The REX-ISOLDE project

The Radioactive Beam Experiment REX-ISOLDE [1–3] is a pilot experiment at ISOLDE (CERN) testing the new concept of post acceleration of radioactive ion beams by using charge breeding of the ions in a high charge state ion source and the efficient acceleration of the highly charged ions in a short LINAC using modern ion accelerator structures. In order to prepare the ions for the experiments singly charged radioactive ions from the on-line mass separator ISOLDE will be cooled and bunched in a Penning trap, charge bred in an electron beam ion source (EBIS) and finally accelerated in the LINAC. The LINAC consists of a radiofrequency quadrupole (RFQ) accelerator, which accelerates the ions up to 0.3 MeV/u, an interdigital H-type (IH) structure with a final energy between 1.1 and 1.2 MeV/u and three seven gap resonators, which allow the variation of the final energy. With an energy of the radioactive beams between 0.8 MeV/u and 2.2 MeV/u a wide range of experiments in the field of nuclear spectroscopy, astrophysics and solid state physics will be addressed by REX-ISOLDE. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

共振、混沌与束晕形成

研究强流束中的非线性共振、混沌与束晕形成的关系.给出强流束中非线性共振范围的表达式及其随束流空间电荷效应变化的数值结果和图表曲线,提出由非线性共振而激发的束晕形成的空间电荷效应极限,并分析束晕形成的过程.     

Theta-terms in nonlinear sigma-models

We trace the origin of θ-terms in nonlinear σ-models as a nonperturbative anomaly of current algebras. The nonlinear σ-models emerge as a low energy limit of fermionic σ-models. The latter describe Dirac fermions coupled to chiral bosonic fields. We discuss the geometric phases in three hierarchies of fermionic σ-models in space-time dimension (d+1) with chiral bosonic fields taking values on d-, d+1-, and d+2-dimensional spheres. The geometric phases in the first two hierarchies are θ-terms. We emphasize a relation between θ-terms and quantum numbers of solitons.     

高选择性氟离子识别受体的设计与识别机理

将酰胺识别基团耦合至基态具有分子内电荷转移特征的对硝基苯基偶氮苯胺分子中,设计合成了受体分子N-苯甲酰基4-(4'-硝基苯基偶氮基)苯胺(3),对氟离子表现出极高的识别选择性.乙腈中该受体3的最大吸收峰位于380 nm,加入氟离子后,该吸收峰强度逐渐减弱,同时在530 nm处出现新的吸收峰,后者为受体分子与氟离子形成的1:1配合物的吸收峰.溶剂极性效应实验表明,该吸收峰具有电荷转移特征.引入氟离子后受体3溶液的颜色由浅黄色转变为紫红色,可实现氟离子的裸眼检测.质子溶剂效应,1H NMR滴定为受体分子3与阴离子间的氢键作用本质提供了直接证据.     

Zn2+,Cu2+及Ni2+对二甲双胍的配合作用及降血糖活性研究

二甲双胍盐酸盐、硝酸盐及与Zn²⁺, Cu²⁺, Ni²⁺三种金属离子配合物的结构特点、电荷分布和二甲双胍配合物对四氧嘧啶糖尿病小鼠血糖影响的研究表明:Zn²⁺配合物表现为较为少见的单齿配位,而Cu²⁺, Ni²⁺配合物表现为双齿配位.进一步电荷分布计算发现,与端基N原子相比,二甲双胍的桥基N原子具有较高的负电荷.三种金属离子配合物对四氧嘧啶糖尿病小鼠血糖的影响研究显示,桥基N配位掩蔽后,二甲双胍的降血糖功能丧失.说明桥基N对二甲双胍的降血糖作用具有重要意义.     

Temperature Dependence of the Activity of a Late Transition Metal Catalyst by Molecular Modeling

A combination of molecular mechanics and the charge equilibration method was applied and further developed to predicting the catalyst activity of a metal complex. A late transition metal catalyst, {di‐μ‐bromotetra [N,N′‐bis(3,5‐dimethylanil)‐4‐methyl‐2,6‐bis(imino)phenoxy]nickel} bromide (MOL) was dealt with. A modified molecular force field from universal force field was set and validated for this system. Simulations predict that the activity of MOL varies little with temperature. Simulation results were in good agreement with experimental results for ethylene oligomerization with MOL.

Temperature dependence of QEq charge on the Ni central atom of MOL.     

Copolymerization of styrene and vinyl acetate by successive photoinduced charge‐transfer polymerization

The synthesis of a diblock copolymer of styrene and vinyl acetate (VAC), PS‐b‐PVAC, was performed by successive photoinduced charge‐transfer polymerization (CTP) under UV irradiation. A novel amphiphilic diblock copolymer of PS‐b‐PVA then was obtained by the hydrolysis of the diblock copolymer PS‐b‐PVAC with sodium ethoxide as a catalyst. Both of them were characterized by Fourier transform infrared, H NMR, and gel permeation chromatography in detail. The effect of the solvents on the CTP and the kinetics of the CTP are discussed. © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Polym Sci A: Polym Chem 38: 914–920, 2000     

Molecular modeling on the prediction of silolene‐bridged indenyl metallocene catalysts for isotactic polypropylene

Two new silolene‐bridged metallocenes for isotactic polypropylene, racemic (1,4‐butanediyl) silylene‐bis (1‐η⁵‐2‐methyl‐indenyl) dichlorozironium and racemic diphenyl silylene‐bis (1‐η⁵‐2‐methyl‐indenyl) dichlorozironium, were designed in terms of the mechanism and concept of the activity and selectivity of metallocenes. The predictions on which the designs were based were carried out for four metallocene catalysts through molecular modeling methods such as molecular mechanics and charge equilibrium. In a comparison of the data from three of the catalysts that were successfully synthesized, the predicted orders of the activity and selectivity were consistent. This shows that classical methods such as charge equilibrium are useful in predicting the activity of catalysts. © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Polym Sci A: Polym Chem 38: 2232–2238, 2000     

Simulation of pH-Dependent Conformational Transitions in Membrane Proteins: The CLC-ec1 Cl−/H+ Antiporter

Intracellular transport of chloride by members of the CLC transporter family involves a coupled exchange between a Cl⁻ anion and a proton (H⁺), which makes the transport function dependent on ambient pH. Transport activity peaks at pH 4.5 and stalls at neutral pH. However, a structure of the WT protein at acidic pH is not available, making it difficult to assess the global conformational rearrangements that support a pH-dependent gating mechanism. To enable modeling of the CLC-ec1 dimer at acidic pH, we have applied molecular dynamics simulations (MD) featuring a new force field modification scheme—termed an Equilibrium constant pH approach (ECpH). The ECpH method utilizes linear interpolation between the force field parameters of protonated and deprotonated states of titratable residues to achieve a representation of pH-dependence in a narrow range of physiological pH values. Simulations of the CLC-ec1 dimer at neutral and acidic pH comparing ECpH-MD to canonical MD, in which the pH-dependent protonation is represented by a binary scheme, substantiates the better agreement of the conformational changes and the final model with experimental data from NMR, cross-link and AFM studies, and reveals structural elements that support the gate-opening at pH 4.5, including the key glutamates Glu_in and Glu_ex.     

A Hybrid Metaheuristic Based on Neurocomputing for Analysis of Unipolar Electrohydrodynamic Pump Flow

A unipolar electrohydrodynamic (UP-EHD) pump flow is studied with known electric potential at the emitter and zero electric potential at the collector. The model is designed for electric potential, charge density, and electric field. The dimensionless parameters, namely the electrical source number (Es), the electrical Reynolds number (ReE), and electrical slip number (Esl), are considered with wide ranges of variation to analyze the UP-EHD pump flow. To interpret the pump flow of the UP-EHD model, a hybrid metaheuristic solver is designed, consisting of the recently developed technique sine–cosine algorithm (SCA) and sequential quadratic programming (SQP) under the influence of an artificial neural network. The method is abbreviated as ANN-SCA-SQP. The superiority of the technique is shown by comparing the solution with reference solutions. For a large data set, the technique is executed for one hundred independent experiments. The performance is evaluated through performance operators and convergence plots.