While X-ray microscopes provide images of biological specimens for which the contrast is mainly due to the difference in the absorption of carbon and oxygen when X-rays transmitted through the specimen are detected, signals other than absorption can also be used to form images. Using the Stony Brook scanning transmission X-ray microscope at the National Synchrotron Light Source, high-angle dark...

BACKGROUND Unique properties of engineered nanomaterials (ENMs) and products made of them have contributed to a rapid progress in the production and application of ENMs in different branches of industry and in factories with different production scale. Bearing in mind that nano-objects (nanoplates, nanofibres, nanoparticles), emitted during ENM production and application, can cause many disease...

Phytotoxicity on Oryza sativa was studied by directly exposing it to silver nanoparticles solutions. Seedlings were allowed to grow at room temperature in Hoagland’s nutrient solutions prior to treatment. Particles were prepared in distilled water by Chemical reductions method. U.V-Vis spectra analysis confirms its formations at 400 nm wavelength. 12 days of phytotoxicity periods in 1000μg/ml c...

A simple, inexpensive and one-step synthesis route of Ag-TiO2 nanoparticles by arc discharge method isreported. The resulting nanoparticles were characterized using X-ray diffraction and scanning electronmicroscopy. X-ray diffraction patterns demonstrate dominance of rutile to anatase phase in TiO2 andformation of silver metal on TiO2 after arc discharge process. Scanning electron microscopy im...

A new class of SERRS-active macromolecule designed to protect silver nanoparticle surfaces against salt corrosion whilst retaining colloidal stability of the particles is reported.

Effects were studied of 200 ppm silver and copper nano-suspensions, with size range from 20 to 80 nm, on the hardness of particleboards produced at an industrial scale at the Iran-Choob Factory, Iran. Metal nano-suspensions were added to the mat at two levels of 100 and 150 milli-liters/kg dry weight wood particles, and the results were compared with those of the control panels. Results showed ...