How does one design a surfactant mixture using a set of available surfactants such that it exhibits a desired adsorption kinetics behavior? The traditional approach used to...

The surface conductivity of colloidal nanotubes, induced by ionic surfactants, is known to affect alternating current dielectrophoresis, which has been actively investigated...

In this study, highly permeable ion-selective membranes are prepared via immobilization of polyelectrolyte multilayer networks within the inner pore structure of a microporous...

ABSTRACT:Tribocorrosion is an important phenomenon encountered in many practical engineering situations, resulting in accelerated materials degradation and serious economic...

Gramicidin A (gA) has been synthesized with a photoisomerizable azobenzene group linked to the C-terminus of the channel. Using single-channel BLM measurements, we have...

When a very thin, hard layer supported by a soft substrate is laterally compressed beyond a critical strain, then buckling of the hard layer occurs, leading to the formation of...

Herein we present a fast, reliable method for building nanoparticle-based 1D photonic crystals in which a periodic modulation of the refractive index is built by alternating...

A comparison of the collapse of Langmuir monolayers of docosyl trifluoroethyl ether (DFEE) and docosyl ethyl ether (DEE) on water shows that in both films the 3D phase is formed...

In this work, the uptake and release of iron by ferritin using direct electrochemical techniques have been investigated for the first time. Adsorption of ferritin from phosphate...

The coupling of lipid molecules to polymer components in a planar biomimetic model membrane made of a lipid bilayer (dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine) supported by polyelectrolyte...

A write−read−erasable memory device was fabricated on layer-by-layer (LbL) ultrathin films prepared from poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene)−poly(styrene sulfonate) (PEDOT−PSS) and...

Molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs) offer a unique opportunity to significantly advance volatile organic compound (VOC) sensing technologies and a number of other...

Surface immobilized polyamidoamine (PAMAM) dendrimer templated Pt nanoparticles were employed as precursors to heterogeneous catalysts. CO oxidation catalysis and in situ...

An investigation show that the temperature-induced band gap (Eg) variation of PbSe nanocrystals is strongly size-dependent. The temperature coefficients (dEg/dT) evolve from...

Polyelectrolyte multilayers (PEMs) produced by layer-by-layer (LbL) self-assembly find different applications. Often the PEMs are exposed to mechanical stress which they have to...

We introduce a one-step procedure of bending nanopillars, which simply involves oblique metal deposition at a tilted angle of 45° on the pillars by thermal evaporation. The face...

While the activity of the SMAD powders is lower than that of pure silver nitrate, it has the ability to kill bacteria very effectively and over long periods of time.

In this study, a magnetic-sensitive microcapsule was prepared using Fe3O4/poly(allylamine) (Fe3O4/PAH) polyelectrolyte to construct the shell. Structural integrity,...

Quantitatively predicting mass transport rates for chemical mixtures in porous materials is important in applications of materials such as adsorbents, membranes, and catalysts....

A multiresponsive switcher on both wettability and solid-state luminescence has great application potentials in novel smart devices. In this paper, a silole molecule of...