H2S gas sensor based on integrated resonant dual-microcantilevers with high sensitivity and identification capability

Detection of trace-level hydrogen sulfide (H₂S) gas is of great importance whether in industrial production or disease diagnosis. This research presents a novel H₂S gas sensor based on integrated resonant dual-microcantilevers which can identify and detect trace-level H₂S in real-time. The sensor consists of two integrated resonant microcantilever sensors with different functions. One cantilever sensor can identify H₂S by outputting positive frequency shift signals, while the other cantilever sensor will detect H₂S as a normally used cantilever sensor with negative frequency shifts. Combined the two cantilever sensors, the proposed gas sensor can distinguish H₂S from a variety of common gases, and the detection limit to H₂S of the sensor is as sensitive as below 1 ppb.     

Changes in Phenols,Polysaccharides and Volatile Profiles of Noni (Morinda citrifolia L.) Juice during Fermentation

The change in phenols, polysaccharides and volatile profiles of noni juice from laboratory- and factory-scale fermentation was analyzed during a 63-day fermentation process. The phenol and polysaccharide contents and aroma characteristics clearly changed according to fermentation scale and time conditions. The flavonoid content in noni juice gradually increased with fermentation. Seventy-three volatile compounds were identified by solid-phase microextraction coupled with gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (SPME-GC-MS). Methyl hexanoate, 3-methyl-3-buten-1-ol, octanoic acid, hexanoic acid and 2-heptanone were found to be the main aroma components of fresh and fermented noni juice. A decrease in octanoic acid and hexanoic acid contents resulted in the less pungent aroma in noni juice from factory-scale fermentation. The results of principal component analysis of the electronic nose suggested that the difference in nitrogen oxide, alkanes, alcohols, and aromatic and sulfur compounds, contributed to the discrimination of noni juice from different fermentation times and scales.     

有限CN-p-群

每个子群都C-正规的有限群称为CN-群.本文首先给出二元生成的CN-p-群的完全分类.在此基础上得到CN-p-群的结构:当p为奇素数时,有限群G为CNp-群当且仅当G的每个元都平凡地作用在Φ(G)上;有限群G为CN-2-群当且仅当对任意给定的a∈G,都有对任意g∈Φ(G),g~a=g或者对任意g∈Φ(G),g~a=g~(-1).最后给出两个CN-p-群的直积是CN-p-群的判定条件.     

三维荧光光谱的特征区域选择方法

将数学中的二元凸函数判定和数据挖掘中的聚类分析方法结合,提出了针对三维荧光的光谱区域选择方法,并利用此种方法从光谱图中提取出含有丰富光谱信息的凸集区域。对水体中总有机碳的检测和白酒中黄曲霉素的检测进行了实验研究,实验结果表明,采用本文提出的三维荧光光谱区域选择方法提高了模型的精度,与利用全光谱所建立的回归模型相比,模型精度分别提高了6.17%和4.97%。     

Statistical and experimental investigation on low density microcellular foaming of PLA-TPU/cellulose nano-fiber bio-nanocomposites

This study dedicates to foaming of biocompatible blends of polylactic acid and thermoplastic polyurethane reinforced with bio-degradable cellulose nanofibers. This research primarily was associated with fabrication of PLA-TPU nanocomposites using a low weight fraction of cellulose nanofibers as a biodegradable reinforcement. Microstructural and mechanical properties of fabricated nanocomposites were examined and diffractometry was utilized to verify formation of percolated nanocomposites. Microcellular foaming was then performed with CO₂ as a blowing agent. Central composite design was applied in designing the experiments to evaluate the effects of main operating variables consisting of saturation pressure and time, heating time and foaming temperature. The results demonstrated that high saturation pressure and time promoted low cell diameters (below 5 μm) and high cell densities (above 10⁹ cell/cm³) due to the grown degree of crystallinity and higher PLA-TPU miscibility. Accordingly, adding TPU and CNF to the matrix create high crystalline foamed samples decorated with low bulk density.     

Robust adaptive fractional-order observer for a class of fractional-order nonlinear systems with unknown parameters

Nonlinear Dynamics - This paper investigates the parameter and state estimation problems for a class of fractional-order nonlinear systems subject to the perturbation on the observer gain. The...     

Amidinium salts: Towards enabling electrochemistry in non-polar media from alkanes to ionic liquids

There is little known about electrochemical behavior in non-polar media due to lack of compatible, hydrophobic salts. In this work, this difficult challenge has been overcome by following a strategy based on designing and synthesizing a novel family of organic salts with highly-delocalized cations and anions. The salts are based on the amidinium cation with highly-delocalized positive charge and long alkyl groups that enable good miscibility in heptane, an archetypical, non-polar media, while being hydrophobic, room-temperature ionic liquids. The electrolyte solutions show ionic conductivities that span the range 10^− 11–10^− 4 S cm^− 1 and electrochemical activity which enable their application as antistatic agents and also as new type of hydrophobic electrolytes in various electrochemical devices.     

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??Recurrent event data usually occur in long-term studies which concern
recurrence rates of the disease. In studies of medical sciences, patients who have infected
with the disease, like cancer, were conventionally regarded as impossible to be cured. However,
with the development of medical sciences, recently those patients were found to be possibly
recovered from the disease. The recurrence rate of the events, which is of primary interest,
may be affected by the cure rate that may exist. Therefore, we proposed semiparametric
statistical analysis for recurrent event data with subjects possibly being cured. In our
approach, we present a proportional rate model for recurrence rate with the cure rate adjusted
through a Logistic regression model, and develop some estimating equations for estimation of
the regression parameters, with their large sample properties, including consistency and
asymptotic normality established. Numerical studies under different settings were conducted
for assessing the proposed methodology and the results suggest that they work well for
practical situations. The approach is applied to a bladder cancer dataset which motivated our
study.     

Electrodeposited nanogold decorated graphene modified carbon ionic liquid electrode for the electrochemical myoglobin biosensor

In this paper, a carbon ionic liquid electrode (CILE) was fabricated using ionic liquid 1-hexylpyridinium hexafluorophosphate as modifier, which was further in situ electrodeposited with graphene (GR) and gold nanoparticles step by step to get an Au/GR nanocomposite modified CILE. Myoglobin (Mb) was further immobilized on the Au/GR/CILE surface with Nafion film to get the modified electrode denoted as Nafion/Mb/Au/GR/CILE. Cyclic voltammetric experiments indicated that a pair of well-defined quasi-reversible redox peaks appeared in pH 3.0 phosphate buffer solution with the formal potential (E ^0′) located at ?0.197 V (vs. saturated calomel electrode), which was the typical characteristics of Mb heme Fe(III)/Fe(II) redox couples. Thus, the direct electron transfer rate between Mb and the modified electrode was promoted due to the high conductivity and increased surface area of Au/GR nanocomposite present on electrode surface. Based on the cyclic voltammetric data, the electrochemical parameters of Mb on the modified electrode were calculated. The Mb-modified electrode showed excellent electrocatalytic activities towards the reduction of trichloroacetic acid and H₂O₂ with wider linear range and lower detection limit. Using GR and Au nanoparticles modified CILE, a new third-generation electrochemical Mb biosensor was constructed with good stability and reproducibility.