Raman and FT IR ATR study of diethylsulfoxide/water mixtures

The Raman and FT IR ATR spectra of diethylsulfoxide (DESO)-water mixtures in the SO and C-H stretching vibration regions at different molar ratios are considered. Noticeable changes are observed in the ν_SO region, suggesting the existence of strong H-bonds between DESO and water molecules; on the contrary the ν_CH bands change only in a less extent, supporting the existence of SO?HC hydrogen bonds in pure DESO that gradually break in the presence of water. In addition, FT IR measurements confirm the existence of ‘free’ SO group at low concentrations of DESO.The results obtained are well explainable in frame of the cluster-structure model of liquid water.     

The Properties of Mixtures of Sodium Dodecylsulfate and Diethylsulfoxide in Water

The aqueous mixtures of sodium dodecylsulfate (SDS) and diethylsulfoxide (DESO) have been studied using conductivity, viscosity and surface tension techniques. The critical micellar concentration (cmc) was determined in the presence of DESO at 30, 40, and 50 C from conductance and surface tension measurements. The enthalpy ( G_m), entropy ( S_m) and Gibbs energy ( G_m) of micellization were determined from the temperature dependence of the cmc. The results obtained were compared with published results for aqueous solutions of SDS and dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO). The data demonstrate a more pronounced inhibitory effect of DESO on the micellization of SDS, in comparison with the effect of DMSO. On the basis of the dependences of the relative viscosities on concentration, as given by the Jones–Dole semi-empirical equation, the B-coefficients have been calculated for the post-micelle composition region.     

Chirp reduction in three-cavity semiconductor laser diodes

The oscillation frequency shift ratio (OFSR) of a three-cavity coupled laser diode, which is caused by refractive index changes due to current modulation and temperature variation, has been investigated. It is found that the OFSR is significantly reduced by using a laser with an AR coated facet and a high external-mirror reflectivity, in addition to large external cavity lengths. Also, compared with an external cavity laser, the three-cavity laser has a smaller OFSR provided that the external cavities' reflectivities r₀ and r₃, are not identical (that is, r₃ > r₀). The analysis indicates that the structural parameters affect the OFSR of the three-cavity laser, which was shown to have a high longitudinal mode discrimination¹.     

Physical properties of aqueous blend of diethanolamine and sarcosine: experimental and correlation study

In this work, physical properties such as density, refractive index and viscosity of aqueous diethanolamine sarcosinate (DEA-SAR) solution were measured at different temperatures. The knowledge of physical properties is necessary for the process design and simulation of acid gas absorber plant. Various concentrations of aqueous DEA-SAR solutions (0.05, 0.10, 0.15, 0.20, 0.25 and 0.30) were investigated at temperature ranging from 298.15 to 333.15 K. The reported results showed an increment behavior in the physical properties with the increase in concentration isothermally, and a decreasing one with the rise in temperature of the solution at any given concentration. Empirical models were applied to correlate the experimental data of each physical property as a function of both concentration and temperature. A quantitative analysis of variation was carried out for estimating the significance of the physical property’s data.     

A new chance-constrained DEA model with birandom input and output data

The purpose of conventional Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is to evaluate the performance of a set of firms or Decision-Making Units using deterministic input and output data. However, the input and output data in the real-life performance evaluation problems are often stochastic. The stochastic input and output data in DEA can be represented with random variables. Several methods have been proposed to deal with the random input and output data in DEA. In this paper, we propose a new chance-constrained DEA model with birandom input and output data. A super-efficiency model with birandom constraints is formulated and a non-linear deterministic equivalent model is obtained to solve the super-efficiency model. The non-linear model is converted into a model with quadratic constraints to solve the non-linear deterministic model. Furthermore, a sensitivity analysis is performed to assess the robustness of the proposed super-efficiency model. Finally, two numerical examples are presented to demonstrate the applicability of the proposed chance-constrained DEA model and sensitivity analysis.     

Comparison of preconditioned Krylov subspace iteration methods for PDE-constrained optimization problems

We construct a novel multi-step iterative method for solving systems of nonlinear equations by introducing a parameter θ to generalize the multi-step Newton method while keeping its order of convergence and computational cost. By an appropriate selection of θ, the new method can both have faster convergence and have larger radius of convergence. The new iterative method only requires one Jacobian inversion per iteration, and therefore, can be efficiently implemented using Krylov subspace methods. The new method can be used to solve nonlinear systems of partial differential equations, such as complex generalized Zakharov systems of partial differential equations, by transforming them into systems of nonlinear equations by discretizing approaches in both spatial and temporal independent variables such as, for instance, the Chebyshev pseudo-spectral discretizing method. Quite extensive tests show that the new method can have significantly faster convergence and significantly larger radius of convergence than the multi-step Newton method.     

Polyethylene glycol grafted flower‐like cupric nano oxide for the hollow‐fiber solid‐phase microextraction of hexaconazole,penconazole, and diniconazole in vegetable samples

A simple, rapid, highly efficient, and reliable sample preparation method has been developed for the extraction and analysis of triazole pesticides from cucumber, lettuce, bell pepper, cabbage, and tomato samples. This new sorbent in the hollow‐fiber solid‐phase microextraction method is based on the synthesis of polyethylene glycol‐polyethylene glycol grafted flower‐like cupric oxide nanoparticles using sol–gel technology. Afterward, the analytes were analyzed by high‐performance liquid chromatography with ultraviolet detection. The main parameters that affect microextraction efficiency were evaluated and optimized. This method has afforded good linearity ranges (0.5–50 000 ng/mL for hexaconazol, 0.012–50 000 ng/mL for penconazol, and 0.02–50 000 ng/mL for diniconazol), adequate precision (2.9–6.17%, n = 3), batch‐to‐batch reproducibility (4.33–8.12%), and low instrumental LODs between 0.003 and 0.097 ng/mL (n = 8). Recoveries and enrichment factors were 85.46–97.47 and 751–1312%, respectively.     

Ultrasonic study of binary aqueous mixtures of three common eutectic solvents

Ultrasonic velocities have been measured for different binary mixtures of common choline chloride-based deep eutectic solvents (DESs), namely, reline, glyceline and ethaline with water, in the range of temperature: 303.15–353.15 K. The experimental data measurements with different mole fractions of DES–water solutions were utilised in fitting four different models for speed of sound. These models correlate the speed of sound with some physical properties such as molar volumes, molar components sound velocity, densities, molecular weights, collision factors etc. A close match was obtained with these models with an average relative error of less than 4% for all data points used. It was observed that the ultrasonic velocity increases with the concentration of DES solvent and decreases with temperature. Moreover, this study roughly indicated that the intermolecular interactions in reline and ethaline aqueous mixtures exist in the form of disruption of dipole–dipole interactions (that varies considerably as a function of DES mixture composition and solution temperature). On the other hand, the interactions on the molecular level in glyceline aqueous solution are mainly due to dipole–dipole intermolecular forces.