The Human Genome Project has facilitated the sequencing of many species, yet the current Sanger method is too expensive, labor intensive and time consuming to accomplish medical resequencing of human genomes en masse. Of the 'next-generation' technologies, cyclic reversible termination (CRT) is a promising method with the goal of producing accurate sequence information at a fraction of the cost...

Substitution of hazardous substances against less hazardous ones is a central requirement of the European Chemical Regulation REACH (European Regulation 1907/2006/EC). Hazardous substances emitted from products may not only affect the worker; drift off and distribution in the environment may finally result in exposure of the general population. This potential threat to health is covered by the ...

This work is the third part of a study focusing on the combustion chemistry and flame structure of furan and selected alkylated derivatives, i.e. furan in Part I, 2-methylfuran (MF) in Part II, and 2,5-dimethylfuran (DMF) in the present work. Two premixed low-pressure (20 and 40 mbar) flat argon-diluted (50%) flames of DMF were studied with electron-ionization molecular-beam mass spectrometry (...

Fuels that biodegrade too easily can exacerbate through-wall pitting corrosion of pipelines and tanks and result in unintentional environmental releases. We tested the biological stability of two emerging naval biofuels (camelina-JP5 and Fischer-Tropsch-F76) and their potential to exacerbate carbon steel corrosion in seawater incubations with and without a hydrocarbon-degrading sulfate-reducing...

in this study, b12n12 nano ring has been selected because it consist of four 6-side rings and polar bonds b-n which in comparison with non-polar bonds c-c, is more suitable for the study of the absorption of other compounds. so reactivity and stability of benzene alone and in the presence b12n12 nano ring field checked. to determine the non-bonded interaction energies between benzene and b12n12...

Liquid crystalline materials comprised of a cyclic ring core and pendant triphenyl groups have been prepared. Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and polarized optical microscopy (POM) were utilized to identify the presence of the mesophases. X-ray diffraction (XRD) techniques confirmed that these liquid crystalline materials were discotic. The hexagonal nature of these triphenyl-based disc...