Sodium chloride, optical applications

Researchers produced a homogeneous multilayer film of MWNT/CHT by the LBL self-assembly method. According to this method, the negatively-charged substrates were dipped into a polyethyleneimine (PEI) aqueous solution, a MWNT suspension, and a CHT solution, respectively, and finally dried. In this process, both the CHT and PEI solutions contained sodium chloride in order to facilitate the LBL assembly. The films showed stable optical properties and were appropriate for biosensor applications. 

The importance of [S2CNR2] dithiocarbamates in biological systems has emerged as result of the discovery by Gale et al. in 1981 of sodium diethyldithiocarbamate as an antidote for acute cadmium(II) chloride poisoning [105]. Since then, the coordination chemistry of cadmium(II) with dithiocarbamates has been steadily developed. The majority of studies were carried out in solution and it was not until recently that research focused on the solid state, due to the fact that dithio-/diseleno-carbamates of cadmium are excellent precursors for the synthesis of CdS or CdSe nanoparticles, which have unique electronic and optical properties that make them suitable for optoelectronic applications [106-108]. 

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