2310 results about "Trace Amounts" patented technology

A method for detecting and localizing a target tissue within the body in the presence of ambient light in which an optical contrast agent is administered and allowed to become functionally localized within a contrast-labeled target tissue to be diagnosed. A light source is optically coupled to a tissue region potentially containing the contrast-labeled target tissue. A gated light detector is optically coupled to the tissue region and arranged to detect light substantially enriched in target signal as compared to ambient light, where the target signal is light that has passed into the contrast-labeled tissue region and been modified by the contrast agent. A computer receives signals from the detector, and passes these signals to memory for accumulation and storage, and to then to image processing engine for determination of the localization and distribution of the contrast agent. The computer also provides an output signal based upon the localization and distribution of the contrast agent, allowing trace amounts of the target tissue to be detected, located, or imaged. A system for carrying out the method is also described.

The invention discloses a method for preparing a suaeda salsa biogenetic salt. The method comprises the following steps of: taking parts, such as stems and leaves, above roots of fresh suaedasalsa; juicing; adding water into residual solid parts and extracting once; mixing the two liquids; and performing enzymolysis, boiling, decoloration, heavy metal removal, concentration and crystallization onthe mixed liquid, thus obtaining a finished product. The yield of the product is 1.2-2.1%. The product comprises inorganic salts serving as major ingredients and natural organic matters serving as minor ingredients. The inorganic salts mainly comprise sodium chloride, potassium chloride and magnesium sulfate as well as a trace amount of trace elements (Ca, P, Fe, Zn, Se, I, Cu and Mn) and the organic matters in the product mainly comprises vitamins, amino acid and polysaccharide. During preparation, any chemical substances are not required; furthermore, the raw materials are abundant, readilyavailable and low in cost, and have extremely high economic additional value; and moreover, the preparation method is simple and feasible, is easy to produce and operate, and is wide in market prospect.

A diesel engine exhaust treatment system and method is provided which includes a platinum group metal trapping device positioned between a diesel oxidation catalyst and an SCR catalyst. The platinum group metal trapping device traps trace amounts of platinum group metals which may be released from the diesel oxidation catalyst during engine operation and prevents them from accumulating on the SCR catalyst, preventing potential contamination of the SCR catalyst as well as ensuring that the performance of the SCR catalyst is uninhibited.

A system for the stand-off detection of trace amounts of analyte materials such as explosives, chemical warfare agents, toxic industrial chemicals, and the like includes an ion source that is operably connected to an ion collection means and to a sensor. The ion source employs a first gas that is passed through an electrical discharge to produce metastable gas molecules as well as charged particles of various kinds. Ions and other charged particles are removed from the first gas which is then reacted with a second gas having a lower ionization potential to obtain reactant ions of relatively uniform energy. The reactant ions are focused and accelerated into a beam that is directed upon a surface, such as luggage or clothing that is being interrogated, to produce analyte ions which are collected and passed into the sensor that is preferably a differential mobility spectrometer.

In a process of fabricating a stent composed primarily of niobium alloyed with a trace amount of zirconium, tantalum, or titanium for hardening, the stent is annealed under vacuum in a substantially oxygen-free environment. The vacuum is preferably maintained at pressure less than 10⁻⁴ millibars, oxygen-content less than about 80 parts per million, and the annealing temperature exceeds 400° C. for at least one hour, and is preferably kept in a range from about 1100–1200° C. for several hours. This may be followed by applying a surface layer of oxide, such as iridium oxide, with a thickness of 299–300 nm to the stent.

The invention relates to a molecular imprinting chemiluminescence sensor for detecting trace amount pesticide residues, belonging to the technical field of the detection of the pesticide residues. Theinvention also relates to a method for detecting the trace amount pesticide residues contained in agricultural product samples by using the molecular imprinting chemiluminescence sensor, which comprises the following steps: (1) selecting a functional monomer; (2) uniformly mixing a template molecule, the functional monomer, a cross linker, a pore-forming agent, an initiating agent and a silicon source to prepare an MIPs collosol according to a mole ratio of 0.1-1 to 1-10 to 5-25 to 20-60 to 0.05-0.15 to 20-50; (3) preparing a quantum dot material solution; and (4) modifying the MIPs collosoland quantum dot materials to the surface of a millipore plate to manufacture the chemiluminescence sensor by a layer-layer self-assembly surface modification technique. The invention has the advantages of high specificity and sensitivity, fast detection, low cost, good repeatability and convenient field detection on the detection of the pesticide residues.

The present invention provides a molecular level of DNA information code which uses a base pair sequence as an information code unit. Also, the present invention provides a molecular code system which includes designing and coding DNA which is an information code unit; stabilizing the DNA information code by encapsulating it with an inorganic capsule and coating the DNA-inorganic capsule to a medium; taking and extracting the coated DNA information code which is present in a trace amount, collecting the DNA information code using a polypyrrole-maghemite nanohybrid; and amplifying the collected DNA information code using a polymerase chain reaction and reading the amplified DNA information code. According to the present invention, the DNA information code having high security is prepared by assigning a security unit to a DNA which has an excellent accumulating capacity, and then the DNA information code is stabilized so as to be coated to a medium. Only the DNA information code may be extracted, collected, and read, if necessary. Thus, a unified molecular code system can be established.

The invention discloses an eggshell type nickel-based catalyst and a preparation method and application thereof, belonging to the technical field of nickel-based catalysts and aiming at developing the eggshell type nickel-based catalyst for meeting the demand. The research shows that the eggshell type nickel-based catalyst can be prepared by dissolving nickel salt into ammonia water solution, loading the mixed solution on a catalyst carrier by adopting a spraying or immersing mode, drying, roasting and reducing. The active component of nickel is mostly centralized in an area from the surface of the carrier to the part of 0.7mm below the surface and can remarkably improve the conversion rate and the selectivity of the catalyst. The invention can be applied to the technical fields of hydrogen addition and trace amount of carbon monoxide removal from hydrogen and the like.

Disclosed are an elastic body having a good elasticity and an impact absorbing efficiency, a method of manufacturing the same and a mattress employing the same. The elastic body is a foamed polyurethane body including polystyrene and has a plurality of foams in which air is contained. The elastic body is prepared by a method comprising the steps of preparing polyether polyol by mixing poly alcohol and a polyether compound in a mixing ratio of 3-5 to 5-7 by weight, obtaining a polyol mixture by adding 2-20 parts by weight of polystyrene and a trace amount of a catalyst and water to 30-50 parts by weight of the obtained polyether polyol, adding and stirring 20-60 parts by weight of an isocyanate compound to 40-80 parts by weight of the polyol mixture at 20-80° C., and pouring the resulting product into a mold to foam cast. A mattress manufactured by using such elastic bodies has a good elasticity and is capable of absorbing pressure, thereby providing comfort for users.

The invention discloses a recombinant microorganism for preparing dharma diene and protopanoxadiol and a construction method of the recombinant microorganism. The construction method of the recombinant bacteria comprises a step of adding dharma diene synthase, protopanoxadiol synthase and nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate - cytochrome P450 reductase encoding gene into saccharomyces cerevisiae to obtain recombinant bacteria I. According to the recombinant microorganism for preparing the dharma diene and the protopanoxadiol and the construction method of the recombinant microorganism, by means of homologous recombination, the dharma diene synthase, the protopanoxadiol synthase and the nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate - the cytochrome P450 reductase encoding gene are all added into the saccharomyces cerevisiae to obtain the initial recombinant bacteria, and the effect that the initial recombinant bacteria can produce trace amount of the dharma diene and trace amount of the protopanoxadiol is discovered; tHMG1 activity of the initial recombinant bacteria is further improved, and therefore intermediate recombinant bacteria are obtained, and by means of the intermediate recombinant bacteria, the yield of the dharma diene and the yield of the protopanoxadiol are significantly increased; the activity of one or two or three of ERG1, ERG9 and ERG20 are improved on the basis of the intermediate recombinant bacteria, and the effect that the recombinant bacteria which can be used to increase the yield of the dharma diene and the yield of the protopanoxadiol are constructed is also discovered. By means of the recombinant microorganism for preparing the dharma diene and the protopanoxadiol and the construction method of the recombinant microorganism, the foundation is laid for artificially synthesizing the dammar diene and the protopanoxadiol.

A device of detection of gas in trace amounts by a semiconductor laser coupled to a resonant optical cavity containing a chemical species to be analyzed. The device comprises a resonant optical cavity containing a chemical species to be analyzed; a semiconductor laser, coupled by optical feedback to the optical cavity and capable of being frequency-scanned; a means for adjusting the laser-cavity coupling rate; a means for finely adjusting the optical feedback phase; and a means for measuring the light transmitted by the cavity.

The invention discloses a top silver-cladding gold nanorod array and a preparation method and application thereof. In the array, a gold film is provided with a gold nanorod array of which the top end is cladded with silver nanoparticles with the diameters of between 60 and 90nm, and the bottom surface is provided with an organic matter substrate with the thickness of between 50 and 100 mu m. The method comprises the following steps of: evaporating the gold film on one side of a nano through-hole alumina template, and growing the gold nanorod array in the hole of the template, particularly coating a liquid organic matter on the gold film on one side on which the gold nanorod array does not grow; evaporating the gold film on one side after the liquid organic matter is cured; placing the alumina template of which the hole is deposited with the gold nanorod array and the gold film is coated with the organic matter in acid or alkali solution; etching off the template; and evaporating silver on the top of the gold nanorod array by film evaporating technology to obtain the top silver-cladding gold nanorod array. A trace amount of organic matter rhodamine or 2,3,3'-trichlorodiphenyl can be detected by using the surface enhanced raman scattering effect of the top silver-cladding gold nanorod array.

An exemplary printable composition of a liquid or gel suspension of diodes comprises a plurality of diodes, a first solvent and/or a viscosity modifier. An exemplary apparatus comprises: a plurality of diodes; at least a trace amount of a first solvent; and a polymeric or resin film at least partially surrounding each diode of the plurality of diodes. Various exemplary diodes have a lateral dimension between about 10 to 50 microns and about 5 to 25 microns in height. Other embodiments may also include a plurality of substantially chemically inert particles having a range of sizes between about 10 to about 50 microns.

The invention discloses a method for detecting an electrode of a molecular imprinting membrane of EDCs and the EDCs; the preparing method of the molecular imprinting membrane electrode comprises the following steps: a functional monomer is selected; template molecule of the EDCs, the functional monomer, a crosslinker, a porosity-making agent, an initiating agent and organic solvent are mixed evenly according to a certain molar ratio so as to prepare MIPs solution; nanometer material solution is prepared; the nanometer material and molecular imprinting polymer MIPs are modified on the surface of the electrode of a sensor by using the electrode surface modifying technology; a method for detecting trace amount of the EDCs comprises the following steps: the electrode of the molecular imprinting membrane is connected with an electrochemical working station and detects the EDCs in the environment sample extract; the electrode of the molecular imprinting membrane of the invention has strong specificity and high sensitivity which can reach ng level; a basic detection process is completed by only 1 to 2 minutes; the cost is low and the detection of one sample needs only a plurality of cents; the method for detecting the secretion in the environment by the electrode of the molecular imprinting membrane has fast and simple operation and the reaction and result are completed and recorded automatically by instruments.