Centurion — a revolutionary irradiator

The facility characteristics for irradiation of red meat and poultry differ significantly from those of medical disposables. This paper presents the results of the market requirement definition which resulted in an innovative conceptual design. The process and the “state of the art tools” used to bring this abstract idea into a proof of concept are presented.     

Mechanical properties of graphdiyne sheet

The influences of strain to the energetic and electronic properties of graphdiyne are investigated based on first-principles calculations. The elastic parameters of graphdiyne are determined by total energy calculation. Compared to graphyne, graphdiyne is softer because it has less C–C bonds. Moreover, the band gap of graphdiyne is tunable under uniform strain. It monotonously increases with increasing strain value, which originates from the decreased orbital overlap between C atoms when strain increases.     

Synthesis and fluorescence properties of dysprosium‐coordinated with high‐Tg polyaryletherketones containing carboxyl side groups

A series of novel dysprosium coordination polymers were synthesized using new high‐T_g carboxyl‐containing polyaryletherketones (PEKs) as macromolecular ligands and a small molecule, 1,10‐phenanthroline, as co‐ligand. The FTIR, WAXD, and UV–Vis results indicated that the dysprosium ions were coordinated simultaneously with carboxyl group of PEKs and 1,10‐phenanthroline, and homogeneously distributed along the polymer backbone. These obtained dysprosium coordination polymers showed excellent film‐formation properties. Moreover, all the dysprosium coordination polymers could exhibit the intense characteristic emission of dysprosium ions under UV excitation. Meanwhile, the emission intensity increased with increasing dysprosium ion content, and no obvious fluorescence quenching happened at the Dy³⁺ ion content up to 10.71 wt%, which was attributed to the very rigid structure of PEK and synergistic coordination effect of PEK and 1,10‐phenanthroline. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Synthesis and Effect of Cation Binding on Photophysical Properties of 1,8-Anthraceno-18-Crown-5

ThesystemsconsistingofafluorophorelinkedtoacrownethermoietyareeXtensivelyinvestigated'-'.Sincedrasticchangesintheirphotophysicalpropertiescanbeobservedbycomplexationwithion,theycanbeusedforionicdetection"'.Recentreportsfocusonazamacrocyclicderivativeswithfluorophores"',inwhichthefluorophoreandcrownethermoietywerelinkedvianitrogenatom.Thepresenceofabasicnitrogenatomwhichiseasytobeprotonatedleadstoelthancementoffluorescencequantumyield""'.Wereplacedthenitrogenatomofthecrownbyoxygenwhichisexpect…     

A New Rearrangement Reaction of 2-Phenyl Substituted Benzothiazepine with Ethoxycarbonyl Carbene─Mechanism of the Reaction and Structure of the Product

Intheprevi0usaFticlesl-2wehavereportedthatthereacti0n0fbenz0diazepinewithethoxycarbonylcarbenemayobtainnormal[2 l]cycIoadditi0npr0ductsregardlessthe2-substitUentismethyl0rphenyl.Howeverunderthesamec0nditi0nsthereaction0fbenzothiazepinewithethoxycarbonylcarbeneunderwentrearrangementreacti0n.Forexample,whenthe2-substituentismethyl,thereacti0nofbenzothiazepinewithethoxycarbonylcarbenegivearing-openingproductIIatroomorhightemperature'.Whenthe2-substituentisphenyl,weunexpectedlyfoundan0thernewrea…     

快速去除硝酸和亚硝酸对氢化物发生原子荧光法测定砷的干扰

为了避免繁琐、耗时的"赶酸"操作, 研究了尿素结合NaOH除去微波消解液中过量的HNO3和HNO2的干扰,继用L-半胱氨酸在低酸度下将As(Ⅴ)还原为As(Ⅲ)的样品消化和预还原方法.用氢化物发生-原子荧光法准确、快速地测定了食品中痕量砷.该方法的检出限为0.03 μg/L;连续11次测定4 μg/L As(Ⅲ)标准溶液的相对标准偏差为1.6%; 测定国家标准物质的结果与标准值非常吻合.