Teleost retinal cones contract in the light and elongate in the dark. In the green sunfish, Lepomis cyanellus, the necklike myoid region of the cone contracts from as much as 120 micrometers (midnight dark-adapted) to 6 micrometers in fully light-adapted state. When dark-adapted fish are exposed to light (1.4 lux), cone myoids contract with a linear rate of 1.5 +/- 0.1 micrometers/min. We repor...

The use of aqueous mixed micellar system consisting of sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) and polyoxyethylene (23) dodecanol (Brij-35) as the mobile phase in reversed-phase liquid chromatography was studied. A group of chlorophenols was used as the test mixture. Adding organic modifier to the system showed that the use of low concentrations of organic additives improves efficiency in SDS/Brij-35 mixe...

To celebrate PELS Day 2023, the IEEE Power Electronics Society (PELS) Student Branch Chapter (SBC) at St. Joseph’s College of Engineering (SJCE) hosted multiple distinguished lectures. The first one took place on 10 June and topic “Career in How to Master a Craft Core Engineering” was presented by Distinguished Lecturer (DL) Dr. Brij Singh, John Deere Technical Fellow. On 13 June, second presen...

The phenomenon of micellization in non-ionic surfactant Brij-58 (Bj-58) have been studied by measuring the cloud points (CP) of the pure surfactant and mixed system with Alanine (Ala) and Phenylalanine (PA). The CP of pure surfactant found to be decreased with increased [ Bj-58]. The CP of mixed system also shows same trends with increased [Ala] and [PA]. This is mainly due to increase in micel...

The mesophasic microreservoir comprises lyotrophic liquid crystals. The liquid crystals were prepared of Brij-35, cetosteryl alcohol and propranolol and evaluated for parameters viz. anisotropy, size and size distribution and drug entrapment efficiency. Subsequent to this liquid crystals based transdermal drug delivery system (TDS) was prepared by incorporating liquid crystals in previously pre...

We report on the photoconductive response of nanostructured sol-gel films in function of the silver nitrate concentration (ions and colloids). Silver colloids were obtained by spontaneous reduction process of Ag+ ions to Ag(0). 2-d hexagonal nanosructured sol-gel thin films were prepared by dip-coating method using the non-ionic diblock copolymer Brij58 to produce channels into the film, which ...

A new cmc determination method based on a NIR spectroscopic technique has been developed. Comparing to other cmc determination methods, this NIR method is universal, sensitive, nonintrusive and nonadditive; namely, it can be used for the direct measurements of cmc of normal micelles as well as reversed micelles, without adding any dye or fluorescent probe. cmc values of various surfactants incl...

It is a well-known fact that sirolimus (SRL) undergoes degradation process via hydrolysis in aqueous media, leading to incorrect assessment of drug amount and thus release characteristics of formulations. The main objective of the present study was to evaluate the effect of nonionic surfactants in media on in-vitro release profiles for sirolimus eluting stents (SES) coated with biodegradable po...