Lanthanide (Ln3+) doped KGdF4 (Ln=Yb3+, Er3+, Ho3+, Tm3+) nanocrystals with a mean diameter of approximately 12 nm were synthesized by a hydrothermal method using oleic acid as a stabilizing agent at 180 °C. The nanocrystals crystallize in the cubic phase as α-NaGdF4. When excited by a 980 nm laser, these Ln3+ doped nanocrystals exhibit multicolor up-conversion (UC) emissions in red, yellow, bl...

MCM-48 was surface modified via vapor-phase reactions with hexamethyldisilazane (CH(3)-MCM-48) and 3-aminopropyldimethylethoxysilane (NH(2)-MCM-48). (29)Si NMR confirmed that the resulting materials contained covalently attached trimethylsilane and 3-aminopropyldimethylsilane moieties, both important functionalities for bioseparation applications. The surface coverage was approximately 1.8 and ...

Gel electrophoresis and capillary gel electrophoresis are widely used for the separation of biomolecules. With increasing demand in the miniaturized devices such as lab-on-a-chip, it is necessary to integrate such a separation component into a chip format. Here, we describe a simple approach to fabricate robust three-dimensional periodic porous nanostructures inside the microchannels for the se...

Separation of Trametes versicolor laccase from a commercial preparation was carried out using Three-Phase-Partitioning (TPP) technique. The conditions were optimized and the most favorable ammonium sulphate concentration (70% w/v), crude to t-butanol ratio (1.0:2.0) and pH (4.5) resulted in 56.22% yield with 1.65-fold purity of laccase. For further improvement in purification, an improved versi...

Over the past few years, engineered inorganic nanoparticles have been studied, researched, and applied extensively in biomedical field because resultant platforms increase usage of for particular theranostic applications. The innovation such nanosystems has potential to develop a mode that integrates both diagnosis treatment diseases system via combinatorial approaches imaging, targeting, thera...

BACKGROUND Acoustophoresis has been utilized successfully in applications including cell trapping, focusing, and purification. One current limitation of acoustophoresis for cell sorting is the reliance on the inherent physical properties of cells (e.g., compressibility, density) instead of selecting cells based upon biologically relevant surface-presenting antigens. Introducing an acoustophoret...

Multifunctional nanoparticles possessing magnetization and near-infrared (NIR) absorption have warranted interest due to their significant applications in magnetic resonance imaging, diagnosis, bioseparation, target delivery, and NIR photothermal ablation. Herein, the site-selective assembly of magnetic nanoparticles onto the ends or ends and sides of gold nanorods with different aspect ratios ...

The nano iron oxides have been synthesized by almost all the known wet chemical methods which include precipitation at ambient/elevated temperatures, surfactant mediation, emulsion/micro-emulsion, electro-deposition etc. Iron oxides in nano-scale have exhibited great potential for their applications as catalytic materials, wastewater treatment adsorbents, pigments, flocculants, coatings, gas se...

reversed-phase (ISRP) material. Proteins do not adsorb on the hydrophilic exterior surfaces and do not penetrate into the hydrophobic interior surfaces, while analytes can reach the interior surfaces and be separated. (Reproduced with permission from Perry JA (1991) The internal surface reversed phase. Concept and applications. Journal of Liquid Chromatography 13: 1047}1074.) Gelfferich F (1962...