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Amperometric tape ion sensors for cadmium(II) ion analysis

Hubert Girault, Carlos Manuel De Melo Pereira

This paper describes a novel tape platform ion sensing methodology specific to the detection of cadmium(II) ions in aqueous solution based on assisted ion transfer reactions across a polarized water | organic gel micro-interface. The tape ion sensors were ...

2009

Effect of cell media on polymer coated superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (SPIONs): Colloidal stability, cytotoxicity, and cellular uptake studies

Heinrich Hofmann, Jatuporn Salaklang, Alke Fink, Benedikt Steitz, Andrija Finka

The influence of the composition of the polymer coated polyvinyl alcohol (PVA), vinyl alcohol/vinyl amine copolymer (A-PVA) and polyethylenimine (PEI) coated superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (SPIONs) on the colloidal stability, cytotoxicity and c ...

2008

Coating hydrophobic surfaces with amphiphilic thioethers to reduce protein adsorption and cell adhesion

Jeffrey Alan Hubbell, Nicola Tirelli

The present invention provides methods and apparatus for coating surfaces with specially designed thioethers and amphiphilic thioethers that reduce protein adsorption and/or cell adhesion. This reduction may be achieved, for example, by controlling the spa ...

2008

Methods for functionalization of microsized polystyrene beads with titania nanoparticles for cathodic electrophoretic deposition

Stefano Mischler, Johann Michler

Functionalization of colloidal particles based on the use of polyelectrolytes and heterocoagulation was combined with electrophoretic deposition (EPD), with the aim of depositing titania-polystyrene (TiO2-PS) composite particles on Ti6A14V substrates. The ...

2008

Short range attractive colloids: Dynamics and energy landscape properties

Giuseppe Foffi

We discuss the static and dynamical properties of a model of short range attractive colloidal systems. Our model is a binary mixture of particles interacting with a modified Lennard-Jones potential that we simulated by molecular dynamics. As previously fou ...

2008

Immobilization of rapeseed press-cake in an alginate matrix for the sorption of atrazine

Urs von Stockar, Ian William Marison, Véronique Breguet, Julien Boucher

Due to residual oil retained within it, rapeseed press-cake has been shown to be effective for the removal of atrazine from water through an absorption mechanism. However, it is difficult to put this into practice due to the hygroscopic nature of the press ...

2008

Atom-centered potentials for describing London dispersion forces in density functional theory

I-Chun Lin

The Kohn-Sham formulation of density functional theory (DFT) has posed itself as one of the most popular and versatile methods for condensed phase studies owing to its reasonable accuracy and affordable computational cost. DFT, in principle, yields exact g ...

EPFL2008

Characterization of PEI-coated superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles for transfection: Size distribution, colloidal properties and DNA interaction

Heinrich Hofmann, Alke Fink, Benedikt Steitz

Superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (SPIONs) were coated with polyethylenimine. Here, we briefly describe the synthesis as well as DNA:PEI:SPION complexes and the characterization of the compounds according to their particle size, zeta-potential, mo ...

2007

Confinement-induced liquid ordering investigated by x-ray phase retrieval

Hairun Guo, Christian David

Using synchrotron x-ray diffraction, we have determined the ensemble-averaged density profile of colloidal fluids within confining channels of different widths. We observe an oscillatory ordering-disordering behavior of the colloidal particles as a functio ...

2007

New insight into cataract formation: Enhanced stability through mutual attraction

Nicolas Dorsaz, Giuseppe Foffi

Small-angle neutron scattering experiments and molecular dynamics simulations combined with an application of concepts from soft matter physics to complex protein mixtures provide new insight into the stability of eye lens protein mixtures. Exploring this ...

2007

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