Surfactant films on solid surfaces have attracted much attention because of their scientific interest and applications, such as surface treatment agent, or for micro- or nano-scale templates for microfluidic devices. In this study, anionic surfactant sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) solutions with various charged inorganic salts was spread on a glass substrate and dried to form an SDS thin film. At...

The characterization of nanostructures down to the atomic scale is essential to understand some physical properties. Such a characterization is possible today using direct imaging methods such as aberration-corrected high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM), when iteratively backed by advanced modeling produced by theoretical structure calculations and image calculations. Aberra...

Engineering efficient, directional electronic communication between living and nonliving systems has the potential to combine the unique characteristics of both materials for advanced biotechnological applications. However, the cell membrane is designed by nature to be an insulator, restricting the flow of charged species; therefore, introducing a biocompatible pathway for transferring electron...

Abstract Polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) production at a large scale by purple phototrophic bacteria (PPB) is hindered due to high costs and limited recovery its consumption during starvation periods. The present study identified cost-effective inorganic acids as inactivation methods for PPB obtain higher PHA recovery. was performed on reactors of different scales (10 L 0.5 L) grow recover subsequen...

PCMs are attractive for the future generation of buildings, where energy efficiency targets and thermal comfort expectations increasingly prioritized. Experimental analysis local processes in these dynamic components whole-building consumption predictions essential proper implementation buildings. This paper discusses experimental thermophysical characteristics both a latent heat storage materi...

A conventional and general route has been exploited to the high yield synthesis of many kinds of highly crystalline metal oxide and mixed oxide nanocrystals with different morphologies including belt, rod, truncated-octahedron, cubic, sphere, sheet via the hydrothermal reaction of inorganic precursors in aqueous solution in the presence of bifunctional 6-aminohexanoic acid (AHA) molecules as a ...

High-resolution size-resolved mass concentration of organic and inorganic species present in/on sub-micron particles measured during the PACIFIC 2001 field study in the Lower Fraser Valley (LFV) are presented. The measurements of major particulate species (organics, sulfate, nitrate and ammonium) were made in situ and in real time at three different sites representing urban (Slocan Park), semi-...