... Lee and Shujun Zhang 291 10 ProcessingandPropertiesofTextured BNT- BasedPiezoelectrics Toshihiko Tani and Toshio Kimura 311 Crystal Growth and ... focused on the physical and structural propertiesof piezoelectric ceramics and crystals near the MPB composition, and finding out the origin of the excellent electrical–mechanical properties: how the ... characteristics of Na0.5Bi0.5TiO 3based, K0.5Na0.5NbO3 -based, and BaTiO3 -based materials will be discussed 1 Domain Engineering and Phase Transformations 21 Fig 1.22 Phase diagram of Na0.5Bi0.5TiO3-x%BaTiO3...
... ProcessingandPropertiesof NAN0C0MP0S1TES ProcessingandPropertiesof AN0C0MP0S uresh G Advani University of Delaware, USA \fc world Scientific JEW ... discovery of fullerenes, and the structural perfection of lijima's nanotubes which implied a whole range of exciting properties CNTs have typical diameters in the range of ~1—50 nm and lengths of many ... This general concept of exploiting the inherent propertiesof nanoscaled materials is not limited to the mechanical propertiesof a material, since a wide range of physical properties also depend...
... r and ν are the density and kinematic viscosity of the nanofluid, respectively, at the same temperature Measurements of the thermal conductivities of Cu nanofluids were performed by means of ... shown in Figure 2b, the bands of C-H and OCH2 are also observed in the surface-modified Cu nanoparticles, while the absorption peaks of P = S and P-S shifts, and the bands of N-H mostly disappear ... additives in oils Viscosities and thermal conductivities of nanofluids The effects of both temperature and mass fraction of the nanoparticles on the viscosities of the nanofluids were investigated...
... Jang Heo of Dankook University, Dr Hojun Ryu of ETRI, Mr Rajamouly of Microelectronics Lab and Ms Tan Lay San of Dept of Chemistry for their aid in various aspects of my experimental work and for ... Control of perpendicular anisotropy and coercivity of Co/Pd multilayers and spinvalves c Optimization of the spin-valve and MTJ structure based on the understanding of the physical parameters d Extraordinary ... effect measurements of Co/Pd based spin-valves and the indirect determination of physical properties from these measurements e Measurement of magnetic and thermal stability of nano structured...
... INVESTIGATION OF NEW PROPERTIESAND APPLICATIONS OF QUADRUPLEX DNA AND DEVELOPMENT OF NOVEL OLIGONUCLEOTIDEBASED TOPOISOMERASE I INHIBITORS WANG YIFAN (B.Sc., ... Protection and Elongation 1.2.2.3.3 Interaction of Small-Molecule with G-Quadruplex 1.3 i-Motif Structure of DNA 10 10 1.3.1 Discovery of i-Motif Form of DNA 11 1.3.2 Stoichiometries and Topologies of ... DNA -Based Molecular Machines 18 2.2 Our Strategies in Design of i-Motif -Based DNA Machines 22 2.3 Synthesis of Our Newly Designed i-Motif -Based DNA Machines 26 2.4 Operation of Our i-Motif-Based...
... Stress gradient in early stage 88 4.4.3 Shear band initiation and proliferation 91 4.4.4 Curved Shear band path and interaction of shear bands 97 4.4.5 Application of stress gradient strategy in a brittle BMG ... predict, at least approximately, the elastic propertiesof a metallic glass based on an appropriately weighted average of the propertiesof its constituent elements [97] (although ... of all monolithic BMGs, adapted from [123]. 30 1. Introduction 1.4 Objective and outline of this thesis The purpose of this study was to have an in‐depth understanding of ...
... diameter of the PVDF membrane, the PVDF-PS membrane and the PVDF-SPS membrane is 0.25 µm, 0.12 µm and 0.16 µm, respectively It can be seen that the polymerization of styrene and the blending of PS and ... (DMAc) firstly, and then styrene, divinylbenzene (DVB) and benzoyl peroxide (BPO) were added to the solution and stirred with water bath at 343 K The dosage of PVDF, styrene, DVB and BPO was that ... International Journal of Energy and Environment (IJEE), Volume 1, Issue 4, 2010, pp.643-656 645 2.5 Measurement of proton conductivity The proton conductivity of the PVDF-SPS membrane and Nafion-117...
... (VZV) VZV: Chickenpox VZV: Shingles Re-activation of latent infection Suppression of cell mediated immunity Bacteria Unicellular, DNA and RNA Binary No prokaryotes fission mitochondria ... reducing opsonisation and protecting from phagocytosis E.g Streptococcus pneumoniae in RTI vaccination: pneumococcal; meningococcal A and C GLYCOCALYX loose meshwork of fibrils extending ... cephalosporins and vancomycin lipoteichoic acid, septic shock Beta-lactamases hydrolyse penicillins and cephalosporins secreted by Gram positive bacteria Within periplasm of Gram negative...
... TCL Fig Effect of proteasome and lysosome inhibitors on ubiquitylation of wild-type and mutant FGFR3 (A) Ubiquitylation of wild-type and Y373C FGFR3 in the absence or presence of the proteasome ... The 130 kDa isoform of the K650M mutant was only weakly and variably detected in immunoblots Scanning densitometry of the gel further indicated that the intensity of the 105 kDa band was greatly ... confirm that the 130 and 115 kDa bands (or 144 and 129 kDa bands in the X807R mutant) corresponded to differently glycosylated forms of the receptor, immunoprecipitated wild-type and mutant receptors...
... Cloning of sipU Cloning of sipU Cloning of sipU Cloning of sipU Cloning of sipU Cloning of sipU Cloning of sipU Cloning of sipU Cloning of sipV Cloning of sipV Cloning of sipV Cloning of sipV ... Cloning of sipV Cloning of sipV Cloning of sipV Construction of pOpacVh Construction of pOpacVh Cloning of sipW Cloning of sipW Cloning of sipW Cloning of sipW Cloning of sipW Cloning of sipW ... Construction of pOpacWh Construction of pOpacWh Construction of pOpacSh Construction of pOpacSh Construction of pOpacTh Construction of pOpacTh Construction of pOpacBh Construction of pOpacBh Construction...
... moiety of Arg51 and three atoms of FMN (N1, O2 and O3) In both FeR and M acetivorans avoredoxin, the corresponding residue is asparagine (Asn47 and Asn52, respectively) to which only the O2 atom of ... the Km and kcat values of E coli Fre for riboavin are reported as 2.5 lm and 52.4 s)1 with NADPH as the electron donor and 1.3 lm and 30.6 s)1 with NADH [13] For FMN, Km and kcat values of E coli ... of the logarithms of the concentration ratios for oxidized and reduced forms of the mediator versus that of recombinant avoredoxin Reduction titration of avoredoxin by NAD(P)H The reduction of...
... purification yield of the enzyme may be due to several reasons Copper and several other divalent ions stimulated the activity of the tetrathionate hydrolase and they and other cofactors may be present ... hydrolase of A caldus (Eur J Biochem 271) 279 The biochemical propertiesof tetrathionate hydrolase of A caldus were similar to those of other acidithiobacilli (Table 4) The specific activity of tetrathionate ... method of Lowry et al [27] using the BCA Protein Assay Kit (Pierce, Rockford, IL, USA) The molecular mass and subunit structure of the tetrathionate hydrolase were determined using MALDI-TOF MS and...
... models for Arenicola TK and MiTK were constructed, based on the structures of chicken and human MiCKs Alignment of amino acid sequences of phosphagen kinases and construction of phylogenetic tree ... other hand, mitochondrial TK showed activity for taurocyamine, lombricine (30% of that of taurocyamine) and glycocyamine (7% of that of taurocyamine) Recombinant Arenicola MiTK was incapable of phosphorylating ... Alignment of mitochondrial targeting sequences of vertebrate and invertebrate MiCKs and Arenicola MiTK Sequences correspond to ubiquitous (uMiCK) and sarcomeric (sMiCK) MiCKs from man and chicken and...
... the method of Baayen and Elgersma [13], with a 500-lL drop of Fod conidial suspension at a concentration of · 106 conidiaÆmL)1; 20 additional plants, inoculated with a 500-lL drop of double distilled ... NaPi buffer, pH 3, and acetonitrile (6 : 1, v/v); separation was performed isocratically, at a flow rate of mLÆmin)1, and the volume of injected samples was 10 lL The amounts of the residual initial ... by the addition of two drops of 10 M HCl Aliquots of each reaction mixture were analyzed through column chromatography [7] to separate and purify both the assayed substrates and the respective...
... lg of platelet protein and 0.5 lg of GST and GST±Rab proteins; (B) an [a-32P]GTP overlay [17] of a nitrocellulose blot of a gel containing 40 lg of platelet protein, 0.5 lg of GST and 0.5 lg of ... form of Rab32 (see Discussion) Fig Puri®cation andpropertiesof wild-type and mutant Rab31 and Rab32 expressed as GST±fusion proteins Samples of platelet particulate fraction protein andof puri®ed ... immunoblot of a gel containing 20 lg of platelet protein and 0.1 lg of GST and GST±Rab proteins, using a : 1000 dilution of anti-Rab31 antiserum; (D) a similar immunoblot using a : 1000 dilution of anti-Rab32...
... The effect of geometrical parameters and material propertiesof face sheets and core are studied on the face wrinkling of sandwich plates Comparison of the present results with those of plate theories ... anisotropic propertiesof strength and stiffness of masonry in horizontal and vertical direction, tensile and shear stiffness of cracked masonry, • Concrete yielding in compression, opening of cracks ... tension, mechanism of opening and closing of cracks in concrete under dynamic load, tensile and shear stiffness of cracked concrete, • Strain rate effect of the material propertiesof masonry, reinforced...
... the cloning and expression of the M tuberculosis tps gene in E coli, and the production of active TPS in these cells The propertiesof the recombinant enzyme have been determined, and are compared ... M) of NH4HCO3 An aliquot of each fraction was removed and assayed for its radioactive content The radioactive peak was pooled and concentrated to dryness a number of times in the presence of ... identity and 6% similarity Fig shows the predicted amino acid sequence of the M tuberculosis TPS and its sequence alignment with those of homologous ORFs from several other mycobacteria and OtsA of...
... spectra of samples S2 (a) and S3 (b) can be exclusively indexed to ␣-Fe2 O3 , according to standard data (JCPDS 33-0664) In Fig 1(b) and (c), the reflection peaks of XRD patterns of S2 and S3, ... in sample S3 (e and f) B Lv et al / Particuology (2008) 334–339 and outer and inner diameters of 70–120 nm and 45–80 nm, respectively Fig 3(c) and (d) show the morphologies of Fe3 O4 nanotubes ... López-Urías, and Mu˜ oz-Sandoval (2005) n simulated the micromagnetic property of iron nanorings, and they found large coercive fields for din /dout > 0.5 (din and dout are the inner and outer diameters of...
... and responses of the sensors based on PbS was prepared with Na2 S at 80 ◦ C at the optimal operating voltage and in a room temperature that NH3 and NO2 on the surface of PbS absorption ways and ... advantages of being simple to fabricate and having cheaper prices Please cite this article in press as: T Fu, Research on gas-sensing propertiesof lead sulfide -based sensor for detection of NO2 and ... gas-sensing propertiesof lead sulfide -based sensor for detection of NO2 and NH3 at room temperature, Sens Actuators B: Chem (2009), doi:10.1016/j.snb.2009.03.075 G Model ARTICLE IN PRESS SNB-11469; No of...