A piezoelectric immunosensor based on gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) co-immobilized on a dithiol-modified surface is proposed for detection of human cardiac troponin T (TnT). Anti-human troponin T (anti-TnT) antibodies were covalently immobilized on the nanostructured electrode surface by thiol-aldehyde linkages. In a homogeneous bulk solution, TnT was captured by anti-TnT immobilized on the QCM el...

The study of protein adsorption on the membrane surface is of great importance to cheese-making processors that use polymeric membrane-based processes to recover whey protein from the process waste streams. Quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation (QCM-D) is a lab-scale, fast analytical technique that can precisely monitor and quantify the amount of proteins adsorbed onto the polymer surfac...

Both the short- and long-term electron-transfer processes of electrode-respiring Geobacter sulfurreducens biofilms are demonstrated by using an electrochemical quartz crystal microbalance (QCM). The QCM monitors the frequency shift from the initial resonant frequency (background) in real time, while the current increases, because of biofilm growth. In the short term, the frequency shift is line...

Cooperative communication is starting to attract substantial research attention in quantum information theory. However, given a specific network, it is still unknown whether quantum cooperative communication can be successfully performed. In this paper,we investigate network coding for quantumcooperativemulticast (QCM) over the classic butterfly network. A very reasonable definition of QCM is f...

We introduce a novel mean-field theory (MFT) around the exactly soluble two-leg ladder limit for planar quantum compass model (QCM). In contrast to usual MFT, our construction respects stringent constraints imposed by emergent, lower (here $d=1$) dimensional symmetries of QCM. Specializing QCM on periodic four-leg ladder, we find that first-order transition separates two mutually dual Ising nem...

Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) that evaporate under standard atmospheric conditions are of growing concern. This is because it well established VOCs represent major contamination risks since release these into the atmosphere can contribute to global warming, and thus, also be detrimental overall health worldwide populations including plants, animals, humans. Consequently, detection, discrimi...

We have observed that when mobile adsorbed films of benzene, tricresyl phosphate, and tertiary-butyl phenyl phosphate are present on the surface electrode of a quartz crystal microbalance (QCM), oscillation of the QCM produces clearer scanning tunneling microscope (STM) images of the electrode surface. This is in contrast to an immobile overlayer of iodobenzene, where oscillation of the QCM doe...

We designed and fabricated a new sensing system which consists of two virtual impactors and two quartz-crystal microbalance (QCM) sensors for measuring particle mass concentration and size distribution. The virtual impactors utilized different inertial forces of particles in air flow to classify different particle sizes. They were designed to classify particle diameter, d, into three different ...

Emulsion polymerization fouling at hot interfaces is studied in situ, making use of a quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation monitoring (QCM-D). The resonator heated ring-shaped thermal pad from the back, turning it into plate elevated temperature. Configured to be one walls small reactor for emulsion polymerization, this prone heat-transfer fouling, similar regular parts process equipmen...

The response of a quartz crystal microbalance ~QCM! is considered using a wave equation for the substrate and the Navier-Stokes equations for a finite liquid layer under a slip boundary condition. It is shown that when the slip length to shear wave penetration depth is small, the first-order effect of slip is only present in the frequency response. Importantly, in this approximation the frequen...