The selective adsorption of reagents is often essential for bioarray and lab-on-a-chip type devices. As the starting point for a bioarray, alkyl monolayer terminated silicon shards were photopatterned in a few nanoseconds with thousands of wells (spots) using an optical element, a microlens array. Polyallylamine (PAAm), a primary amine containing polymer, adsorbed with little selectivity to the...

The apparent diffusion coefficients, Dapp, and the release mechanisms of Aloin-doped poly(phenylene vinylene)/polyacrylamide hydrogels, Aloin-doped PPV/PAAM, were investigated. In the absence of an electric field (passive release), the diffusion of Aloin from the SA-doped PPV/PAAM hydrogel is delayed in the first 36 hr due to the ionic interaction between the anionic drug and PPV. Beyond this p...

the coprime graph $gg$ with a finite group $g$‎ ‎as follows‎: ‎take $g$ as the vertex set of $gg$ and join two distinct‎ ‎vertices $u$ and $v$ if $(|u|,|v|)=1$‎. ‎in the paper‎, ‎we explore how the graph‎ ‎theoretical properties of $gg$ can effect on the group theoretical‎ ‎properties of $g$‎.

Polyacrylamide (PAAm) hydrogels are commonly employed to ensure soil hydration in horticulture, but studies have shown that they have a minimal effect on crop life and quality. The reasons for this poor performance are not understood since the commercial hydrogels have not been adequately characterized. PAAm hydrogels were synthesized and their properties were measured along with those of comme...

To describe detailed behaviour of cell spreading under the influence of substrate stiffness, A549 cells cultured on the surfaces of polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) and polyacrylamide (PAAm) with bulk rigidities ranging from 0.1 kPa to 40 kPa were in situ observed. The spreading behaviour of cells on PAAm presented a positive correlation between spreading speed and substrate stiffness. After computi...

In marine environment, antifouling properties against marine sessile organisms(algae, sea squirts, barnacles, etc.) were tested on various kinds of hydrogels in a longterm. The results demonstrate that most hydrogels can ensure at least 2 months inmarine environment. In particular, mechanically tough PAMPS/PAAm DN and PVAgels exhibited amazing antifouling activity against ma...

For the edge e = uv of a graph G, let nu = n(u|G) be the number of vertices of G lying closer to the vertex u than to the vertex v and nv= n(v|G) can be defined simailarly. Then the ABCGG index of G is defined as ABC...

BACKGROUND The association between CD209 promoter polymorphisms (-336A/G, -871A/G) and tuberculosis (TB) risk has been widely reported, but results of previous studies remain controversial and ambiguous. To assess the association between CD209 polymorphisms and TB risk, a meta-analysis was performed. METHODS Based on comprehensive searches of the PubMed, Embase, Web of Science, Weipu, and CBM...

A novel hydrophilic PAMPS-PAAm brush pattern is fabricated to selectively capture blood cells from whole blood. PAMPS brushes provide antifouling surfaces to resist protein and cell adhesion while PAAm brushes effectively entrap targeted proteins for site-specific and cell-type dependent capture of blood cells.