Facile scalable synthesis of highly monodisperse small silica nanoparticles using alkaline buffer solution and their application for efficient sentinel lymph node mapping

Cancer nanomedicine involving nanotechnology-based drugs and in vivo imaging agents is an active field of nanoscience that provides new ways of enhancing therapeutic and diagnostic efficacy.

Treatment of local scrubber wastewater for semiconductor by using photo-catalytic ozonation

This study investigates the oxidation of local scrubber wastewater (LSW) from semiconductor manufacture by using ozonation, catalytic ozonation (ozone/Al2O3 and ozone/TiO2–Al2O3), and photo-catalytic ozonation (UV/TiO2–Al2O3, ozone/UV and ozone/UV/TiO2–Al2O3). The results show that catalyst Al2O3 and TiO2–Al2O3 promotes the TOC removal under the condition of neutral or alkaline buffer solution during catalytic ozonation of LSW. The Al2O3 induces highest promotion in TOC removal efficiency, which is higher than ozone alone by 26% TOC removal under alkaline buffer solution. However, TiO2–Al2O3 and Al2O3 cannot display the promotion in TOC removal under acidic condition. In addition, a pre-treatment of anion ion-exchange is employed and the result indicates that decreasing the anion ions concentration before AOPs can imply higher TOC removal during AOPs of LSW. In this study, ozone/UV under raw LSW acidic condition and ozone/Al2O3 under alkaline buffer solution present 95% and 88% TOC removal rate respectively and show the higher TOC removal efficiency than other AOPs. Therefore, these two kinds of AOP can serve as the very viable AOP methods in the LSW reclamation for semiconductor.

Kinetic determination of lysine in pharmaceutical sample

Akinetic method for the determination of micro quantities of the amino acid lysine (Lys) is described in this paper. The catalytic activity of cobalt in the reaction of the oxidation of purpurin (1,2,4-trihydroxyanthraquinone PP) by hydrogen peroxide in alkaline buffer solution decreases in the presence of micro quantities of lysine, because of the formation of a complex.1,2 The experimental conditions for the successful determination of lysine were optimized. The relative error ranges from 7.7 to 1.9% in the concentration range from 0.118 to 23.520?g cm-3. The detection limit is 0.023?g cm-3. Kinetic equations are proposed for the investigated process. The effects of certain foreign ions and amino acids on the reaction rate were determined in order to assess the selectivity of the method. The method was applied to the determination of lysine in a pharmaceutical sample Riborn-P (Medecon?Belgrade).

Metal-dependent properties of metallothionein. Replacement in vitro of zinc in zinc-thionein with copper

Metal-dependent changes in the properties of metallothionein were investigated in vitro by replacing Zn2+ in zinc-thionein with Cu+ and Cu2+. Metallothionein was separated into isoproteins on a gel-permeation column by elution with alkaline buffer solution, the separation being due to the dissociation of hydroxy groups in the gel material. The two metals in metallothioneins were detected simultaneously by introducing the eluate of the column, which was attached to a high-pressure liquid chromatograph, to two flame atomic-absorption spectrophotometers. Zn2+ in zinc-thionein was replaced with 1.5 and 1 mol. equiv. of Cu+ and Cu2+ respectively. The replacement with Cu2+ accompanied intramolecular oxidation of thiol groups in metallothioneins and the oxidized metallothioneins showed different chromatographic properties from the original ones, probably due to changes in the isoelectric points. The oxidized forms of metallothionein were reducible by mercaptoethanol. Reduction of Cu2+ to Cu+ followed by the replacement of Zn2+ in zinc-thionein with Cu+ occurred in the presence of glutathione.