We present in this contribution a comprehensive investigation of the effect of the size of gold nanospheres on the decay and energy transfer rates of quantum systems placed close to these nanospheres. These phenomena have been investigated before, theoretically and experimentally, but no comprehensive study of the influence of the nanoparticle size on important dependences of the decay and ener...

Radioactive and nonradioactive L-carnitine and acyl-L-carnitine were used to evaluate the washing procedures used during the determination of free, total, short-chain, and long-chain acylcarnitine in human and sheep plasma. The volume of fluid trapped by the protein precipitated by perchloric acid is approximately 24% of the total fluid volume and thus contains 24% of free carnitine and short-c...

The digestion method using a small proportion of a strong oxidizing agent perchloric acid seems to have been taken from a ’continuous flow method’, which was not designed for discrete digestion and analysis. There is considerable evidence that satisfactory digestion ofeven tMrly refractory substances can be achieved without the use of perchloric acid (1) and it is now usually recommended that p...

Nanosphere lithography (NSL) masks were created by spin-coating of polystyrene particles onto silicon surfaces. Fluorinated hydrocarbon films were coated on the nanosphere lithography masks using plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) to obtain ordered arrays of fluorinated hydrocarbon. Atomic force microscope images show hexagonally ordered nanodots of dimension 225 ± 11 nm with a h...

The distribution of phosphorus compounds in various leaf components has been examined in some detail, particularly for tobacco, where interest has centered in part on the study of nucleic acids, especially in relation to virus infection (2-7). The method adopted for determining phosphorus distribution in the present study was based on the procedure of Ogur and Rosen (8), and on the results of o...

We have extended the widely used technique of nanosphere lithography to produce nanosphere templates with significantly improved long-range order. Single, ordered domains stretching over areas greater than 1 cm2 have been achieved by assembling spheres with the correct surface chemistry on a water/air interface. Self-assembly over macroscopic areas is facilitated by a combination of electrostat...

Collagen quantification has long been relevant to biomedical research and clinical practice to characterize tissues and determine disease states. The hydroxyproline assay, while a broadly employed method of quantifying collagen, uses perchloric acid to dissolve Ehrlich's reagent. Since perchloric acid poses occupational safety hazards and high costs, in this study, a new hydroxyproline assay wa...

 Nanosphere lithography based technique for fabrication of large area, well ordered metal particle arrays Steven J. Barcelo, Si-Ty Lam, Gary A. Gibson, Xia Sheng, Dick Henze