Mass spectrometric study of aliphatic alpha-carbonyl azides

A series of derivatives of 2-azidoacetic acid and 2-azidoacetone were synthesized and their behaviour under electron ionization conditions was investigated. This paper reports the electron ionization fragmentation mechanisms for five aliphatic alpha-carbonyl azides, which were clarified by accurate mass measurements and B/E linked scans. The substituent influences the abundance and the nature of the ions resulting from the molecular ion fragmentation.     

Photobleaching of Orange II within seconds using the oxone/Co2+ reagent through Fenton-like chemistry

The bleaching and photobleaching of Orange II due to oxone was observed to proceed within seconds due to the catalytic effect of the Co2+ ions added in solution.     

Experimental evidence for a light and broad scalar resonance in D(+) --> pi(-)pi(+)pi(+) decay

From a sample of 1172 +/- 61 D(+)-->pi(-)pi(+)pi(+) decays, we find gamma(D(+)-->pi(-)pi(+)pi(+))/gamma(D(+)-->K-pi(+)pi(+)) = 0.0311 +/- 0.0018(+0.0016)(-0.0026). Using a coherent amplitude analysis to fit the Dalitz plot of these decays, we find strong evidence that a scalar resonance of mass 478(+24)(-23) +/- 17 MeV/c(2) and width 324(+42)(-40) +/- 21 MeV/c(2) accounts for approximately half of all decays.     

Flow-induced beam steering in a single laser hot spot

The transmitted angular distribution of a 527 nm nearly diffraction-limited laser is measured after it propagates through a plasma with supersonic transverse flow. The laser beam is deflected by as much as 10 degrees and exhibits bowlike features in the flow direction, which is attributed to flow-induced beam steering. The finite interaction volume allows for direct comparison with a 3D hydrodynamic simulation, which is in good agreement with details of the experiment.     

Optical investigation of the red band emission of CdS nanoparticles

Cadmium sulfide (CdS) nanoparticles, with different Cd/S molar ratios, were chemically produced and characterized in this study. High quality CdS nanoparticles were grown in the hexagonal phase, as indicated by X-ray diffraction data and Raman spectroscopy. Photoluminescence was used to investigate the surface effects caused by submitting the nanoparticle-based samples at different laser treatments and vacuum pressure.     

Study of molecular surface coating on the stability of maghemite nanoparticles

In this study γ-Fe₂O₃ nanoparticle, surface-coated with increasing amount of oleic acid, have been prepared while the stability against particle degradation under laser excitation intensity was investigated. Maghemite nanoparticle was obtained via oxidation of magnetite nanoparticle, the latter synthesized by co-precipitation of Fe (II) and Fe (III) ions in alkaline medium. By varying the experimental conditions of surface-coating maghemite nanoparticles with oleic acid, samples with different grafting coefficient were obtained and investigated using X-ray diffraction and different spectroscopic techniques, namely Raman, Mössbauer, and infrared. The amount of oleic acid adsorbed on the maghemite surface was estimated via the carbon content obtained from elemental analysis.     

The Le numbers of the square of a function and their applications

Lê numbers were introduced by Massey with the purposeof numerically controlling the topological properties of familiesof non-isolated hypersurface singularities and describing thetopology associated with a function with non-isolated singularities.They are a generalization of the Milnor number for isolatedhypersurface singularities. In this note the authors investigatethe composite of an arbitrary square-free f and z². They geta formula for the Lê numbers of the composite, and considertwo applications of these numbers. The first application isconcerned with the extent to which the Lê numbers areinvariant in a family of functions which satisfy some equisingularitycondition, the second is a quick proof of a new formula forthe Euler obstruction of a hypersurface singularity. Severalexamples are computed using this formula including any X definedby a function which only has transverse D(q, p) singularitiesoff the origin.     

Lower bounds for resonance widths in potential and obstacle scattering

Explicit lower bounds are given for the size of the imaginary parts of resonances for Schrödinger operators with non-trapping or trapping potentials, and for the Dirichlet Laplacian in the exterior of a star-shaped obstacle, both acting in three dimensions.Work partially supported by DiUC/FONDECYT (Chile)Work partially supported by U.S. National Science Foundation grant DMS 8705610     

1D to 3D NMR study of microporous alumino‐phosphate AlPO4‐40

From one‐ to two‐ and three‐dimensional MAS NMR solid‐state experiments involving ³¹P and ²⁷Al, we show that the structure of microporous alumino‐phosphate AlPO₄‐40 contains at least four times more sites than expected, and we attribute two types of Al_IV sites. The newly described ²⁷Al‐³¹P MQ‐HMQC opens new possibilities of describing details of three‐dimensional bounded networks. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.