis of this proteomic data we can identify the proteins as biomarkers which are expressing dissimilarity between healthy and disease condition. Affinity chromatography is one of the fastest liquid chromatographic methods for the separation and purification of biomolecules du...

Artificial receptors have been in use for several decades as sensor elements, in affinity separation, and as models for investigation of molecular recognition . Although there have been numerous publications on the use of molecular modeling in characterization of their affinity and selectivity, very few attempts have been made on the application of molecular modeling in computational design of ...

Over the past two decades, self assembled monolayers (SAMs) (Love et al., 2005; Smith et al., 2004; Ulman, 1996) have been extensively studied due to their many applications in various fields such as electrochemistry (Eckerman et al., 2010), biosensors (Nyquist et al., 2000), protein separation (Chun and Stroeve, 2002) and enantiomer separation (Mastai, 2009). SAMs are organic assemblies formed...

The interplay of adhesion and phase separation is studied theoretically for two-component membranes that can phase separate into two fluid phases such as liquid-ordered and liquid-disordered phases. Many adhesion geometries provide two different environments for these membranes and then partition the membranes into two segments that differ in their composition. Examples are provided by adhering...

A facile and useful method for preparing caged DNAs was developed. The method includes a caging reaction of a linear dsDNA having a minimal sequence of protein expression with Bio-Bhc-diazo and affinity separation of the caged DNA. Effective suppression and photo-mediated restoration of protein expression were demonstrated.

We present a polymer-enhanced capillary transient isotachophoresis (PectI) selection methodology for acquisition of high-affinity (kinetically inert) DNA aptamers capable of recognizing distinct microbial cell surfaces, which requires only a single electrophoretic separation between particles (free cells and cells bound with aptamers) and molecules (unbound or dissociated DNA) in free solution.