Analytical solutions for elastic binary nanotubes of arbitrary chirality

Analytical solutions for the elastic properties of a variety of binary nanotubes with arbitrary chirality are obtained through the study of systematic molecular mechanics. This molecular mechanics model is first extended to chiral binary nanotubes by introducing an additional outof-plane inversion term into the so-called stick-spiral model,which results from the polar bonds and the buckling of binary graphitic crystals. The closed-form expressions for the longitudinal and circumferential Young's modulus and Poisson's ratio of chiral binary nanotubes are derived as functions of the tube diameter. The obtained inversion force constants are negative for all types of binary nanotubes, and the predicted tube stiffness is lower than that by the former stick-spiral model without consideration of the inversion term, reflecting the softening effect of the buckling on the elastic properties of binary nanotubes. The obtained properties are shown to be comparable to available density functional theory calculated results and to be chirality and size sensitive. The developed model and explicit solutions provide a systematic understanding of the mechanical performance of binary nanotubes consisting of Ⅲ–Ⅴ and Ⅱ–Ⅵ group elements.     

Mutually Unbiased Measurement Based Entanglement Witnesses

We study entanglement witness and present a construction of entanglement witnesses in terms of the mutually unbiased measurements (MUMs). These witnesses include the entanglement witnesses constructed from mutually unbiased bases (MUBs) as a special case. Comparing with the dimension dependence of MUBs, the witnesses can be always constructed from a complete set of d + 1 MUMs for any dimension d. We show that our witness can detect entanglement better than previous separability criterion given also by MUMs. And the approach can be experimentally implemented.

     

Synthesis and Characterization of Pyrene‐Centered Starburst Oligofluorenes

A series of starburst materials ( T1 – T3 ) based on a pyrene core with four oligofluorene arms of different length have been synthesized and characterized. The starburst materials show good film forming ability and sky blue fluorescence. Electroluminescent devices take on a stable blue emission and the device performance increases with an increase in arm length. The single‐layered device made of T3 has a maximum brightness of over 2 700 cd · m⁻² and a maximum current efficiency of 1.75 cd · A⁻¹, which is among the best in starburst material devices. The morphology of T1 – T3 has been studied by atomic force microscopy. The starburst oligofluorenes with different arm lengths show a distinctive texture, which indicates the size dependent morphology of the starburst materials.

     

Modeling the migration of cancer cells in the bloodstream

We model the migration of cancer cells that have broken away from a tumor and are circulating in the bloodstream. Using the immersed boundary method and culling from literature the material properties of cancer cells, we simulate how cells deform as a function of the flow properties of the bloodstream as well as the adhesive properties between the cancer cells and the endothelial cells of the bloodstream. We also simulate the migration characteristics as a function of the migrating cell density. (© 2008 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Reactions of 2,3‐dihydro‐1H‐1,5‐benzodiazepines and chloroacetyl chlorides: Synthesis of 2a,3,4,5‐tetrahydro‐azeto [1,2‐a][1,5] benzodiazepin‐1(2H)‐ones

2a,4‐Disubstituted 5‐benzoyl‐2‐chloro/2,2‐dichloro‐2a,3,4,5‐tetrahydro‐azeto [1,2‐a] [1,5]benzodiazepin‐1 (2H)‐ones ( 3a–h ) were synthesized by cycloaddition reactions of 2,4‐disubstituted 1‐benzoyl‐2,3‐dihydr o‐1H‐1,5‐benzodiazepines ( 2a–h ) and ketenes, generated from chloroacetyl chloride or dichloroacetyl chloride in the presence of triethylamine, in anhydrous benzene. In some cases, ring contraction of benzodiazepines has also been observed. © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Heteroatom Chem 12:636–640, 2001     

Preparation of aptamer‐bound polyamine affinity monolithic column via a facile triazine‐bridged strategy and application to on‐column specific discrimination of ochratoxin A

Developing a high‐performance modification protocol is critical for efficiently fabricating affinity monolith. Herein, by using 2,4,6‐trichloro‐1,3,5‐triazine as the linker, a simple triazine‐bridged approach was proposed for efficiently fabricating aptamer‐grafted polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane‐polyethyleneimine affinity monolith with high specificity toward ochratoxin A. Experimental parameters, column characteristics and specificity performances of the resultant affinity monolith were investigated in detail. Under the optimal conditions, 2,4,6‐trichloro‐1,3,5‐triazine was rapidly grafted on the polyamine matrix, and effectively applied to the subsequent bridge linkage of aptamers. It was simple and effective, which resulted in a significant decrease of modification time, excellent properties including the high coverage density of aptamer up to 1799 pmol/μL and sensitive detection of ochratoxin A as low as 10 pg/mL in beer samples. This protocol provides a facile approach for fabricating aptamer‐grafted polyamine affinity monoliths with highly selective discrimination performance.     

AWG-based WDM-PON monitoring system using an optical switch and a WDM filter

A new WDM-PON scheme with real-time monitoring based on a time-sharing method is proposed. It uses an optical time domain reflectometer (OTDR) to monitor multiple ports by integrating an optical switch (OSW) with a dense wavelength division multiplexer (DWDM) at the optical line terminal (OLT) site. Each downstream signal and its corresponding monitoring signal are separated by m times the free-space range (FSR) of an array waveguide grating (AWG). A bit error rate (BER) test in 2.5 Gb/s × 27 km is performed with and without turning on the OTDR. A small power penalty of 0.7 dB is observed compared to the back-to-back measurement.     

Preparation and application of functionalized nanoparticles of CdSe capped with 11-mercaptoundecanoic acid as a fluorescence probe

A new fluorescence probe, CdSe nanocrystal has been prepared and modified with 11-mercaptoundecanoic acid [HS-(CH₂)₁₀-COOH]. The functionalized nanoparticles were characterized using transmission electron microscopy (TEM), ultraviolet-visible (UV-vis) spectroscopy and photoluminescence (PL) spectroscopy. The results demonstrate that CdSe is dispersed homogeneously in aqueous solution and well protected from the environmental oxygen. They can be used as a new fluorescence probe for lysozyme, which was simple, rapid and specific. Under the optimum condition, the response is linearly proportional to the amount of lysozyme from 0.20 to 26.0 μg ml⁻¹, and the limit of detection is 0.115 μg ml⁻¹. The proposed method has been applied to the determination of lysozyme in egg white, with the recovery of 96-105%.     

Syntheses of novel chiral sulfinamido ligands and their applications in diethylzinc additions to aldehydes

A novel class of sulfinamido alcohol ligands 1-6 was synthesized from (S)-tert-butanesulfinamide. These ligands showed excellent catalytic activities and enantiomeric selectivities in asymmetric additions of diethylzinc to aromatic aldehydes.     

Real-time distortion correction of fish-eye lens based on Bayer image signal

The imaging system based on a fish-eye lens generally has to correct the distortion of fish-eye images. The distortion correction based on the Bayer image signal is valuable, such as reducing the computation burden of image signal processing chips and providing a new imaging system structure of fish-eye lens. In this paper, a distortion correction method of fish-eye lens based on the Bayer image signal is proposed. Firstly, a distortion correction method that focuses on vertical straight lines and processing delay is proposed. Secondly, according to the correlation among color channels of the Bayer image, a novel Hermite interpolation method appropriate for Bayer image signal is proposed. Finally, a prototype system of fish-eye-lens-based imaging is established and the real-time field-programmable gate array (FPGA) implementation of the proposed method is demonstrated. The experiment demonstrates that the proposed distortion correction is not only characteristic of real-time processing and the smaller computation amount, but also applicable to embedded hardware.