The nanoscale spacing between a tethered lipid bilayer membrane (tBLM) and its supporting gold electrode can be utilized to determine the polarity selectivity of the conduction of ion channels and ion carriers embedded in a membrane. The technique relies upon a bias voltage sequestering or eliminating ions, of a particular polarity, into or out of the aqueous electrolyte region between the gold...

The importance of multi-functionality in the preparation of ion-selective polymers is evident from the structure of enzymes where specific metal ions are bound through cooperative interactions among different amino acids. In synthetic polymers, ionic selectivity is enhanced when a chemical reaction is superimposed on an ion exchange process. The concept of reactive ion exchange has been extende...

The development of a variety of selective ion-sensitive electrodes focuses attention on numerical scales for the activity of individual ionic species, for these electrodes measure the activity of the selected ion only relative to that of the same species in a reference solution of known or assigned ion activity. Nevertheless, scales of ion activity must be based on a convention from outside the...

In this work a new chemically modified carbon paste electrode was constructed for accurate, simple, sensitive and selective determination of molybdenum (VI) ions. The results of modified electrode by an ion imprinted polymer were compared with those obtained with carbon paste electrode. The results showed the stripping peak currents had a dramatic increase at the modified electrode. Under the o...

N-(2H-[1,2,4]thiadiazolo[2,3-a]pyridine-2-ylidene)benzamide was used as a selective sensing material in the PVC membrane to construction of a new chromium ion selective electrode. This liquid membrane electrode worked well with a Nernstian response of 19.7 ±0.4 mV decade-1 of Cr(III) in a wide dynamic concentration range of 8.0× 10-6-1.0×10-1 M. The electrode had relatively short response time ...

Selective detection of Sm 3+ ion at a very low concentration is achieved using tetra-coordinated boron appended Zinc(salen).

In this work, the results concerning to the mean activity coefficient measurements for NaCl in the (glycerol + water) system using the potentiometric method are reported. The potentiometric measurements were performed on the galvanic cells without liquid junction of the type: Ag|AgCl|NaCl (m), glycerol (wt%), H2O (1 - wt)%|Na-ISE, in various mixed solvent systems containing 0, 5, 10,...

This research presents a novel method to produce successive polymeric ion-selective membrane (ISM) embedded in a microfluidic chip with electrochemical electrodes for detecting ammonia ions. The ISM was formed inside the microchannel utilizing a simple flow-through forming technique. Surface tension force on microstructures is used to trap trace amount of polymer liquid doped with ammonia ionop...

Some novel functional resins were developed for highly selective separation and/or determination of mercury, selenium, fluoride and hydrogen peroxide, by simple modification of common ion—exchange resin with appropriate reagents. These reagents should have three functional properties, namely selective reaction with the determinant of interest, an ion—exchange reaction with the resin and physica...