Antibiofilm,Anti-Quorum Sensing Activities,and Molecular Docking Studies of Seriphidium quettense Essential Oil

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Microorganisms swimming through radiative Sutterby nanofluid over stretchable cylinder: Hydrodynamic effect

In the present article, radiative Sutterby nanofluid flow over a stretchable cylinder is considered. The suspended swimming microorganisms have been deliberated in the fluid analysis. Different processes such as Brownian motion, thermophoresis, Joules heating, and viscous dissipation have been inspected in the presences of stratification parameters. The solutions for flow profiles have been obtained via optimal homotopy analysis method. Impacts of different physical involved variables on non-dimensional velocity, temperature, nanofluid concentration, and concentration of density of swimming microorganisms have been debated. Coefficient of skin friction, local Nusselt number, Sherwood number, and density of motile organisms have been calculated. The results reveal that Sutterby fluid parameter enhances the skin friction and has a reverse impact on the velocity, while an increase in stratification causes a declination in the flow boundary layers. The temperature of the flow is also seen to be boosted by the increment in Brownian motion parameter. Analysis of entropy generation shows that the concentration difference parameter maximizes the entropy and minimizes the dimensionless Bejan number.     

Double-stratified Marangoni boundary layer flow of Casson nanoliquid: probable error application

Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry - The present research is manifested to observe the impact of double stratification in the Marangoni convective flow of the Casson nanoliquid model...     

Nonenzymatic dopamine biosensor based on tannin nanocomposite

A dopamine (DA) biosensor was developed based on polypyrrole/tannin/cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (PPy/TA/CTAB) nanocomposite and central composite rotatable design (CCRD) was employed for the optimization of conditions. Chemical polymerization of the PPy/TA in the presence of a cationic surfactant, CTAB, reduced the particle size of composite and a rod-like structure with a lumpy surface and high porosity was observed for nanocomposite justifying the highest current response for the modified electrode. Amperometry and differential pulse voltammetry analyses were applied for all electrochemical measurements and DA detection in the range of 0.5–100 μM. The good adhesion of nanocomposite on the electrode surface, as well as porosity and high surface area of the modified electrode, enhanced the diffusion of DA molecules inside the matrix. Amperometry analysis of the Screen printed carbon electrode/PPy/TA/CTAB modified electrode displayed a good sensitivity of 0.039 μA (μM)⁻¹ toward DA with the limit of detection of 2.9 × 10^–7 M. The modified biosensor also excludes the interfering species of ascorbic acid and uric acid which makes this sensor appropriate for DA determination. The proposed biosensor showed an acceptable reproducibility and repeatability with low relative standard deviations of 4.8% and 4.4%, respectively.     

Cloning,Expression, Purification and Refolding of Microtubule Affinity-Regulating Kinase 4 Expressed in Escherichia coli

Microtubule-associated protein/microtubule affinity-regulating kinase 4 (MARK4) is a member of the family Ser/Thr kinase and involved in numerous biological functions including microtubule bundle formation, nervous system development, positive regulation of programmed cell death, cell cycle control, cell polarity determination, cell shape alterations, cell division etc. For various biophysical and structural studies, we need this protein in adequate quantity. In this paper, we report a novel cloning strategy for MARK4. We have cloned MARK4 catalytic domain including 59 N-terminal extra residues with unknown function and catalytic domain alone in PQE30 vector. The recombinant MARK4 was expressed in the inclusion bodies in M15 cells. The inclusion bodies were solubilized effectively with 1.5 % N-lauroylsarcosine in alkaline buffer and subsequently purified using Ni–NTA affinity chromatography in a single step with high purity and good concentration. Purity of protein was checked on sodium dodecyl sulphate–polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and identified by using mass spectrometry immunoblotting. Refolding of the recombinant protein was validated by ATPase assay. Our purification procedure is quick, simple and produces adequate quantity of proteins with high purity in a limited step.     

Thermal analysis and phase evolution of nanocrystalline perovskite oxide materials synthesized via hydrothermal and self-combustion methods

Nanocrystalline perovskite oxide materials ABO₃ (where A = Ba, Ca, Mg, Sr; and B = Ce, Mn, and Ti) have been synthesized via sol-citrate combustion and hydrothermal-based methods with and without surfactant under mild conditions. Metal-titanates (ATiO₃) were prepared using synthesized anatase-TiO₂ nanotube powder, metal hydroxide/chloride solutions, and NaOH as raw materials. The stoichiometric amount of all reactants were put in polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE)-lined stainless steel digestion reactor and were kept in convention oven at desired reaction conditions like mole composition, pH, temperature, and time, in range A/Ti = 0.9–1.1, 10–12, 150–170 °C for 24–48 h, respectively. The nanocrystalline barium cerium oxide (BaCeO₃) was synthesized using citric acid as polymerization agent in sol-combustion process, whereas barium manganite (BaMnO₃) was prepared via hydrothermal process using polyethyl glycol surfactant as structure directing agent. Thermal stability, phase evolution, and morphology of synthesized products were characterized by thermogravimetry and differential thermal analysis, X-ray diffraction (XRD), and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). XRD results revealed that synthesized CaTiO₃ and BaMnO₃ nanorods had an orthorhombic perovskite and hexagonal structure, respectively; whereas, the nanoparticle morphologies of BaTiO₃, Ba_0.5Sr_0.5TiO₃, and MgTiO₃, BaCeO₃ perovskite oxides were found strongly depended on pH of the precursor solutions. SEM images showed variety of morphological structures ranging from nanostructured surface with distinct particles morphology to nanowires and nanorods (length varies from nano to several micrometers) and uniform diameter ~<100 nm, depending upon the hydrothermal reaction conditions.     

Combinatorial Structure of Schulte’s Chiral Polyhedra

Schulte classified the discrete chiral polyhedra in Euclidean 3-space and showed that they belong to six families. The polyhedra in three of the families have finite faces and the other three families consist of polyhedra with (infinite) helical faces. We show that all the chiral polyhedra with finite faces are combinatorially chiral. However, the chiral polyhedra with helical faces are combinatorially regular. Moreover, any two such polyhedra with helical faces in the same family are isomorphic.     

Hydromagnetic Carreau Nanoliquid in Frames of Dissipation and Activation Energy

The novel characteristics of magnetic field and entropy generation in mixed convective flow of Carreau fluid towards a stretched surface are investigated.Buongiornio nanoliquid model consists of thermophoresis and Brownian movement aspects is opted for analysis.Energy expression is modeled subject to thermal radiation and viscous dissipation phenomenon.Concentration by zero mass flux condition is implemented.Consideration of chemical reaction and activation energy characterizes the mass transfer mechanism.Total entropy generation rate and Bejan number is formulated.The utilization of transformation variables reduces the PDEs into non-linear ODEs.The obtained nonlinear complex problems are computed numerically through Shooting scheme.The impact of involved variables like local Weissenberg number,magnetic parameter,thermal radiation parameter,Brownian motion parameter,thermophoresis parameter,buoyancy ratio parameter,mixed convection parameter,Prandtl parameter,Eckert number,Schmidt number,non-dimensional activation energy parameter,chemical reaction parameter,Brinkman number,dimensionless concentration ratio variable,diffusive variable and dimensionless temperature ratio variable on velocity,temperature,nanoparticles concentration,entropy generation,Bejan number,surface drag force and heat transfer rate are examined through graphs and tables.     

Supersonic radiatively cooled rotating flows and jets in the laboratory

The first laboratory astrophysics experiments to produce a radiatively cooled plasma jet with dynamically significant angular momentum are discussed. A new configuration of wire array z pinch, the twisted conical wire array, is used to produce convergent plasma flows each rotating about the central axis. Collision of the flows produces a standing shock and jet that each have supersonic azimuthal velocities. By varying the twist angle of the array, the rotation velocity of the system can be controlled, with jet rotation velocities reaching approximately 18% of the propagation velocity.