The interaction of ribonuclease A with cupric and zinc ions has been studied spectrophotometrically and by potentiometric titration in the presence and absence of cytidylic acid derivatives. In the absence of cytidylic acid, the results suggest that each cupric ion distributes among a set of approximately four spectrally similar sites; each site appears to consist mainly of a single imidazole s...

Nanowires (NWs) have a great potential as building blocks of optical sensors due to their high crystal quality and surface-to-volume ratio which typically lead to high optical gains [1,2]. Metal oxide NW based photodetectors have demonstrated response values well beyond the values achieved in mesoscopic devices. Most of these metal oxides are n-type and, despite their high optical response, pre...

Traditional chromatographic methods for the analysis of lignin-derived phenolic compounds in environmental samples are generally time consuming. In this work, an ultra-high performance supercritical fluid chromatography method with a diode array detector for the analysis of major lignin-derived phenolic compounds produced by alkaline cupric oxide oxidation was developed. In an analysis of a col...

Cupric oxide (CuO) thin films are promising materials in gas sensor applications. The CuO-based gas sensors behaved as p-type semiconductors and can be used as part of an e-nose or smart sensor array for breath analysis. The authors present the investigation results on M-doped CuO-based (M = Ag, Au, Cr, Pd, Pt, Sb, Si) sensors working at various temperatures upon exposure to a low concentration...

Multiferroic materials, in which ferroelectric and magnetic ordering coexist, are of fundamental interest for the development of multi-state memory devices that allow for electrical writing and non-destructive magnetic readout operation. The great challenge is to create multiferroic materials that operate at room temperature and have a large ferroelectric polarization P. Cupric oxide, CuO, is p...

In order to investigate the functions of reductones, their mutagenic action was studied with and without cupric ion using Salmo nella typhimurium TA 100 strain. Triose reductone (TR), which has the simplest enediol structure among reductones, induced a notable frequency of his+ revertants at 2.5 or 5mM. The addition of cupric ion to TR at a molar ratio of 1:1,000 lowered the most active concent...