Interaction of Chrysosporium sps. and Aspergillus sps. with aqueous AgNO3 was investigated for synthesis of silver nanoparticles. Biological reduction and extracellular synthesis of silver nanoparticles in 28 hour at 270C and pH 5.6 was done. The nanometallic dispersion was characterized by surface plasmon absorbance measuring at 424 – 530 nm for Ag nanop...

Abstract—This research work presents the surface thermodynamics approach to M-TB/HIV-Human sputum interactions. This involved the use of the Hamaker coefficient concept as a surface energetics tool in determining the interaction processes, with the surface interfacial energies explained using van der Waals concept of particle interactions. The Lifshitz derivation for van der Waals forces was ap...

Tin–oxide nanoparticles with controlled narrow size distributions are synthesized while physically encapsulated inside silica mesoporous templates. By means of ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy, a redshift of the optical absorbance edge is observed. Photoluminescence measurements corroborate the existence of an optical transition at 3.2 eV. The associated band of states in the semiconductor gap ...

"Naked eye" color detection of proteins was achieved by embedding calixarene receptors within vesicles comprising phospholipids and the chromatic polymer polydiacetylene. Dramatic visible absorbance changes were induced through electrostatic interactions between the protein surface and the vesicle-incorporated hosts. The colorimetric responses could be induced by micromolar protein concentratio...

Abstract This work aims at evaluating the selective solar absorbance (SSA) of Al 2 O 3 thin films deposited by physical vapor deposition (PVD) with two different metallic reflector interlayers. are on same substrate stainless steel (SS) 304L, interlayers between film and substrate, namely, nickel (Ni) aluminum (Al) used as interlayer SS304L/Al/Al SS304L/Ni/Al . A scanning electron microscope (S...