Western blot analysis is a widely used technique for protein immunodetection. Its current format, however is unsuitable for multiplex detection of proteins, primarily due to intrinsic limitations of standard organic dyes employed as probes. Quantum dot (QD) semiconductor nanoparticles exhibit significant advantages over organic dyes, including their broad absorption bands, narrow, tunable, and ...

Wastewaters from textile industry contain various pollutants including a high content of organic matter, surfactants, additives and dyes. Dyes have obtained notoriety as hazardous substances, because most of them are toxic and considered to be resistant to biodegradation. Recently, advanced oxidation processes (AOP) have received considerable attention because it is possible to degrade organic ...

In this paper theoretical study by using DFT method on three conjugated compound based on 2-styryl-5-phenylazo-pyrrole is reported. These dyes contain one carboxy, two carboxy and one sulfonic acid anchoring groups, the aim is to investigate their effects on the electronic structure. The theoretical knowledge of the HOMO and LUMO energy levels of the components is cannot be ignored in investiga...

Red, green and blue LCD filters are typically fabricated using pigments such as C.I. Pigment Red 254, C.I. Pigment Green 36 and C.I. Pigment Blue 15:6, respectively, by means of a photolithographic process. However the use of pigments can cause significant reflection and scattering of light, leading to reduced light transmission and giving rise to lower contrast ratios. These considerations are...

Manganese dioxide (MnO2) nanosheets have recently been demonstrated to be particularly attractive for fluorescent sensing and imaging; however, almost all MnO2 nanosheets-based fluorescent assays have been developed with emissive nanoparticles as the probes. In this study, we developed a novel strategy to use organic dyes, instead of emissive nanoparticles, as the probe to construct a platform ...

High extinction coefficients and easily tunable spectral properties of π conjugated donor-acceptor dyes are of superior advantage for the design of new metalfree organic sensitizers for applications in dye-sensitized solar cells. Ultrafast transient absorption spectroscopy on the femtosecond and nanosecond time scales provided deep insights into the dependence of charge carrier dynamics in full...

The development of new highly sensitive and selective methods for microarray-based analysis is a great challenge because, for many bioassays, the amount of genetic material available for analysis is extremely limited. Currently, imaging and detection of DNA microarrays are based primarily on the use of organic dyes. To overcome the problems of photobleaching and low signal intensities of organi...

Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs) have been extensively investigated for solar energy conversion by using various combinations of inorganic semiconductors and organic sensitizers because of their low cost, easy production, and high efficiency. For efficient visible-light absorption, various organic dyes have been intensively exploited because of their advantages, such as their high molar extinc...

To examine the strengths and limitations of the time-dependent density functional theory in calculating the absorption wavelengths of dye, 130, non-radical, radical and biradical coloured organic compounds, including perylenimide, porphyrin, azobenzene, quinone, croconaine, squaraine and push–pull-type colorants, were randomly selected. The first intense electronic transitions were satisfactori...