Structural characteristics of different types of nanoparticles synthesised in mesomorphic metal alkanoates

The class of thermotropic ionic liquid crystals (LCs) of the metal alkanoates possesses a number of unique properties, such as intrinsic ionic conductivity, high dissolving ability and ability to form time-stable mesomorphic glasses. These ionic LCs can be used as nanoreactors for the synthesis and stabilisation of different types of nanoparticles (NPs). Thus, some semiconductors, metals and core/shell NPs were chemically synthesised in the thermotropic ionic liquid crystalline phase (smectic A) of the cadmium octanoate (CdC₈) and of the cobalt octanoate (CoC₈). By applying the scanning electron microscopy, the cadmium and cobalt octanoate composites containing CdS, Au, Ag and core/shell Au/CdS NPs have been studied. NPs’ sizes and dispersion distribution of the NPs’ size in the nanocomposites have been obtained.     

Ultra-incompressible Ternary Diborides Re_（0.5）Ir_（0.5）B_2,Re_（0.5）Tc_（0.5）B_2,Os_（0.5）W_（0.5）B_2 and Os_（0.5）Ru_（0.5）B_2：Density Functional Calculation

In this paper, density functional computations have been applied to the structural, elastic and electronic properties of ternary transition metal diborides Re0.5Ir0.5B2, Re0.5Tc0.5B2, Os0.5W0.5B2 and Os0.5Ru0.5B2 in hexagonal (P63/mmc) and orthorhombic (Pmmn) structures with both local density approximation and generalized gradient approximation. LDA gives smaller lattice parameters and larger elastic moduli than GGA. Both results show that the hexagonal ones are more stable than orthorhombic ones except Os0.5Ru0.5B2. Moreover, the hexagonal structure has superior elastic property than orthorhombic one. Generally speaking, the calculated elastic moduli of Re0.5Ir0.5B2 and Os0.5Ru0.5B2 are smaller than those values of Re0.5Tc0.5B2 and Os0.5W0.5B2 within the same structure because of the filling of antibonding states. The relativistic effects result in weaker bonds of Tc-B (Ru-B) than those of Re-B (Os-B). All the diborides are ultra-incompressible. Re0.5Tc0.5B2 has the largest shear modulus and it is a promising superhard diboride like Os0.5W0.5B2. The elastic properties are in high correlation with the bond strength. The shear moduli are more sensitive than the bulk moduli to the bond strength.     

催化光度法测定痕量钒——钒(Ⅴ)-溴甲酚紫-过氧化氢体系

催化光度法测定钒已有报道[1～3],在0.45 mol·L-1磷酸介质及加热条件下,过氧化氢氧化溴甲酚紫褪色反应非常缓慢,而痕量钒对此反应具有较高的催化活性,且在一定浓度范围内,钒量与褪色反应程度呈线性关系,据此可建立测定痕量钒的方法.方法的检出限为1.9×10-6g·L-1,测定范围为0.003～1.8 mg·L-1.方法操作简便,重现性好,用于钢样中痕量钒的测定,结果满意.     

高压密封微波消解-等离子体发射光谱法测定5种蒙药中镁、钙、锰、铁、钴、镍、铜和锶

高压密封微波消解-等离子体发射光谱法测定5种蒙药中8种金属元素.实验结果表明:其中铁、锶、锰的含量较高.测定方法简便、快速、省时、稳定性好、回收率均在97.5%-105.5%.测试方法具有较好的精密度和准确度.     

Lipophilic rather than hydrophilic photosensitizers show strong adherence to standard cell culture microplates under cell-free conditions

Analysis of photosensitizer (PS) uptake kinetics into tumor cells is a standard cell culture experiment in photodynamic therapy (PDT) - usually performed in plastic microplates or petri dishes. Organic substances such as PS can potentially interact with the plastic surfaces. In this study, we provide a qualitative comparison of three lipophilic PS (hypericin, Foscan? and Photofrin?) and two rather hydrophilic PS formulations (PVP-hypericin and aluminum (III) phthalocyanine tetrasulfonate chloride) regarding their adherence to the surfaces of 96-well microplates obtained from four different manufacturers. For estimation of the relevance of PS adherence for cellular uptake studies we compared the fluorescence signal of the respective PS in microplates containing A431 human epithelial carcinoma cells with microplates incubated with the respective PS under cell-free conditions. We demonstrate that lipophilic PS substances show a strong adherence to microplates - in case of direct lysis and fluorescence measurement resulting in 50% up to 90% of the overall signal to be caused by adherence of the substances to the plastic materials in a cellular uptake experiment. For the hydrophilic compounds, adherence is negligible. Interestingly, adherence of PS agents to microplates takes place in a time-dependent and thus kinetic-like manner, requiring up to several hours to reach a plateau of the fluorescence signal. Furthermore, PS adherence is a function of the PS concentration applied and no saturation effect was observed for the concentrations used in this study. Taken together, this study provides a systematic analysis under which conditions PS adherence to cell culture plates may contribute to the overall fluorescence signal in - for example - PS uptake experiments.     

酶促开环聚合合成双亲性H型嵌段共聚物及其自组装

通过固定化酶Novozyme435（NV435）催化聚乙二醇（PEG）开环聚合己内酯（CL）得到端基带有羟基的ABA型三嵌段聚合物,用2,2-二氯代乙酰氯将聚合物的端羟基功能化形成H型大分子引发剂,在CuCl／HMTETA体系中引发4-乙烯基吡啶（4VP）进行原子转移自由基聚合反应（ATRP）,得到了具有两亲性的H型五嵌段聚合物（PVP）2-b—PCL-b．PEG-PCL-（PVP）2,用红外光谱（FT IR）,核磁共振（^1H NMR）,凝胶渗透色谱（GPC）对其结构与分子量及其分子量分布进行了表征,结果表明：H型五嵌段聚合物分子量46121g／mol,分子量分布1．30．并利用动态光散射（DLS）和原子力显微镜（AFM）对聚合物在水溶液中的自组装行为进行了研究,H型嵌段聚合物的胶束呈球形结构,平均直径为70nm左右．     

TDDFT Study on the Electronic Excitations and First Hyperpolarizabilities of Mixed-metal Carbonyl Clusters W2Ir2（μ-L）（CO）8（η^5-C5H4Me）2（L = dppe/dppf）

Mixed-metal carbonyl clusters of W2Ir2（CO）10（η^5-C5H4Me）2 1 and W2Ir2（μ-L）（CO）8（η^5-C5H4Me）2 （L = dppe 2, dppf 3） have been studied by TDDFT method focusing on their electronic and nonlinear optical properties. These three clusters exhibit the first static hyperpolarizabilities of medium magnitude （βtot-10×10^-30 esu）. The origin of β is discussed by the new proposed orbital-pair decomposition scheme by Barandes et al. The result suggests that the β values of the two clusters are mainly originated from d-d electron transition within the metal skeleton, and d-p （π＊） electron transition from metals to carbonyls and phenyl. The additional coordination by the electron donor group, ferrocene, makes cluster 3 own much larger β values, and the relatively longer range charge transfer from d orbitals of ferrocene to d orbirals of Ir and W is responsible for the enhanced β values.     

Charge fluctuations in Au+Au collisions at RHIC energy

A hadron and string cascade model, JPCIAE, together with the corresponding Monte Carlo event generator, has been employed in this paper to investigate further the charge fluctuations in Au+Au collisions at Snn = 130 GeV. The default JPCIAE calculations are in good agreement with PHENIX and STAR data. We found that the thermal predictions for the π gas, the resonance π gas and quark matter deviate, respectively, from the corresponding dynamical simulations from the JPCIAE model. The discrepancies were also found between the π charge fluctuations and the charge fluctuations of all species of hadrons. However the charge fluctuations for "π from ρ and ω decay" and for all the hadrons from resonance decay are close to each other, indicating the correlation between positively and negatively charged hadrons is not sensitive to the species of hadrons. This work shows further that it is questionable to use the charge fluctuations as a signature of QGP.