Synthesis and Luminescent Properties of Terbium(III) and Europium(III) Fluoride Nanoparticles Modified with Aromatic Carboxylic Acids

Europium(III) and terbium(III) fluoride nanoparticles modified with citric, anthranilic, benzoic, salicylic, and acetylsalicylic acids have been obtained by means of sorption from solution and modification in statu nascendi. The shape and size of the particles have been determined by scanning electron microscopy. The luminescence of the samples was studied and it has been established that terbium fluoride nanoparticles modified with acetylsalicylic acid exhibits the highest luminescence intensity.     

Bifurcation-free design method of pulse energy converter controllers

In this paper, a design method of pulse energy converter (PEC) controllers is proposed. This method develops a classical frequency domain design, based on the small signal modeling, by means of an addition of a nonlinear dynamics analysis stage. The main idea of the proposed method consists in fact that the PEC controller, designed with an application of the small signal modeling, is tuned after with taking into the consideration an essentially nonlinear nature of the PEC that makes it possible to avoid bifurcation phenomena in the PEC dynamics at the design stage (bifurcation-free design). Also application of the proposed method allows an improvement of the designed controller performance. The application of this bifurcation-free design method is demonstrated on an example of the controller design of direct current–direct current (DC–DC) buck converter with an input electromagnetic interference filter.     

Hydrogen Bonding Between Ions of Like Charge in Ionic Liquids Characterized by NMR Deuteron Quadrupole Coupling Constants—Comparison with Salt Bridges and Molecular Systems

We present deuteron quadrupole coupling constants (DQCC) for hydroxyl‐functionalized ionic liquids (ILs) in the crystalline or glassy states characterizing two types of hydrogen bonding: The regular Coulomb‐enhanced hydrogen bonds between cation and anion (c–a), and the unusual hydrogen bonds between cation and cation (c–c), which are present despite repulsive Coulomb forces. We measure these sensitive probes of hydrogen bonding by means of solid‐state NMR spectroscopy. The DQCCs of (c–a) ion pairs and (c–c) H‐bonds are compared to those of salt bridges in supramolecular complexes and those present in molecular liquids. At low temperatures, the (c–c) species successfully compete with the (c–a) ion pairs and dominate the cluster populations. Equilibrium constants obtained from molecular‐dynamics (MD) simulations show van't Hoff behavior with small transition enthalpies between the differently H‐bonded species. We show that cationic‐cluster formation prevents these ILs from crystallizing. With cooling, the (c–c) hydrogen bonds persist, resulting in supercooling and glass formation.     

Synthesis and Optical Properties of Boehmite Nanoparticles Doped with 3d-Metal Ions

Russian Journal of General Chemistry - Nanorods and nanoplates of boehmite doped with copper, cobalt, and chromium ions were obtained by hydrothermal method. The resulting samples were...     

Passive scalar in a large-scale velocity field

We consider advection of a passive scalar θ(t,r) by an incompressible large-scale turbulent flow. In the framework of the Kraichnan model all PDF’s (probability distribution functions) for the single-point statistics of θ and for the passive scalar difference θ(r ₁)−θ(r ₂) (for separations r ₁−r ₂ lying in the convective interval) are found. Zh. éksp. Teor. Fiz. 115, 920–939 (March 1999) Published in English in the original Russian journal. Reproduced here with stylistic changes by the Translation Editor.     

Synthesis and Luminescent Properties of Eu 3+ , Gd 3+ , and Tb 3+ Complexes with Quinoline-4-carboxylic Acids

New complex compounds LnL3·nH2O (n = 5–10) have been synthesized on the basis of Eu3+, Gd3+, and Tb3+ salts and quinoline-4-carboxylic acid derivatives obtained via the Pfitzinger reaction. Composition and structure of the ligands and the resulting complex compounds have been confirmed by NMR and IR spectroscopy, thermogravimetry, and complexometric titration. Europium complex with 1,2,3,4-tetrahydroacridine-9-carboxylic acid has exhibited efficient luminescence.