We have developed novel non-radioactive technology using peptides encoding known phosphorylation sites as substrates spotted onto porous chips [7], [8].
A novel radioactive tracking technology has been developed to answer this need.
The performance of two new environmentally friendly inhibitors to prevent calcite and barite scale was evaluated experimentally in connection with a standard phosphonate-type scale inhibitor using the radioactive tracer technology.
The phenomenon of overshining, which is specific to the radioactive detection technology, is well-documented [ 17, 19, 21], see Figure 1, left part.
But despite its resolution, PET is limited by the hours it can take researchers to synthesize and purify the radioactive compounds the technology relies on.
It was one of 45 NERI awards announced in May for studies on everything from lightweight reactors to new radioactive waste cleanup technologies.
The availability of radioactive isotopes provided the technology necessary for understanding how molecules are transported across biological membranes, which are the very thin boundaries of living cells; the environment maintained by membranes in cells differs from the external environment and permits cellular function.
The detection of alpha particles and other radiation sources has been an important field of research since the inception of radioactive materials in medical technology approximately a century ago.
This kind of technology -- harnessing radioactive isotopes to create a power source -- was used to create the far larger nuclear batteries of NASA's Cassini probe, launched in 1997, to help it travel through the far reaches of space.
In principle, the technology can strip all radioactive substances from the water, except tritium, one of the less dangerous radioactive substances, which was spread widely through the environment by nuclear bomb tests in the 1950s and 1960s.
The basis of the TRACE technology was non-radioactive energy transfer from a donor to an acceptor.
