Article history: Received 19 May 2016 Received in revised form 31 July 2016 Accepted 15 September 2016 Available online 16 September 2016 We present an electrokinetically enhanced aptamer sensing platform on a disposable plastic chip for label-free detection of neuropeptide Y (NPY), which is a key neurological biomarker. The sensor consists of aptamerfunctionalized graphene-gold nanocomposites ...

We report the development of on-chip optical components designed to improve the out-coupling of double-metal terahertz (THz) frequency quantum cascade lasers (QCLs). A visible reshaping of the optical beam is achieved, independent of the precise waveguide configuration, by direct incorporation of cyclic-olefin copolymer (COC) dielectric optical fibers onto the QCL facet. A major improvement is ...

Theoretical modeling of organic synthesis is a powerful tool and leads to further insight into chemical systems. Computational chemistry allows obtaining the potential energy surface that experimentally cannot be observed, in addition transition state calculations, which lead better understanding reactivity an work. The Diels-Alder (DA) reaction cyclopentadiene 1 N-phenylmaleimide 2 has been st...

This paper has reported on the electrical and nonstructural of polymer-based materials in corporation NiO (Nickel oxide) in concentrations of 0.2%, 0.4% and 0.8% by weight of PVA (polyvinyl alcohol) polymer. Nanocrystallites phases and properties were characterized with using X-ray diffraction (XRD), Fourier transfer infrared radiation (FTIR),Energy distribution X-ray(EDX) techniques and X-Map ...

The [2 + 2] photocycloaddition is undisputedly the most important and most frequently used photochemical reaction. In this review, it is attempted to cover all recent aspects of [2 + 2] photocycloaddition chemistry with an emphasis on synthetically relevant, regio-, and stereoselective reactions. The review aims to comprehensively discuss relevant work, which was done in the field in the last 2...

The use of olefin metathesis as a construction tool for multimetallic salen-based structures is described. The approach involves mono- and diallyl-functionalized metallosalen complexes that can be directly coupled by metathesis leading to dimetallic species or mixtures of linear and cyclic oligomers. The metathesis of bis-allyl Ni(salen) complexes has been studied in detail. At high concentrati...

Certain olefin gases and vapors can be measured selectively at low concentrations using surface acoustic wave (SAW) sensors vated with reagents of the general formula trans-PtClz(olefin)(amine). The sensor response depends on the steady-state rate of mass change associated with substitution of the initially complexed olefin by the free olefin analyte. This paper examines the effects of changes ...