Metal nanowires containing in-wire monolayer junctions of 16-mercaptohexanoic acid were made by replication of the pores of 70 nm diameter polycarbonate track etch membranes. Au was electrochemically deposited halfway through the 6 microm long pores and a self-assembled monolayer (SAM) of 16-mercaptohexadecanoic acid was adsorbed on top. A thin layer of Au was then electrolessly grown to form a...

INTRODUCTION Although electrotherapy appears to have particularly interesting applications in the field of postoperative orthopedic rehabilitation, relatively little scientifically based research has been conducted in the area of electrotherapy with regard to safety involving patients with orthopedic implants. METHOD Three electrotherapy forms were tested, such as high-volt stimulation (HVS),...

E. coli can be transformed to extremely high efficiencies by subjecting a mixture of cells and DNA to brief but intense electrical fields of exponential decay waveform (electroporation). We have obtained 10(9) to 10(10) transformants/micrograms with strains LE392 and DH5 alpha, and plasmids pUC18 and pBR329. The process is highly dependent on two characteristics of the electrical pulse: the ele...

Precise design and operational control of the polymerase chain reaction process is key to the performance of on-chip DNA analysis. This research is dedicated to understanding the fluid flow and heat transfer mechanisms occurring in continuous flow PCR chips from the engineering point of view. In this work, a 3-dimensional model was developed to simulate the electrical potential field, the flow ...

Joule heating generated by the electrical current in capillary electrophoresis leads to a temperature gradient along the separation channel and consequently affects the separation quality. We describe a method of reducing the Joule heating effect by incorporating photonic crystal fiber into a micro capillary electrophoresis chip. The photonic crystal fiber consists of a bundle of extremely narr...

In this work, we examine the energy release rate and the J-integral of an electrically insulated crack in a piezoelectric solid under remotely uniform electrical/mechanical loads. We model the crack as a slender elliptical flaw to take into account the electric field inside the crack and obtain the exact and explicit solution. The analytic results show that the energy release rate, in general, ...