Orientation mapping using Electron Back Scattered Diffraction (EBSD) is limited in its spatial resolution by the acceleration voltage, usually higher than 5 kV. In present work, we for first time an orientation at 1 kV obtained eCHORD approach (electron CHanneling ORientation Determination) on a lamellar bio-inspired alumina sample. Texture results extracted from are very good agreement with te...

As a teenager in a South Dakota hamlet (Pierpont, population 326 in the 1940 census) I had no idea that I would become a scientist. The only formal science course my tiny high school (40 students in four grades, taught by three teachers) offered was physics, taught by the sports coach (a history major) and featuring the ‘‘dissection’’ of a 1928 Overland (teacher: ‘‘I have been told that the mod...

The development of innovative water disinfection strategies is of utmost importance to prevent outbreaks of waterborne diseases related to poor treatment of (drinking) water. Recently, the association of silver nanoparticles with the bacterial cell surface of Lactobacillus fermentum (referred to as biogenic silver or bio-Ag(0)) has been reported to exhibit antiviral properties. The microscale b...

General Bovine serum albumin, bovine carbonic anhydrase, and conalbumin were purchased from Sigma-Aldrich. Lactoferrin was obtained from Glanbia Nutritionals, Inc. Monoclonal antibody, mAbX, was overproduced in a Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cell culture and previously purified by column chromatographic methods. Protein fractions were analyzed by SDS-PAGE using Criterion Tris-HCl 4–20% linear gr...

This work describes an environmentally friendly method for pretreating rice straw by using 1-Allyl-3-methylimidazolium chloride ([AMIM]Cl) as an ionic liquid (IL) assisted by surfactants. The impacts of surfactant type (including nonionic-, anionic-, cationicand bio-surfactant) on the ionic liquid pretreatment were investigated. The bio-surfactant+IL -pretreated rice straw showed significant li...

The purpose of the present study, which used anorganic bovine bone (Bio-Oss) with and without autogenous bone as the augmentation material, was to compare the results of sinus elevation performed without a membrane (control) with the results of sinus elevation performed with either a short-term bioabsorbable membrane (Bio-Gide) or a nonabsorbable membrane (Gore-Tex) with regard to both vital bo...

A fragment that induces glucose intolerance in hereditarily obese mice has been prepared from pituitary growth hormone(sheep and human) by controlled digestion with pepsin in 0.05 M sodium acetate buffer, pH 3.7. The digest was purified by column chromatography on Bio-Gel P-6, followed by chromatography on Bio-Rex 70 and Bio-Gel P-2; in each successive step peptide was quantitated with the fluo...