Synthesis and properties of new biotin compounds containing hexyltriethylene glycol chain

The synthesis of a new halogenide containing hexyltriethylene glycol chain functionalized with biotin is reported. The general possibility of this linker to use as the building block for biotinylated compounds syntheses is demonstrated. Two biotinylated esters with different properties for useful surface modification and as fluorescence probes for proteins marking were synthesized. The properties of mentioned compounds were investigated by using surface plazmon resonance ellypsometry and fluorescence spectroscopy.     

Soret and Dufour Effects on Double-Diffusive Free Convection Over a Vertical Truncated Cone in Porous Media with Variable Wall Heat and Mass Fluxes

This work studies the Soret and Dufour effects on the double-diffusive free convection over a downward-pointing vertical truncated cone with variable wall heat and mass fluxes in fluid-saturated porous media. A coordinate transformation is used to derive the nondimensional boundary-layer governing equations, and the obtained nonsimilar equations are then solved by the cubic spline collocation method. Results for local surface temperature and the local surface concentration are presented as functions of Soret parameters, Dufour parameters, power-law exponents, buoyancy ratios, and Lewis numbers. Results show that increasing the Dufour parameter tends to increase the local surface temperature, while it tends to decrease the local surface concentration. An increase in the Soret number leads to a decrease in the local surface temperature for buoyancy assisting flows, while it leads to an increase in the local surface temperature for buoyancy opposing flows. Increasing the Soret number tends to increase the local surface concentration. Moreover, the local surface temperature and the local surface concentration of the truncated cones with higher power-law exponents are lower than those with lower exponents.     

Study of Heat Transport in Bénard-Darcy Convection with g-Jitter and Thermo-Mechanical Anisotropy in Variable Viscosity Liquids

The effects of temperature-dependent viscosity, gravity modulation and thermo-mechanical anisotropies on heat transport in a low-porosity medium are studied using the Ginzburg–Landau model. The effect of gravity modulation is to decrease the Nusselt number, Nu and variable viscosity leads to increase in Nu. The thermo-mechanical anisotropies have opposite effect on Nu with thermal anisotropy decreasing the heat transport.     

A Note on the Legendre Series Solution of the Biharmonic Equation for Cylindrical Problems

The solution of cylindrical problems is addressed. A series solution is considered of the biharmonic equation, in which the series terms of the stress function Φ are expressions based upon Legendre polynomials and logarithmically singular functions. An explicit form of a polynomial supplementing each logarithmically singular part of the series solution is obtained.     

An Incompressible Fluid in a Weakly Deformable Shell. Part I: Analysis of the Model

We consider the flow of a viscous incompressible fluid in a pipe when the boundary is a deformable shell of Naghdi type. We prove that the corresponding system of partial differential equations has a solution when the deformation of the shell is smooth and small enough. We propose an algorithm that uncouples the unknowns and prove its convergence.     

Nonlinear analysis of laser droplet generation by means of 0–1 test for chaos

We apply the recently improved version of the 0–1 test for chaos to real experimental time series of laser droplet generation process. In particular two marginal regimes of dripping are considered: spontaneous and forced dripping. The outcomes of the test reveal that both spontaneous and forced dripping time series can be characterized as chaotic, which coincides with the previous analysis based on nonlinear time series analysis.     

冲击波温度和压力对二氧化钛相变的影响

 介绍了一种简便易行的降低疏松固体物质冲击波温度的方法，其要点是用液体石蜡充填样品的空隙。以用粉末锐钛矿压装成型的样品为例，对比了不充填和充填液态石蜡时冲击波作用的结果。在同样的冲击加载条件下（均为钢飞片，撞击速度为3.16 km/s），估算两种样品中达到的压力分别为36.3 GPa和46.8 GPa，平均温度分别约为4.7×10³ ℃和2.0×10³ ℃，即：充填液态石蜡的样品中压力增加了约10 GPa，但平均温度降低了近3×10³ ℃。对冲击后回收样品的分析结果表明，不充填石蜡样品的主要产物为金红石，即冲击波产生的高温起了主要作用。而充填液态石蜡时，主要生成β-TiO₂高压相，即高压起了主要作用。     

利用X射线衍射研究冲击波合成纤锌矿型氮化硼

 用X射线衍射法，对不同结晶度的石墨型氮化硼（gBN）在冲击波作用下转变成的纤锌矿型氮化硼（wBN）产物进行了研究，对wBN中的杂质含量等进行了分析。结果表明：gBN的石墨化指数G.I值对wBN的产率有明显的影响。