The progression of a cell toward apoptosis, upon cellular stress, is accompanied by a set of characteristic events which includes permeabilization of the mitochondrial outer membrane and release of cytochrome c into the ...

Magnetic Fluid Hyperthermia (MFH) has a great potential as an adjuvant in cancer therapy, enhancing the effects of antineoplastic agents, sensitizing resistant cancers and reducing undesired side effects. When compared ...

We report the observation of enhanced Raman scattering as a result of the coupling between the localized surface plasmon (LSP) of metal nanoparticles (NP) and the surface plasmon polariton (SPP) associated with a thin metal ...

The aggregate sizes and morphologies formed with colloidal particles have important consequences on the rheological behavior of colloidal suspensions. Self- and directed-assembly are the most used phenomena to produce ...

The recombinant polyhistidine-tagged hemoglobin I ((His)6-rHbI) from bivalve Lucina pectinata is an ideal biocomponent for a hydrogen sulfide (H2S) biosensor due to its high affinity for H2S. Nowadays it is clear that H2S ...

Vibrational spectroscopy: infrared and Raman, was applied to the study of two amino acids and ten bacterial strains with the purpose of developing rapid methods of identification and discrimination. Use of spectroscopic ...

The applications of thermal ink-jet printing technology as deposition technique of functional materials such as metal nanoparticles and microporous nickel-oxalate metal organic framework were studied. Highly sensitive ...

The Pair Distribution Function (PDF) is a total scattering method used to study the local structure of a material and yields a function in real space with peaks that represent the interatomic distances. In this work, we ...

The synthesis of metal and semiconductor nanoparticles has received widespread attention by the scientific community due to the large number of technological applications they find in nanoscaled systems. The mechanism of ...