Among the new photovoltaic technologies, the Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell (DSC) is becoming a realistic approach towards energy markets such as BIPV (Building Integrated PhotoVoltaics). In order to improve the performances of DSCs and to increase their commercial attractiveness, cheap, colourful, stable and highly efficient ruthenium-free dyes must be developed. Here we report the synthesis and co...

Magnesium ion is a significant constituent of cell cytoplasm and participates in many intracellular enzymatic reactions. Although total cell magnesium can be rather easily determined by atomic absorption spectroscopy, the free magnesium is more difficult to measure and is much less than the total because of magnesium binding to cellular organelles or ionic constituents. Moreover, since magnesiu...

Abstract In this work, we synthesized and characterized an azo dye of amino pyridine namely 6-[3- pyridylazo]-2,4-dichlorophenol (PADCP) furthermore its complexes cobalt, nickel copper divalent ions. The infrared spectra refereed that PADCP ligand coordinates by oxygen nitrogen atoms to the metals in as bidentate ligand. have general formula [M(PADCP) 2 ] which confirmed elemental analysis, mag...

Cell-to-cell communication was characterized in cumulus-oocyte complexes from rat ovarian follicles before and after ovulation. Numerous, small gap junctional contacts were present between cumulus cells and oocytes before ovulation. The gap junction are formed on the oocyte surface by cumulus cell processes that transverse the zona pellucida and contact the oolemma. The entire cumulus mass was ...

It was observed that the ionic conductivity of the solid-state electrolyte LiI/3-hydroxypropionitrile (HPN) = 1:4 (molar ratio) decreased dramatically with increasing iodine (I(2)) concentration, which differs from the conduction behavior of the Grotthuss transport mechanism observed in liquid or gel electrolytes. The short-circuit photocurrent density (J(sc)) of the dye-sensitized solar cell (...

The deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) sodium salt was reacted with hexadecyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTMA) to obtain DNA-CTMA organic-solvent soluble complex. The DNA-CTMA was then mixed with three organic dyes such as Nile Blue A (NB), Disperse Red 1 (DR1) and Disperse Orange 3 (DO3) resulting in colored membranes, that were characterized by UV-Vis, FTIR, X-ray, ionic conductivity and fluorescence...

The extension of DNA confined to nanochannels has been studied intensively and in detail. However, quantitative comparisons between experiments and model calculations are difficult because most theoretical predictions involve undetermined prefactors, and because the model parameters (contour length, Kuhn length, effective width) are difficult to compute reliably, leading to substantial uncertai...

We report measurements of thermal diffusivity of several room-temperature ionic liquids (RTILs) using the transient grating method. Measurements are carried out using ionic liquids with small concentrations of an inert dye that is excited by the 532 nm output of a Nd:YAG laser in a grating with a fringe spacings of (92 and 104) μm. The experiments give thermal diffusivities from which thermal c...

The reduction capacity of ammonia while present even at ppm level can be demonstrated by the increased encounter probability between ammonia and methylene blue dye (MB+) incorporated in nanomordenite and Na-MOR zeolites. The rate of reduction methylene blue dye by ammonia on the surface nanomordenite zeolite is faster than Na-mordenite (Na-MOR) zeolite.Because nanomordenite zeolite with high si...

water plays a vital and essential role in our ecosystem. this natural resource is becoming scarce, making its availability a major social and economic concern. use of a large variety of synthetic dyes in textile industries has raised an hazardous environmental alert. about 17 - 20% of freshwater pollution is caused by textile effluents. these effluents are recalcitrant to biodegradation and cau...