A novel method is presented for on-chip temperature measurements using a poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS) thin film dissolved with Rhodamine B dye. This thin film is sandwiched between two glass substrates (one of which is 150 microm thick) and bonded to a microchannel molded in a PDMS substrate. Whole-chip (liquid and substrate) temperature measurements can be obtained via fluorescent intensity v...

Angle-resolved reflection and emission spectra of metal gratings consisting of subwavelength grooves and immersed into rhodamine B and rhodamine 19 solutions are presented. The measured reflection and emission dispersion diagrams reveal the surface plasmon polaritons positions and strong plasmon-mediated emission enhancement, respectively. The same grating could be easily reused for the charact...

Four sorbicillinoids (1-4) and seven bisorbicillinoids (5-11), including two new compounds, 6-demethylsorbicillin (1) and 10,11-dihydrobisvertinolone (6), were isolated from a marine-derived fungus Trichoderma sp. Their cytotoxic activities against HL-60 cell line were evaluated by Sulforhodamine B (SRB) assay method and flow cytometric analysis.

the photocatalytic activity of nano-bi2o3 was evaluated in degradation of rhodamine b (rhb) as a model of dye pollutant from waste waters. nano sized bi2o3 was synthesized using the chemical precipitation method. the as-prepared sample was characterized by x-ray diffraction (xrd), scanning electron microscopy (sem) and fourier transform infrared spectrometry (ft-ir). structural analysis reveale...

ZnO/SiO2 was prepared using sol-gel method, and vanadium particles were loaded on this nano-photocatalyst by wet incipient method. They characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), energy dispersive (EDX) analysis andFouriertransform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR). The XRD patterns showed that the zinc oxide samples have a wurtzite structure and vanadium dope...

Co3O4 nanoparticles were synthesized via a simple Co-precipitation reaction between precursors of cobalt and NH3. The effect of different parameters such as concentration of NH3 and precursors of cobalt on the size and photocatalytic activity of the products was investigated. The achieved nanoparticles were characterized by X-ray powder diffraction analysis, field emission scanning electron mic...

The transition dipole moment of organic dyes PM546 and rhodamine 123 is calculated from fluorescence lifetime measurements in solutions of different refractive index. A model proposed by Toptygin et al (2002 J. Phys. Chem. B 106 3724-34) provides a relationship between the radiative rate constant and refractive index of the solvent, and allows the electronic transition dipole moments to be foun...