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Trace assay of insulin in a pharmacy drug with a paste electrode
This paper describes the development of a voltammetric assay of insulin using a DNA immobilized onto a carbon nanotube paste electrode (CNPE), the peak potential of which was 0.2 V, vs. Ag/AgCl on the CNPE. Th...
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Liquid Sensing of a M-13 Bacteriophage-Based Colorimetric Sensor
Virus-based sensors using M-13 bacteriophages are considered as potentially useful techniques to detect harmful chemicals, such as endocrine disrupting chemicals and antibiotics. Despite their great potential,...
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Preparation of Organosilane Coatings via Chemically Pre-conjugated Graphene Oxides for Enhanced Dispersion and Hardness
Use of transparent organosilane hybrid films to protect substrates such as glasses and plastics is of great importance for electronic applications. In this study, graphene oxides (GOs) were chemically conjugat...
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Numerical Analysis of Nanogap Effects in Metallic Nano-disk and Nano-sphere Dimers: High Near-field Enhancement with Large Gap Sizes
Various gap sizes are investigated numerically to extract the local electric field enhancement from a gold sphere and disk dimer systems. Our simulations predict that a metallic disk dimer system(s) exhibit la...
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Photoanode Thickness Optimization and Impedance Spectroscopic Analysis of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells based on a Carbazole-Containing Ruthenium Dye
We studied the influence of photoanode thickness on the photovoltaic characteristics and impedance responses of the dye-sensitized solar cells based on a ruthenium dye containing a hexyloxyl-substituted carbaz...
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Open AccessCorrection: Corrigendum: Lateral photovoltaic effect in flexible free-standing reduced graphene oxide film for self-powered position-sensitive detection
Scientific Reports 6: Article number: 33525; published online: 16 September 2016; updated: 11 November 2016
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Open AccessLateral photovoltaic effect in flexible free-standing reduced graphene oxide film for self-powered position-sensitive detection
Lightweight, simple and flexible self-powered photodetectors are urgently required for the development and application of advanced optical systems for the future of wearable electronic technology. Here, using ...
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Synthesis of pyrrolidinofullerenes and their applications as an n-type component in organic transistors and polymer solar cells
We synthesized pyrrolidinofullerenes functionalized with an electron donor or acceptor group via Prato reaction. Their structures were studied using 1H-NMR, FT-IR and MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry. The electronic e...
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Influence of electron-donating and accepting functionalization of fullerene-based photosensitizers on the charge-generation efficiency of polymer composites
We studied a series of fullerene derivatives, which had been functionalized by an electron-donating group (triphenylamine) or an electron-accepting group (cyanobenzene), for use as photosensitizers in photocon...
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Enhanced grating formation speed and amplitude of photorefractive device modified with single-walled carbon nanotubes
We report on a fast and efficient polymeric photorefractive (PR) device by using single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) on indium-doped tin oxide (ITO) electrodes. In presence of SWCNTs, the magnitudes of pho...
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Effects of polythiophene as a photosensitizer on dynamic and steady-state photorefractive performance in polymeric composites
This study examined the effects of poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) as a photosensitizer on the dynamic and steady-state photorefractive (PR) performance of polymeric composites. The performance was measured in t...
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High-speed photorefractive composite sensitized by poly(3-hexylthiophene)
In this work, we have developed a new type PR sample with properties comparable to those of samples sensitized with organic molecules. The PR sample sensitized with P3HT has consistently shown great photocondu...
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The electronic structures for the optical absorption of Hf-O-N thin films
The local structures of Hf-O-N thin films were analyzed using an extended X-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS) study on Hf L III-edge and first-principles calculations. Depending on the...
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Polaron conduction loss in microwave dielectric ceramics
It has been generally accepted that the product of the unloaded quality factor and resonant frequency is the universal parameter for comparison of dielectric resonators with different size.1,2 However, it is sugg...
