The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) is a water imaging Cherenkov detector. Its usage of 1000 metric tons of D 2 O as target allows the SNO detector to make a solar-model independent test of the neutrino oscillation hypothesis by simultaneously measuring the solar ν e flux and the total flux of all active neutrino species. Solar neutrinos from the decay of 8 B have been detected at SNO by the...

In this paper, we demonstrate that Cr(2)O(3), a visible absorbing insulator, can be used as an efficient blocking layer material for the anode of dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). We prepared SnO(2) electrodes surface-modified with Cr(2)O(3) with various Cr/Sn ratios and studied the effect of the modification on the performance of DSSCs. DSSCs with Cr/Sn ratios 0.02, 0.05, and 0.10 showed inc...

High-quality single-crystalline SnO₂ nanorods were synthesized using a microwave-assisted solution method. The nanorods were characterized using X-ray diffraction (XRD), field-emission scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), ultraviolet-visible and Raman spectroscopy, Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET), and electrical resistance measurements. The XRD pattern ind...

Kelleher ZT, Potts EN, Brahmajothi MV, Foster MW, Auten RL, Foster WM, Marshall HE. NOS2 regulation of LPS-induced airway inflammation via S-nitrosylation of NFB p65. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol 301: L327–L333, 2011. First published July 1, 2011; doi:10.1152/ajplung.00463.2010.—Inducible nitric oxide synthase (NOS2) expression is increased in the airway epithelium in acute inflammatory d...

This work reports a detailed characterization of an anomalous oriented attachment behaviour for SnO(2) nanocrystals. Our results evidenced an anisotropic growth for two identical <110> directions, which are equivalent according to the SnO(2) crystallographic structure symmetry. A hypothesis is proposed to describe this behaviour.

We report an ultrafast and sensitive hydrogen (H(2)) sensing platform using semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) decorated with tin oxide (SnO(2)) nanocrystals (NCs). The hybrid SnO(2) NC-SWCNT platform shows a response time of 2-3 seconds to 1% H(2) under room temperature and can fully recover within a few minutes in air.

UNLABELLED Nitric oxide (NO), an essential agent of the innate immune system, exhibits multi-mechanistic antimicrobial activity. Previously, NO-releasing nanoparticles (NO-np) demonstrated increased antimicrobial activity when combined with glutathione (GSH) due to formation of S-nitrosoglutathione (GSNO), a transnitrosylating agent. To capitalize on this finding, we incorporated the thiol-cont...

The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of nitric oxide (NO) on H2O2-mediated endothelial permeability. H2O2(0.1 mM) increased permeability at 90 min to 298% of baseline. Spermine NONOate (SNO), an NO donor, at 0.1 or 1 mM did not alter permeability. However, 0.1 mM H2O2+ 1 mM SNO increased permeability to 764%, twice that of 0.1 mM H2O2alone. These treatments were not directly ...

We report the analysis of a 36-kbp region of the Neurospora crassa genome, which contains homologs of two closely linked stationary phase genes, SNZ1 and SNO1, from Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Homologs of SNZ1 encode extremely highly conserved proteins that have been implicated in pyridoxine (vitamin B6) metabolism in the filamentous fungi Cercospora nicotianae and in Aspergillus nidulans. In N. ...

Layered Eu-doped SnO₂ ordered nanoarrays constructed by nanorods with 10 nm diameters and several hundred nanometers length were synthesized by a substrate-free hydrothermal route using alcohol and water mixed solvent of sodium stannate and sodium hydroxide at 200 °C. The Eu dopant acted as a crystal growth inhibitor to prevent the SnO₂ nanorods growth up, resulting in tenuous SnO₂ nanorods ord...