Hybrid sol-gel-derived xerogel films prepared from 45/55 (mol ratio) n-propyltrimethoxysilane (C3-TMOS)/tetramethylorthosilane (TMOS), 2/98 (mol ratio) bis[3-(trimethoxysilyl)propyl]-ethylenediamine (enTMOS)/tetraethylorthosilane (TEOS), 50/50 (mol ratio) n-octyltriethoxysilane (C8-TEOS)/TMOS, and 50/50 (mol ratio) 3,3,3-trifluoropropyltrimethoxysilane (TFP-TMOS)/TMOS were found to inhibit sett...

We developed a novel, low-cost and simple method for the fabrication of microfluidic paper-based analytical devices (μPADs) by silanization of filter cellulose using a paper mask having a specific pattern. The paper mask was penetrated with trimethoxyoctadecylsilane (TMOS) by immersing into TMOS-heptane solution. By heating the filter paper sandwiched between the paper mask and glass slides, TM...

The two-component system TmoS/TmoT controls the expression of the toluene-4-monooxygenase pathway in Pseudomonas mendocina RK1 via modulation of P(tmoX) activity. The TmoS/TmoT system belongs to the family of TodS/TodT like proteins. The sensor kinase TmoS is a 108 kDa protein composed of seven different domains. Using isothermal titration calorimetry we show that purified TmoS binds a wide ra...

We demonstrated that a single copy of insertion sequence ISPme1 can mobilize adjacent segments of genomic DNA of Paracoccus methylutens DM12, which leads to the generation of diverse transposable elements of various size and DNA contents. All elements (named transposable modules [TMos]) contain ISPme1 (placed at the 5' ends of the elements) and have variable 3'-end regions of between 0.5 and 5 ...

Organic-inorganic hybrid materials suitable for the development of sol-gel coatingsfor metallic surfaces were prepared by hydrolysis and condensation of γ-methacryloxypropyltrimethoxysilane (MAPTMS) and tetramethylorthosilicate (TMOS). The hydrolysis of MAPTMS/TMOS was carried out in an ethanol/water solution. The prehydrolysis stage of MAPTMS/TMOS system was monitored by Fourier Transformer In...

Transition metal oxides (TMOs) and post-TMOs (PTMOs), when doped with carbon, show non-volatile current–voltage characteristics, which are both universal repeatable. We have shown spectroscopic evidence of the introduction carbon-based impurity states inside existing larger bandgap effectively creating a smaller bandgap, we suggest could be Mott–Hubbard-like correlation effects. Our findings in...

Materials having an anisotropic crystal structure often exhibit anisotropy in the electrical conductivity. Compared to complex transition-metal oxides (TMOs), simple TMOs rarely show large anisotro...

Tone mapping operators (TMOs) convert high dynamic range (HDR) images to low dynamic range (LDR) images and are important because of the limitations of many standard display devices. Even though the quality of the resulting LDR image mostly depends on TMO parameter values, in this paper it is shown that it can be further improved by using alternative definitions of the luminance channel, which ...