An experimental setup to study the pH dependence of standard ion-transfer potentials at the water/NPOE interface is presented. The system is composed of a microhole generated by laser photoablation in a 12-microm polyethylene terephthalate film, the aqueous phase consisting of a commercial immobilized pH gradient gel reswelled in electrolyte solution and a droplet of organic solution. Two elect...

A unique boronate-functionalized SiO2/TiO2 hybrid monolithic column was synthesized by a facile approach. Although a conventional boronic acid, 4-vinylphenylboronic acid, was used as the affinity ligand, the prepared monolithic column exhibited specific capacity to capture glycoproteins including antibodies in aqueous solution at neutral pH. With the incorporation of titania, the monolith was h...

CdSe quantum dots (QDs) have traditionally been synthesized in organic phase and then transferred to aqueous solution by functionalizing their surface with silica, polymers, short-chain thiol ligands, or phospholipid micelles. However, a drastic increase in the hydrodynamic size and biotoxicity of QDs may hinder their biomedical applications. In this paper, the TGA-capped CdSe QDs are directly ...

A new application of second harmonic generation to selectively probe the surface of microscopic size centrosymmetric structures in centrosymmetric bulk media has been applied to polymer beads in aqueous solution and to oil droplets in an oil/water emulsion. The free energies of adsorption and the surface densities of organic molecules adsorbed from aqueous solution to 1 μm polystyrene bead surf...

Sensitized photooxidation of imidazoles in aqueous solution and in the presence of inorganic phosphate afforded organic phosphates with yields up to 30%. The major phosphorylated product of oxidation of 2-methylimidazole was isolated and identified as the monophosphate of 4,5-dihydroxy-2-methyl-imidazoline with pKa values of 2.0, 5.2, and 9.8. The compound is energy rich in aqueous solution and...

Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer between two organic dyes Fluorescein and Rhodamine 6G was investigated in aqueous solution in presence and absence of synthetic clay laponite. Spectroscopic studies suggest that both the dyes were present mainly as monomer in solution. Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer occurred from Fluorescein to Rhodamine 6G in solutions. Energy transfer efficiency ...

In this study, perstractive fermentation of intracellular Monascus pigments in nonionic surfactant micelle aqueous solution had been studied. The permeability of cell membrane modified by nonionic surfactant might have influence on the rate of export of intracellular pigments into its extracellular broth while nearly no effect on the final extracellular pigment concentration. However, the solub...

With the widespread application of fullerenes, it is critical to assess their environmental behaviors and their impacts on the transport and bioavailability of organic contaminants. The effects of fullerene particle size, chemistry of the solution, and natural organic matter on the adsorption of atrazine by aqueous dispersions of fullerenes (C(60)) were investigated in this work. The results sh...

BACKGROUND Pyrazoline derivatives have been found to possess a broad spectrum of biological activities. Among various pyrazoline derivatives, 2-pyrazolines seem to be the most frequently studied. A variety of methods have been reported for the preparation of this class of compound. However, in spite of their potential utility, some of the reported methods suffer from drawbacks such as long reac...