A novel optical method for the determination of thiram has been developed using surface plasmon resonance peak of gold nanoparticles (AuNPs). The stable and dispersed AuNPs were directly synthesized by reduction of HAuCl4 with ascorbic acid in micellar media according to a simple approach. The presence of thiram during formation of AuNPs results in the decrease of the intensity of plasmon reson...

RICA BOSCENCU1*, RADU SOCOTEANU2, MIHAELA ILIE1, RODICA BANDULA2, ANABELA SOUSA OLIVEIRA3,4, LUIS FILIPE VIEIRA FERREIRA3 1"Carol Davila” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy, 6 Traian Vuia Str., 020956, Bucharest Romania, 2Romanian Academy, Institute of Physical Chemistry”Ilie Murgulescu”, 202 Splaiul Independentei, 060021, Bucharest, Romania, 3CQFM-Centro de Química-Física...

Ninhydrin reactions using manual and automated techniques as well as ninhydrin spray reagents are widely used to analyze and characterize amino acids, peptides, and proteins as well as numerous other ninhydrin positive compounds in biomedical, clinical, food, forensic, histochemical, microbiological, and nutritional and plant studies. Ninhydrin in aqueous solution reacts with α-amino acids to g...

In this work, we have prepared Ag-nanorods using biscationic gemini surfactant micelles as the media by a seed-mediated wet synthesis method. Towards this end, we first synthesized Ag-nanoseeds of diameter ~7 nm stabilized by trisodium citrate (as the capping agent). Then these Ag-nanoseeds were used to synthesize Ag-nanorods of different aspect ratios. With decreasing Ag-nanoseed concentration...

We developed a simple way to prepare smart silver nanoparticles that are well dispersible in both polar and nonpolar media. The synthesis was performed using solutions of an invertible amphiphilic polyester made via a polycondensation reaction of sebacic acid and poly(ethylene glycol). Reduction, formation of silver nanoparticles, and their stabilization occur in the polyester micellar domains ...

A sensitive, simple method for the determination of trace amounts of samarium by spectrophotometry is described based on the formation of the samarium-chrome azurol S (CAS) complex in micellar medium. The molar absorptivities of the complexes at pH 7.5 at 505 nm were 3.6x10(4) and 1.4x10(5) l mol(-1) cm(-1) for water media and cetylpyridinium chloride (CPC), respectively. Beer's law is obeyed f...

Reverse micelles as nanosized aqueous droplets existing at certain compositions of water-in-oil microemulsions are widely used today in the synthesis of many types of nanoparticles. However, without a rich conceptual network that would correlate the properties and compositions of reverse micellar microemulsions to the properties of to-be-obtained particles, the design procedures in these cases ...

In this research, the micellar behavior of a cationic surfactant, cetyl trimethyl ammonium bromide (CTAB) and an nonionic surfactant, polysorbate 20 (Polyoxyethylene (20) sorbitan monolaurate) in different alcohol solutions media was investigated over the temperature range 293.15-313.15 K. The interaction between two surfactants in binary systems can be determined by calculating the values of t...