The remarkable impact encapsulation matrix chemistry can have on the bioactivity and viability of integrated living cells is reported. Two silica chemistries (aqueous silicate and alkoxysilane), and a functional component additive (glycerol), are employed to generate three distinct silica matrices. These matrices are used to encapsulate living E. coli cells engineered with a synthetic riboswitc...

Recently, the demolition of old houses and the construction of new buildings in Kathmandu valley are in the peak which in turn generates a huge amount of construction waste. This construction waste is rich source of alumino-silicate and thus used as raw material for the synthesis of geopolymer in this study. Geopolymers have been synthesized from construction waste using NaOH and Na2SiO3 as act...

Ion-exclusion chromatography was examined for the simultaneous spectrophotometric determinations of orthophosphate and silicate ions in river water using an ascorbate solution as both an eluent and a reducing agent, followed by postcolumn derivatization using molybdate. The detector responses for both ions increased with increased ascorbic acid concentration in the eluent, but peak tailing was ...

The mechanism of sodium migration in low-silica alkali-alkaline earth silicate glasses is investigated through Car-Parrinello molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. The transport of sodium to the glass surface and its subsequent release is critical for the use of these glasses in biomedical applications. The analysis of the MD trajectory, mainly through a combination of space and time correlation...

The particle growth of silica below the isoelectric point plays a key role in oil well cements, production of silica gels and production of nanosilica by dissolving silicates. In this article, we study the particle growth of silica below the isoelectric point using olivine, a silicate mineral, and sodium silicate solutions as silica sources in acid, where the particle size, soluble silica conce...

It is the key to concrete repair and strengthening construction that base has a certain quality strength. Based on mechanism of sodium silicate, silicate was modified develop kind compound liquid. Through contrast test results impregnation. The strength C5 before after increased by 42.5%, while C10 21.4%, C15 10%.