The paper presents the design and simulation of double spiral Pt-based microhotplate (MHP) for gas sensing application. A platinum resistor of 52 Ω has been designed and simulated on a 0.3 micron thick SiO2 suspended membrane of size 40 × 40 μm using ANSYS. The SiO2 membrane of size 40 × 40 μm and thickness 0.3 micron has been fabricated successfully by bulk micromachining in <100> orientation ...

We examined the stability of uric acid in dilute aqueous ammonium hydroxide solution by mass spectrometry. Uric acid decomposes in ammonium hydroxide even as dilute as 15 mmol/L when the mole ratio of ammonium hydroxide to uric acid is 50:1. There are at least four products of the decomposition, two of which have been identified as allantoin and urea. The slope of the decomposition curve indica...

A novel surface micromachining process is reported for aluminum nitride (AlN) thin films to fabricate piezoelectric unimorph suspension devices for micro actuator applications. Wet anisotropic etching of AlN thin film is used with a Cr metal mask layer in the microfabrication process. Tetra methyl ammonium hydroxide (TMAH) of 25 wt.% solution is used as an etching solution for the AlN thin film...

Many quinolones, substituted quinolines and thiones are well known for their biological activity. The redox characteristics of such biological substances may provide valuable information about the redox behaviour in living systems. The present paper is aimed at carrying out a methodical cyclic voltammetric investigation of the peak potential values of 4-methyl/phenyl -3vinyl quinoline-2(1H) one...

An isocratic reversed-phase liquid chromatographic method was developed and validated for the determination of Solifenacin succinate. Chromatographic separation was achieved on a C18 column using an aqueous tetra butyl ammonium hydrogen sulphate (10 mM): acetonitrile (40:60, v/v), with flow rate 0.8 mL/min (UV detection at 254 nm). Linearity was observed in the concentration range of 20-200 μg/...

In the title complex, [(C(4)H(9))(4)N](2)[Mo(6)O(18)(C(9)H(9)NO(2))]·0.5C(4)H(10)O, the aryl-imido ligand is linked to an Mo atom of the Lindqvist-type polyoxidometalate anion by an Mo N bond of 1.726 (4) Å. The Mo N-C angles are 160.7 (5) and 167.6(5)° because of disorder affecting the aryl group, and is typical for the imido monodentate behaviour described in analogous hybrids. Light componen...

The equilibrium distribution of D-arabinose, glycerol, D-ribose, sorbitol, sucrose or inulin in the water of sulfonate ion exchange resins (containing as counterions to the sulfonate anions, H+, Li+, Na+, K+, Rb+, Cs+, NH4+, tetraethylammonium or tetra-n-butyl-ammonium) was studied, usually at one temperature (25 degrees C) but sometimes at two (25 degrees C, 0 degrees C). The apparent equilibr...

The title compound, C7H14N2Si, crystallizes in a tetra-gonal space group and exists as an N-H⋯N hydrogen-bonded tetra-mer, formed around the crystallographic fourfold rotoinversion axis. The mol-ecular identity is clearly the 5-tri-methyl-silyl-3-methyl-1H-pyrazole tautomer and the structure is isomorphous with that of 5-tert-butyl-3-methyl-1H-pyrazole [Foces-Foces & Trofimenko (2001 ▶). Acta C...