consideration of colloidal interactions and self assembly

... of the label and the low ionic density of the solution favors electrostatic interactions, leading to this particular type of self- assembly (it has to be noted, however, that no similar self- assembly ... studied the physisorption of Taxolstabilized MTs as a step towards MT-templated selfassembly We probed the influence of the nature of the substrate, of the dilution methods and of the deposition protocols ... Fig AFM imaging of MTs arranged on HOPG by blotting and dragging (a–c) Large supra-molecular assembly of MTs laying on top of a network of entangled individual MTs (b) Close-up of the supramolecular...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 18:20

... of the label and the low ionic density of the solution favors electrostatic interactions, leading to this particular type of self- assembly (it has to be noted, however, that no similar self- assembly ... studied the physisorption of Taxolstabilized MTs as a step towards MT-templated selfassembly We probed the influence of the nature of the substrate, of the dilution methods and of the deposition protocols ... Fig AFM imaging of MTs arranged on HOPG by blotting and dragging (a–c) Large supra-molecular assembly of MTs laying on top of a network of entangled individual MTs (b) Close-up of the supramolecular...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 22:20

... (A and C) and emission (B and D) spectra of dithienylethenes photochromism in chloroform solution; DTEPh (A and B) and DTE-Naph (C and D) 121 Figure 4.4 Change in the color upon irradiation of ... design of systems, which were capable of generating welldefined supramolecular entities via self- assembly under a given set of conditions.2 Satyananda Barik National University of Singapore Self- assembly ... synthesis Self- assembly Figure 1.1 Schematic representations of nanostructure fabrication; lithography (a) and self- assembly (b) On the other hand, an enabling technique for nanotechnology, self- assembly...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 14:02

... Bibliography 197 x List of Figures 1.1 Illustration of energy band structures of materials VB: valence band, CB: conduction band 1.2 Polaron and bipolaron structures of polythiophene ... the band theory which explains the electronic structure of materials (Figure 1.1) [14] The highest occupied bands are the valence band (VB) and the lowest unoccupied bands are the conduction band ... solvents [132] Chapter and study the self- assembly of thienylthiolate compounds on gold polycrystalline surface and gold microelectrodes (obtained from self- assembly of gold aqueous nanoparticles on...

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Ngày tải lên: 24/04/2014, 17:16

... not always the case that self- assembly of anisometric units and amphiphilic self- assembly enhance each other These two modes of self assembly can also be in competition and this can modify the ... combination of order and mobility provided by the LC state Halle, December 2011 Carsten Tschierske Contents Fluorinated Liquid Crystals: Design of Soft Nanostructures and Increased Complexity of Self- Assembly ... Liquid Crystals: Design of Soft Nanostructures and Increased Complexity of Self- Assembly by Perfluorinated Segments Carsten Tschierske Abstract The effects of perfluorinated and semiperfluorinated...

Ngày tải lên: 30/05/2014, 00:22

... rates and seem to be most doubtful of influenza vaccine efficacy and necessity and most afraid of their adverse effects A study of a large tertiary medical center revealed that nurses had fears and ... Authority of the City of Frankfurt am Main co-ordinated, on behalf of the Ministry of Health of Hesse, the swine-flu vaccination campaign in Frankfurt Vaccinations have been administered in the office ... Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology 2010, 5:10 http://www.occup-med.com/content/5/1/10 Page of The purpose of the present study was to ascertain the impact of the emergence of the...

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... demonstrated that the PL of CdSe core and CdSe/ZnS core/shell QDs in the first ns arises from the intrinsic bright ± 1U and ± 1L states with lifetime of about 60 ps and 450 ps, respectively, and from surface ... superposition of three lorentzian curves (see inset of Fig 1A), obtaining the energetic separations among the three states, E1,2 and E2,3 We found E1,2 = 21 meV and E2,3 = 16 meV for core QDs and E1,2 ... times from intrinsic bright states of the fine structure of spherical CdSe QDs [4] into the surface defect states [5], and t3 is comparable with typical lifetime of surface-related emission in CdSe...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 18:20

... hardware and software tasks; (ii) techniques and overhead analysis for migration of hardware and software tasks between nodes in a network; and finally (iii) morphing of the implementation style of ... incoming and outgoing demands of a node have to be equal If a demand producing or consuming process is mapped onto an architecture graph node, the sum of incoming demands differs from the sum of outgoing ... size of load to each of its neighbors The quality of such an algorithm is measured in terms of the number of iterations that are required in order to achieve a balanced state and in terms of amount...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 22:20

... provider types and numbers of visits However, verification of self- report of self care is a challenge A second factor possibly affecting the results was that the type of practitioner visited and the ... great deal of care and that the costs of self- care could potentially be very high The self- care results in this study indicate that nearly every back pain participant utilized some form of self- care ... Interventions Participants were randomized to one of two forms of treatment A random numbers table was used to develop the random assignment sequence, and each confidential random group assignment was...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 14:20

... FEBS 4579 Natural and amyloid self- assembly of S100 proteins A Ca2+ G Fritz et al C E S100B HII HI S-100 EF-hand F S100A12 Ca2+ B D 90° HIV G HIII S100A8/A9 EF-hand Fig Structure of S100 proteins ... the EF-hands in S100 proteins Structure of the N-terminal, S100-specific EF-hand (A) and the C-terminal, canonical EF-hand (B) in the metal-free (lighter) and Ca2+-bound (darker) form of S100A6 ... deposition and tissue remodelling [14] The conversion of functional proteins and peptides into insoluble amyloid structures and their deposition in a variety of tissues and organs is a hallmark of a...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 03:20

... by Kapurniotu and coworkers [19] paved the way towards the present understanding of the mechanism of amyloid self- assembly The authors first discovered that a hexapeptide fragment of human IAPP ... the well-known central role of aromatic-stacking interactions in general self- assembly processes in chemistry and biochemistry One key example of the association of peptides into large ordered ... concern of the 21st century because of a gradual increase in life expectancy The genuine understanding of the mechanisms leading to the formation of amyloid fibrils and its inhibition is therefore of...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 11:20

... optical, and magnetic studies of manganese-doped zinc oxide hierarchical microspheres by self- assembly of nanoparticles Yao-Ming Hao1, Shi-Yun Lou1, Shao-Min Zhou*1, Rui-Jian Yuan1, Gong-Yu Zhu1, and ... development of a more controllable and repeatable synthetic route for RTFM Mn-doped ZnO nano/microstructures is crucial to their practical applications The fabrication of hierarchical and self- assembly ... reports as well [31] The XPS data of Zn2p and Mn2p further provide evidences for the incorporation of Mn2+ ions into ZnO To obtain a better understanding of the formation of Mn-doped ZnO HMSs, a probable...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 20:20

... optical, and magnetic studies of manganese-doped zinc oxide hierarchical microspheres by self- assembly of nanoparticles Yao-Ming Hao1, Shi-Yun Lou1, Shao-Min Zhou*1, Rui-Jian Yuan1, Gong-Yu Zhu1, and ... development of a more controllable and repeatable synthetic route for RTFM Mn-doped ZnO nano/microstructures is crucial to their practical applications The fabrication of hierarchical and self- assembly ... reports as well [31] The XPS data of Zn2p and Mn2p further provide evidences for the incorporation of Mn2+ ions into ZnO To obtain a better understanding of the formation of Mn-doped ZnO HMSs, a probable...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 17:20

... SAPV84 DNA and precipitated by anti-BCMP84 antibody Self- assembly of protein vectors with their DNAs and affinity separation Co-transcriptional and co-translational self- assembly of SAPV protein ... fragment of the SAPV was amplified using ul of 16 pmol/ul M13F primer (part of the TOPO vector, upstream of the T7-F primer of the SAPV insert), 0.5 ul of 100 pmol/ul SA-11R primer and 0.5 ul of the ... 10 ul of each of the wash through and eluates from each assembly reaction were amplified in parallel using primers T7-F and T7TER-R 35 cycles of amplification of 1' at 96°C, 30" at 40°C and 1'30"...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 00:21

... advancement of the micelle formation points of F127 in the presence of homopolymers (PEO and PAA), and two gel phases behavior of F127+L64 mixture are observed, and a greater understanding of the interactions ... understanding of the self- assembly behavior and interaction of Pluronics with the relevant additives is of utmost importance The objective of this thesis is to advance the understanding of the ... 1.3.3 Size and shape of micelles Figure 1.3 Schematic representation of the association mechanism of PEO-PPOPEO in water The size and shape of micelles formed from the self- assembly of PEOPPO-PEO...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 11:25

... Characterizatio 76 3.3 Results and Discussion 3.3.1 77 Oriented NaCl Nanocrystals and Mechanism of Morphology Transition 77 iv TABLE OF CONTENTS 3.3.2 Self- Assembly of Discrete NaCl Islands 88 3.3.3 Thin ... liquid drying and molecular self- assembly; and (4) macroscopic surface architectures of self- assembled (3-aminopropyl)triethoxysilane (APTES) and non-equilibrium crystalline patterns of APTES oligomers ... for self- assembly of APTES (Method I and II) and for non-equilibrium crystallization of APTES oligomers 153 xxi LIST OF FIGURES (Method III) For details, see the text Figure 6.2 (A) APTES self- assembled...

Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2015, 10:04

... sections of this chapter, approaches for chiral discrimination and separation, working mechanism of quartz crystal microbalance, preparation of perfunctionalized -cyclodextrins and self- assembly ... technique 35  1.5.3 Self- assembly of thiolated cyclodextrins 37  1.6 Objectives 38  Chapter 2    Perfunctionalization of -cyclodextrins and Their Self- Assembled Monolayers ... ellipsometry, and atomic force microscopy vii Good reproducibility of self- assembled monolayer (SAM) fabrication were achieved by our self- assembly techniques All L-type SAMs were thicker and possessed...

Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2015, 10:15

... understanding of crystallization may lead to a new class of functional solids based on self- assembly of designed growth units In the last century, the combination of theoretical studies and experimental ... into a cluster The center of mass of the cluster is determined and taken as the location of the colloidal particle As an example of image processing, the locations of the colloidal particles in ... without their guidance and assistance Professor Liu’s wide knowledge and his logical way of thinking have been of great value to me His encouragement and personal guidance have offered me the most...

Ngày tải lên: 13/09/2015, 20:51

... pattern Host-guest interactions between cyclodextrins and copolymers provide the driving force of many self- assembly systems The affinity of host to guest, shape, conformation and size correlation ... A number of supramolecular self- assembly systems based on such copolymers and cyclodextrins were fabricated and studied First, linear biodegradable triblock copolymer of poly(tetrahydrofuran)–poly(ε-caprolactone) ... copolymers and γ-CD, and the complexes could act as crosslinking sites and result in the gelation of the copolymers Kinetic studies showed that the self- assembly complex can be formed fast, and rheological...

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