Biosensors based on nanotechnology are developing rapidly and widely applied in many fields including biomedicine, environmental monitoring, national defense analytical chemistry, have achieved vital positions these fields. Novel nano-materials intensively developed manufactured for potential biosensing theranostic applications while lacking comprehensive assessment of their health risks. The i...

Industry today has a severe problem in the automatic t es t i ng of analog cards. At the A i r Force I n s t i t u t e of Technology, we are developing an Expert System based on the s t ruc ture and funct ion of an analog c i r c u i t card to d r ive automatic tes t equipment. This system uses the informat ion contained in the schematic diagram of the c i r c u i t as we l l as fundamental kno...

Electrochemical micromachining (ECMM) is a non-conventional manufacturing method suitable for the production of microsized components on a wide range of conductive materials. ECMM improves dimensional accuracy and simplifies tool design for machining hard, high strength, heat resistant, and conductive materials into complex shapes. Extremely small interelectrode gaps of the order of few microns...

A survey and review of recent patents on electrochemical methods for corrosion monitoring from 1999 to 2009 are presented in this paper. The patents were classified into 4 groups according to different electrochemical theories, which are potential, polarization, electrochemical impedance and electrochemical noise. A future outlook of the development on new research aspects particularly on metho...

the studies performed about electrochemical oxidation 2-amino-4-methylphenol indicate that ortho-quinone yielded through oxidation of this chemical compound was unstable and it could be used as michael acceptor under solvent influences, carrier electrolyte, additives and could be transformed into the various compounds in the form of 1-4 addition michael reaction. based on this, in the paper fir...

Open structure ZnO/CdSe core/shell nanoneedle arrays were prepared on a conducting glass (SnO2:F) substrate by solution deposition and electrochemical techniques. A uniform CdSe shell layer with a grain size of approximately several tens of nanometers was formed on the surface of ZnO nanoneedle cores after annealing at 400°C for 1.5 h. Fabricated solar cells based on these nanostructures exhibi...

The control of a nanometer-wide gap between tip and substrate is critical for nanoscale applications of scanning electrochemical microscopy (SECM). Here, we demonstrate that the stability of the nanogap in ambient conditions is significantly compromised by the thermal expansion and contraction of components of an SECM stage upon a temperature change and can be dramatically improved by suppressi...

The morphology of the surface and the grain orientation of metal catalysts have been considered to be two important factors for the growth of white graphene (h-BN) by chemical vapour deposition (CVD). We report a correlation between the growth rate of h-BN and the orientation of the nickel grains. The surface of the nickel (Ni) foil was first polished by electrochemical polishing (ECP) and subs...

A method for real-time evaluation of cell viability was developed by using oxygen as an endogenous indicator in scanning electrochemical microscopy to monitor the nanoscale height change of a single cell in a physiological environment with a novel Pt nanodisk electrode and a newly designed step-approaching strategy.