As an important chemical pollutant affecting the safety of agricultural products, the on-site
and efficient detection of pesticide residues has become a global trend and hotspot in …

Bismuth (Bi), as a nontoxic and inexpensive diamagnetic heavy metal, has recently been
utilized for the preparation of a variety of nanomaterials, such as nanoparticles, nanowires …

While it has been well recognized that affordable and pocket-size devices play a major role
in environmental monitoring, food safety and medical diagnostics, it often takes a …

Chirality plays an important role in the fields of chemistry, pharmacology, biology and
medicine. Recently, chirality has also been envisaged to play an important role in …

Background Highly sensitive and rapid detection of cell concentration and interfacial
molecular events is of great value for biological, biomedical, and chemical research. Most …

Biosensors, sensing systems that use biological recognition, physicochemical transduction,
and companion instrumentation, have been widely used to analyze and quantify different …

Bismuth (Bi) films were prepared using the molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) method and
characterised using Raman spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction, ultraviolet-visible-near-infrared …

In this paper, we deal with the phenomenon of melting at the point of contact between
dissimilar metals by Joule heating. A heat conduction model for this dissimilar metal wire …

We demonstrate the use of a parallel detection system with a nanograting-based microarray
to accomplish high-throughput analysis of bio-molecular interactions in a label-free manner …

Nanomaterials are currently defined by the European Commission as 'a natural, incidental
or manufactured material containing particles, in an unbound state or as an aggregate or as …