Design and construction of glow discharge-ion trap mass spectrometer (GD-ITMS) and its application for the analysis of volatile organic samples

In this study, we present a newly designed see-through type hollow cathode glow discharge (St-HCGD) cell developed for the analysis of volatile organic materials in an ion trap mass spectrometer. The cell was interfaced with a homemade ion trap mass spectrometer by adopting skimmer and sampler in an optimized dimensions based on the computer simulation done by SIMION software. The St-HCGD cell has a relatively small size (4×4×7 cm) with the diameter of the inner tube of 0.25′′. The anode and cathode were made of stainless steel-304 and helium was used as a buffer gas for discharge to enhance the Penning ionization process rather than sputtering process. Mass spectra of volatile organic samples such as benzene, toluene, cyclohexane were obtained by using the St-HCGD-ITMS.     

Parameter identification by mixed spectral-pseudospectral approximations

1. IntroductionIn studying many problems arising in science and engineering, we need to estimate parameters in governing differential equations. Some theoretical results for this kind of inverseproblems can be found in various literatu-res, e.g., see [1-4]. Also, there have been a lot ofwork concerning their numerical approalmations, e.g., see [5-10]. One of numerical methods is the so-called optimization method as in is]. To do this, we first guess the unknownparameters in some ways, and the…     

铋系超导体晶格振动行为X射线衍射研究

本文利用变温X射线衍射方法研究了铋系高温超导相晶格振动行为。变温X射线衍射的研究工作集中在(002)晶面上,它能反映与超导电性有密切关系的Cu-O层和Bi-O层的晶格振动信息。在温度为130和200K附近的两个温度区间上,(002)峰的衍射强度I(T)与晶格常数C(T)随温度变化的异常行为表明在超导转变温度T。以上,(002)晶面出现了明显的晶格软化效应。结合Mssbauer谱的研究结果,我们认为Cu-O层声子模的软化是超导转变的前驱效应。     

Electropolymerization rates of polythiophene/polypyrrole composite polymer with some dopant ions

Pyrrole, thiophene, and a mixture of the two monomers were electrochemically polymerized to investigate polymerization rates and the morphology change of the polymer matrix, and to improve the aging and cyclic voltammetric behaviors of the polymers. Thiophene was polymerized on a smooth surface of Pt electrode by two steps. The first step was controlled by electron transfer at the electrical double layer and the other by diffusion of the monomer reacting on the immobilized layer consisting of the precoated thiophene polymer. The electropolymerization rate of the second step was 1.85 × 10⁻⁴ cm³ mol⁻¹ s⁻¹, which is faster by 8.63 × 10² times than the first step. Some supporting electrolytes such as KPF₆, LiClO₄, TBAP, and TBABF₄ were employed in the polymerization reaction to see the effects of dopant anions on the polymerization rate, and KPF₆ was the fastest one at 2.41 × 10⁻⁶ cm s⁻¹. However, owing to its sensitivity to oxygen, LiClO₄ was used for the polymerization that is fairly stable in air and the same rate as KPF₆. For the competitive polymerization reaction of the two monomers the rate of thiophene was found to be about 11 times slower than that of thiophene alone. When the starting concentration of the thiophene monomer was higher than pyrrole by five times, its portion in the composite polymer was found to be only 8–10%. However, this level gave desirable results in terms of redox properties and aging. The resistance against aging was explained by the morphology change, which came from great shrinking of its porosity. © 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.     

Electrospinning of Chitosan

Summary: An electrospun nonwoven fabric of a cationic polysaccharide, chitosan, was successfully prepared. The present study focuses on the effect of the electrospinning solvent and the chitosan concentration on the morphology of the resulting nonwoven fabrics. The solvents tested were dilute hydrochloric acid, acetic acid, neat formic acid and trifluoroacetic acid. As the chitosan concentration was increased, the morphology of the deposition on the collector changed from spherical beads to interconnected fibrous networks. The addition of dichloromethane to the chitosan‐TFA solution improved the homogeneity of the electrospun chitosan fiber. Under optimized conditions, homogenous (not interconnected) chitosan fibers with a mean diameter of 330 nm were prepared.

Effects of the coexisting dichloromethane (MC) in the prespun chitosan‐TFA solution on the morphology of the electrospun chitosan fibers. The volume ratio of TFA:MC was 70:30 (×5 000).     

A study of microgel star amphiphile monolayers

This paper reports on the synthesis of a microgel star amphiphile and on the behaviour of its monolayers both on the water surface and on solid substrates. On the water surface, the monolayer surface pressure relaxes at constant area, leading to a “duckweed”-type structure. The hydrophilic groups play an important role in this process. On solid substrates, Langmuir-Blodgett films can be fabricated from it with unit transfer ratio and good laminar structure.     

On equivariant slice knots

We suggest a method to detect that two periodic knots are not equivariantly concordant, using surgery on factor links. We construct examples which satisfy all known necessary conditions for equivariant slice knots- Naik's and Choi-Ko-Song's improvements of classical results on Seifert forms and Casson-Gordon invariants of slice knots - but are not equivariantly slice.

     

采用粉末电极技术改善葡萄糖氧化酶电极的抗干扰性能

研究了对电流型ＧＯＤ电极有干扰作用的抗坏血酸、尿酸、Ｌ－半胱氨酸和对－乙酰氨基苯酚在铂、玻碳以及由Ｋｅｔｊｅｎｂｌａｃｋ碳黑填制的粉末微电极上的电化学行为。结果表明：由于这些杂质的电化学活性较高,难以通过选择电极材料及改变工作电位来完全避免它们的干扰作用。然而,抗坏血酸、尿酸及对－乙酰氨基苯酚在粉末微电极上极限电流是由电极端面液相中的扩散传质所控制的,只与电极的表现直径有关而与其真实表面积无关,因而采用粉末微电极技术可明显地提高ＧＯＤ电极的信噪比。     

CdS量子点的制备及细胞膜初步荧光标记

以巯基乙酸为稳定剂,通过控制反应温度、反应时间及pH值,在水相中合成了稳定的受激发出紫光、蓝光、绿光、黄光和红光的CdS量子点;通过紫外可见吸收光谱、荧光光谱和X射线衍射谱(XRD)对产物的光学性能和晶体结构进行了表征,结果表明所合成的CdS量子点分散性较好,量子产率为8%,为立方晶型,粒径约1 nm;利用荧光倒置显微镜观察了量子点在洋葱内表皮细胞膜上聚集及受激发射荧光行为,实现细胞膜初步标记.     

Electronic Structure Manipulation of the Mott Insulator RuCl3 via Single-Crystal to Single-Crystal Topotactic Transformation

The core task for Mott insulators includes how rigid distributions of electrons evolve and how these induce exotic physical phenomena. However, it is highly challenging to chemically dope Mott insulators to tune properties. Herein, we report how to tailor electronic structures of the honeycomb Mott insulator RuCl₃ employing a facile and reversible single-crystal to single-crystal intercalation process. The resulting product (NH₄)_0.5RuCl₃⋅1.5 H₂O forms a new hybrid superlattice of alternating RuCl₃ monolayers with NH₄⁺ and H₂O molecules. Its manipulated electronic structure markedly shrinks the Mott–Hubbard gap from 1.2 to 0.7 eV. Its electrical conductivity increases by more than 10³ folds. This arises from concurrently enhanced carrier concentration and mobility in contrary to the general physics rule of their inverse proportionality. We show topotactic and topochemical intercalation chemistry to control Mott insulators, escalating the prospect of discovering exotic physical phenomena.