Article history: Received 08.05.2012. Received in revised form 20.07.2012. Accepted 03.09.2012. Nowadays, fiber reinforced polymer materials are getting widely used in civil engineering. They have some advanced engineering characteristics like high stiffness-to-weight ratio, high strength-toweight ratio, anti-electromagnetic interference, electrical isolation and their long term durability. Met...

Benzene is metabolized to hydroquinone in liver and subsequently transported to bone marrow for further oxidization to 1,4-benzoquinone (1,4-BQ), which may be related to the leukemia and other blood disorders. In the present study, we investigated the proteome profiles of human primary bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (hBM-MSCs) treated by 1,4-BQ. We identified 32 proteins that were different...

Oxidized Ga-polar GaN surfaces have been studied both experimentally and theoretically. For in-situ oxidization at 550°C using molecular oxygen, Auger electron spectroscopy indicates a saturation oxygen coverage of 2.1 ± 0.5 monolayers. For these surfaces scanning tunneling microscopy reveals two surface phases, one with ° − × 30 3 3 3 3 R periodicity and the other with disordered 2× periodicit...

Aminonitrotoluenes form rapidly from the reduction of dinitrotoluenes (DNTs) which are priority pollutants and animal carcinogens. For example, 4-amino-2-nitrotoluene (4A2NT) and 2A4NT accumulate from the reduction of 2,4-DNT during its aerobic biodegradation. Here, we show that 2,4-DNT dioxygenase (DDO) from Burkholderia sp. strain DNT oxidizes the aminonitrotoluenes 2A3NT, 2A6NT, 4A3NT, and 5...

The spectroscopy, electrochemistry, and electrogenerated chemiluminescence (ECL) of 9,10-bis(2-naphthyl)anthracene (BNA) was investigated. BNA shows high fluorescence quantum yields (/ 1⁄4 0:86). Strong, intense ECL was observed on the surface of a Pt electrode in benzene+ acetonitrile (1:1) while pulsing between the potentials for the first oxidization and reduction of BNA. The peak of ECL lig...

Species of Limnobacter genus are widespread in a variety of environments, yet knowledges upon their metabolic potentials and mechanisms of environmental adaptation are limited. In this study, a cell aggregate containing Limnobacter and anaerobic methanotrophic archaea (ANME) was captured from an enriched anaerobic methane oxidizing (AOM) microbial community. A genomic bin of Limnobacter was obt...

A health monitoring system (HMS) involving a blood extraction device with a new type of hybrid biosensor comprising an enzyme and a semiconductor has recently been developed. A MOSFET was used as the transducer. The gate electrode was extracted from the MOSFET using a cable. Gold (Au)-plate-immobilized glucose oxidase (Go) was used as a biosensor and attached to the gate electrode. Go was immob...

Here, highly transparent, conductive, and stable ZnO/Ag/ZnO electrodes on transparent rigid glass and flexible substrates were prepared by facile, room-temperature magnetron sputtering, in which the continuous Ag layers were obtained by means of oxidization-induced effect under an Ar atmosphere with tiny amounts of O2. The results showed an appropriate amount of O2 was beneficial to form contin...

Plasmonic catalytic reactions of molecules with single amine or nitro groups have been investigated in recent years. However, plasmonic catalysis of molecules with multiple amine and/or nitro groups is still unknown. In this paper, plasmon-driven catalytic reactions of 4,4'-dinitroazobenzene (DNAB), 4,4'-diaminoazobenzene (DAAB) and 4-nitro-4'-aminoazobenzene (NAAB) are investigated using elect...

The blue triangle nanosilver (BAgNP) sol was prepared by the two reducers of NaBH4 and H2O2. Using BAgNP as the precursor, a small spherical nanosilver (AgNP) sol in yellow was synthesized by addition of suitable amounts of X (-) (X = Cl, Br, and I). The oxidization process of BAgNP to AgNP was studied in detail by resonance Rayleigh scattering (RRS), surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS), l...