The melting system installed in a freezer under a clean booth (class 100) and the ratios of signal intensity (SIR) of elements in blank artificial ice core to the elements in system blank from three zones of melting head during melting procedures. The ratio with one standard deviation is represented (n = 3).

A microfluidic chemotaxis assay system for Caenorhabditis elegans is developed by combing a micropost array with a microfluidic device, generating a stable linear gradient of chemoeffectors.

The BaTiO₃ film prepared with optimal additives was mainly composed of tetragonal-phase BaTiO₃ and had a saturated electric hysteresis loop.

Synthesis and characterization of three neutral complexes of Rh(I) with 2-[2-(diphenylphosphino) ethyl]pyridine, (PPh₂Etpy) (a), 2-(diphenylphosphino)pyridine (PPh₂py) (b), and 3-(diphenylphosphino)-1-propylamine (PPh₂ (CH₂ ) ₃NH₂ ) (c) are reported. These complexes exhibit good catalytic activity toward the transfer hydrogenation of carbonyl compounds to the corresponding alcohols with high conversion rate.

Bioinspired silicification has attracted a great deal of attention as a cytocompatible method for encapsulating proteins and living cells. Although bioinspired silicification has successfully been applied to the individual encapsulation of the microbial cells that possess durable cell walls, the conditions for the silica coating of mammalian cells remain to be optimized. In this work, we systematically varied the silicification conditions and optimized them for silica coating of HeLa cells as a model.