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Modification of an AFM to operate in a dynamic mode aids the study of soft biological materials [58]. Here a stiff cantilever is oscillated near its resonant frequency with an amplitude of about 0.5 nm forces are detected as a shift to a new frequency... 

One of the main uses of osmium tetroxide is as a biological staining agent for microscopic ceU and tissue studies. Osmium tetroxide is unique in that it both fixes and stains biological material. 

Chromatography is a technique for separating and quantifying the constituents of a mixture. Separation techniques are essential for the characterization of the mixtures that result from most chemical processes. Chromatographic analysis is used in many areas of science and engineering in environmental studies, in the analysis of art objects, in industrial quahty control (qv), in analysis of biological materials, and in forensics (see Biopolymers, analytical TECHNIQUES FiNE ART EXAMINATION AND CONSERVATION FoRENSic CHEMISTRY). Most chemical laboratories employ one or more chromatographs for routine analysis (1). 

The field of modified electrodes spans a wide area of novel and promising research. The work dted in this article covers fundamental experimental aspects of electrochemistry such as the rate of electron transfer reactions and charge propagation within threedimensional arrays of redox centers and the distances over which electrons can be transferred in outer sphere redox reactions. Questions of polymer chemistry such as the study of permeability of membranes and the diffusion of ions and neutrals in solvent swollen polymers are accessible by new experimental techniques. There is hope of new solutions of macroscopic as well as microscopic electrochemical phenomena the selective and kinetically facile production of substances at square meters of modified electrodes and the detection of trace levels of substances in wastes or in biological material. Technical applications of electronic devices based on molecular chemistry, even those that mimic biological systems of impulse transmission appear feasible and the construction of organic polymer batteries and color displays is close to industrial use. 

Biosorption is a process that utilizes biological materials as adsorbents [Volesky, 1994], and this method has been studied by several researchers as an alternative technique to conventional methods for heavy metal removal from wastewater. 

Similar behavior can occur when a crystalline network is disassembled by adding a solvent rather than by heating. These mesogens are called lyotropic liquid crystals and the mesophase formation shows temperature and concentration dependence. They are very important in biological systems, but have been much less studied in materials science. 

Error 1 CRMs completely or partly not identical with the matrix to be analyzed Ber-mejo-Barrera et al. (1999) studied enzymatic hydrolysis procedures using pronase E as sample pretreatment for multi-element - Cu, Fe, Mg, Zn, Ag, As, Cd, and Pb -determination in biological materials, mussel samples and human hair. 

A Spectrochemical Study of the Normal Ranges of Concentration of Certain Trace Metals in Biological Materials. Journal of Nutrition. 19 (1940) 579-592. 

It is largely without debate that the term "reference substance" includes those chemical and biological materials that are used as standards in a study (i.e., those materials used for response comparison purposes, such as analytical reference standards). Normally, one thinks of reference substances as just referring to specimen (sometimes referred to as "matrix samples") analyses, but the characterization of test, control, and reference substances (see... 

The vibrational spectrum of a metal complex is one of the most convenient and unambigious methods of characterization. However, it has not been possible to study the interactions of metal ions and biological polymers in this way since the number of vibrational bands from the polymer obscure the metal spectrum. The use of laser techniques for Raman spectroscopy now make it very likely that the Raman spectra of metals in the presence of large amounts of biological material will be measured (34). The intensity of Raman lines from metal-ligand vibrations can be... 

The identification and structural characterization of biological materials, obtained for example from plants, was traditionally carried out via the classical sequence involving extraction, separation, isolation and characterization, a sequence which requires large amounts of substance and a great deal of time. Industrial problems, for example the search for small amounts of contaminants in industrial products or in waste water, also require intensive analytical studies. 

A 2D liquid mass mapping method has been developed in our laboratory for the analytical profiling of proteins in complex biological material. In the present study, we demonstrate the capability of this method for comparative protein mapping of isogenic... 

Studies on the use of hydrothermal, microwave-assisted, and reflux synthesis methods for the development and application of nanomaterials have been reviewed. An important aspect of the green synthesis of metallic nanopartides involves techniques that make use of biological materials such as plant extracts and microorganisms. The design of nanomaterials and control of their desired properties have been reviewed. The unique properties of manufactured nanomaterials offer many potential benefits. 

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