Background Circulating endothelial cells (CEC) may be a biomarker of vascular injury and pro-thrombotic tendency, while circulating endothelial progenitor cells (CEP) may be an indicator for angiogenesis and vascular remodelling. However, there is not a universally accepted standardized protocol to identify and quantify these cells and its clinical relevancy remains to be established. Objectives To quantify ...
The production of chitosan nanofiber mats by electrospinning presents serious difficulties due to the lack of suitable solvents and the strong influence of processing parameters on the fiber properties. Two are the main problems to be solved: to control the properties of the solution in order to obtain large area uniform fiber mats by having a stable flow rate and to avoid sparks during the process, dam...
Materials exhibiting large optical nonlinearities continue to be the subject of intense studies because of their potential applications in modern communication technologies involving optical data processing, transmission, or storage, where they are gradually replacing classical electronic devices.[1] Earlier we reported on the synthesis and evaluation of thermal, redox and NLO properties of donor-acceptor subst...
The electrochemical oxidation of oxalic and oxamic acids on multiwalled carbon nanotubes (CNT) and on monometallic (Pd and Pt) and bimetallic (Pd-Cu, Pt-Cu) catalysts supported on multiwalled carbon nanotubes was investigated using cyclic voltammetry. The electrodes were prepared by dispersion of the catalytic material on Toray carbon (CT) using a Nafion/water solution. The kinetic parameters of the reactions w...
Poly(ester amide)s (PEAs) are lacking in structural and spectroscopic information. This paper reports a structural and spectroscopic characterization of Nα-benzoyl-L-argininate ethyl ester chloride (BAEEH+·Cl−), an important amino acid derivative and an adequate PEAs’ model compound. Crystals of BAEEH+·Cl− obtained by slow evaporation in an ethanol/water mixture were studied by different complementary technique...
A series of novel donor-acceptor chromophores designed to have good second order nonlinear optical responses has been synthesized and characterized. This series of compounds was designed to explore the consequence of using different electron accepting moieties which were linked through an arylthiophene bridge to a pyrrole heterocycle that plays the role of an auxiliary donor group. These new push-pull chromopho...
Two series of novel push-pull heterocyclic azo dyes have been synthesized and characterized. The two series of compounds were based on different combinations of π-conjugated bridges (bithiophene and thienylpyrrole) which also act simultaneously as donor groups, together with diazo(benzo)thiazolyl as acceptor moieties. Their thermal stability and electrochemical behavior were characterized, while hyper-Rayleigh ...
Three series of bithiophene azo dyes functionalized with thiazol-2-yl or benzothiazol-2-yl-diazene acceptor moieties were synthesized through azo coupling reaction using 2,2´-bithiophene, 5-alkoxy-2,2´-bithiophenes, 5-N,N-dialkylamino-2,2´-bithiophenes and thiazolyl and benzothiazolyl diazonium salts as coupling components. The 5-alkoxy-2,2´-bithiophene precursors yielded the 5-thiazolylazo-5´-alkoxy-2,2´-bithi...
Two series of related donor-acceptor conjugated heterocyclic azo dyes based on the thienylpyrrole system, functionalized with benzothiazol-2-yl (5-6) or benzothiazol-6-yl acceptor groups (7) through an N=N bridge, have been synthesized by azo coupling using 1-alkyl(aryl)thienylpyrroles (1) and benzothiazolyl diazonium salts (2-4) as coupling components. Their optical (linear and first hyperpolarizability), elec...
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