Response surface design as a powerful tool for the development of environmentally benign HPLC methods for the determination of two antihypertensive combinations: Greenness assessment by two green analytical chemistry evaluation tools

Interest in implementing green chemistry principles in analytical chemistry has grown dramatically in the past few years. The solvents used have the major influence on the greenness of the method. Most conventional high‐performance liquid chromatography methods employed utilize solvents that are “hazardous for the environment”. In the present study, two‐factor three‐level response surface design was exploited to develop eco‐friendly chromatographic methods for two different mixtures. The first one was atorvastatin and amlodipine and the second one was amlodipine, perindopril, and indapamide. As it is nontoxic to the environment, ethanol was used as the organic modifier in the mobile phase. The separation of the first mixture was attained using phosphate buffer (pH 7)/ethanol (42:58 v/v), and the second mixture was fully resolved using phosphate buffer (pH 5)/ethanol (40:60 v/v). The use of high‐performance liquid chromatography allows excellent resolution in a short run time, hence, less waste was produced. The greenness of the developed methods was assessed by two evaluation tools, namely, National Environmental Methods Index and analytical eco‐scale, and found to be excellent green analytical methods. Moreover, the developed methods were compared with other reported methods regarding accuracy and greenness and were found to be perfect alternatives to reported methods for separation and quantification of the mixtures.     

Polypeptides with High Zwitterion Density for Safe and Effective Therapeutics

The commonly used “stealth material” poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) effectively promotes the pharmacokinetics of therapeutic cargos while reducing their immune response. However, recent studies have suggested that PEG could induce adverse reactions, including the emergence of anti‐PEG antibodies and tissue histologic changes. An alternative stealth material with no or less immunogenicity and organ toxicity is thus urgently needed. We designed a polypeptide with high zwitterion density (PepCB) as a stealth material for therapeutics. Neither tissue histological changes in liver, kidney, or spleen, nor abnormal behavior, sickness or death was induced by the synthesized polymer after high‐dosage administration for three months in rats. When conjugated to a therapeutic protein uricase, the uricase–PepCB bioconjugate showed significantly improved pharmacokinetics and immunological properties compared with uricase–PEG conjugates.     

Tunable Water‐Soluble Supramolecular Polymers by Visible‐Light‐Regulated Host–Guest Interactions

The development of artificial self‐assembling systems with dynamic photo‐regulation features in aqueous solutions has drawn great attention owing to the potential applications in fabricating elaborate biological materials. Here we demonstrate the fabrication of water‐soluble cucurbit[8]uril (CB[8])‐mediated supramolecular polymers by connecting the fluorinated azobenzene (FAB) containing monomers through host‐enhanced heteroternary π–π stacking interactions. Benefiting from the unique visible‐light‐induced E→Z photoisomerization of the FAB photochromophores, the encapsulation behaviors between the CB[8] macrocycle and the monomers could be regulated upon visible light irradiation, resulting in the depolymerization of such CB[8]‐mediated supramolecular polymers.     

Optimization Design of Holding Poles Based on the Response Surface Methodology and the Improved Arithmetic Optimization Algorithm北大核心CSCD

抱杆优化设计需要耗费大量有限元分析计算时间,难以确定可行域.该文采用响应面法(response surface method,RSM)来模拟抱杆结构的真实响应,提出了改进的算术优化算法(improved arithmetic optimization algorithm,IAOA)对抱杆结构进行优化设计.将分数阶积分引入算术优化算法(arithmetic optimization algorithm,AOA),改善了算法的开发能力.采用拉丁超立方抽样,选取抱杆结构杆件截面试验样本,利用最小二乘法对样本点进行分析,构建了抱杆结构应力和位移关于杆件截面尺寸的二阶响应面代理模型.建立以抱杆质量最小化为优化目标,许用应力和位移为约束条件的优化模型,采用IAOA对其进行求解.结果表明:二阶响应面模型能够准确预测抱杆结构的响应值,IAOA的求解精度得到显著提升,代理模型可大幅降低有限元分析所需的计算代价,优化后抱杆结构质量减轻了8.2%.联合使用RSM和IAOA可有效求解大型空间杆系结构的优化设计问题.     

Structural Crack Identification Based on the Variational Mode Decomposition北大核心CSCD

In order to enrich the bridge damage detection method and further improve the accuracy of bridge damage identification, a detection method for simply supported beams with cracks under dynamic loads was proposed not based on the complete finite element model. Under the premise of not blocking traffic, the method only needs to analyze and deal with the acceleration responses of the simply supported beam span, which reduces the mounting, dismounting and maintenance of sensors in practical engineering. At the same time, based on the model, an analytical formula of the acceleration at the midspan of the simply supported cracked beam was derived. Based on the theoretical derivation, the instantaneous energy and the mean energy difference were constructed through the variational mode decomposition and the Hilbert transform, and these 2 crack identification indexes were used to effectively identify small cracks with a crack depth ratio of only 5%. Then the influences of different wheel loads, environmental noises and damage degrees on detection results were studied. The results show that: ① the instantaneous frequency has a better recognition effect for crack positions; ② the mean energy difference is sensitive to crack depth ratio δ and the wheel load magnitude; ③ this method has strong noise robustness. © 2022 Editorial Office of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics. All rights reserved.     

Stability Analysis of an Eco-epidemiological Model with Time Delay and Holling Type-III Functional Response

In this paper, an eco-epidemiological model with diseases in the predator and Holling type-III functional response is analyzed. A time delay due to the gestation of the predator is considered in this model. By analyzing the corresponding characteristic equations, the local stability of each of feasible equilibria and the existence of Hopf bifurcations at the disease-free equilibrium and the endemic-coexistence equilibrium are established respectively. By using Lyapunov functionals and LaSalle''s invariance principle, sufficient conditions are obtained for the global stability of the predator-extinction equilibrium, the disease-free equilibrium and the endemic-coexistence equilibrium respectively. Finally, numerical simulations are performed to illustrate the theoretical results.     

Frequency-independent rules for the dielectric susceptibility derived from two forms of self-similar dynamical behavior of dipolar systems

This paper provides the frequency domain analysis of the probabilistic representation of the cluster model for dielectric relaxation in dipolar systems. It is proved that the restriction (0.1) experimentally found for both the powerlaw coefficientsn andm is the necassary and sufficient condition to obtain the low- and high-frequency power-law behavior. Consequently, in both frequency regions the Kramers-Krönig-compatible frequency-independent rules are fulfilled. Moreover, in contrast to the empirical functions proposed to fit the experimental data, the dielectric susceptibility derived from the stochastioc considerations does cover the full range of the observed dielectric responses.     

Effect of some parasite surface reactions on the variation of electrical conductance in the H2?Pt/Al2O3 system

The charge transfer at the interface H₂-0.5% Pt/Al₂O₃ was studied by using the transient response of the AC electrical conductance. The transient response for water and oxygen contaminated surface was of the overshoot-type.     

Dispersion coefficients for first hyperpolarizabilities using coupled cluster quadratic response theory

The frequency dependence of third-order properties can in the normal dispersion region be expanded in a Taylor series in the frequency arguments. The dispersion coefficients thus obtained provide an efficient way of expressing the dispersion of frequency-dependent properties and are transferable between different optical processes. We derive analytic expressions for the dispersion coefficients of third-order properties in coupled cluster quadratic response theory and report an implementation for the three coupled cluster models CCS, CC2, and CCSD. Calculations are performed for the first hyperpolarizability of the NH₃ molecule. The convergence of the dispersion expansion with the order of the coefficients is examined and we find good convergence up to about half the frequency at which the first pole in the hyperpolarizability occurs. Padé approximants improve the convergence dramatically and extend the application range of the dispersion expansion to frequencies close to the first pole. The sensitivity of the dispersion coefficients on the dynamic correlation treatment and on the choice of the one-electron basis set is investigated. The results demonstrate that, contrary to presumptions in the literature, the dispersion coefficients are sensitive to basis set effects and correlation treatment similar to the static hyperpolarizabilities. Received: 26 March 1998 / Accepted: 21 July 1998 / Published online: 19 October 1998