Common cationic dyes used for laser and fluorescent probes present low solubility in water. In order to increase the dye concentration in aqueous solutions, anionic surfactant can be added. The strong interaction between anionic surfactant and cationic dye can affect drastically the dye absorption and fluorescence properties. Here we observed that the fluorescence of the species in aqueous solution is maximized at condition of complete micellization of surfactants at critical micelle concentration (CMC). In addition, combined measurements of absorption, emission and fluorescence lifetime provide fundamental information on the critical concentration of H-aggregates formation and monomer separation, induced by pre-micelles and homomicelles on different surfactant sodium dodecylsulphate (SDS) concentration. The experimental results show how to find precisely the critical concentration of H-aggregates by optical method in two different xanthene-derived molecules: rhodamine 6G and rhodamine B. The adequate transference of electron from excited dye to the conduction band of semiconductor (TiO2) promotes the creation of reactive species that provides the degradation of dye with advantage of use of irradiation in the visible region and strong photobleaching with direct exposure to the visible light irradiation in a scale of time of 10 min. 相似文献
In this article, we describe the design, synthesis and activity evaluation of glycomimetic DC-SIGN antagonists, that use a
mannose residue to anchor to the protein carbohydrate recognition domain (CRD). The molecules were designed from the structure
of the known pseudo-mannobioside antagonist 1, by including additional hydrophobic groups, which were expected to engage lipophilic areas of DC-SIGN CRD. The results demonstrate
that the synthesized compounds potently inhibit DC-SIGN-mediated adhesion to mannan coated plates. Additionally, in silico
docking studies were performed to rationalize the results and to suggest further optimization. 相似文献
This paper proves the well posedness of spatially periodic solutions of the relativistic isentropic gas dynamics equations.
The pressure is given by a γ-law with initial data of large amplitude, provided γ − 1 is sufficiently small. As a byproduct of our techniques, we obtain the same results for the classical case. At the limit
c → + ∞, the solutions of the relativistic system converge to the solutions of the classical one, the convergence rate being
1/c2. We also construct the semigroup of solutions of the Cauchy problem for initial data with bounded total variation, which
can be large, as long as γ − 1 is small. 相似文献
Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is a widely used method for studying the neural basis of cognition and of sensory function. A potential problem in the interpretation of fMRI data is that fMRI measures neural activity only indirectly, as a local change of deoxyhemoglobin concentration due to the metabolic demands of neural function. To build correct sensory and cognitive maps in the human brain, it is thus crucial to understand whether fMRI and neural activity convey the same type of information about external correlates. While a substantial experimental effort has been devoted to the simultaneous recordings of hemodynamic and neural signals, so far, the development of analysis methods that elucidate how neural and hemodynamic signals represent sensory information has received less attention. In this article, we critically review why the analytical framework of information theory, the mathematical theory of communication, is ideally suited to this purpose. We review the principles of information theory and explain how they could be applied to the analysis of fMRI and neural signals. We show that a critical advantage of information theory over more traditional analysis paradigms commonly used in the fMRI literature is that it can elucidate, within a single framework, whether an empirically observed correlation between neural and fMRI signals reflects either a similar stimulus tuning or a common source of variability unrelated to the external stimuli. In addition, information theory determines the extent to which these shared sources of stimulus signal and of variability lead fMRI and neural signals to convey similar information about external correlates. We then illustrate the formalism by applying it to the analysis of the information carried by different bands of the local field potential. We conclude by discussing the current methodological challenges that need to be addressed to make the information-theoretic approach more robustly applicable to the simultaneous recordings of neural and imaging data. 相似文献
The problem of predicting the effective elastic properties of multi-cracked and/or composite materials is both fundamental
in materials mechanics and of large technological impact. In this paper we develop a continuum elasticity model, based on
the Eshelby theory and on the differential homogenization technique, for the effective elastic moduli of a fibro-reinforced
system and we address it to elaborate an estimation of the average failure condition of such composites. 相似文献
In order to measure the isotopic ratio of actinides,the upgrade of the accelerator mass spectrometry system at the Center for Isotopic Research on Cultural and Environmental heritage at the Second University of Naples,Italy,was performed.The beam emittance of 238U and the isotopic abundance sensitivity of 236U were measured on the present beam line.Utilizing a 16-strip silicon detector,the sensitivity of 236U/238U≈ 1×10-11 was obtained. 相似文献
Incipient wetness impregnation was employed to decorate two N-doped graphene-rich matrixes with iron, nickel, cobalt, and copper nanoparticles. The N-doped matrix was wetted with methanol solutions of the corresponding nitrates. After agitation and solvent evaporation, reduction at 800 °C over the carbon matrix promoted the formation of nanoparticles. The mass of the metal fraction was limited to 5 wt. % to determine if limited quantities of metallic nanoparticles catalyze the hydrogen capture/release of nanoconfined LiBH4. Isotherms of nitrogen adsorption afforded the textural characterization of the matrixes. Electronic microscopy displayed particles of definite size, evenly distributed on the matrixes, as confirmed by X-ray diffraction. The same techniques assessed the impact of LiBH4 50 vol. % impregnation on nanoparticle distribution and size. The hydrogen storage properties of these materials were evaluated by differential scanning calorimetry and two cycles of volumetric studies. X-ray diffraction allowed us to follow the evolution of the material after two cycles of hydrogen capture-release. We discuss if limited quantities of coordination metals can improve the hydrogen storage properties of nanoconfined LiBH4, and which critical parameters might restrain the synergies between nanoconfinement and the presence of metal catalysts. 相似文献
A popular intermediary in the theory of artificial satellites is obtained after the elimination of parallactic terms from the \(J_2\)-problem Hamiltonian. The resulting quasi-Keplerian system is in turn converted into the Kepler problem by a torsion. When this reduction process is applied to unbounded orbits, the solution is made of Keplerian hyperbolae. For this last case, we show that the torsion-based solution provides an effective alternative to the Keplerian approximation customarily used in flyby computations. Also, we check that the extension of the torsion-based solution to higher orders of the oblateness coefficient yields the expected convergence of asymptotic solutions to the true orbit.
The configurational, or elastic, free energy Ael of a polymer chain is discussed in terms of the Fourier configurational approach. The importance of accounting for all degrees of freedom of the chain is shown in comparison with affine mean-field theories and with scaling theories of chain expansion and contraction. In case of strong contraction the chain does show neither affinity nor self-similarity, and we get Ael ∼ N1/3, N being the number of chain bonds. Conversely, in case of good-solvent expansion we find Ael ∼ N. The same result holds in the vicinity of the Θ-temperature, where Ael is also proportional to [(T − Θ)/T]2. 相似文献