A simple and sensitive colorimetric gold nanoparticle probe for detection of melamine in infant formula was developed by the reduction of Au(III) salt with sodium citrate. This method is rather simple that does not involve any surface modification of the nanoparticles or multistep sample treatment. This technique is based on the fact that the optical properties of gold nanoparticles depend on d...

Melamine, a nitrogen-rich chemical, was implicated in pet and human food recalls in 2007, which caused enormous economic losses to the food industry. In this study, melamine concentration in wheat gluten, chicken feed, and processed foods (that is, cake and noodle) was measured by surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) in combination with SERS-active substrates. SERS was able to rapidly det...

BACKGROUND Melamine and cyanuric acid (M/CA), when orally administered together to rats, can induce crystal formation within renal tubules and cause acute kidney injury. METHODS To investigate the pathomechanism of crystal-induced nephritis, melamine and/or cyanuric acid were administered to 3-week-old (young) and 8-week-old (adult) rats, respectively. RESULTS Crystal formation, blood urea ...

Hydrogen sulfide (H2S) is an important signaling molecule that exerts action on various bioinorganic targets. Despite this importance, few studies have investigated the differential reactivity of the physiologically relevant H2S and HS(-) protonation states with metal complexes. Here we report the distinct reactivity of H2S and HS(-) with zinc(II) and cobalt(II) phthalocyanine (Pc) complexes an...

A fast and automated approach to measuring two-photon fluorescence excitation (TPE) spectra of fluorophores with high resolution (~2 nm) by pulse shaping ultrabroad-bandwidth femtosecond laser pulses is demonstrated. Selective excitation in the range of 675-990 nm was achieved by imposing a series of specially designed phase and amplitude masks on the excitation pulses using a pulse shaper. The...

Semiconductor metal oxide materials have gained huge attention in gas sensors owing to their high sensitivity many target gases. Herein, ZnO/CuO core-shell and hybrid, which were synthesized by different sol-gel methods formed two crystal structures, used as an additive material enhance the response range of 8-hydroxypyrene-1, 3, 6-trisulfonic acid (HPTS) for sensing gaseous carbon dioxide. Met...

The applicability of capillary electrophoresis (CE) with light-emitting diode-induced fluorescence detection (LEDIF) for the separation sugars in honey samples was studied. An amount 25 mM ammonium acetate (pH 4.5) 0.3% polyethylene oxide (PEO) found to be optimal efficient carbohydrates. 8-aminopyrene-1,3,6-trisulfonic acid (APTS) used labeling carbohydrate standards and detection. optimized m...

This paper describes the self-assembly of hydrogen-bonded polymeric rods based on the lattice of cyanuric acid and melamine (CA‚M). Data from 1H NMR spectroscopy, IR spectroscopy, gel permeation chromatography (GPC), and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) are interpreted as indicating that the self-assembly of a bisisocyanuric acid (bisCA) and a bismelamine (bisM) formed polymeric nanorods ...