A large number of subfossil and more recent skeletal remains, many of which are stored in museums and private collections, are potentially accessible for DNA sequence analysis. In order to extract the small amount of DNA preserved in these specimens, an efficient DNA release and purification method is required. In this chapter, I describe an efficient and straightforward purification and concen...

Chestnut shell-based activated carbon was prepared with chestnut shell as the raw material and ZnCl2 activating agent. Based on thermodynamic parameters, adsorption behavior of methylene blue (MB) studied, effect temperature parameters investigated. The Langmuir equilibrium constant (KL) standard (K0) were used to calculate respectively. Comparative analysis showed that spontaneous (ΔG0 < 0)...

TiO2 composites with zeolite templated carbon (TiO2-ZTC) and activated carbon (TiO2-AC) were prepared and used as the photocatalysts for comparative studies with pure TiO2. TiO2-ZTC exhibited the highest rate of methylene blue degradation with a rate approximately 4 and 400 times higher than those of TiO2-AC and pure TiO2, respectively. Moreover, the highest catalytic performance of TiO2-ZTC in...

objective(s): comparative in vivo studies were carried out to determine the adsorption characteristics of amitriptyline (amt) on activated charcoal (ac) and sodium polystyrene sulfonate (sps). ac has been long used as gastric decontamination agent for tricyclic antidepressants and sps has showed to be highly effective on in-vitro drugs adsorption. materials and methods: sprague-dawley male rats...

the objective of this study was to assess the adsorption potential of activated carbon (ac) asan adsorbent for the removal of murexide (mu) from aqueous solutions. the influence of variablesparameters including ph, amount of adsorbent, sieve size of adsorbent, temperature and contact timeon mu removal was studied. following optimization of variables, the relation between concentrations ofdye re...