My collaborators and I [2] study selectivity in ion channels. Ion channels are proteins with a hole down their middle that are the (nano nearly pico)valves of life. Ion channels control an enormous range of biological function in health and disease. A large amount of data is available about selectivity in many channels. Selectivity in ion channels occurs without structural change of the channel...

Herein, magnetic cobalt ferrite nanoparticles (CFNPs) was synthesized and its surface was modified by cationic surfactant (cetyltrimethyl ammonium bromide: CTAB) and its potential to selective removal of dye from multicomponent (ternary) system was investigated. Direct red 31 (DR31), Direct green 6 (DG6) and Direct red 23 (DR23) were used as a model dyes. The characteristics of the synthesi...

equilibrium adsorption property of multi-walled carbon nanotubes with oh group was studied using experimental design for the adsorption of co2 , ch4 and h2 . the effect of temperature, pressure, their binary interactions and quadratic terms were studied for adsorption capacity of nanotubes and the results were analyzed by the face centered central composite design method and analysis of varianc...

in this research na-y was synthesized by hydrothermal method and used as support for preparation of sn/pt/na-y catalysts using two different tin precursors, bu3sn(cl) and sncl2.2h2o, by sequential impregnation, in which the pt  was deposited first and in the next step sn was deposited. the catalysts were characterized by h2 chemisorption, transmission electron microscopy (tem), scanning electro...

Manganese oxide catalyst promoted with sodium and supported on silica exhibits fairly good activity and selectivity towards the synthesis of ethylene from methane at the optimum operating conditions. Methane and oxygen were fed into a tubular fixed bed reactor packed with catalyst under atmospheric pressure. The effects of temperature, residence time and feed composition on conversion, selectiv...