The content and distribution of complex carbohydrates of the posterior vitreoretinal juncture of the mouse eye were examined by electron microscopy. Eyes were fixed 24 hr or 192 hr in glutaraldehyde or glutaraldehyde and cetylpyridinium chloride (CPC) and then block-stained with cationic dyes. Globular material of intermediate electron density was found in the basement membrane of the retina an...

Spherical materials with yolk-shell structure have great potential for a wide range of applications. The main advantage of the yolk-shell geometry is the possibility of introducing different chemical or physical properties within a single particle. Here, a one-step hydrothermal synthesis route for fabricating amphoteric yolk-shell structured aluminum phenylphosphonate microspheres using urea as...

Spectral studies on the interaction of capsular polysaccharide (SPS) isolated from Klebsiella serotype K34, with oppositely charged dyes and surfactants have been reported. The SPS was acidic in nature and induced strong metachromacy (~110 nm blue shift) in the cationic dye pinacyanol chloride (PCYN) which was due to “card-pack stacking” of individual dye monomers on the surface of the polyanio...

Polyacrylic acid/ octavinyl polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane, nanocomposite hydrogel with 3-D network was synthesized via radical polymerization. Octavinyl polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane was used as crosslinker and nanofiller simultaneously in the preparation of the hydrogel. Hydrogel adsorption performance was determined by adsorption of methylene blue. The adsorption capacity was ev...

The goal of this research was to investigate the potential of newly synthesized gold complex trichloro(2,4,6-trimethylpyridine)Au(III) as an anticancer agent. The gold(III) complex was synthesized and grafted on nanoporous silica, MCM-41, to produce AuCl(3)@PF-MCM- 41 (AuCl(3) grafted on pyridine-functionalized MCM-41). The toxicity of trichloro(2,4,6- trimethylpyridine)Au(III) and AuCl(3)@PF-M...

An electron-transporting counter-anion, OXD-7-SO3-, was developed for a blue-green-emitting cationic iridium complex, which showed superior device performance in solution-processed phosphorescent light-emitting diodes over its counterpart complex with a PF6- counter-anion, due to the facilitated electron-injection/transport and more balanced carrier recombination imparted by OXD-7-SO3-.

Cationic iridium(III) complexes represent the single largest class of emitters used in light emitting electrochemical cells (LEECs). In this chapter, we highlight the state-of-the-art emitters in terms of efficiency and stability in LEEC devices, highlighting blue, green, yellow/orange, red and white devices, and provide an outlook to the future of LEECs.

8-Hydroxyquinoline-based ligands with extended conjugated fluorophores were designed to provide turn-on and ratiometric signal output optimized for use in fluorescence-based sensor arrays, where the changes in blue and green channels of the RGB signal are used to distinguish between cationic analytes.