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The octadecyltrichlorosilane (OTS) solutions with three solvents, hexadecane, toluene, and ethanol, were acted as the interface chemical modifiers to advance the characteristics of organic thin-film transistors (OTFTs). The electrical characteristics of the organic thin-film transistors with modification were obviously enhanced, especially in mobility, on/off current ratio and subthreshold slope. From the data of X-ray diffraction (XRD), contact angle and atomic force microscope (AFM) measurement, it could be understood that the quality of the organic thin film had been improved due to the change of silicon dioxide surface energy. In this report, the best device was been treated in the OTS/toluene or hexadecane solutions with 1% volume concentration.

In this work, the poly(methyl methacrylate-co-methacrylic acid)/poly(methacrylic acid-co-N-isopropylacrylamide) thermosensitive composite semi-hollow latex particles was synthesized by three processes. The first process was to synthesize the poly(methyl methacrylate-co-methacrylic acid) (poly (MMA-MAA)) copolymer latex particles by the method of soapless emulsion polymerization. The second process was to polymerize methacrylic acid (MAA), N-isopropylacrylamide (NIPAAm), and crosslinking agent, N,N 0 -methylenebisacrylamide, in the presence of poly(MMA-MAA) latex particles to form the linear poly(methyl methacrylate-co-methacrylic acid)/ crosslinking poly(methacrylic acid-co-N-isopropylacrylamide) (poly(MMA-MAA)/ poly(MAA-NIPAAm)) core-shell latex particles with solid structure. In the third process, part of the linear poly(MMA-MAA) core of core-shell latex particles was dissolved by ammonia to form the poly(MMA-MAA)/poly(MAA-NIPAAm) thermosensitive semi-hollow latex particles. The morphologies of the semi-hollow latex particles show that there is a hollow zone between the linear poly(MMA-MAA) core and the crosslinked poly(MAA-NIPAAm) shell. The crosslinking agent and shell composition significantly influenced the lower critical solution temperature of poly(MMA-MAA)/poly(MAA-NIPAAm) semi-hollow latex particles. Besides, the poly(MMA-MAA)/poly(MAA-NIPAAm) thermosensitive semi-hollow latex particles were used as carriers to load with the model drug, caffeine. The processes of caffeine loaded into the semi-hollow latex particles appeared four situations, which was different from that of solid latex particles. In addition, the phenomenon of caffeine released from the semi-hollow latex particles was obviously different from that of solid latex particles.

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This study reports the phase detection of the two-port flexural plate wave (FPW) sensor for designing and integrating the miniature system and provides a comprehensive methodology for portable using in the biosensor applications of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV). The miniature system mainly utilizes the concept of the frequency divider that involves a divider, a time-based oscillator and a gate to reduce the high frequency, and the FPW sensor is fabricated using microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) technologies for producing a potable biosensing detector. The results demonstrate that the insertion loss decreased about 1 15% dB/ C, and the phase delay was about 2.05 /(1000 cP). The phaseshift resolution was about 10 mV per degree, and the original frequency of 4.2 MHz was divided by 100 to reduce the frequency to 42 kHz. The SARS-CoV could be detected via the S protein binds to the human angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (hACE2) as a functional receptor, which would cause the phase delay due to the combining of the antibody with the antigen. Therefore, the feasibility studies provide the information that phase detection is an appropriate low-cost technology via frequency divider for fabricating of the miniature biosensors.Index Terms-Biosensing, flexural plate wave, integrated system, phase detection, readout concept, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV).

This paper reports on the separately-doped structures of organic light-emitting diodes (OLED) in which red dye 4-(dicyanomethylene)-2-methyl-6-(1,1,7,7-tetramethyljulolidyl-9-enyl)-4H-pyran (DCJT) was doped into the host emitting layer of tris(8-hydroxyquinoline)aluminum (Alq3) by means of ultrathin separate doping (like quantum wells). The parameters in the ultrathin layer, including its width, position, number and spacing between separately doped layers, were changed to study their effects on electroluminescence (EL) characteristics. Thin doped layers increase the luminance efficiency. When the ultrathin separately doped layers were in the vicinity of the NPB/Alq3 interface, where N,N'-diphenyl-N,N'-bis(1-naphthyl)-(1,1'-biphenyl)-4,4'-diamine (NPB) is used as a hole transport layer, luminance efficiency also increased. The highest luminance efficiency reaching 4 cd/A was achieved using a double ultrathin separately doped structure with optimum doping thickness and 2 nm of space between the two layers. The study also found that double ultrathin separately doped structures achieved better EL intensity than single or triple ultrathin separately doped structures.

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