Sustainability from agricultural waste: chiral ligands from oligomeric proanthocyanidins via acid-mediated depolymerization

Oligomeric proanthocyanidins (OPCs, Ar′ = 3,4-(HO)₂(C₆H₃) are abundant natural products found in agricultural and forestry waste such as pine bark, grape seeds, and the peels of mangosteen. We have demonstrated that the OPCs can be converted into small molecule chiral ligands by using proper nucleophiles for acid depolymerization of the OPCs. The chiral ligands may have potential for sustainable asymmetric catalysis.     

Studying the Interaction of Pirarubicin with DNA and Determining Pirarubicin in Human Urine Samples: Combining Excitation -Emission Fluorescence Matrices with Second-order Calibration Methods

In this paper, UV–vis spectroscopy and fluorescence were combined to study the binding of Calf thymus DNA (ct-DNA) with the anthacycline antibiotic drug pirarubicin (THP). Ethidium bromide (EB) as the fluorescence probe was used to study the competitive binding interactions of THP with DNA by excitation -emission fluorescence matrices (EEFMs) coupled with the parallel factor analysis (PARAFAC) and the alternating normalization-weighted error algorithm (ANWE) with the second-order advantage. All the results conformed that THP mainly bound with DNA by intercalation. Meanwhile, the two second-order calibration methods have been successfully applied to quantify THP in urine samples. Figures of merit were applied to compare the performance of the two methods. The results presented in this work showed that both the PARAFAC and ANWE methods were the convincing way to be applied in the complex biological systems even in the presence of uncalibrated interferences.     

Electrodeposition and characterization of assembly of Sn on Cu nanorods for Li-ion microbattery application

Assembly of Sn on Cu Nanorods as anode for Li-ion microbatteries was prepared by a two-step electrodeposition design. Firstly, Cu nanorods arrays were grown on copper substrate by anodic aluminum oxide template-assisted growth method. Then, Sn was deposited onto Cu nanorods arrays by galvanostatic deposition. X-ray diffraction and scanning electron microscopy measurements reveal that Cu nanorod arrays are covered with Sn. Electrochemical performances of prepared electrodes were evaluated by charge/discharge cycle measurement. The assembly of Sn on Cu nanorods electrode exhibited highly reversible specific capacity and superior capacity retention resulting from the three-dimensionally nano-architectured design, which exhibits a large surface area, shortened Li-ion diffusion distance, Cu–Sn alloying, and can accommodate the volume expansion of Sn during cycling. Deposition time is an important parameter for fabricating the assembly of Sn on Cu nanorods electrode with suitable structure and morphology.

     

Growth and characterization of c-plane AlGaN on γ-LiAlO2

This study demonstrates a pure c-plane AlGaN epilayer grown on a γ-LiAlO₂ (1 0 0) (LAO) substrate with an AlN nucleation layer grown at a relatively low temperature (LT-AlN) by metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD). The AlGaN film forms polycrystalline film with m- and c-plane when the nucleation layer grows at a temperature ranging from 660 to 680 °C. However, a pure c-plane AlGaN film with an Al content of approximately 20% can be obtained by increasing the LT-AlN nucleation layer growth temperature to 700 °C. This is because the nuclei density of AlN increases as the growth temperature increases, and a higher nuclei density of AlN deposited on LAO substrate helps prevent the deposition of m-plane AlGaN. Therefore, high-quality and crack-free AlGaN films can be obtained with a (0 0 0 2) ω-rocking curve FWHM of 547 arcsec and surface roughness of 0.79 nm (root-mean-square) using a 700-°C-grown LT-AlN nucleation layer.     

固相微萃取-气相色谱/质谱法测定博物馆空气中总挥发性有机物

采用固相微萃取-气相色谱/质谱(SPME-GC/MS)法测定博物馆室内空气中总挥发性有机物(TVOC)的含量,建立了一种更适合于博物馆室内空气中TVOC的检测方法.对7种挥发性有机物标样进行SPME-GC/MS定性定量分析,进样口温度230 ℃,柱温:起始温度45 ℃,保持3 min,以16 ℃/min的速率程序升温至250 ℃,保持5 min.结果表明,该方法在0.014～0.914 μg/L浓度范围内具有良好的线性关系,最低检出限在1.4～14 ng/L之间,相对标准偏差小于5.28%.该方法方便快捷、对待测物的选择性高、重复性好、采样无需电源、无需溶剂.     

Joint Distribution of Rises and Falls

The marginal distributions of the number of rises and the number of falls have been used successfully in various areas of statistics, especially in non-parametric statistical inference. Carlitz (1972, Duke Math. J. 39, 268–269) showed that the generating function of the joint distribution for the numbers of rises and falls satisfies certain complex combinatorial equations, and pointed out that he had been unable to derive the explicit formula for the joint distribution from these equations. After more than two decades, this latter problem remains unsolved. In this article, the joint distribution is obtained via the probabilistic method of finite Markov chain imbedding for random permutations. A numerical example is provided to illustrate the theoretical results and the corresponding computational procedures.     

Hahn-echoes from N in solids by the stray-field method: prospects for imaging using Long Echo-Train Summation

We have observed Hahn-echoes resulting from Powles–Mansfield pulse-sequences for a variety of nitrogen containing solids which exhibit a range of ¹⁴N electric quadrupole coupling constants (C_q) from 0 to 4.9 MHz. Long echo-decays were frequently obtained which allowed the collection of many echoes in one echo-train, so that the method of Long Echo-Train Summation (LETS), could be used to accumulate signal. A one-dimensional STRAFI-profile is shown for solid ammonium nitrate. The spatial resolution is discussed as a function of C_q.     

X射线显微术

综述了Ｘ射线显微术的基本原理，成像模式和技术及其在生命科学，材料科学等方面应用的新进展，同时简述了Ｘ线射显微术应用过程中应注意的几个问题。