Synthesis of fluorinated imines and carbodiimides from azides via aza-Wittig reaction

The Staudinger reaction of fluoroalkylazides were studied. A series of N-fluoroalkylimines were synthesized via aza-Wittig reaction of N-fluoroalkyliminophosphoranes. The N,N′-difluoroalkylated carbodiimide was also synthesized via the reaction of N-fluoroalkyliminophosphoranes with carbon dioxide or carbon disulfide.     

LapRLSR for NIR spectral modeling and its application to online monitoring of the column separation of Salvianolate

A novel near infrared (NIR) modeling method—Laplacian regularized least squares regression (LapRLSR) was presented, which can take the advantage of many unlabeled spectra to promote the prediction performance of the model even if there are only few calibration samples. Using LapRLSR modeling, NIR spectral analysis was applied to the online monitoring of the concentration of salvia acid B in the column separation of Salvianolate. The results demonstrated that LapRLSR outperformed partial least squares (PLS) significantly, and NIR online analysis was applicable.     

Fringe pattern analysis by S-transform

S-transform proposed in 1996 by Stockwell R.G is a simple and popular technique for the time–frequency analysis. It has been introduced in optical three-dimensional shape measurement, recently. In this paper, a study about applications of S-transform in the demodulation of deformed fringe patterns is performed. We focus on discussing not only the S-transform spectrum filtering technique, the S-transform ridge technique and the phase gradient calculation method based on S-transform used in fringe pattern demodulation, but also the phase unwrapping technique. In addition, a generalized S-transform was introduced to analyze fringe patterns, which is helpful to improve the measurement accuracy and flexibility of the method based on S-transform. The reconstruction results based on S-transform were compared with that on wavelet transform and windowed Fourier transform in fringe analysis.     

Room-temperature multiferroic properties of Co-doped KNbO3 ceramics

KNb_0.95Co_0.05O₃ (KN–Co) ceramic was prepared via a solid-state reaction method, and the effect of cobalt dopant on the structural, electric, and magnetic properties was studied. The KN–Co ceramic with polycrystalline perovskite structure exhibited ferromagnetic and ferroelectric properties simultaneously at room temperature, and the coupling of them was confirmed by a large magnetocapacitance effect (about 13%) near the Curie temperature. The possible causes for the magnetism and magnetoelectric properties are discussed.     

应用门效应-分子印迹传感器测定盐酸强力霉素

利用邻苯二胺作为功能单体,盐酸强力霉素为模板分子,用电聚合的方法在金电极表面制备出对盐酸强力霉素可进行特异识别的分子印迹膜,利用门控制原理对盐酸强力霉素进行测定。表征了分子印迹膜的性能、印迹效应;试验了测定条件;该传感器对盐酸强力霉素的检测具有良好的选择性。盐酸强力霉素的浓度在2.0×10-9～1.0×10-7mol/L范围内与响应电流呈线性关系,检出限达8.7×10-10mol/L,低于现有分析方法。该传感器可用于鱼肉样品中盐酸强力霉素的检测,回收率在96.6%～103.1%。     

Event generators for η/η’ rare decays into π~+π~-1~+1~- and e~+e~-μ~+μ~-

Study of the rare and forbidden decays of η/η offers a sensitive probe to test fundamental symmetries of quantum chromodynamics and search for new physics beyond the Standard Model. To study the rare decays of η/η to π + π - e + e - , π + π - μ + μ - and e + e - μ + μ - at the BES detector, we developed several event generators based on the vector meson dominant model with finite-width corrections and the pseudoscalar mesons mixing theory. The various distributions from event generators are in good agreement with the theoretical predictions, which indicates that the event generators work very well after implemention in the BES Monte Carlo simulation package. In the BES physics analysis, the performance of the event generators will be improved in accordance with the distributions of different variables of η/η from data and the improvement on the theoretical calculations.     

Coronal multi-walled silicon nanotubes

By means of first-principles density functional theory(DFT) calculations and molecular dynamics(MD) simulations,a series of coronal multi-walled silicon nanotubes(MWSiNTs) without or with hydrogen terminations are systematically identified.Notably,coronal MWSiNTs,where the interaction between the walls is preferable through covalent bonds rather than weak interaction,show better stability than CNT-like SiNTs. Moreover,they exhibit good elasticity with small Young’s modulus.The investigation of the electronic structure demonstrates that they present metallic characteristics,which is in striking contrast to bulk silicon.Thus,the MWSiNTs may find important applications in electronic devices.     

Rapid access with diversity to enantiopure flexible PNA monomers following asymmetric orthogonal strategies

Different synthetic procedures are described in the rapid elaboration of flexible PNA monomers based on the 6-amino-8-base-octanoate and 5-amino-7-base-heptanoate scaffolds. Asymmetric Aza-Michael monoaddition is successfully applied to starting materials derived from sebacic/azelaic long-chain diacids and 6-membered oxacyclohexane commercial derivatives. Chain length, orthogonality of the ester functionalities, and Z/E isomerism of these prime substrates yielded high-valuable multifunctional intermediates through this asymmetric conjugate addition. Key features are the diversity toward PNA monomer synthesis, orthogonal chemoselective transformations, and Mitsunobu nucleobase substitution as an exceptional approach to introduce nucleobases in the final step.     

Adaptive linear generalized synchronization between two nonidentical networks

In this paper, the linear generalized synchronization between two nonidentical complex dynamical networks is investigated. Both non-delay and delay-coupled complex dynamical networks are studied. By designing effective adaptive controllers, the linear generalized synchronization between two networks with identical and nonidentical topological structures can realize. The feasibility of the proposed scheme is proved in theory and illustrative examples are presented to demonstrate the application of the theoretical results.     

Recent progress in nanomaterial-enhanced fluorescence polarization/anisotropy sensors

As a promising signaling transduction approach, fluorescence polarization (FP)/fluorescence anisotropy (FA), provides a powerful quantitative tool for the rotational motion of fluorescently labeled molecules in chemical or biological homogeneous systems. Unlike fluorescence intensity, FP/FA is almost independent the concentration or quantum of fluorophores, but they are highly dependent on the size or molecular weight of the molecules or materials attached to fluorophores. Recently, significant progress in FP/FA was made, due to the introduction of some nanomaterials as FP/FA enhancers. The detection sensitivity is thus greatly improved by using nanomaterials as FP/FA enhancers, and nanomaterial-based FP/FA is currently used successfully in immunoassay, and analysis of protein, nucleic acid, small molecule and metal ion. Nanomaterial-based FP/FA provides a new kind of strategy to design fluorescent sensors and establishes innovative analytical methods. In this review, we summarize the scientific publications in the field of FP/FA sensor in recent five years, and first introduce the recent progress of FP/FA sensor based on nanomaterial. Subsequently, the various analytical applications of FP/FA based on nanomaterial are discussed. Finally, we provide perspectives on the current challenges and future prospects in this promising field.