Edged plane pyrolytic graphite electrode (EPPGE) was modified with and without Prussian blue (PB) nanoparticles and polyaminobenzene sulphonated single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTPABS) using the chemical deposition method. The electrodes were characterised using microscopy, spectroscopy and electrochemical techniques. Results showed that edged plane pyrolytic graphite-single-walled carbon na...

Greenhouse experiments were carried out to evaluate the effect of different soil-based countermeasures on radiocesium transfer to Medicago saliva (alfalfa) grown on artificially contaminated loamy-clayey soil. Various rates of potassium, ammonium, and Prussian Blue supplements were applied, and the uptake of radiocesium by control and treated alfalfa plants was monitored during four growth peri...

Three-dimensional Prussian blue-reduced graphene oxide hydrogel was synthesized with the assistance of sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) through a facile hydrothermal method. The hydrogel exhibited strong mechanical properties and was successfully applied as a self-propelling motor for water treatment. During the self-propelling degradation process, SDS facilitated the rapid liberation of oxygen bub...

A reaction–diffusion system forms a library of different-size catalytically active Prussian Blue analogue (PBA) particles at each generation the precipitation pattern. The trick to creating such highly insoluble product is add reactants together (uncommon in an RD system), keeping one as “dormant” citrate complex and activating on demand with strong acid diffusion (center). More information can...

Films of Prussian Blue (PB) deposited by electroreduction in the absence of K + have absorbance maxima at 730 nm which narrow and shift on voltammetric cycling in KCI solution to 690 nm, these absorptions being deemed diagnostic of 'insoluble' and 'soluble' PB respectively. Spectroelectrochemistry shows that the initial deposit even in K + solution is invariably the insoluble form, being then c...

PURPOSE To investigate the specific targeting property of lymphatic vessel endothelial hyaluronan receptor-1 binding polyethylene glycol-coated ultrasmall superparamagnetic iron oxide (LYVE-1-PEG-USPIO) nanoparticles to mouse lymphatic endothelial cells (MLECs). METHODS A ligand specific target to lymphatic vessels was selected by immunohistochemical staining on the sections of a Lewis subcut...

"Soluble" (KFe(III)[Fe(II)(CN)6]) and "insoluble Prussian blue" (Fe(III)4[Fe(II)(CN)6]3 labelled with 59Fe either in the ferric (Fe(III)) or ferro (Fe(II)) position and 14C in the cyanide group were synthesized and administered intraperitoneally or orally to adult female rats with normal body iron stores. Following i.p. injection of KFe[Fe(CN)6], the colloidal complex is disintegrated into ferr...