Highly meso-porous Pt contained γ-Al2O3 nanostructure was prepared by a combined sol gel-pyrolysis method in the presence of polyvinylpyrrolidone and Pluronic p123 as surfactant. The surface of the prepared nanostructure was decorated with 1-Butyl-3-methylimidazolium hexafluorophosphate ([BMM]PF6) ionic liquid to enhance the sorption capacity and prevent the poisoning of the catalytic active si...

A simple, accurate and fast vortex-assisted dispersive liquid-liquid microextraction procedure has been developed for the extractive spectrophotometric determination of niflumic acid in biological samples. The method is based on the formation of an ion association complex between niflumic acid and methylene blue. The resulting ion-pair was extracted into dichloromethane and its absorbance was m...

In the present study, Juglans regia shells were used to prepare activated carbon by acid treatment method. J. regia shell-based activated carbon was used for the adsorption of two synthetic dyes namely, a basic dye malachite green and an acid dye amido black 10B. The prepared adsorbent was crushed and sieved to three different mesh sizes 100, 600 and 1,000 lm. The adsorbent was characterized by...

The combination of cationic and anionic dyes with proteins of tissues is difficult to interpret chemically because the reactions depend upon many factors. Among these are the physicochemical conditions of staining and the chemical structure, purity, and physical &ate of the pr0tein.l The study of these factors may be simplified by employing “model tissues” but the solid proteins heretofore avai...

Article history: Received March 28, 2013 Received in Revised form August 28, 2013 Accepted 27 November 2013 Available online 28 November 2013 In this work, acidity constants protonated form of 4.4'-bis astilbene-2,2'-disulfonic-disodium salts (TRIAZ) have been determined spectrophotometrically and spectrofluorimetrically at 25C and ionic strength of 0.1M KNO3. A program based on MCR-ALS applied...

Graphene oxide (GO) was produced from bare graphite (BGP) material and was used as an intrinsic adsorbent for the removal of malachite green (MG) from aqueous solution. In an optimization study, the effects of the initial concentration of MG, solution pH, adsorbent dosage, contact time and ionic strength were investigated in detail. The water-soluble dye was analyzed at a maximum wavelength of ...

Binding of acridine derivative quinacrine (QA) to chicken erythrocyte DNA was studied by methods of absorption and polarized fluorescent spectroscopy. Measurements were carried out in aqueous buffered solutions (pH 6.9) of different dye concentrations ([QA] = 10 ÷ 10 M) and ionic strengths ([Na] = 10 ÷ 0.15 M) in a wide range of phosphate-to-dye molar ratios (P/D). It is established that the mi...

The intervening sequence (IVS) excised from the rRNA precursor of Tetrahymena thermophila is converted to a covalently closed circular RNA in the absence of proteins in vitro. This self-catalyzed cyclization reaction is inhibited by the intercalating dye methidiumpropyl.EDTA (MPE; R.P. Hertzberg and P.B. Dervan (1982) J. Am. Chem. Soc. 104, 313-315). The MPE binding sites have been localized by...

Methylene blue (MB), an efficient singlet oxygen generating photoactive dye, binds to DNA and allows photosensitized reactions to be used for sequence-specific cleavage of the DNA backbone. Intercalation and groove binding are possible binding modes of the dye, depending on base sequences and environmental conditions. In a recent modeling study of methylene blue binding to a double stranded DNA...

The ability to monitor changes in membrane potential is a useful tool for studying neuronal function, but there are only limited options available at present. Here, we have investigated the potential of a commercially available FLIPR membrane potential (FMP) dye, developed originally for high throughput screening using a plate reader, for imaging the membrane potential of cultured cells using a...