Introduction: Road dust is a group of solid particles that are presented in the urban areas and are originated from both natural and human-induced sources. This study aims to determine concentrations of heavy metals in urban dusts in Behbahan to identify their natural or anthropogenic sources. Materials and Methods: In this study, a total of 20 samples were collected from main roads with diffe...

Observations on small vapour-deposited particles of silver and gold with direct lattice imaging in the Cambridge University 600 kV high-resolution electron microscope have established unambiguously the presence of dislocations in particles as small as 15nm in diameter. The detailed structure of more complicated ' polyparticles ' can also be characterized directly. Knowledge of the internal and ...

Ag retention on follicular dendritic cells (FDCs) is essential for B cell activation and clonal selection within germinal centers. Protein Ag is deposited on FDCs after formation of immune complexes with specific Abs. In this study, by comparing the same antigenic determinant either as soluble protein or virus-like particle (VLP), we demonstrate that VLPs are transported efficiently to murine s...

This article discusses the mechanisms of particle deposition onto cleanroom surfaces. The main mechanism for particles above about 0.5μm is gravitational settling. Turbulent deposition and electrostatic attraction can also occur at all particle sizes, and for particles below 0.5μm Brownian diffusion is important. Measurements of particle deposition rates (PDRs) were made of particles 10μm on wi...

Synthesis of high-purity single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) is demonstrated by a laser heating catalytic CVD method. This method makes it possible to produce SWNTs without the use of an electric furnace or hot filament. SWNTs were synthesized from alcohol using Fe/Co catalyst particles supported on zeolite and Mo/Co particles deposited directly on a substrate Synthesis of high purity SWNTs ...

The nature of trace element carriers contained in sewage and combined sewer overflow (CSO) was investigated by TEM-EDX-Electron diffraction and SEM-EDX. During dry weather, chalcophile elements were found to accumulate in sewer sediments as early diagenetic sulfide phases. The sulfurization of some metal alloys was also evidenced. Other heavy metal carriers detected in sewage include metal allo...

S. Anders,, M. F. Toney, T. Thomson, J.-U. Thiele, and B. D. Terris IBM Almaden Research Center, 650 Harry Road, San Jose, CA 95120 Shouheng Sun, and C. B. Murray IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598 a) Electronic mail: [email protected] Monodisperse FePt nanoparticles were prepared using high temperature solution phase synthesis. Polymer-mediated layer-by-layer gro...

Particle lters (PFs) have shown to be very potent tools for state estimation in nonlinear and/or non-Gaussian state-space models. For certain models, containing a conditionally tractable substructure (typically conditionally linear Gaussian or with nite support), it is possible to exploit this structure in order to obtain more accurate estimates. This has become known as Rao-Blackwellised parti...