Ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA), nitrilotriacetic acid (NTA), and other synthetic polycarboxylic acids have been shown to possess substantial capacity as washing agents of heavy metal-polluted soils, but they are environmentally problematic. Therefore, a sample of natural soluble humic substances (HS) was tested as a possible substitute. The efficiency of HS to extract cadmium (Cd), copp...

An antibody-free diagnostic reagent has been developed based on the aggregation-induced colorimetric change of Ni(II)NTA-functionalized colloidal gold and silver nanoparticles. This diagnostic strategy utilizes the high binding affinity of histidine-rich proteins with Ni(II)NTA to capture and cross-link the histidine-rich protein mimics with the silver and gold nanoparticles. In model studies, ...

the aim of this work was to study the ability of two biodegradable chelating agents, nitrilotriaceticacid (nta) and ethylenediiminopropanedioic acid (eddm) to complex metals, in the treatment of the pulp,prior to a totally chlorine free (tcf) bleaching process, and compare with the ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid(edta) performance. firstly, speciation efficiency index (sei) was calculated by co...

This paper describes an approach to synthesize a tightly adhered Ta3N5 nanotube array (NTA) photoanode with enhanced electron conductivity between the Ta3N5 layer and the substrate via a two-step anodization method. The obtained tightly adhered Ta3N5 NTA photoanode exhibits excellent photoelectrochemical properties with an optimal photocurrent up to 5.3 mA cm(-2) at 1.6 V vs. the reversible hyd...

The extraction rates of cadmium(II) and zinc(II) with dithizone (H2dz) in the presence of nitrilotriacetic acid (NTA) were measured, and the possible kinetic separation of cadmium(II) from zinc(II) was investigated. Upon the addition of NTA, the difference in the extraction rate between cadmium(II) and zinc(II) became large. Based on the observed rate constant under the condition [NTA] = 1 x 10...

Reactivities of l-'r" chelates of aminopolycarboxylic acids with DNA were investigated by the DNA-sequencing technique using 32P 5'-endlabeled DNA fragments obtained from the human c-Ha-ras-1 protoon cogene, and the reaction mechanism was studied by electron spin reso nance spectroscopy. Ferric nitrilotriacetate (Fe3*-NTA) plus hydrogen peroxide caused strong DNA cleavage in the presence of alb...

Recently, a new and versatile assay to determine the partitioning coefficient [Formula: see text] as a measure for the affinity of peripheral membrane proteins for lipid bilayers was presented in the research article entitled, "Introducing a fluorescence-based standard to quantify protein partitioning into membranes" [1]. Here, the well-characterized binding of hexahistidine-tag (His6) to NTA(N...

A new analytical system is described which provides total particle count and high-resolution size measurements for biological structures such as virus and protein aggregates. This system builds on the Nanoparticle Tracking and Analysis (NTA) technique for the simultaneous visualization and individual sizing of nanoparticles based on their Brownian motion. Virus production and purification proce...

Herein the problem of colloidal instability on electrochemically detected nanoparticle (NP) collisions with a Hg ultramicroelectrode (UME) by electrocatalytic amplification is addressed. NP tracking analysis (NTA) shows that rapid aggregation occurs in solution after diluting citrate-stabilized Pt NPs with hydrazine/phosphate buffers of net ionic strength greater than 70 mM. Colloidal stability...