Ag decorated silica nanostructures for surface plasmon enhanced photocatalysis.

In this article, we present a novel synthesis of mesoporous SiO/Ag nanostructures for dye (methylene blue) adsorption and surface plasmon mediated photocatalysis. Mesoporous SiO nanoparticles with a pore size of 3.2 nm were synthesized using cetyltrimethylammonium bromide as a structure directing agent and functionalized with (3-aminopropyl)trimethoxysilane to introduce amine groups.

Electrochemically synthesized highly crystalline nitrogen doped graphene nanosheets with exceptional biocompatibility.

This work reports first electrochemical preparation of exceptionally biocompatible, highly crystalline, and well exfoliated nitrogen doped graphene nanosheets (eNGS) from carbon nanosheets for the development of mighty platforms in the field of modern biosensing and other biological applications for human welfare. eNGS displayed exceptional biocompatibility. Administration of the as-synthesized eNGS to rat models did not lead to any significant deviation or inimical consequences in its functional observation battery (FOB) tests, GSH levels or the histology of the vital organs of the rat models.

Non-fluorinated cosolvents: A potent amorphous aggregate inducer of metalloproteinase-conalbumin (ovotransferrin).

Here we have used five non-fluorinated cosolvents (acetonitrile, ethanol, methanol, sec-butanol and ter-butanol) at increasing concentrations and analyzed their aggregation inducing behavior on interaction with conalbumin (CA). The aggregates were identified as amorphous by performing spectroscopic experiments like circular dichroism and dye binding assay. The amorphous aggregate contains rich β-sheet content, show insignificant increment in Thioflavin-T (ThT) fluorescence intensity but strong 1-anilino-8-napthalene sulfonate (ANS) binding with enhanced fluorescence intensity.