Hydrogen sulfide (H₂S) has attracted attention in biochemical research because it plays an important role in biosystems and has emerged as the third endogenous gaseous signaling compound along with nitric oxide (NO) and carbon monoxide (CO). Since H₂S is a kind of gaseous molecule, conventional approaches for H₂S detection are mostly based on the detection of sulfide (S2-) for indirectly reflec...

In contrast to short-lived neutrophils, macrophages display persistent presence in the lung of animals after pulmonary exposure to carbon nanotubes. While effective in the clearance of bacterial pathogens and injured host cells, the ability of macrophages to "digest" carbonaceous nanoparticles has not been documented. Here, we used chemical, biochemical, and cell and animal models and demonstra...

Porosity is postulated to be one of the reasons for the low efficiency of tin sulfide-based devices. This work is a preliminary investigation of the effects of two film growth parameters deposition rate and substrate temperature on porosity. We employ the focused ion beam tomography technique to characterize and quantify porosity in tin sulfide thin films. We then generate 3D reconstructions of...

The applicability of TiO 2 nanoparticles (TiO 2 -NPs-AC) for removing Disulfine Blue (DSB) and Methyl Orange (MO) from aqueous solutions has been reported.The influence of nanoparticle loaded on activated carbon (TiO 2 -NPs-AC) dosage, pH of the sample solution, individual dye concentration, contact time between the sample and the adsorbent were studied by central composite design(CCD) under re...

in this work we synthesized nano hydroxyapatite (hap)  by sol-gel method, then we functionalized hydroxyapatite nanoparticle by use of  3-aminopropyl trimethoxysilane (aptms) , to improve the loading and control release of sulfasalazine drug bonded to aptms. the drug release patterns from sulfasalazine loaded hap nanoparticles at ph value 8 for 6h, sulfasalazine loaded functionalized hap nanopa...

nanoparticles of zinc sulfide as undoped and doped with copper were used as photocatalyst in the photodegradation of hmx (octahydro-1,3,5,7-tetranitro-1,3,5,7-tetrazocine) and rdx (hexahydro-1,3,5-trinitro-1,3,5-triazine) as nitramine explosives under uv and vis irradiations. photoreactivity of doped zinc sulfide was varied with dopant, mole fraction of dopant to zinc ion, ph of solution, dosag...

Cadmium sulfide nanoparticles were grown using wet chemical method by dissolving the reactants of cadmium acetate and sodium sulfide in the presence of thioglycerol (TG) as capping agent in ethanol solvent. Different nanoparticle sizes and size distribution were obtained through varying the molarities of thioglycerol. At higher TG concentration, synthesis provides a nearly monodisperse nanopart...

One of the most widely used nanoparticles for water purification is activated carbon due to its large surface area and high adsorption capacity (Ortiz-Ibarra, et al., 2007). Activated carbon has proven to remove bacteria like Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Escherichia coli from fresh and potable water systems (Percival and Walker, 1999; Quinlivan, et al., 2005). Despite electrostatic repulsion betw...