Polarization-contrast microscopy coupled with an atomic force microscope is utilized to attain far-field optical images of the multipolar surface plasmon resonance (SPR) modes of single gold nano-rod. Modulated standing modes resulted from the interference of longitudinal SPR modes and incident light are observed and studied. By counting the average distance of adjacent beats on this single gol...

Herein in this article, three new Ca(II), Zn(II) and Au(III) complexes of sulfamethoxazole (SZ) (sulfa-drug) have been synthesized for the first time. The sulfa-drugs have a great attentions because of their therapeutic applications against bacterial infections. The SZ complexes were discussed with the help of elemental analyses, molar conductance and spectroscopic instruments e.g. IR, 1H-NMR, ...

-The present work is focused on the heterogeneous photocatalytic degradation of Amaranth dye over immobilized nano-crystals of TiO2. Immobilization has been an acceptable approach to overcome the drawbacks encountered with powder suspensions. Immobilization is performed using polyvinyl alcohol-formaldehyde binder. This method of immobilization does not require thermal heating at high temperatur...

Over the past few decades, the synthetic development of ultra-small nanoparticles has become an important strategy in nano-medicine, where smaller-sized nanoparticles are known to be more easily excreted from the body, greatly reducing the risk caused by introducing nano-theranostic agents. Gold nanorods are one of the most important nano-theranostic agents because of their special optical and ...

introduction: telomeric repeat amplification protocol assay (trap assay) is a standard established technique to detect the activity (expression) of telomerase in the cancerous samples. it includes a time-consuming procedure that has significant drawbacks such as high cost, complicacy, time-consuming procedure, equipment-dependent steps and false-positive signals caused by inclusion of pcr insid...

Maki-e is a traditional Japanese decorative technique that uses the natural lacquer Urushi and metal powders. Currently, there exist only two companies that manufacture metal powder for the purpose of Maki-e, and this research focuses on comparing the material characteristics of the gold powders with round shape manufactured by them. EDS (energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy) analysis, image an...

So far, the antibacterial activity of some organic and inorganic compounds has been studied. Barium zirconate titanate [Ba(ZrxTi₁-x)O₃] (x = 0.05) nanoparticle is an example of inorganic materials. In vitro studies have provided evidence for the antibacterial activity of this nanoparticle. In the current study, the nano-powder was synthesized by sol-gel method. X-ray diffraction showed that the...

Citation: Han H, Pan D, Liu D, Hu X, Lin M and Li F (2015) Cathodic stripping voltammetric determination of chromium in coastal waters on cubic Nano-titanium carbide loaded gold nanoparticles modified electrode. Front. Mar. Sci. 2:75. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2015.00075 Cathodic stripping voltammetric determination of chromium in coastal waters on cubic Nano-titanium carbide loaded gold nanoparticles...

The controllable preparation of nano-gold catalyst maintains a challenge. Except the parameters have been revealed before, here we'd like to show that controllable preparation of active nano-gold catalyst can be achieved using chlorine as an indicator. By tracing the chlorine concentration in the washing step, a series of Au/Fe2O3 catalysts were prepared with co-precipitation method. The applyi...

background: many attempts have been performed and continued for improvement of dental amalgam properties during last decades. the aim of present research was fabrication and characterization of amalgam/titania nano composite and evaluation of its corrosion behavior. materials and methods: in this experimental research, nano particles of titania were added to initial amalgam alloy powder and the...