Certification of the mass fractions of Pt, Pd and Rh in a used car catalyst reference material

The high economic value of catalysts containing the platinum group elements platinum, rhodium and palladium as active components causes the need to be able to measure the precious metal loading with small uncertainty and to have suitable certified reference materials fulfilling high demands on the quality of the certified values. In European Reference Material ERM^®-EB504, a used cordierite-based car catalyst material, mass fractions of platinum, palladium and rhodium were certified. The raw material was milled, homogenised and annealed before analysis. Seventeen laboratories experienced in precious metals analysis participated in the certification interlaboratory comparison, most of them analysing with inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry using different sample pretreatment techniques. Homogeneity testing was carried out using X-ray fluorescence spectrometry. The certified mass fractions of Pt, Pd and Rh and their expanded uncertainties (k = 2) in ERM^®-EB504 are (1777 ± 15), (279 ± 6) and (338 ± 4) mg/kg respectively.     

Scheme and studies of reference materials for volumetric analysis in Japan

This paper describes the history and scheme of reference materials and standard solutions for titrimetry in Japan. Titrimetry is one of the most fundamental and precise methods for determination of a constituent, based on the effective purity of reference materials in stoichiometric analysis. It has wide-ranging applications based on titrimetric reactions such as neutralization, redox, chelatometric, and precipitation titration processes, which are used in various analytical fields all over the world. Japanese Industrial Standards (JIS) have played an important role in establishing a stable supply of reference materials for titrimetry since the 1950s. There are several reports of preparations and their determination, including coulometric studies, in order to establish highly reliable reference materials. This paper briefly reviews the schemes and studies of standardization through the provision of reference materials and standard solutions based on JIS, and several applications in other standards. Presented at Berm-11, October 2007, Tsukuba, Japan.     

Defects inspection of the solder bumps using self reference technology in active thermography

With the decrease of solder bumps in dimension and pitch, defects inspection of the solder bumps become more difficult. A nondestructive detection system based on the active thermography has been developed for solder bumps inspection. However, heating non-uniformities and emissivity differences may impede the defects recognition. In this paper, we propose a method using a self reference technology based on a source distribution image (SDI) to eliminate the influence of unevenness in emissivity values and heating power distribution. Three thermograms captured right after the heat pulse are averaged to create the SDI. Then the SDI is subtracted from the original thermograms, and we get the thermal contrast images, in which eight points on the edge of each hot spot are selected as the feature points for the corresponding bump. Thermal difference between the feature points and the central point are adopted to quantify the thermal behaviors of the solder bumps, by which the missing bump is distinguished from the reference bumps. The results show that it is effective using the method to eliminate the impacts of emissivity unevenness and heating non-uniformities on defects identification in the active infrared test.     

Torsion and noninertial effects on a nonrelativistic Dirac particle

We investigate torsion and noninertial effects on a spin-1/2$1/2$ quantum particle in the nonrelativistic limit of the Dirac equation. We consider the cosmic dislocation spacetime as a background and show that a rotating system of reference can be used out to distances which depend on the parameter related to the torsion of the defect. Therefore, we analyse torsion effects on the spectrum of energy of a nonrelativistic Dirac particle confined to a hard-wall potential in a Fermi–Walker reference frame.     

可溶性人源含硒抗体酶GPx的研究

对噬菌体展示人单链抗体库进行筛选,得到与半抗原S-二硝基苯取代的谷胱甘肽二丁酯特异结合的单链抗体3B10。用计算机模拟分析了单链抗体的空间结构,发现抗原结合的CDR3区位于抗体的表面,推测其可能进一步参加硒化反。利用突变引物,在大肠杆菌中表达了可溶性抗体蛋白,并用化学方法将催化必需基团硒代半胱氨酸（Sec）组装到3B10抗原结合部位,获得了具有谷胱甘肽过氧化酶活力的人源抗体酶。动力学研究结果表明,抗体酶和天然酶一样,符合乒乓反应机制。     

Elemental Analyses Using Laser Ablation-Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) of Geological Samples Fused with Li2B4O7 and Calibrated Without Matrix-Matched Standards

 Laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) was used as a complementary technique to X-ray fluorescence (XRF), for multi-element analysis of geological samples fused with lithium-tetraborate Li₂B₄O₇). Different calibration strategies using external non-matrix matched reference materials were investigated. Various internal standards were tested, including the use of Li from the flux, and the use of the naturally occurring internal standards, Si or Ca. The use of a naturally occurring standard is not as efficient as this required a prior analysis of the samples using XRF. The obtained values for the analysis of geological reference materials were compared with consensus literature values, and satisfactory agreement was found. Laser pits, which were formed, had a diameter of 80 μm and 3–5 replicates on each fused disc were measured. The reproducibility of the method was better than 10% for concentrations above 1 μg/g and better than 15% for lower concentrations. The use of Li as the internal standard offers the possibility of multi-element determinations in geological samples, which have an unknown composition when the laser ablation analysis is carried out. However, using the calculated stoichiometric composition of the lithium-tetraborate for the calculation of the Li concentration leads to a constant deviation from the recommended values. Therefore, it was necessary to determine the Li concentration within each sample batch using at least one lithium tetraborate fused geological reference material. This resulting Li concentration in the beads was then used for all subsequent samples in a run. Limits of detection, reproducibility, deviation from reference values indicate the potential of LA-ICP-MS for such bulk analysis without matrix matched calibration standards.     

The Synthesis of N-Morphine Hapten and Production of Monoclonal Antibody

The drug overdose and addiction is a serious international problem. Therefore developing a rapid, accurate, convenient and cheap method for detecting morphine in urea is useful and necessary, especially for investigation of epidemiology, identification of medical jurisprudence and determination of drug addict etc. There are many compounds that are similar to morphine in chemical structure and tend to have cross-reaction with the anti-morphine antibody. In order to reduce the cross reaction a…     

橡胶门尼粘度标准物质的研制

介绍橡胶门尼粘度标准物质的研制过程。该标准物质的均匀性、稳定性良好,定值准确可靠,符合JJG1006－94的要求。     

钨合金标准物质稳定性考察

对一级军用标准物质JBWY05901钨合金标准物质稳定性检验的化学分析方法进行了比较选择,提出了该标准物质稳定性检验方法,给出了检验数据的统计处理方法及稳定性检验结果。     

合金中痕量元素标准物质研制进展

通过对国内外高温合金、铝合金痕量元素标准物质的比较,评述了我国合金中痕量元素标准物质在种类、量值水平及不确定度等方面的进展。