一种简易长光程可见紫外、圆二色薄层光谱电化学池

设计了一种简易实用的长光程薄层光谱电化学池,该池以10mm石英比色槽为光学窗,2块5×10×50mm的聚四氟乙烯块为电极支承体,玻碳片为工作电极,且薄层厚度可调。以K_3Fe(CN)_6和L-酪氨酸为工作体系进行光谱和电化学实验表明,该池具有良好的薄层电化学特征。对于水溶液,在大于220nm波长内给出良好的光谱和较快的光谱电化学响应,可方便地用于圆二色谱-电化学研究。     

掺锡三氧化二铟导电玻璃双工作电极薄层光透电化学池的设计

本文报道了ITO导电玻璃双工作电极薄层光透电化学池的设计。这种薄层池具有操作简便,成本低廉的特点,其突出优点在于工作电极的边际效应因采用辅助工作电极而得以明显消除。以Fe(CN)_6~(3-)/(4-)~考察了该池的电化学和光谱吸收响应特性。     

基于碳纳米管修饰电极的胆碱电化学发光生物传感器研制

在碳纳米管(CNTs)和K3Fe(CN)6修饰的铂电极上吸附固定胆碱氧化酶,以鲁米诺为发光试剂,研制了胆碱电化学发光(ECL)生物传感器.CNTs可有效提高电极表面的电荷传输能力、提高电极表面的生物相容性和对酶分子的固载能力;K3Fe(CN)6对酶活性具有激活作用,同时对H2O2增敏的鲁米诺ECL有增强作用,均有利于提...     

超薄层红外光透电解池的设计和应用

采用真空镀膜技术制得了超薄型红外光透极电极，设计了适用于水溶液体系和多种固体电极体系的红外光透薄层电解池，通过亚铁氰化钾水溶液／金电极体系和亚硫酰氯／碳电极体系的现场红外光谱电化学测试证明：该电解池具有结构简单，光谱响应灵敏，适用范围较宽等优点。     

电化学石英晶体阻抗系统研究金电极上Fe(CN)3-6/Fe(CN)4-6电化学过程

电化学过程的石英晶体阻抗分析法已用于现场获取电活性聚合物粘弹性等信息[1,2]. 本文联用HP 4395A阻抗/网络/频谱分析仪和EG & G M283恒电位仪开发出电化学石英晶体阻抗系统(Electrochemical Quartz Crystal Impedance System, EQCIS), 适当条件下该系统能以小于1 s的时间间隔现场记录电化学过程的石英晶体阻抗数据. 测定了Na2SO4水溶液中石英晶体金电极上K3Fe(CN)6/K4Fe(CN)6电化学过程的等效电路参数. 结果表明, 扩散层内的密度和粘度变化引起动态电阻对电位的可逆变化, 而各谐振频率的变化为密度、粘度变化和阳极过程中K3Fe(CN)6溶液腐蚀金电极的加合结果.     

气体薄层电解池的设计及其应用

薄层电解池技术是六十年代初发展起来的一种电化学测试技术。所谓“薄层”,系指电解液层的厚度远小于工作电极表面上扩散层的有效厚度(～10~(-2)厘米),以致可以忽略液层中反应粒子的浓度梯度。工作电极上的暂态过程完全由“整体”(即薄层)波相中反应粒子的浓度变化所引起,具有整体电解的特征。薄层电解     

3,3′,5,5′-四甲基联苯胺在铂网栅光透电极上的薄层光谱电化学

3; 3′; 5; 5′-四甲基联苯胺在铂网栅光透电极上的薄层光谱电化学;薄层光谱电化学; 四甲基联苯胺; 电氧化; 铂网栅光透电极     

光透薄层光谱电化学法研究紫脲酸铵电还原过程

采用金网橱光透薄层电解池, 配合紫外可见光谱技术现场监测了有机染料紫脲酸铵的电还原过程。用光透薄层光谱电化学方法测定了紫脲酸铵在pH5.0醋酸盐缓冲溶液中的式电极电位和电子转移数。薄层循环伏安法和薄层光谱电化学法研究表明, 紫脲酸铵在金网栅电极上的还原为双电子转移不可逆过程, pH<8时, 还原产物双巴比士亚胺进一步分解为尿咪和巴比士酸。用双电位跃-计时吸收谱法研究了双巴比士亚胺在不同pH缓冲溶液中的分解动力学过程, 测定了拟-级反应动力学常数。     

应用扫描电化学显微镜研究极化液/液界面上的电子转移反应

将含有氧化还原电对的水溶液滴涂在铂盘电极表面, 然后将该电极插入到1,2-二氯乙烷溶液中, 形成稳定的油/水界面. 液滴中的K3Fe(CN)6和K4Fe(CN)6氧化还原电对既可以作为水相中的参比电对参与控制液/液界面上的电势差, 同时又可以作为水相的电子授受体参与界面上的电子转移反应. 结合扫描电化学显微镜电化学系统的特点, 利用其双恒电位仪分别控制界面电势差和现场扫描的优点, 通过扫描电化学显微镜的渐进曲线得到了不同界面电势差控制的电子转移反应速率常数. 实验结果表明, 应用此方法获得的液/液界面可以被外加电位极化, 在一定的电势差范围内, 反应速率常数与界面电势差的关系遵守Butler-Volmer公式.     

新式夹心型光透薄层光谱电化学电解池

本文设计了一种新式夹心型光透薄层紫外-可见光谱电化学池。该池采用铂网工作电极,两侧平行放置铂片为对极置于同一石英窗口夹层中,同时以聚四氟乙烯隔离膜作为边际限制器,结合池内小孔道设置内参比点进行精确的电位控制,具有理想的光谱电化学响应。利用循环伏安、循环电位-吸收、恒电位现场光谱、双电位跃-计时电量、双电位跃-计时吸收等技术,对铁氰化钾在氯化钾溶液中的行为进行了表征。     

溶剂化的热力学集团展开理论

把二元溶液的过剩内能（excess energy）分成溶剂-溶剂、溶剂-溶质及溶质-溶质相互作用部分。利用集团展开方法给出了二元溶液在正则系综的配分函数的表达式,利用该表达式得到了溶质的偏摩尔内能(partial molar energy)和偏摩尔熵(partial molar entropy)的表达式。在无限稀溶液情形,过剩偏摩尔内能的溶剂-溶剂部分又称重组织内能（reorganization energy）,它反映了溶质存在时对其周围溶剂分子之间的相互作用能的影响。研究表明,在溶质的粒子数密度相对较大时,溶质分子之间的相互作用将影响过剩偏摩尔内能的溶剂-溶剂部分,对于稀溶液,过剩偏摩尔内能的溶剂-溶剂部分与溶质的摩尔分数成线性关系。对低密度二元溶液,溶质的过剩偏摩尔内能和过剩偏摩尔熵也与溶质的摩尔分数成线性关系。     

Polymeric Lids for Microcontainers for Oral Protein Delivery

Oral delivery of proteins and peptides is one of the main challenges in pharmaceutical drug development. Microdevices have the possibility to protect the therapeutics until release is desired, avoiding losses by degradation. One type of microdevice is polymeric microcontainers. In this study, lysozyme is chosen as model protein and loaded into microcontainers with the permeation enhancer sodium decanoate (C10). The loaded microcontainers are sealed and functionalized by applying polymeric lids onto the cavity of the devices. The first lid is poly(lactic‐co‐glycolic) acid (PLGA) and on top of this either polyethylene glycol (PEG) or chitosan is applied (PLGA+PEG or PLGA+chitosan, respectively). The functionalization is evaluated in vitro for morphology, drug release, and mucoadhesive properties. These are coupled with in vitro and ex vivo studies using Caco‐2 cells, Caco‐2/HT29‐MTX‐E12 co‐cultures, and porcine intestinal tissue. PLGA+chitosan shows slower release compared to PLGA+PEG or only PLGA in buffer and the transport of lysozyme across cell cultures is not enhanced compared to the bulk powder. Microcontainers coated with chitosan or PEG demonstrate a three times stronger adhesion during ex vivo mucoadhesion studies compared to samples without coatings. Altogether, functionalized microcontainers with mucoadhesive properties and tunable release for oral protein delivery are developed and characterized.     

Bump-hunting for the proficiency tester--searching for multimodality

Kernel density estimation is a method for producing a smooth density approximation to a dataset and avoiding some of the problems associated with histograms. If it is used with a degree of smoothing determined by a fitness for purpose criterion, it can be applied to proficiency test data in order to test for multimodality in the z-scores. The bootstrap is an essential additional technique to determine how rugged the initially estimated kernel density is: the random resampling of the data in the bootstrap simulates a complete blind repeat of the proficiency test. In addition, useful estimates of the standard error of a mode can be thus obtained. It is suggested that a mode and its standard error can be used as an assigned value and its standard uncertainty.     

Wetting for self-healing and electrowetting for additive manufacturing

Advanced additive manufacturing actively widens its tool box of wettability-related phenomena to be used in production of new items. Novel self-healing engineering materials incorporate vascular networks with two types of nanochannels: the one containing a resin monomer, whereas another one — a curing agent. If such nanocomposites are damaged locally, both types of channels are locally broken, and they release resin monomer and curing agent droplets. These droplets spread by wettability over the nanotextured matrix, touch each other, and coalesce, which triggers polymerization reaction and crack stitching. Wettability-facilitated droplet spreading is accompanied by liquid imbibition in the pores in the nanofiber network. Such process peculiarities are in focus in the present review. An additional process relevant in direct writing and 3D printing is electrowetting (EW). It stems from the change in the contact angle in response to the electric polarization of dielectric substrates. EW allows movement of droplets on horizontal, vertical, and inverse surfaces, which can significantly facilitate the existing direct writing and 3D printing technologies. Accordingly, EW is also in focus in the present review.     

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Advances for proficiency testing for genetic laboratory science

Nucleic acid based clinical genetic testing has undergone explosive growth in recent years due in large part to the human genome project. Characterization of the human genome has led to a molecular understanding of the pathogenesis of many human diseases, and ultimately to clinical molecular tests becoming routinely used to diagnose a wide diversity of diseases. This rapid growth in clinical molecular genetic testing coupled with the complexity of the analytical procedures underscores the necessity for proficiency testing (i.e. external quality assessment) to allow laboratories offering such services the ability to evaluate their analytical procedures via inter-laboratory comparisons. The American College of Medical Genetics (ACMG) in partnership with the College of American Pathologists (CAP) have been offering proficiency testing for clinical molecular genetics laboratories since 1995, and presently have more than 230 laboratories from 11 countries enrolled in this program. This paper describes the evolution of this program and several challenges encountered in the delivery of a proficiency testing program for laboratories offering clinical molecular genetic services. Received: 13 April 2002 Accepted: 18 July 2002     

A methodology for choosing parameters for ESR readout of alanine dosimeters for radiotherapy

Spectrometer settings for ESR readout of alanine dosimeters for radiotherapy have been investigated. Several ESR parameters were studied and determined. The main reason for this work is to choose the suitable parameters to increase signal-to-noise ratio and to reduce the uncertainty on ESR readout, which is one of the main components of uncertainty of alanine/ESR dosimetry system for radiotherapy. The new spectrometer settings have been applied for ESR readout of alanine dosimeters irradiated from 1 to 10 Gy. A higher signal-to-noise ratio has been achieved compared to our old spectrometer settings. The extended uncertainty (k=2) has been evaluated in the dose range 2–10 Gy (maximum uncertainty of 4.9% for 2 Gy, while minimum uncertainty of 1.4% for 10 Gy), which implies that the alanine/ESR dosimetry system can be applied to radiotherapy dose level that needs a global accuracy of 5%.