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In the first part of this work, citric acid monomer was selected to produce dendrimer through the divergent method using logical conditions (for controlling its functional groups) on the base of poly (ethylene glycol) as the core. Triblock copolymers (ABA-type) of citric acid and poly (ethylene glycol) (PCA-PEG-PCA) as biocompatible compounds were synthesized in four different molecular weights and applied as nanocarriers. The structure definition of the molecules and nanoparticles were carried out using different spectroscopy methods. Diameter of the synthesized copolymers was investigated using dynamic light scattering (DLS) experiments and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and it was... 

Application of nanoparticles in targeted delivery and controlled drug release is recently highly attracted especially in cancer therapy. In this study with the aim of developing a novel drug vector based on metallic nanoparticles, gold nanoparticles with their unique characteristics were used to design a vector for targeted anti-cancer drug delivery to tumor. First, gold nanoparticles were chemically synthesized therough sodium citrate and sodium brohydrate reductions with average diameters of 22 and 11 nm, respectively. Then, the activated poly ethylene glycol (PEG) and activated folic acid were conjugated to the lysine-capped gold nanoparticles. Subsequently, the widely used anticancer... 

In recent years use of expensive metals plating has taken much interest from decorative state to industry trends. In this research the effect of pulse plating on the structure and properties of pure gold and gold-nickel has been studied.In case of pure gold pulse plating from cyanide bath, it was shown that current efficiency increased by increasing duty cycle up to 30% and decreased, afterwards. By increasing frequency from 1 to 150 Hz current efficiency decreased. By reducing the level of frequency, average grain size was increased, owing to the occurrence of recrystallization. An increase in the value of current density was also shown to be responsible for a reduction in current... 

Inert gold become catalytically active when dispersed in the form of nanoparticles. Isolated gold nanoparticles have demonstrated high catalytic activity for both oxidation and reduction reactions. In order to obtain high catalytic activity, gold nanoparticles are generally dispersed on support materials, among which oxides are commonly used. However, a substantial decrease in activity and selectivity of the immobilized catalysts is frequently observed due to the heterogeneous nature of these support materials in reaction media. In the course of our study on the metal-based catalysis for synthesis of organic compounds, we herein report that rod-shaped Au nanoparticles in aqua solution... 

Noble metallic nanostructures based on their localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) exhibit a phenomenon known as surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) in which the scattering cross sections are dramatically enhanced for molecules adsorbed thereon. The enhancement factor (EF) in typical cases can reach 106 and in recent years, it has been reported that even single-molecule spectroscopy is possible by SERS, suggesting that the EF can be as much as 1014-1015. In this study, we report a simple method to synthesize nanostructures of Ag and Au on metallic wafers and semiconductor via electroless deposition method. This approaches has been demonstrated to deposit metal nanostructures, thin... 

The increasing trend of gold prices over the last years, also a remarkable inflation in the prices level of Iran, attracted Iran households’ financial resources to the market of this precious metal. Although there are a sensible risk in the value of this asset, gold coin futures contracts is considered as an effective risk management lever of financial investors. This research intends to estimate the optimal rate of futures over spot contracts in the gold coins market of Iran. To this end, we use spot and futures prices over the 2008 Dec through 2011 Dec, which all the time series are sourced from the Iran’s mercantile exchange website. Among the existing procedures of optimal hedge ratio... 

A simple and effective procedure is proposed for colorimetric detection of hydrazine and phenylhydrazine. It was found that the reduction of AuCl4- to gold nanoparticles (Au-NPs) by these compunds in the presence of Tween-20 as a stabilizing agent produced very intense surface plasmon resonance peak of Au-NPs. The plasmon absorbance of the Au-NPs allows the quantitative spectrophotometric detection of the hydrazine and phenylhydrazine. The calibration curves derived from the changes in absorbance at λ = 530 and λ = 550 nm for hydrazine and phenylhydrazine, respectively were linear with concentration of hydrazine and phenylhydrazine in the range of 1.0×10-6- 2.0×10-4 M, 5×10-6 - 4×10-4 M,... 

This present work is an introduction of a new electrochemical sensor toward the determination of biomolecule. A simple electrodeposition method was employed to construct a thin film modifier of palladium–gold nanoparticles (Pd–AuNPs) decorated multi-walled carbon nanotube (MWCNT) on the surface of glassy carbon electrode (GCE). Morphological characterization of the modified electrode was performed by the scanning electron microscopy (SEM), energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS) and cyclic voltammetry (CV) techniques. This nanostructured film modified electrode effectively exhibited enhanced properties for the detection of ceftazidime (CFZ). The effects of various experimental variables such... 

This study intends to evaluate Value at Risk of the Gold price returns for Short and Long positions by using Extreme value, Normal and t-student parametric model approaches. Conditional variance also is estimated by GARCH(1,1), FIGARCH, FIEGARCH, PGARCH, EGARCH and TGARCH with the three window sizes: 1000, 750 and 500. Accuracy and sufficiency of specified models are tested in two stages. In the first stage we select the models which are sufficient and in the second stage, a loss function is calculated for the VaR methods which passed the sufficiency tests. Our result shows that the accuracy ranking is not independent on window size. Nevertheless, the most accurate models are those which use... 

In addition to chemical stability and biocompatibility, because of the characteristics of quantum dimensions, gold nanoparticles are used in detecting cancers, imaging and therapeutics .Atomic interactions between gold particles and bioparticles are influenced by the dimensions of gold particles .Therefore, in this project, after introduction of various water models and used potentials for modeling by the method of TIP3P, we studied gold clusters in different dimensions and densities, by using EAM potential in the aquatic environment .Then we can pave the way for studying proteins besides gold nanoparticles, in the future studies. Besides, gold particles were studied as colloid, so as to... 

Gold coatings due to their unique properties, use in a wide range of applications.Decorative coatings of gold for centuries, has been considered.However, few studies have been done on the properties of this metal, this metal is shown not only in terms of decorating, but in the industry also has a wide range of applications. In this project non-cyanide electroless bath based on binary complex sulfite-thiosulfate was prepared and metal ion concentration of the complex components, temperature, time, pH and addition of amino acids, optimzed bystability, qualityand rate of coating. The main aim of optimizing bathsis optimize the thickness and appearance of the coating.It was found that by... 

In the first part, the preparation of metallic, bi-metallic (alloy or mixtures) and metallic oxide nanoparticles on the substrate of carbon nanostructures (carbon nanotube and graphene based nanosheets) has been performed using chemical and electrochemical procedures. Then, the prepared nanostructures were characterized by electron microscopy, spectroscopy and electrochemical techniques. Finally, the nanofilms have been evaluated for sensing applications as a modifier on the electrode surface for accurate determination of trace amounts of some important pharmaceutical and biological compounds. In the first work, multi-walled carbon nanotubes decorated with Fe3O4 nanoparticles... 

4-Hydroxy-2-mercapto-6-methylpyrimidine (MTU), is a drug from thiouracil antithyroid family which inhibits thyroid hormone synthesis and is generally used to remedy hyperthyroidism in gestation and liver disease. On the other hand, MTU has been applied to animals to gain higher weight . Since remaining of thyreostatic drugs in eatable animal tissues could be a risk to human health, their use in animal products was prohibited in the European Union in 1981.Based on these reasons, the need for an analytical procedure capable of determining MTU is of great importance. We report herein the development of a highly sensitive colorimetric method for the detection of MTU utilizing citrate capped gold... 

An efficient method has been developed to synthesize well-aligned multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) on a conductive Ta substrate by chemical vapor deposition (CVD). By varying CVD parameters, aligned CNTs (A-MWCNTs) with diameter between 20-100 nm and length of some micrometers with bamboo-like shapes were produced. Free-standing MWCNTs arrays were functionalized and purified through electrochemical oxidation. Then in order to improve the performance, facile template-free electrochemical routes were developed for the shape-selective synthesis of less-common Au nanostructures, including flower, sphere, dendrite, sheet and rod on A-CNTs at room temperature. The results showed that the... 

Detection and determination of ultra-trace electroactive materials using electrochemical methods have been widely employed by researchers since they offer a fast, easy and reliable approach. In this way, developing of new nanoelectrodes with special and unique properties plays a profound role on the achievement of better results.
Gold nanoelectrode ensembles are one of the most important nanoelectrodes which due to the high surface area, chemical, electrochemical and physical stability, and integration of a large number of individual nanoelectrodes, introduce excellent opportunities to be employed as promising nanoelectrodes in determinations applications.
In this work, preparation... 

The growing use of nanomaterials leads to causing harm to the aquatic environment resulting in a demand for effective methods to remove these nanomaterials from aquatic environment. On the other hand, the high cost of raw materials used for the production of noble metal nanomaterial limits their use or requires the development of recycling and recovery methods. In this study, we found that citrate capped gold nanoparticles (cit-AuNPs) could be removed effectively from waste water using aluminum chloride (AlCl3) coagulant. The effect of pH, of coagulant concentration, and alkalinity on the performance of this coagulant was investigated. It has... 

In this study, a multivariate-based strategy was developed for simultaneous determination of thirteen carcinogenic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in water samples using gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) as solid-phase extraction (SPE) sorbent combined with gas chromatography-flame ionization detector (GC-FID). The extraction technique is based on the strong affinity between citrate capped AuNPs and PAHs. Furthermore, characterization of AuNPs was performed by UV-Vis and TEM techniques. A rotatable central composite design (CCD) combined with multiple linear regression (MLR) was used for designing the extraction procedure and developing models using the GC peak areas of 13 PAHs. Also,... 

The aim of this work is fabrication of magnetite@silica@gold particles. Study of the effect of pH showed that increasing pH from 9 to 12 resulted in a decrease in the size of magnetite nanoparticles from 7.9±1.38 nm to 5±0.64 nm. The TEM results indicated that modifying magnetic nanoparticles with sodium citrate prior to coating with silica leads to a narrow particle size distribution (275±16.1nm) and less number of silica nanoparticles without any magnetite core. Three methods were applied for attachment of gold nanoparticles seeds onto the silica surface: 1) use of an electrostatic interaction between positively-charged aminated silica and negatively-charged gold nanoparticles surfaces, 2)... 

The fascinating size-dependent properties of noble metal nanop articles have created a great promise for their use in a different applications specially chemical sensing. Gold nanorods (GNRs), specifically, have received a great deal of attention due to their unusual optical properties. The nanoscale confinement of electrons on the surface of gold nanorods grants them aspect ratio-dependent properties not seen in larger particles. Due to the intriguing properties of GNRs, significant work has gone into the application of nanorods for sensing and detection of various an alytes in biological and other systems. The major modalities which have been developed for... 

Methiocarb [3,5-dimethyl-4-(methylthio) phenyl methylcarbamate] is an N-methylcarbamate with neurotoxic action. Because carbamate pesticides are acetylcholinesterase inhibitors, they are considered to be carcinogens and mutagens. Methiocarb pesticide is widely used throughout the world particularly effective as fungicides, insecticide and bird repellent. To prevent its harmful effects on animals, humans, and the environment, it is of crucial importance to develop simple and sensitive methods for in-situ detection of methiocarb. This research describes a simple and low-cost method for on-site monitoring of methiocarb insecticide. Gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) aggregation caused by methiocarb,...