Composites of hydroxyapatite (HaP) and highly ordered large pore mesoporous silica molecular sieves such as, Al-SBA-15 and Al-MCM-41 (denoted as SBA-15 and MCM-41, respectively) were developed, characterized by XRD, BET, FTIR, HRTEM and NMR-MAS, and applied to fluoride retention from contaminated water. The proposed procedure by a new route to prepare the HaP/SBA-15 and HaP/MCM-41, composites g...

Purified motoneurons from chick, cultured on polycationic substrata treated with myotube-conditioned (MCM), respond by rapidly extending neurites. When MCM, partially purified by salt precipitation and ion-exchange chromatography, was fractionated on Sepharose CL-4B, the peak of neurite outgrowth-promoting activity (NOPA) corresponded to a peak of laminin (LA) immunoreactivity. Fractions from t...

Products motivated by performance-driven and/or density-driven goals often use Multi-Chip Module (MCM) technology, even though it still faces several challenging problems that need to be resolved before it becomes a widely adopted technology. Among its most challenging problems is achieving acceptable MCM assembly yields while meeting quality requirements. This problem can be significantly redu...

Pre-shaped mesoporous amorphous rice husk ash (RHA) and MCM-41 derived from RHA as a silica source were transformed into MFI-type zeolites using two different structure-directing agents. Tetrapropylammonium hydroxide (TPAOH) was utilized as an alkali source for silica dissolution and structure control during the direct transformation of RHA into zeolite. A monopropylamine (PA)-containing alkali...

Fe3+-immobilized mesoporous molecular sieves MCM-41 with particle size of ca. 600 nm and pore size of ca. 3 nm is synthesized and applied to selectively trap and separate phosphopeptides from tryptic digest of proteins. For the capture of phosphopeptides, typically 10 microL of tryptic digest solution was first diluted to 1 mL by solution of ACN/0.1% TFA (50:50, v/v) and incubated with 10 micro...

This study employed microwave-assisted hydrothermal method to synthesize Ti-MCM-41, which are mesoporous materials with a high surface area and excellent photocatalytic ability. Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), X-ray diffraction (XRD), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), and ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy (UV-Vis) were employed. The X...

cu(ii) complex with l-histidine (his) ligand, immobilized within al-mcm-41, designated as cu(his)2/al-mcm-41 was prepared and characterized by powder x-ray diffraction (xrd), nitrogen adsorption desorption, ftir, uv-vis and chemical analysis techniques. the surface area and pore volume were found to decrease after immobilization of cu(ii) complex on al-mcm-41. it was found that cu(his)2/al-mcm-...

BACKGROUND Every year West African countries within the Sahelo-Sudanian band are afflicted with major meningococcal meningitis (MCM) disease outbreaks, which affect up to 200,000 people, mainly young children, in one of the world's poorest regions. The timing of the epidemic year, which starts in February and ends in late May, and the spatial distribution of disease cases throughout the "Mening...

The six MCM (minichromosome maintenance) proteins are essential DNA replication factors that each contain a putative ATP binding motif and together form a heterohexameric complex. We show that these motifs are required for viability in vivo and coordinated ATP hydrolysis in vitro. Mutational analysis discriminates between two functionally distinct MCM protein subgroups: Mcm4p, 6p, and 7p contri...