Enhancing CO−Water Mass Transfer by Functionalized MCM41 Nanoparticles

Enhancing CO−Water Mass Transfer by Functionalized MCM41 Nanoparticles

Organic groups are grafted to 250-nm-diameter MCM41 nanoparticles with a spherical morphology to enhance the CO−water volumetric mass-transfer coefficient (kLa) for synthesis gas fermentation. The results indicate that (i) 250-nm MCM41 nanoparticles show a higherkLa value than large silica particles (1.4 and 7 μm), (ii) surface hydroxyl groups on MCM41 nanoparticles play an important role in ma...

Peptide ligation catalyzed by functionalized gold nanoparticles.

Functionalized nanoparticles for bioanalysis by SERRS.

Metallic nanoparticles can be used as basic materials for a wide variety of purposes including building blocks for nanoassemblies, substrates for enhanced spectroscopies such as fluorescence and Raman and as labels for biomolecules. In the present paper, we report how silver and gold nanoparticles can be functionalized with specific biomolecular probes to interact in a specific manner with a ta...

Rapid and specific influenza virus detection by functionalized magnetic nanoparticles and mass spectrometry

BACKGROUND The timely and accurate diagnosis of specific influenza virus strains is crucial to effective prophylaxis, vaccine preparation and early antiviral therapy. The detection of influenza A viruses is mainly accomplished using polymerase chain reaction (PCR) techniques or antibody-based assays. In conjugation with the immunoassay utilizing monoclonal antibody, mass spectrometry is an alte...

Carbene-Functionalized Ruthenium Nanoparticles

Stable ruthenium nanoparticles were synthesized by protecting the particles with diazo molecules that reacted readily with the ruthenium surface forming RudC carbene bonds, as manifested in Fourier transform infrared and 1H NMR measurements. The resulting particles, with the core diameter averaged at 2.12 ( 0.72 nm as determined by transmission electron microscopic measurements, showed a Mie sc...