Abstract:
An immunochromatography for multi-item detection is provided which contains detecting and measuring fluorescence and light absorption respectively at once with a detection device. The immunochromatography contains using fluorescent particles and light absorbing particles, wherein the fluorescence excitation wavelength of the fluorescent particles and the absorption wavelength of the light absorbing particles are in the same wavelength region; and detecting and measuring, at once, the intensity of reflected light from a test area, the intensity of reflected light from another test area, and the intensity of reflected light from a non-test area other than the test areas.
Abstract:
A coated carbon nanotube wire for a coil includes: a carbon nanotube wire, the carbon nanotube wire being composed of a plurality of carbon nanotube aggregates each constituted of a plurality of carbon nanotubes, or being composed of a plurality of carbon nanotube element wires each constituted of a plurality of carbon nanotubes; and a coating layer coating the carbon nanotube wire, wherein each of the carbon nanotube aggregates contacts one or more other adjacent carbon nanotube aggregates, or each of the carbon nanotube element wires contacts one or more other adjacent carbon nanotube element wires.
Abstract:
A method of producing a labeled antibody, including the steps of: a) allowing silica nanoparticles containing a functional molecule and having a thiol group on a surface thereof, and a linker molecule containing a maleimido group and an amino group, to coexist in a solvent to form a thioether bond between the thiol group and the maleimido group, thereby obtaining functional molecule-containing silica nanoparticles on which the linker molecule is bonded; and b) allowing the functional molecule-containing silica nanoparticles on which the linker molecule is bonded, carbodiimide and an antibody to coexist in an aqueous solvent to form an amide bond between the amino group of the linker molecule and a carboxyl group of the antibody.
Abstract:
A low-resistivity carbon nanotube aggregate includes a plurality of carbon nanotubes each having one or more walls, wherein a ratio of a total number of carbon nanotubes that have two or three walls relative to a total number of said plurality of carbon nanotubes is 75% or greater, and wherein, in a G band of a Raman spectrum in the Raman spectroscopy of the plurality of carbon nanotubes, a G+/Gtotal ratio that is indicative of an amount of semiconductor carbon nanotubes relative to metallic carbon nanotubes is 0.70 or greater.
Abstract:
The invention is directed to a fluorescence immunochromatography method carried out by illuminating a fluorescent substance in a membrane with excitation light and detecting fluorescence emitted from the fluorescent substance, by applying a sample to a test strip having a membrane and a transparent film attached to the surface of the membrane, wherein the transparent film satisfies Formula (1) Formula (1) nFf>nWf (nFf: refractive index of transparent film at wavelength λf of the fluorescence) (nWf: refractive index of analyte liquid at wavelength λf of the fluorescence), and wherein the membrane contains a fluorescent labeling reagent which binds to target substance contained in the sample; binding the fluorescent labeling reagent to the target substance; immobilizing the fluorescent labeling reagent bound to the target substance in the membrane; detecting the presence of target substance.
Abstract:
A connection structure of a carbon nanotube wire is provided, which includes a joint between the carbon nanotube wire and the connection target having excellent electrical connectivity and mechanical connectivity. The present disclosure provides a connection structure of a carbon nanotube wire, including: a carbon nanotube wire formed by twisting and bundling carbon nanotube aggregates; a connection target to which the carbon nanotube wire is connected; a conducting wire with higher solder wettability than the carbon nanotube wire; a penetrating part of the conducting wire formed along a cross section having a component orthogonal to a longitudinal direction of the carbon nanotube wire; and solder that connects the carbon nanotube wire and the connection target, in which the solder penetrates the penetrating part formed along the conducting wire.
Abstract:
A method of producing functional molecule-containing silica nanoparticles on which a biomolecule is bonded, containing the steps of: allowing silica nanoparticles containing a functional molecule and having a thiol group on a surface thereof to coexist with a linker molecule having a maleimido group and a carboxyl group in an aprotic solvent, thereby allowing formation of a thioether bond between the thiol group and the maleimido group, and obtaining functional molecule-containing silica nanoparticles on which the linker molecule is bonded; and allowing the functional molecule-containing silica nanoparticles on which the linker molecule is bonded to coexist with carbodiimide and a biomolecule having an amino group in an aqueous solvent, thereby allowing formation of an amide bond between the carboxyl group active esterified by the carbodiimide, and the amino group of the biomolecule.