Preconcentration of trace antimony in tap and sea water on activated alumina. Determination by graphite furnace atomic absorption spectrometry

Summary A method is described for antimony preconcentration based on retention on a column of activated alumina. Recovery is 80% when no pH-control and 4 mol/l HCl as eluent are used. The preconcentration factor is 400. The method was applied to the determination of antimony in spiked tap and sea water. The analytical performance of the method is discussed.     

Sustainability in bankruptcy problems

This paper focuses on a new property for bankruptcy rules, calledsustainability, which requires that the agents with small enough claims be fully reimbursed. We show that the constrained equal-awards rule is the only rule that satisfies path independence and sustainability. Exploiting duality relations, we also provide a characterization of the constrained equal-losses rule, as the only one that satisfies composition and independence of residual claims (the dual property of sustainability).     

Synchronization Analysis of Coupled Noncoherent Oscillators

We present two different approaches to detect and quantify phase synchronization in the case of coupled non-phase coherent oscillators. The first one is based on the general idea of curvature of an arbitrary curve. The second one is based on recurrences of the trajectory in phase space. We illustrate both methods in the paradigmatic example of the R?ssler system in the funnel regime. We show that the second method is applicable even in the case of noisy data. Furthermore, we extend the second approach to the application of chains of coupled systems, which allows us to detect easily clusters of synchronized oscillators. In order to illustrate the applicability of this approach, we show the results of the algorithm applied to experimental data from a population of 64 electrochemical oscillators.     

Copper-D-penicillamine complex as potential contrast agent for MRI.

In vitro and in vivo proton T1 data are reported that demonstrate that the paramagnetic copper-D-penicillamine complex can be applied as a potential contrast agent to magnetic resonance imaging.     

Chelate polymers: II. Some novel transition metals complexes with azomethine‐containing siloxanes and their polyesters

New Schiff bases of 2,4‐dihydroxybenzaldehyde with siloxane‐α,ω‐diamines having different numbers of siloxane units in the chain have been synthesized and characterized by spectroscopy, elemental and thermal analyses. These azomethines were found to form complexes readily with copper(II), nickel(II), cobalt(II), cadmium(II) and zinc(II). From IR and UV–Vis studies, the phenolic oxygen and imine nitrogen of the ligand were found to be the coordination sites. Thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) data indicate the chelates to be more stable than the corresponding ligands. The melting points increase with shortening of the siloxane segment from azomethine, as well as the result of complexation. The chelates obtained were covalently inserted in polymeric linear structures by polycondensation through the OH‐difunctionalized ligand with 1,3‐bis(carboxypropyl)tetramethyldisiloxane. Direct polycondensation, assisted either by acetic anhydride or N,N′‐dicyclohexylcarbodiimide as dehydrating agent and the complex 4‐(dimethylamino)pyridinium 4‐toluenesulfonate as catalyst, was used for the synthesis of these compound types. The structures of the polymers obtained were confirmed by IR, UV and ¹H NMR. Characterization was undertaken by TGA, solubility tests and viscosity measurements. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Navier-Stokes方程带Backtracking技巧的两重网格算法

1 引 言考虑二维不可压 Navier-Stokes方程:     

Competitive influence of atactic polystyrene and supercritical carbon dioxide on the conformation of syndiotactic polystyrene

The crystallization behavior of miscible syndiotactic polystyrene (sPS) and atactic polystyrene (aPS) blends with different sPS/aPS weight ratios was investigated in supercritical CO₂ by using Fourier‐transform infrared spectroscopy, differential scanning calorimetry, and wide‐angle X‐ray diffraction. Supercritical CO₂ and aPS exhibited different effects on the conformational change of sPS and competed with each other. Increasing the content of amorphous aPS in the blends made its effect on the conformational change of sPS gradually surpass that of supercritical CO₂. Supercritical CO₂ favored the formation of the helical conformation of sPS in lower temperature range and the all trans planar conformation in higher temperature range, instead of forming the latter one only in higher temperature range in ambient atmosphere. However, increasing aPS content in the blends pushed the range for forming the helical conformation to lower temperature and made the all trans planar conformation dominant in aPS/sPS 25/75 blend after treating in supercritical CO₂ above 60 °C. The all trans planar zigzag conformation was more favorable than the helical conformation after mixing aPS in sPS in supercritical CO₂. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part B: Polym Phys 45: 1755–1764, 2007     

回填材料膨润土对放射性气体滞留能力模拟研究

利用各种分析手段对膨润土的物理特性进行了表征 .X射线衍射分析表明钠基膨润土呈典型的六方晶胞 ,晶胞参数是 :a轴 4 .913,c轴 5 .4 0 5 ;差热分析曲线在低温区和高温区有明显的吸热峰出现 ;元素分析钠、钾离子的含量大于钙、镁离子的含量 ,在性能上表现为钠质膨润土具有较强的离子交换能力 ;显微分析表明其表面呈皱隙状 ,测定比表面积高达 2 4 .5 2m2 /g;吸水率测定表明膨胀率大 ,说明它具有密封功能 ,可有效阻滞地下水的渗入 .利用SF6示踪技术 ,通过采集不同时间段取样池样品 ,分析样品中示踪气体浓度 ,绘制取样池示踪气体浓度随时间的变化关系曲线 ,根据费克扩散定律计算扩散系数 .实验结果表明 ,随着压实膨润土密度的增大 ,示踪气体扩散系数迅速减小 ,当密度大于 1.8g/cm3 时 ,扩散系数降至 10 -9m2 /s.研究结果表明 ,膨润土性能优化是通过在膨润土中添加适量的活性炭 ,可明显改善其对气体的阻滞能力 ;增加其对放射性气体滞留能力 ;添加少量的石英砂增加其机械性能、导热性和减少蠕变性 ,将引起对气体阻滞能力的下降 .综合考虑 ,在膨润土中各添加 5 %活性炭和石英砂 ,既对气体具有较好的滞留能力 ,又具有较好的工程特性 .