Fluorescein and rhodamine B modified mesoporous silica particles were synthesized by post-grafting and co-condensation approaches. The materials exhibited different pore size distributions, particle shapes and sizes. The materials were characterized by nitrogen sorption, scanning electron microscopy and fluorescence spectroscopy. The Förster resonance energy transfer between the selected dye pa...

Aim: To compare bacterial leakage in root canals obturated with the modified single-cone, lateral condensation, and continuous wave of condensation techniques. Methods: Distobuccal root canals of maxillary molars were shaped up to ProTaper F2 and obturated with modified singlecone, lateral condensation or continuous wave of condensation technique. Two-chamber bacterial model using Enterococcus ...

LaAlO3 perovskites, as such and with 25% molar Al substitution by Cu, Co, or Ga, have been prepared sol-gel methods tested heterogeneous catalysts in the gas-phase conversion of ethanol. presented a significant acidic character, high formation ethylene ethanol dehydration. B-site substitutions increased basicity catalysts, favoring dehydrogenation to acetaldehyde. The most reducible Cu- Co-subs...

The co-condensation of functional alkoxysilanes with tetraethoxysilane in the presence of a structure directing agent under sol-gel process chemistry is a common way to access functional organosilica with an ordered mesostructure. In this report, bulky silylated fatty acid methyl esters were used both as co-templating bio-molecules and functionalizing agents in the process of supra-molecular si...

Intrinsically disordered proteins are abundant in the eukaryotic proteome, and they are implicated in a range of different diseases. However, there is a paucity of experimental data on molecular details of the coupled binding and folding of such proteins. Two interacting and relatively well studied disordered protein domains are the activation domain from the p160 transcriptional co-activator A...

Schiff bases were obtained by condensation of 2-amino-l,3,4-thiadiazole with 5-substituted-salicylaldehydes which were further used to obtain complexes of the type [M(L)(2)]Cl(2), where M=Co(II), Cu(II), Ni(II) or Zn(II). The new compounds described here have been characterized by physical, spectral and analytical data, and have been screened for antibacterial activity against several bacterial...

Three new Schiff bases derived from the condensation reaction of thiophene-2-carbaldehyde and DL-alanine, DL-valine and DL-phenylalanine have been synthesized and their Co(II), Ni(II) and Cu(II) complexes have been prepared. The Schiff bases and the complexes have been characterized by their analytical and spectral data. The protonation constants of the Schiff bases and stability constants of t...