{"title":"Layer by Layer Fabrication of an Amperometric Nanocomposite Biosensor for Sulfite","authors":"S. Adeloju, A. Ohanessian","doi":"10.1201/9780429187469-83","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1201/9780429187469-83","url":null,"abstract":"A layer by layer strategy is described for the galvanostatic fabrication of a polypyrrole nanocomposite amperometric biosensor for sulfite. The strategy can be used to fabricate bilayer and trilayer sulfite biosensors, consisting of nanolayers of polypyrrole-sulfite oxidase, polypyrrole-dextran-sulfite oxidase, polypyrrole-chloride and/or polypyrrole-nitrate films. It has been demonstrated that the nature of the outer nanolayer has a significant influence on the selectivity and sensitivity of the amperometric nanocomposite biosensor. The presence of interferants, such as oxalic and tartaric acids at levels usually present in wine and beer did not interfere with the nanocomposite biosensor. The successful application of the nanolayer biosensor to sulfite determination in some wine and beer samples without sample pre-treatment is demonstrated.","PeriodicalId":6429,"journal":{"name":"2007 Cleantech Conference and Trade Show Cleantech 2007","volume":"118 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77424862","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Amorphous Diamond Solar Cells","authors":"J. Sung, Ming-Chi Kan, Shao-Chung Hu","doi":"10.29808/JVSROC.200610.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29808/JVSROC.200610.0004","url":null,"abstract":"Amorphous diamond has the least work function for electron emission in vacuum. It is also the most thermionic material possible. Hence, amorphous diamond can be used as thermally activated energy converter, such as a solar cell. Amorphous diamond solar cells may have the potential to generate electricity with cost on the par with power plants in the near future. The implementation of amorphous diamond solar cells may usher human civilization to the availability of unlimited clean energy.","PeriodicalId":6429,"journal":{"name":"2007 Cleantech Conference and Trade Show Cleantech 2007","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84164727","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
E. Barborini, M. Leccardi, G. Bertolini, O. Rorato, M. Franchi, D. Bandiera, M. Gatelli, K. Wegner, A. Raso, A. Garibbo, C. Ducati, P. Piseri, P. Milani, Piazzetta Bossi
{"title":"Gas Sensor Arrays by Supersonic Cluster Beam Deposition","authors":"E. Barborini, M. Leccardi, G. Bertolini, O. Rorato, M. Franchi, D. Bandiera, M. Gatelli, K. Wegner, A. Raso, A. Garibbo, C. Ducati, P. Piseri, P. Milani, Piazzetta Bossi","doi":"10.1201/9780429187469-73","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1201/9780429187469-73","url":null,"abstract":"Supersonic cluster beam deposition was employed to produce nanostructured thin films of transition met al oxides to be used as gas sensors. Due to high nanoparticle beam collimation, patterned deposition was easily obtain ed by using hard masks, achieving sub-micrometric resolut ion. To exploit hard mask patterning micro-machined substrates having an array structure were developed in order t o deposit materials with different properties on each single element of the array. Results on the deposition of nanostru ctured TiO 2, WO 3, SnO 2 and on the detection of volatile organic compounds (VOC) and gases related to environmental pollution (such as NO x) are reported.","PeriodicalId":6429,"journal":{"name":"2007 Cleantech Conference and Trade Show Cleantech 2007","volume":"42 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74340216","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
T. Neufeld, R. Popovtzer, J. Rishpon, E. Ron, Y. Shacham-Diamand
{"title":"Electrochemical ‘Lab on a chip’ for Toxicity Detection in Water","authors":"T. Neufeld, R. Popovtzer, J. Rishpon, E. Ron, Y. Shacham-Diamand","doi":"10.1201/9780429187469-84","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1201/9780429187469-84","url":null,"abstract":"An electrochemical 'Lab-on-a-chip' for water toxicity detection is presented. This miniaturized device containing an array of nano liter electrochemical cells, which integrates bacteria and can emulate physiological reactions in response to different chemicals. Bacteria, which have been genetically engineered to respond to environmental stress, act as a sensor element and trigger a sequence of processes, which leads to generation of electrical current. The silicon chip contains an array of nano-volume electrochemical cells that house the bacteria, connected to a sensing and data analysis unit. Each of the electrochemical cells in the array can be monitored independently and simultaneously with the others. A measurable current signal, well above the noise level, was produced within less than 10 minutes of exposure to representative toxicants. This miniature device provides high throughput rapid and sensitive real-time detection of acute toxicity in water.","PeriodicalId":6429,"journal":{"name":"2007 Cleantech Conference and Trade Show Cleantech 2007","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76072166","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Enlarge the distance of water molecules to incise microorganism cell—the development and application of nano-grade microorganism cell crushing machine","authors":"Yao Hongwen, Guo Suge","doi":"10.1201/9780429187469-76","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1201/9780429187469-76","url":null,"abstract":"Nano-grade microorganism cell crushing machine(patent number: 03143321.9)can break the microbial cell to nanometer level. It established the machine rationale to study out the enlargement water intermolecular distance formula from the design special-purpose spray nozzle, the enlargement water intermolecular distance, jetting flow of water molecule, cutting the microorganism cell. The birth of nano-grade microorganism cell crushing machine ended the disintegrator family cannot crush microscopic material the history. 1.1 Sending jet flow of water molecule and the structure of spray nozzle[1] [2] [3]P P[4]P P[5]P P","PeriodicalId":6429,"journal":{"name":"2007 Cleantech Conference and Trade Show Cleantech 2007","volume":"57 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86998606","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Solar-Blind Dual-Band UV/IR Photodetectors Integrated on a Single Chip","authors":"A. Bensaoula, C. Boney, R. Pillai, D. Starikov","doi":"10.1201/9780429187469-33","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1201/9780429187469-33","url":null,"abstract":"Employment of layered structures made of semiconductor materials with different optical absorption bands, is a new way of realizing either a broad spectrum photodetector or selective multiple band photodetectors. Such a concept based on structures fabricated using stacked semiconducting layers to obtain a multi spectral photoresponse is investigated in this paper. Based on the selected approach, fabrication of a dualband UV/IR photodetector with a reasonable responsivity at room temperature has been demonstrated. The integrated device is capable of detecting optical emissions separately in the UV and IR parts of the spectrum. The responsivities of this device are ~0.01A/W, at a peak wavelength of 300 nm and ~0.08 A/W, at a peak wavelength of 1000 nm, respectively. The described dual-band photodetectors can be employed for false alarm-free fire/flame detection and advanced hazardous object or target detection and recognition in several industrial, military, and space applications.","PeriodicalId":6429,"journal":{"name":"2007 Cleantech Conference and Trade Show Cleantech 2007","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88012934","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Enhancement of Oxygen Transfer in Fermentation by Use of Functionalized Magnetic Nanoparticles","authors":"L. Bromberg, T. Hatton, B. Ollé, Wang D.I.C.","doi":"10.1201/9780429187469-70","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1201/9780429187469-70","url":null,"abstract":"Enhancement of oxygen mass transfer has been observed in the presence of colloidal dispersions of magnetite (Fe3O4) nanoparticles coated with oleic acid and a polymerizable surfactant. These fluids improve gas-liquid oxygen mass transfer up to 6 fold in an agitated, sparged, cell-free reactor and show remarkable stability in high-ionic strength media over a wide pH range. A combination of experiments using physical and chemical methods has been used to show that the mass transfer coefficient kL and the volumetric mass transfer coefficient kLa are enhanced in the presence of nanoparticles. An increase of 40% in the oxygen uptake rate has been achieved in Escherichia Coli fermentation at a 5.5-L scale by using 0.6% w/w particles dispersed in fermentation media. The enhancement in mass transfer is directly translatable into increased fermenter productivity.","PeriodicalId":6429,"journal":{"name":"2007 Cleantech Conference and Trade Show Cleantech 2007","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78442258","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nanotechnology and the Water Market: Applications and Health Effects","authors":"F. Mowat, J. Tsuji","doi":"10.1201/9780429187469-41","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1201/9780429187469-41","url":null,"abstract":"Nanotechnology has enormous potential for creating cost-effective, simple, and efficient tools for addressing water-supply challenges while preventing the creation of potentially toxic byproducts. The success of these technologies using nanomaterials, however, will depend on whether the nanoparticles and fibers can be confined and isolated from human and environmental receptors and on assessments of the potential health and environmental risks if exposures do occur. To truly qualify as “green” technology, applications of nanotechnology will need to demonstrate that such exposures and potential concerns for health and environmental risk can be managed adequately. This paper describes some of these technologies, focusing on nanofiltration and disinfection, desalination, and environmental remediation, as well as implications to human health and the environment.","PeriodicalId":6429,"journal":{"name":"2007 Cleantech Conference and Trade Show Cleantech 2007","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82637887","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
L. Majoli, A. Evstratov, J. Guillot, A. Rouvière, P. Baussand
{"title":"Composite Carbon Nanostructures as Promising Carriers for Gaz Analysis","authors":"L. Majoli, A. Evstratov, J. Guillot, A. Rouvière, P. Baussand","doi":"10.1201/9780429187469-81","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1201/9780429187469-81","url":null,"abstract":"A lot of applications of carbon nanostructures (CNS) have been developed for the last fifteen years. Besides some particular electronic properties, such structures possess considerable adsorption capacities and so could be proposed both for gas treatment and for gas sampling and analysis. In this work, nanostructured carbon based composite samples were elaborated by the Catalytic Pyrolysis Method over the catalyst beds containing different transition metals supported by activated alumina (γ-Al2O3). Their efficiencies for volatile organic compounds (VOC) trapping, compared with the ones of Tenax-TA as the reference material, were evaluated in dynamic conditions. The obtained results show a real interest for new active material application for VOC adsorption procedures.","PeriodicalId":6429,"journal":{"name":"2007 Cleantech Conference and Trade Show Cleantech 2007","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88107360","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Investigating the Benefit-Cost of MEMS Application for Structural Health Monitoring of Transportation Infrastructure","authors":"Alan Davy, M. Jha","doi":"10.1201/9780429187469-85","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1201/9780429187469-85","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years MEMS has been widely recognized as an effective device for structural health monitoring of transportation structures, such as bridges and tunnels. It is unclear, however, whether the benefits of MEMS application far outweigh the associated cost. A quantitative approach for benefit and cost calculation of MEMS application for structural health monitoring of transportation infrastructure will be a major step forward to provide guidance to potential MEMS users. In this paper, we develop a fuzzy logic-based approach (since MEMS benefits are generally fuzzy in nature and at best, they can be quantified using fuzzy-logic) for benefit-cost calculation associated with MEMS application. Real-world case studies will be presented in future works using the proposed fuzzylogic approach.","PeriodicalId":6429,"journal":{"name":"2007 Cleantech Conference and Trade Show Cleantech 2007","volume":"32 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81778788","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}