Metastable Ionic Diodes Derived from an Amine‐Based Polymer of Intrinsic Microporosity

A highly rigid amine‐based polymer of intrinsic microporosity (PIM), prepared by a polymerization reaction involving the formation of Tröger’s base, is demonstrated to act as an ionic diode with electrolyte‐dependent bistable switchable states.     

Facile preparation of polyethylene glycol/wood-flour composites as form-stable phase change materials for thermal energy storage

Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry - The polyethylene glycol/wood-flour (PEG/WF) composites were synthesized as novel form-stable phase change materials (PCMs) using PEG as phase change...     

The concentration behavior of ground state solutions for a fractional Schrödinger–Poisson system

In this paper, we study the following fractional Schrödinger–Poisson system

$$\begin{aligned} \left\{ \begin{array}{ll} \varepsilon ^{2s}(-\Delta )^s u +V(x)u+\phi u=K(x)|u|^{p-2}u,\,\,\text {in}~\mathbb {R}^3,\\ \\ \varepsilon ^{2s}(-\Delta )^s \phi =u^2,\,\,\text {in}~\mathbb {R}^3, \end{array} \right. \end{aligned}$$

(0.1)

where \(\varepsilon >0\) is a small parameter, \(\frac{3}{4}<s<1\), \(4<p<2_s^*:=\frac{6}{3-2s}\), \(V(x)\in C(\mathbb {R}^3)\cap L^\infty (\mathbb {R}^3)\) has positive global minimum, and \(K(x)\in C(\mathbb {R}^3)\cap L^\infty (\mathbb {R}^3)\) is positive and has global maximum. We prove the existence of a positive ground state solution by using variational methods for each \(\varepsilon >0\) sufficiently small, and we determine a concrete set related to the potentials V and K as the concentration position of these ground state solutions as \(\varepsilon \rightarrow 0\). Moreover, we considered some properties of these ground state solutions, such as convergence and decay estimate.

     

Generation of anti-trenbolone monoclonal antibody and establishment of an indirect competitive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for detection of trenbolone in animal tissues, feed and urine

Trenbolone (TRE) is a steroid used by veterinarians on livestock to increase appetite and body weight. The use of TRE has been restricted because of its harmful side effect for consumers. To effectively control TRE residue in food and food product, a rapid and convenient immunoassay was developed by preparing an anti-TRE monoclonal antibody. The immunogen and coating antigen were prepared by coupling TRE hapten with carrier proteins via 1-ethyl-3-(dimethylaminopropyl)carbodiimide hydrochloride (EDC) method. The optimized method gave an average IC₅₀ value of 0.323 ng mL⁻¹ towards TRE and an average detection limit (LOD) of 0.06 ng mL⁻¹, which is much lower than the maximum residue levels (2.0 ng g⁻¹) accepted by the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA). The specificity of the antibody was evaluated by measuring cross-reactivity of six structurally related compounds, including 19-nortestosterone (9.7%), testosterone (0.13%), methyltestosterone (<0.01%), methandrostenolone (<0.01%), (+)-dehydroisoandrosterone (<0.001%) and β-estradiol (<0.001%). The recovery rates of the test in detection of TRE-fortified animal tissue, urine and animal feed samples were in the range of 81.3-89.4%, while the intra- and inter-assay coefficients of variation were less than 12.0%.     

Discrimination of Patients with Varying Degrees of Coronary Artery Stenosis by ECG and PCG Signals Based on Entropy

Coronary heart disease (CHD) is the leading cause of cardiovascular death. This study aimed to propose an effective method for mining cardiac mechano-electric coupling information and to evaluate its ability to distinguish patients with varying degrees of coronary artery stenosis (VDCAS). Five minutes of electrocardiogram and phonocardiogram signals was collected synchronously from 191 VDCAS patients to construct heartbeat interval (RRI)–systolic time interval (STI), RRI–diastolic time interval (DTI), HR-corrected QT interval (QTcI)–STI, QTcI–DTI, Tpeak–Tend interval (TpeI)–STI, TpeI–DTI, Tpe/QT interval (Tpe/QTI)–STI, and Tpe/QTI–DTI series. Then, the cross sample entropy (XSampEn), cross fuzzy entropy (XFuzzyEn), joint distribution entropy (JDistEn), magnitude-squared coherence function, cross power spectral density, and mutual information were applied to evaluate the coupling of the series. Subsequently, support vector machine recursive feature elimination and XGBoost were utilized for feature selection and classification, respectively. Results showed that the joint analysis of XSampEn, XFuzzyEn, and JDistEn had the best ability to distinguish patients with VDCAS. The classification accuracy of severe CHD—mild-to-moderate CHD group, severe CHD—chest pain and normal coronary angiography (CPNCA) group, and mild-to-moderate CHD—CPNCA group were 0.8043, 0.7659, and 0.7500, respectively. The study indicates that the joint analysis of XSampEn, XFuzzyEn, and JDistEn can effectively capture the cardiac mechano-electric coupling information of patients with VDCAS, which can provide valuable information for clinicians to diagnose CHD.     

Form-stable phase change materials based on castor oil and palmitic acid for renewable thermal energy storage

Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry - Utilization of renewable biomass to prepare phase change material (PCM) that can reversibly store renewable thermal energy is of great interest. Castor...     

白云石制备似立方体状方解石型碳酸钙晶体及其机理研究

以轻烧白云石粉、氯化铵和二氧化碳为原料,在未使用晶型控制剂的情况下,通过蒸氨-沉钙过程制备出了似立方体状碳酸钙。研究了反应温度、溶液中钙离子浓度、通气速率、搅拌速度以及陈化时间对碳酸钙中方解石相含量以及晶体形貌的影响,并探索了沉钙反应的晶型控制机理。结果表明,在反应温度40 ℃、钙离子浓度0.05 mol/L、通碳速率100 mL/min、搅拌速度400 r/min和陈化时间2 h的条件下,制备出形貌规整、粒径分布均匀的似立方体状碳酸钙,平均粒径为5~10 μm。该研究为提升白云石的使用价值、生产高附加价值的碳酸钙产品,以及提高白云石资源的利用率提供理论基础。     

Randomized block Krylov subspace methods for trace and log-determinant estimators

BIT Numerical Mathematics - We present randomized algorithms based on block Krylov subspace methods for estimating the trace and log-determinant of Hermitian positive semi-definite matrices. Using...     

Preparation and characterization of a novel form-stable phase change material for thermal energy storage

Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry - A series of novel polymeric form-stable phase change materials (FSPCMs) composed of poly(trimethylolpropane trimethacrylate-stearyl methacrylate) (PTS)...     

Study on Methylation of Naphthalene with Methanol over ZSM-5 (core)/SAPO-11(shell) Composite Molecular Sieve

ZSM-5 (core)/SAPO-11 (shell) composite molecular sieve was synthesized by the hydrothermal method in order to combine the advantages of ZSM-5 and SAPO-11 for the methylation of naphthalene with methanol. For comparison, the mechanical mixture was prepared through the blending of ZSM-5 and SAPO-11. The characterization results indicated that ZSM-5/SAPO-11 composite molecular sieve exhibited a core–shell structure, with the ZSM-5 phase as the core and the SAPO-11 phase as the shell. The pore size of the composite was between that of ZSM-5 and SAPO-11. The composite had fewer acid sites than ZSM-5 and mechanical mixture while more acid sites than SAPO-11. The experimental results indicated that the composite exhibited high catalytic performances for the methylation of naphthalene with methanol.