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The curvature problem in general relativity

This essay investigates the relationships among the metric, the connection, the curvature, and the covariant curvature derivatives in general relativity. The extent to which the connection or the curvature together, possibly with certain curvature derivatives, determines the metric is considered, as well as other related problems. Some topological aspects of the problem are included and some applications to holonomy and symmetry groups are given.This article received honorable mention from the Gravity Research Foundation for 1987.     

非晶态(Fe1-xWx)84.5B15.5合金的低温电阻率反常

研究了(Fe_1-xW_x)_84.5B_15.5(x=0—0.1)非晶态合金的电阻率ρ与温度T(4.2—300K)的关系。实验结果表明,在所研究浓度区域内均出现电阻率与温度关系的极小值,电阻率极小值的温度T_min在x=0.06时出现峰值。用x=0.02—0.1浓度区域内,当Tmin时,又出现了电阻率与温度关系的极大值,电阻率极大值的温度T_max在26—35K之间。低温电阻率反常现象与类Kondo效应及局域磁矩之间RKKY相互作用有关。 关键词：     

Vinylferrocene homopolymer and copolymers: an electrochemical comparison.

Poly(vinylferrocene) (pVFc) homopolymer was synthesized by free radical polymerization, along with a series of pVFc-based copolymers containing either styrene, vinylanthracene or methylmethacrylate. This report details the electrochemical experiments conducted to examine the stability of the various pVFc based polymers, which is shown to be critically dependent on the extent of copolymerization. A trend was found that when the concentration of co-monomer was decreased, electrochemical stability was enhanced. Furthermore incorporation of a second monomer into the polymer chain produced a profound effect on the scan rate behaviour of the vinylferrocene moiety. As the concentration of co-monomer was decreased, the behaviour tended towards that of a diffusion controlled process. These results are of vital significance for the development of pVFc-based electrochemical sensors.     

Self-assembled low-molecular-weight gelator injectable microgel beads for delivery of bioactive agents

We report the preparation of hybrid self-assembled microgel beads by combining the low molecular weight gelator (LMWG) DBS-CONHNH₂ and the natural polysaccharide calcium alginate polymer gelator (PG). Microgel formulations based on LMWGs are extremely rare due to the fragility of the self-assembled networks and the difficulty of retaining any imposed shape. Our hybrid beads contain interpenetrated LMWG and PG networks, and are obtained by an emulsion method, allowing the preparation of spherical gel particles of controllable sizes with diameters in the mm or μm range. Microgels based on LMWG/alginate can be easily prepared with reproducible diameters <1 μm (ca. 800 nm). They are stable in water at room temperature for many months, and survive injection through a syringe. The rapid assembly of the LMWG on cooling plays an active role in helping control the diameter of the microgel beads. These LMWG microbeads retained the ability of the parent gel to deliver the bioactive molecule heparin, and in cell culture medium this enhanced the growth of human mesenchymal stem cells. Such microgels may therefore have future applications in tissue repair. This approach to fabricating LMWG microgels is a platform technology, which could potentially be applied to a variety of different functional LMWGs, and hence has wide-ranging potential.

We report microgel beads with diameters of ca. 800 nm based on interpenetrating networks of a low-molecular-weight gelator and a polymer gelator, and demonstrate their use as heparin delivery vehicles to enhance stem cell growth.     

Untersuchung von Milch und Molkereiprodukten

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Functional Interdependence in Coupled Dissipative Structures: Physical Foundations of Biological Coordination

Coordination within and between organisms is one of the most complex abilities of living systems, requiring the concerted regulation of many physiological constituents, and this complexity can be particularly difficult to explain by appealing to physics. A valuable framework for understanding biological coordination is the coordinative structure, a self-organized assembly of physiological elements that collectively performs a specific function. Coordinative structures are characterized by three properties: (1) multiple coupled components, (2) soft-assembly, and (3) functional organization. Coordinative structures have been hypothesized to be specific instantiations of dissipative structures, non-equilibrium, self-organized, physical systems exhibiting complex pattern formation in structure and behaviors. We pursued this hypothesis by testing for these three properties of coordinative structures in an electrically-driven dissipative structure. Our system demonstrates dynamic reorganization in response to functional perturbation, a behavior of coordinative structures called reciprocal compensation. Reciprocal compensation is corroborated by a dynamical systems model of the underlying physics. This coordinated activity of the system appears to derive from the system’s intrinsic end-directed behavior to maximize the rate of entropy production. The paper includes three primary components: (1) empirical data on emergent coordinated phenomena in a physical system, (2) computational simulations of this physical system, and (3) theoretical evaluation of the empirical and simulated results in the context of physics and the life sciences. This study reveals similarities between an electrically-driven dissipative structure that exhibits end-directed behavior and the goal-oriented behaviors of more complex living systems.     

ZnCl_2溶液中微波辅助SnCl_4催化纤维素制备5-HMF

将纤维素溶解在ZnCl_2溶液中,以SnCl_4为催化剂,微波下使纤维素降解成5-羟甲基糠醛(5-HMF)。实验考察了微波功率、纤维素的质量、ZnCl_2溶液浓度、反应时间及催化剂与纤维素物质的量比等对5-HMF产率的影响。结果表明,以SnCl_4为催化剂,在优化条件:1.0 g纤维素溶解在100 m L 70%ZnCl_2溶液中,微波功率为420 W,降解反应9 min,SnCl_4与纤维素物质的量比2∶1下,5-HMF的产率达到39.4%。     

1,10-邻菲咯啉-铜(Ⅱ)-L-丝氨酸/L-酪氨酸配合物的合成、SOD活性及电化学性质

合成了两个新的配合物:[Cu(Phen)(L-Ser)(H2O)]Cl(1)和[Cu(Phen)(L-Tyr)(H2O)]Cl.2H2O(2)(Phen=1,10-邻菲咯啉、L-Ser=L-丝氨酸、-LTyr=L-酪氨酸).用元素分析、摩尔电导率、红外光谱、紫外-可见光谱对配合物进行了表征.分别采用NBT光还原法和循环伏安法测定了配合物的SOD活性及电化学性质.结果表明,这些配合物具有较高的SOD活性,配合物1、2催化O2-.歧化分解速率常数KQ值分别为3.16×107和1.54×107mol-1.L.s-1.