Chemistry, Volume 5, Issue 3

Coffee skins, a cheap, agricultural waste, were carbonized in a tubular furnace under a nitrogen stream and then ball milled to fabricate coffee skin-carbon-nanoparticles (CCNPs). SEM showed 35.6–41.6 nm particle size. The 26.64 and 43.16 peaks...

Surfactants are amphiphilic molecules with the ability to modify the surface tension between two surfaces. They can be obtained by various methods, the main one being synthetic, from petroleum-based substrates. Their universal use in a wide range of...

Decreasing the sensitivity towards detonation of high-energy materials (HEMs) is the ultimate goal of numerous theoretical and experimental studies. It is known that positive electrostatic potential above the central areas of the molecular surface is...

The desirable properties of the sophisticated fluorescent pH probe are ratiometric detection properties and a wide detection range. In this study, three types of fluorophores with different fluorescence properties were assembled on a DNA origami nano...

Apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease 1 (APE1), also known as redox factor-1 (Ref-1), is a multifunctional protein that exists widely in living organisms. It can specifically recognize and cleave the DNA in apurinic/apyrimidinic (AP) sites in the base e...

Natural diamond crystals with a highly porous surface were used as substrates for synthesizing single-phase bimetallic Pt–Co nanoparticles at temperatures of 500 °C and 800 °C. The metal nanoparticles inside the pores were determined to...

DNA nanotechnology has been widely used to fabricate precise nanometer-scale machines. In particular, dynamic DNA nanodevices have demonstrated their ability to mimic molecular motions and fluctuations in bion-anomic systems. The elaborately designed...

The solvothermal reaction of Zn(NO3)2·4H2O, 1-OH-2-naphthaldehyde, and 2-methylalanine (mAla) in MeOH leads to the formation of complex {[ZnL1]}2n (1) (H2L1 = the Schiff-base resulting from the reaction of 1-OH-2-naphthaldehyde and mAla) in go...

The potentialities of mechanochemistry trough extrusion have been investigated for the design of nanosized catalysts and their use in C-C bond-forming reactions. The mechanochemical approach proved successful for the synthesis of supported palladium...

While fluorescent sensors have been developed for monitoring metal ions in health and diseases, they are limited by the requirement of an excitation light source that can lead to photobleaching and a high autofluorescence background. To address these...