Received Jan 24, 2017 Revised Mar 30, 2017 Accepted Apr 20, 2017 This paper discusses the development of an indoor monitoring system based on passive radio frequency identification (RFID) system and Raspberry Pi 3. There are two algorithms designed for this project where the first is to link the RFID module to the Raspberry Pi 3, and the other one is to send the data obtained to a database over...

Early View publication on wileyonlinelibrary.com (issue and page numbers not yet assigned; citable using Digital Object Identifier – DOI) 1 Introduction The field of optical nanoantennas [1, 2] is currently one of the most developing in plasmon-ics due to their ability to overcome the size and impedance mismatch between subwavelength emitters and free space radiation [3]. Recent studies have de...

The electroosmotic flow (EOF) in a poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS) separation channel can be altered and controlled by adding a carboxylic acid to the prepolymer prior to curing. When the prepolymer is doped with 0.5 wt % undecylenic acid (UDA), the electroosmotic mobility in a modified PDMS channel rises to (7.6 +/- 0.2) x 10(-4) cm(2) V(-1) s(-1) (in HEPES buffer at pH 8.5), which is nearly twi...

A range of Pt:Cu bimetallic nanoparticles were investigated for the liquid-phase selective hydrogenation furfural, an important platform biomass feedstock. Alloying two metals had a profound effect on overall catalytic activity, providing superior rates reaction and achieving needed high selectivity towards furfuryl alcohol. Furthermore, we activity Ultra Dilute Alloy (UDA) formed via galvanic ...

This paper is a review of amateur-built high-directivity wire antennas, for wireless local area network (WLAN), operating at 2.4-GHz frequency range. Those antennas can be deployed for range extension and interference reduction, for example. Covered in this review are a biquad antenna with reflector, Yagi-Uda antenna, and helical antenna. The distinctive feature of these antennas is their ease ...

Cellulase production study was performed in shake flask and bioreactor system using Cellulomonas cellulans NRRL B 4567 for initial substrate concentration from S0 = 2 to 12 g L . The growth, substrate uptake profile and enzyme activity at different initial substrate concentrations were measured. The results inferred the presence of substrate inhibition kinetics. Various substrate inhibition mod...