Luminescence is now extensively used in biology since it constitutes as a very sensitive way of investigations. Several applications of fluorescence concern immunoassays, DNA hybridization, protein interactions, cell imaging, Lab-on-chip etc.;; As non biological fluorescent probes, organic dye molecules and semiconductors quantum dots are the most popular. However, they suffer from drawbacks wh...

The development of ultraminiaturized identification tags has applications in fields ranging from advanced biotechnology to security. This paper describes micrometer-sized glass barcodes containing a pattern of different fluorescent materials that are easily identified by using a UV lamp and an optical microscope. A model DNA hybridization assay using these "microbarcodes" is described. Rare ear...

An optical fiber becomes active by doping its core with one or more atomic elements, usually (but not restricted to) rare-earths (RE’s), more specifically, the lanthanides that occupy the atomic numbers 57 to 71 of the periodic table. As it will be mentioned later in more detail, they use three electrons in bonding to the condensed materials such as crystals and glasses to become triply ionized...

Brittle and Ductile Deformational Structures in Tectonic Zones: The Research Trends in India N MANDAL1*, A CHATTOPADHAYAY2, H B SRIVASTAVA3, T K BISWAL4 and S BOSE5 1Department of Geological Sciences, Jadavpur University, Kolkata 700 032, India 2Department of Geology, University of Delhi, Delhi 110 007, India 3Department of Geology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi 221 005, India 4Department ...

Three decades have passed since the launch of the first international satellite sensor programme designed for monitoring Earth’s resources. Over this period, forest resources have come under increasing pressure, thus their management and use should be underpinned by information on their properties at a number of levels. This paper provides a comprehensive review of how satellite remote sensing ...

We report partial melting of an ultrahigh pressure eclogite in the Mesozoic Sulu orogen, China. Eclogitic migmatite shows successive stages of initial intragranular and grain boundary melt droplets, which grow into a three-dimensional interconnected intergranular network, then segregate and accumulate in pressure shadow areas and then merge to form melt channels and dikes that transport magma t...

1 Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan 2 Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi’an, China 3 Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokosuka, Japan 4 School of Ocean and Earth Science, Tongji University, Shanghai, China 5 Department of Applied Physics, Okayama University of Science, Okayama, Japan 6 Department of Ear...

CHONDRITE PARENT BODIES. T. Kleine, A.N. Halliday, H. Palme, K. Mezger, and A. Markowski, Institut für Isotopengeologie und Mineralische Rohstoffe, ETH Zentrum, Sonneggstr. 5, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland ([email protected]), Department of Earth Sciences, Oxford University, Parks Road, Oxford OX1, United Kingdom, Institut für Geologie und Mineralogie, Universität zu Köln, Zülpicherstr. 49b, 50674...

CHONDRITES BASED ON PARENT BODY PROCESSES. N. Chaumard, B. Devouard, B. Zanda and L. Ferrière. Laboratoire Magmas et Volcans, UMR 6524 Blaise Pascal University – CNRS, 5 rue Kessler, 63038 Clermont-Ferrand, France. E-mail: [email protected]; LMCM, MNHN UMR 7202 CNRS, 61 rue Buffon, 75005 Paris, France; Departments of Earth Sciences/Physics & Astronomy, University of Western Ont...