Molecular sensing

If we now remove more energy from the liquid, it finally reaches a temperature where it "freezes", that is - it converts to a solid. What happens, in a molecular sense, is that the molecules become ordered. Another way to say this is that they form a lattice-like framework. A representation of the solid state is shown in the following diagram ... 

Tao, A. Kim, E Hess, C. Goldberger, J. He, R. Sun, Y. Xia, Y. Yang, P. 2003. Langmuir-Blodgett silver nanowire monolayers for molecular sensing with high sensitivity and specificity. Nano. Lett. 3 1229-1233. 

MOLECULAR SENSING DEVICES WITH MOLECULAR INTERFACES ENZYMES... 

A. Tao, F. Kim, C. Hess, J. Goldberger, R. He, Y. Sun, Y. Xia and P. Yang, Langmuir-Blodgett silver nanowire monolayers for molecular sensing using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy, Nano Lett., 3(9) (2003) 1229-1233. 

Another kind of genetic endpoint presently under consideration for regulation is recombination. Recombination in a molecular sense is a reciprocal exchange of DNA between homologous chromatids, and is detected by changes in the association of genetically linked markers. 

C.B. Aakeroy, D.J. Salmon, Building co-crystals with molecular sense and supramole-cular sensibility, Cryst. Eng. Comm. 7 (2005) 439-448. 

Pickup JC, Shaw GW, Claremont DJ. In vivo molecular sensing in diabetes mellitus an implantable glucose sensor with direct electron transfer. Diabetologia 1989, 32,213-217. 

Finally, apart from the obvious future commercial applications of redox-active ligand systems to a new class of amperometric molecular sensing devices, they also promise to exhibit exciting new redox catalytic properties by promoting redox reactions on an included guest substrate, and novel solid-state anisotropic electronic, magnetic, and optical (49) behavior. 

Solubility (in the molecular sense, rather than in the sense of forming dispersions and sols) opens up a number of possibilities. The first and perhaps most important, is that it allows size-selective precipitation [10], permitting monodisperse nanoparticles to be prepared. It is only when particles are monodisperse that their size-dependent physical properties can be studied in detail [6j. It is also possible to organize these monodisperse nanoparticles via slow evaporation to yield superlattices [11-13]. Superlattices of nanocrystals can rightly be described as a new class of materials, comprising crystals of crystals as opposed to most crystalline solids which are crystals of atoms [14]. In contrast, naturally occurring opals are crystals of amorphous silica spheres [15]. 

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