Temperature-Responsive Poly(N-Isopropylacrylamide-Acrylamide-Phenylboronic Acid) Microgels for Stabilization of Silver Nanoparticles

Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide-acrylamide-phenylboronic acid) [P(NIPAM-AAm-PBA)] microgels of uniform size were prepared by the chemical reaction of 3-aminophenylboronic acid with poly(N-isopropylacrylamide-acrylamide-acrylic acid) [P(NIPAM-AAm-AA)] microgels in aqueous medium in the presence of N-(3-dimethylaminopropyl)-N-ethylcarbodiimide hydrochloride catalyst via carbodiimide coupling. Silver (Ag) nanoparticles were prepared using seed-mediated growth method and stabilized in P(NIPAM-AAm-PBA)] microgels. Ag nanoparticles and hybrid microgels were characterized by transmission electron microscopy, UV–visible, and dynamic light scattering techniques. The temperature-responsive behavior of hybrid microgels was found to be similar to that of the pure microgels. The value of volume transition temperature of hybrid microgels was found to be slightly higher than that of pure microgels due to shielding effect of Ag nanoparticles present on the surface of microgel particle. The decrease in the size of hybrid microgels as compared to that of pure microgels in swollen state is due to physical cross-linking by Ag nanoparticles inside the network of microgels. The stable hybrid polymer microgel system has a potential to be used for different applications.     

Highly polarized absorption and emission from polymer-stabilized smectic guest-host systems

ABSTRACT

The optical properties of luminescent molecules dissolved in liquid crystals have led to their proposed use in luminescent thin-film polarizers. These molecules are typically required to fulfil a range of criteria related to their absorption and emission properties, degree of alignment and stability; however, concurrently satisfying these requirements has proven a barrier in their practical use. We obtained highly polarized absorption and emission luminescent thin-film polarizer using reactive liquid crystalline monomers and highly dichroic luminescent dyes, both of which have polymerizable end groups. In situ photopolymerization of the liquid crystalline mixtures in the highly ordered SmB phase resulted in the formation of cross-linked polymeric networks in which the anisotropic absorption and emission of the film were fixed. The as-obtained product exhibited a high dichroic ratio (DR = 30) with a large fluorescence quantum yield (?_F = 0.77). The device is both cheap and easy to fabricate and has the potential to be used in practical electro-optic applications.     

Energetic N‐Trinitroethyl‐Substituted Mono‐, Di‐, and Triaminotetrazoles

A series of dense energetic N‐trinitroethyl‐substituted mono‐, bis‐, and tri‐5‐aminotetrazoles were obtained by reacting primary amines with in situ generated cyanogen azide, followed by the trinitroethyl functionalization that involves a condensation of a hydroxymethyl intermediate (prepared by a reaction with formaldehyde) with trinitromethane. These compounds were fully characterized by using multinuclear NMR spectroscopy, IR, elemental analysis, differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), and, in one case with 9 , with single‐crystal XRD analysis. The heats of formation for all compounds were calculated with Gaussian 03 and then combined with experimental densities to determine the detonation pressures (P) and velocities (D_v) of the energetic materials. Interestingly, most of them exhibited high density, good thermal stability, acceptable oxygen balance, positive heat of formation, low impact sensitivity, and excellent detonation properties, which highlighted their practical application potentials as a fascinating class of highly energetic materials.     

Multilayered Dermal Subcompartments for Modeling Chemical Absorption

Abstract

Dermal penetration of chemicals and drugs is of concern to both toxicologists and pharmacologists. Environmental professionals try to limit exposure to chemicals using protective clothing and gloves or barrier creams to trap chemicals. Drug developers try to enhance penetration of chemicals through the skin for medical purposes. Both can use predictive biologically-based mathematical models to assist in understanding the processes involved. These models are especially useful when they are based on physiological and biochemical parameters which can be measured in the laboratory. Appropriately validated models based on conservation of mass, diffusion and chemical transport by flow can be predictive of human exposures. In this paper we develop two new physiologically-based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) skin models to predict blood concentrations of dibromomethane in rats after skin-only vapor exposures. These new models improve the predictions of the blood concentrations especially at the beginning of the exposures. Sensitivity analysis shows that the permeability constants followed by partition coefficients have the most impact on blood concentration predictions. With proper validation the new models could be used to improve species, dose, and duration extrapolations of chemical or drug penetration. They could also be used to investigate and predict concentrations of drugs or chemicals in the skin.     

自组装铝/氧化铜和铝/氧化铁及其性能评估

本文分别采用模板法制备氧化铜纳米花, 水热法制备氧化铁纳米环, 并自组装制备了铝-氧化铜和铝-氧化铁2种铝热剂。自组装增大了异相材料之间的接触, 分别使得铝-氧化铜的反应放热量和压力由523 J·g^-1、1 858 kPa增加至1 069 J·g^-1、 4 389 kPa;铝-氧化铁的反应放热量和压力由1 448 J·g^-1、749 kPa增加至2 039 J·g^-1、2 280 kPa。两种铝热剂的放热量和压力差别较大, 且铝-氧化铜的静电感度高于大多数含能材料, 铝-氧化铁的撞击感度特别低, 显示出不同的应用特点。     

一种基于铜配合物的高灵敏硫化氢荧光探针

作为继NO和CO之后的第三个气体信号分子,硫化氢在生物体内具有许多重要的生理功能,因此发展灵敏度高、选择性好的硫化氢荧光探针以实现其实时跟踪和检测成为研究的热点。本文利用NBD荧光配体构建了一个基于其铜配合物的硫化氢荧光探针。铜离子的荧光猝灭作用使得该配合物探针的荧光很弱,而Na₂S(硫化氢供体)的加入可显著增强其荧光。研究表明其他阴离子对配合物探针的荧光影响很小,共存时也不会干扰探针对硫化氢的增强响应。研究认为S^2-对铜离子(Cu²⁺)的高亲和能力促使配合物脱铜可能是其实现荧光增强识别的机制。该探针在1~20 μmol·L^-1的范围内对H₂S具有线性响应能力,而且检测限可达到0.2 μmol·L^-1,是目前检测限较低的少数探针之一。     

Ni晶粒粒径对Ni/SiO_2催化月桂酸甲酯脱氧制烃性能的影响

采用等体积浸渍-干燥-还原法及等体积浸渍-干燥-焙烧-还原法制备了3种具有不同Ni晶粒粒径的Ni/SiO2催化剂,利用H2-TPR、XRD、TEM、H2-TPR、NH3-TPD及TGA技术对其及前驱体进行了表征,并在固定床反应器上评价了其催化月桂酸甲酯脱氧制十一烷(C11)和十二烷(C12)的性能,分析了Ni晶粒粒径对其脱氧性能的影响。结果表明,采用等体积浸渍-干燥-还原法制备的催化剂中Ni晶粒粒径较小,提高还原温度可以促进Ni晶粒长大。随Ni晶粒粒径增大,月桂酸甲酯的转换频率提高,而C11和C12总选择性、C11/C12物质的量比及裂解产物选择性降低,Ni/SiO2催化剂上月桂酸甲酯脱氧为结构敏感反应。此外,还考察了重时空速对Ni/SiO2催化剂脱氧性能的影响,随重时空速提高,月桂酸甲酯转化率、C11和C12总选择性、C11/C12物质的量比及裂化产物选择性降低。月桂酸甲酯通过脱羰/脱羧反应路径生成的CO/CO2几乎全部加氢转化为CH4,表明Ni/SiO2催化剂具有很高的甲烷化活性。研究还发现,较小Ni晶粒烧结、有机物种吸附及积炭会导致催化剂失活。     

Density-equicontinuity and Density-sensitivity

In this paper we introduce the notions of (Banach) density-equicontinuity and densitysensitivity. On the equicontinuity side, it is shown that a topological dynamical system is densityequicontinuous if and only if it is Banach density-equicontinuous. On the sensitivity side, we introduce the notion of density-sensitive tuple to characterize the multi-variant version of density-sensitivity. We further look into the relation of sequence entropy tuple and density-sensitive tuple both in measuretheoretical and topological setting, and it turns out that every sequence entropy tuple for some ergodic measure on an invertible dynamical system is density-sensitive for this measure; and every topological sequence entropy tuple in a dynamical system having an ergodic measure with full support is densitysensitive for this measure.     

On 2-dimensional insertion-deletion Reed-Solomon codes with optimal asymptotic error-correcting capability

Reed-Solomon codes have gained a lot of interest due to its encoding simplicity, well structuredness and list-decoding capability [6] in the classical setting. This interest also translates to other metric setting, including the insertion and deletion (insdel for short) setting which is used to model synchronization errors caused by positional information loss in communication systems. Such interest is supported by the construction of a deletion correcting algorithm of insdel Reed-Solomon code in [22] which is based on the Guruswami-Sudan decoding algorithm [6]. Nevertheless, there have been few studies [3] on the insdel error-correcting capability of Reed-Solomon codes.In this paper, we discuss a criterion for a 2-dimensional insdel Reed-Solomon codes to have optimal asymptotic error-correcting capabilities, which are up to their respective lengths. Then we provide explicit constructions of 2-dimensional insdel Reed-Solomon codes that satisfy the established criteria. The family of such constructed codes can then be shown to extend the family of codes with asymptotic error-correcting capability reaching their respective lengths provided in [3, Theorem 2] which provide larger error-correcting capability compared to those defined in [25].     

提高惠斯通电桥灵敏度的方法

惠斯通电桥的灵敏度是影响其测量精确度的一个重要因素.为了分析影响惠斯通电桥灵敏度的因素,推导了惠斯通电桥灵敏度的公式,对惠斯通电桥的灵敏度进行实验研究.利用惠斯通电桥灵敏度的实验,从电源电压E、电源内阻rE和限流电阻RE、检流计灵敏度、检流计内阻RE和限流保护电阻R保护、检流计和电源接入线路的位置、R'E和桥路两端等效...