Effects of Ultra-sonification Assisting Polyethylene Glycol Pre-treatment on the Crystallinity and Accessibility of Cellulose Fiber

In order to prepare the advanced cellulosic super-absorbent polymer with high grafting level, we tried the novel ultrasound wave assisting polyethylene glycol (PEG) pre-treatment method to decrease the crystallinity and increase the accessibility of cellulose fiber. The effects of ultrasonification assisting PEG method on the crystallinity and swelling capacity of cellulose fiber were investigated. To optimize the experimental condition, the Taguchi method was employed in the treatment process. The influence factors such as ultrasonic wave power, ultrasonic wave time and PEG molecular weight relative to the crystallinity of cellulose fiber were studied systematically. The degree of crystallinity of cellulose fiber was measured by wide-angle X-ray diffraction (WAXD). The morphology of cellulose fiber was observed by environment scanning electron microscopy (ESEM). The effects of pre-treatment variables on the water absorbency and water retention values of cellulose fiber were also investigated. The research results revealed that, under the optimal experimental condition (ultrasonic powder, 500 W; ultrasonic time, 150 s; PEG molecular weight, 600 g/mol), the crystallinity of cellulose fiber decreased from 72.16 to 42.95%. Accordingly, the absorbency of cellulose fiber increased from 1.436 to 2.063 g/g, and the water retention value increased from 47.21 to 113.4%. However, the morphology of cellulose fiber did not change thoroughly compared with the original cellulose fiber. It can be hypothesized that the original inter- and intra-macromolecular hydrogen bonds in cellulose network were weakened, resulting from the high level dispersion of PEG within cellulose network without breaking the surface morphology of fiber.     

Joint Remote Preparation of an Arbitrary Three-Qubit State with Mixed Resources

Our purpose in this paper is, by constructing some useful measurement bases, to show that two senders can jointly prepare an arbitrary three-qubit state to a remote receiver via some shared mixed resources. Then, the success probability can be improved by using the permutation group to classify the preparation state. Furthermore, this scheme can be extended to multiple senders, or prepare four-qubit |χ〉 and five-qubit Brown state.     

Teleportation of a two-particle four-component squeezed vacuum state by linear optical elements

We present a linear optical scheme for achieving a unity fidelity teleportation of a two-particle four- component squeezed vacuum state using two entangled squeezed vacuum states as quantum channel. The devices used are beam splitters and ideal photon detectors capable of distinguishing between odd and even photon numbers. Moreover, we also obtain the success probability of the teleportation scheme.     

A modified conjugate gradient algorithm with cyclic Barzilai–Borwein steplength for unconstrained optimization

For solving large-scale unconstrained minimization problems, the nonlinear conjugate gradient method is welcome due to its simplicity, low storage, efficiency and nice convergence properties. Among all the methods in the framework, the conjugate gradient descent algorithm — CG_DESCENT is very popular, in which the generated directions descend automatically, and this nice property is independent of any line search used. In this paper, we generalize CG_DESCENT with two Barzilai–Borwein steplength reused cyclically. We show that the resulting algorithm owns attractive sufficient descent property and converges globally under some mild conditions. We test the proposed algorithm by using a large set of unconstrained problems with high dimensions in CUTEr library. The numerical comparisons with the state-of-the-art algorithm CG_DESCENT illustrate that the proposed method is effective, competitive, and promising.     

Reconstruction of viscoelastic tissue properties from MR elastography-type measurements

This study is concerned with an optimization-based approach to the identification of “background” viscoelastic properties of soft tissues from magnetic resonance (MR) elastography-type measurements. In this approach, the triaxial tissue displacements, captured by the MR scanner over a suitable subdomain that is free of major heterogeneities, are split into (i) a boundary subset that is used to formulate the forward (Dirichlet) problem, and (ii) an internal subset, employed as “the data” for the inverse (material characterization) problem. For an elevated performance of the minimization scheme, material sensitivities of the featured cost functional are computed semi-analytically via a boundary-integral formulation, resulting in alternative “direct” and adjoint-field sensitivity formulas. The numerical results, obtained assuming input parameters that are relevant to MR elastography, indicate that the proposed approach may provide an effective means for comprehensive multi-frequency characterization of the “background” viscoelasticity of soft tissues.     

绞股蓝中总皂甙及元素含量的分析

用分光光度法测定了绞股蓝中总皂甙的含量，用等离子体发射光谱法测定了绞股蓝中元素的含量。本文可作为临床作药时的参考。     

基于双层金属光栅的中波红外多通道滤光片结构

提出一种多通道平面窄带滤光片阵列结构，该结构由双层金属光栅及其两侧的分布式布拉格反射器（DBRs）组成。所设计的多通道滤光片中心波长范围超过200 nm，每一个通道的中心波长可以通过调节光栅狭缝宽度来调节，从而实现多通道窄带滤光阵列。该结果为中波红外多通道窄带滤光片的设计提供了一条新的路径。     

铌多酸三维框架材料的研究进展

铌多酸三维框架材料是近年来无机合成化学与材料化学领域的研究热点. 该类材料不但可以将铌多酸的优异特性与框架结构的优点复合起来, 而且在光催化、 主客体化学、 能源转化等领域具有重要的应用前景. 本文总结了近10年来铌多酸三维框架材料的研究进展, 包括了该类材料的合成策略、 结构调控、 性质及应用探索. 此外, 还对当前该类材料的发展所面临的挑战进行了总结, 并对其发展前景进行了展望.     

Enrofloxacin-imprinted monolithic columns synthesized using reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer polymerization

Molecularly imprinted monolithic columns for selective separation of enrofloxacin were prepared by Reversible Addition-Fragmentation Chain Transfer (RAFT)-mediated radical polymerization. Different ratios of initiation system were used in the synthesis. The structures of the monoliths were characterized to study the relationship between the synthetic conditions and morphology of the monolithic material. The separation performance of the monoliths was evaluated by liquid chromatography. Under optimized synthetic conditions, a monolithic molecularly imprinted polymer (MIP) with high selectivity and improved column efficiency was obtained. The research has shown that RAFT polymerization provides more adjustable conditions for making monolithic materials with different morphologies. The results also demonstrated that homogeneous macro-pore size distribution and large specific surface area are the key factors providing good separation ability and column efficiency for MIP monolithic structures.     

FeCl3 promoted highly regioselective [3 + 2] cycloaddition of dimethyl 2-vinyl and aryl cyclopropane-1,1-dicarboxylates with aryl isothiocyanates

A FeCl(3) promoted [3 + 2] annulation of dimethyl 2-vinyl and arylcyclopropane-1,1-dicarboxylate with aryl isothiocyanates has been developed to give pyrrolidine-2-thiones in good yields with high regioselectivity.