In this research, the fabrication of MCM-41 mesoporous material nanofibers by an electrospinning technique was performed. The MCM-41 nanofibers (MCM-41 NFs) as a novel host on the incorporation of silver has been studied in [Ag(NH3)2]NO3 precursor solution through the heat-treatment process. The formation of silve...

Hexagonally ordered mesoporous silica materials MCM-41 and SBA-15 have been synthesized and loaded with Ag nanoparticles, utilizing both chemical synthesis and ultrashort pulsed laser ablation in liquid. In laser ablation, a silver target, immersed in aqueous suspension of ordered mesoporous silica SBA-15, was irradiated by ultra-short laser pulses to generate silver nanoparticles. For comparis...

In this work, we report the fabrication and characterization of silver nanoelectrode ensembles (Ag-NEEs) on a glassy carbon electrode. For this purpose, Ag nanoparticles (NPs) were anchored to the mercaptopropyl functionalized MCM-41 type silica spheres utilizing the chemisorption property of Ag NPs by -SH groups. The successful anchoring of Ag NPs into the silica matrix is characterized by sev...

* Maryellen C. MacDonald, Neural, Informational and Behavioral Sciences Program, University of Southern California; Morten H. Christiansen, Department of Psychology, Southern Illinois University. This research was supported by NSF Grant SBR-95-11270 and NIA Grant RO1 AG-11773. We thank Mark Seidenberg and David Plaut for helpful comments on an earlier version of this paper. Correspondence conce...

MCM-BP was discovered as a protein that co-purified from human cells with MCM proteins 3 through 7; results which were recapitulated in frogs, yeast and plants. Evidence in all of these organisms supports an important role for MCM-BP in DNA replication, including contributions to MCM complex unloading. However the mechanisms by which MCM-BP functions and associates with MCM complexes are not we...

Mini-chromosome maintenance complex-binding protein (MCM-BP) was discovered as a protein that is strongly associated with human MCM proteins, known to be crucial for DNA replication in providing DNA helicase activity. The Xenopus MCM-BP homologue appears to play a role in unloading MCM complexes from chromatin after DNA synthesis; however, the importance of MCM-BP and its functional contributio...