this research was conducted from july 1993 to june 1994 on the total population (711 workers) of a glass factory. the purpose of this study was to determine the quantitative free silica (quartz) in respiratory zone of workers in glass industry. field samples including 50 samples total dust and 37 samples respirable dust and standard simplex were collected on membrane filters using skc dust samp...

Chaney and Jacobson first introduced the colloidal silica-bead protocol for the coating of cellular plasma membranes in the early 1980s. Since then, this method has been successfully incorporated into a wide range of in vitro and in vivo applications for the isolation of cell-surface proteins. The principle is simple - cationic colloidal silica microbeads are introduced to a suspension or monol...

A variety of new techniques are emerging that require the use of a patterned substrate to impose micropartitions on a supported fluid bilayermembrane. The barrier-forming characteristics of aluminum oxide, indium-tin oxide (ITO), chrome, and gold patterns on silica substrates have been examined. All four materials form effective barriers to lateral diffusion within the supported membrane; howev...

This paper describes a handheld device that uses an all-in-one membrane for continuous mechanical cell lysis and rapid DNA isolation without the assistance of power sources, lysis reagents, and routine centrifugation. This nanowire-decorated multifunctional membrane was fabricated to isolate DNA by selective adsorption to silica surface immediately after disruption of nucleus membranes by ultra...

Hierarchical Aerogels Hybrid Networks Silica nanofiber aerogels functionalized P(VDF-HFP) membrane (SFP membrane), inspired by constructional engineering is constructed. As the host material for thermal comfort management and versatile protection, SFP features a large surface area, porous structure, robust skeleton that can render excellent mechanical properties. Additionally, exhibits exceptio...

Heterogeneous proton exchange membranes (PEM) are synthesized using the dry phase inversion technique. The casting solutions are prepared by dispersing a finely ground cation exchange resin particle in N,N-dimethylacetamide (DMAc) solution of polyvinyl-chloride (PVC). Results show that ion exchange capacity is increased with the addition of 1 %-wt nanosilica (from 0.14 to 0.27 meq/g) while it i...

In this paper, we reported a new simple and effective method, osmotic membrane-assisted self-assembly, for fabricating massive interconnected macroporous silica monolith as catalyst supports. Using the method, we can prepare massive interconnected macroporous silica monolith with homogeneous structures beyond millimeter scale one time. Typically, silica/polystyrene and polystyrene/poly 4-vinyl ...

A simple and cost effective solid-phase microextraction device has been developed. Fused-silica capillaries were etched with ammonium hydrogen difluoride prior to coating with an ionic liquid. For comparison, both a bare fused-silica capillary and one pretreated with a Nafion membrane were coated with the ionic liquid. All three coated capillaries were employed for the head space microextractio...