Crystallization and Preliminary X-Ray Diffraction Study of the C-Terminal Fragment of Myomesin-2

Crystallography Reports - The recombinant С-terminal fragment of myomesin-2 was purified to a homogeneous state. The crystallization conditions for the С-terminal fragment of myomesin-2...     

Equation for Condensed Matter Phase Transitions

Russian Physics Journal - A unified equation for the pressure drop in the apparatus with the stationary and fluidized granular layers is derived. The resulting recurrent equation is used to...     

Treatment of Pea Seeds with Plasma Activated Water to Enhance Germination,Plant Growth,and Plant Composition

Plasma Chemistry and Plasma Processing - The present study has been carried to investigate the interaction and effect of plasma activated water (PAW) on pea seeds. PAW is produced with the...     

Dark and bright soliton solutions and computational modeling of nonlinear regularized long wave model

Nonlinear Dynamics - In this article, the authors simulate and study dark and bright soliton solutions of 1D and 2D regularized long wave (RLW) models. The RLW model occurred in various fields such...     

Secondary Metabolites of Litchi chinensis

Chemistry of Natural Compounds -     

A Cell Model of an Ion-Exchange Membrane. Capillary-Osmosis and Reverse-Osmosis Coefficients

Colloid Journal - The capillary-osmosis and reverse-osmosis coefficients of an ion-exchange membrane have been calculated as the kinetic coefficients of the Onsager matrix within the thermodynamics...     

New Insights on Modern Age Coins by Calibration-Free Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy Method and Chemometric Approaches

Journal of Applied Spectroscopy - The elemental composition of one- and two-rupee coins issued in different years by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) was investigated using laser-induced breakdown...     

Taylor-Type Formulas for Arbitrary Continuous Functions on Intervals and Their Application in Control Problems for Distributed Systems

Doklady Mathematics - Two classes of Taylor-type formulas for arbitrary continuous functions on intervals are obtained using Bernstein polynomials. These formulas are applicable to both smooth...     

Optimal linear interpolation of multiple missing values

Statistical Inference for Stochastic Processes - The problem of linear interpolation in the context of a multivariate time series having multiple (possibly non-consecutive) missing values is...     

Dual Fluorometric Detection of Fe3+ and Hg2+ Ions in an Aqueous Medium Using Carbon Quantum Dots as a “Turn-off” Fluorescence Sensor

The present study aimed to develop a carbon dots-based fluorescence (FL) sensor that can detect more than one pollutant simultaneously in the same aqueous solution. The carbon dots-based FL sensor has been prepared by employing a facile hydrothermal method using citric acid and ethylenediamine as precursors. The as-synthesized CDs displayed excellent hydrophilicity, good photostability and blue fluorescence under UV light. They have been used as an efficient “turn-off” FL sensor for dual sensing of Fe³⁺ and Hg²⁺ ions in an aqueous medium with high sensitivity and selectivity through a static quenching mechanism. The lowest limit of detection (LOD) for Fe³⁺ and Hg²⁺ ions was found to be 0.406 µM and 0.934 µM, respectively over the concentration range of 0-50 µM. Therefore, the present work provides an effective strategy to monitor the concentration of Fe³⁺ and Hg²⁺ ions simultaneously in an aqueous medium using environment-friendly CDs.

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