Abstract The utility of carbon paste electrode for the determination of flavoxate HCl modified with flavoxate-tetraphenylborate (FLX-TPB) and flavoxate-phosphotungestic acid (FLX-PTA) ion-pairs in batch mode is demonstrated. The electrodes revealed a Nernstian response over a wide concentration ranges 1.39×10-5-1x10-2 mol L-1 and1×10-5-1x10-2 mol L-1 using FLX-TPB and FLX-PTA, respectively. The...

Factors affecting the performance of polyvinyl chloride based ion selective electrode such as using different cationic exchangers and ionophores as well as sensor fabrication procedures were recently the scope of study by several researchers. This work presents an environment friendly electro-analytical method for the determination of Triprolidine HCl (TRI) and Pseudoephedrine HCl (PSE). A comp...

The goal of information gathering is to obtain data from the environment generating an accurate model for the application of interest. In many applications the information gathering process requires to obtain measurement of the phenomena of interest in harsh or dangerous conditions (e.g., environmental monitoring applications of water in a lake or search and rescue operations in disaster respon...

Doping very small amounts of Ru(II) into a flexible, ultramicroporous, fluorescent Zn(II) coordination polymer produced phosphorescent materials with very high and tunable oxygen quenching efficiency; and a simple color-changing ratiometric oxygen sensor has been constructed.

BACKGROUND The Respiration Activity Monitoring System (RAMOS) is an established device to measure on-line the oxygen transfer rate (OTR), thereby, yielding relevant information about metabolic activities of microorganisms and cells during shake flask fermentations. For very fast-growing microbes, however, the RAMOS technique provides too few data points for the OTR. Thus, this current study pre...

Four iridium(III)-containing coordination polymers 1-4 using Ir(ppy)(2)(H(2)dcbpy)PF(6) (L-H(2), ppy = 2-phenylpyridine, H(2)dcbpy = 4,4'-dicarboxy-2,2'-bipyridine) as the bridging ligand, [ZnL(2)]·3DMF·5H(2)O (1), [CdL(2)(H(2)O)(2)]·3DMF·6H(2)O (2), [CoL(2)(H(2)O)(2)]·2DMF·8H(2)O (3) and [NiL(2)(H(2)O)(2)]·3DMF·6H(2)O (4), have been synthesized and structurally characterized. The emissions fro...

Rapid and sensitive detection of serum tumor biomarkers are needed to monitor cancer patients for disease progression. Highly sensitive piezoelectric microcantilever sensors (PEMS) offer an attractive tool for biomarker detection; however, their utility in the complex environment encountered in serum has yet to be determined. As a proof of concept, we have functionalized PEMS with antibodies th...

Overall liquid side volumetric mass transfer coefficient kLa was determined experimentally for cocurrent Taylor flow moving upwards in a glass tube of an internal diameter of 3mm. Experiments were performed for physical absorption of oxygen in 20% aqueous solution of ethanol. Shadowgraph technique was deployed for precise measurements of bubble lengths and velocities. Experimental values of vol...

coverage improvement is one of the main problems in wireless sensor networks. given a finite number of sensors, improvement of the sensor deployment will provide sufficient sensor coverage and save cost of sensors for locating in grid points. for achieving good coverage, the sensors should be placed in adequate places. this paper uses the genetic and learning automata as intelligent methods for...