Synthesis and luminescence in some fluoro-silicates for the possible applications in OSL dosimetry

Various fluoro-silicates, viz. M₂SiF₆ (M=Li, Na, K) were synthesized by reacting the mixture of corresponding salt and silicic acid with Hydrofluoric acid. The thermal analysis of these materials was performed. These materials were doped with ions Ce³⁺, Cu⁺, Ag⁺ and photoluminescence, TL, OSL properties were studied. Intense TL and OSL was observed from these materials. Due to decomposition during heating, these materials may not be suitable as TL Phosphors, but will be good phosphors for radiation dosimetry using OSL.     

Luminescence in LaBaB9O16 prepared by combustion synthesis

LaBaB₉O₁₆ phosphors activated by various ions belonging to ns², 3dⁿ and 4fⁿ configurations were prepared by combustion synthesis. Phosphors’ synthesis and luminescence spectra are reported. Most of the activators displayed intense characteristic emission. Pr³⁺→Gd³⁺, Ce³⁺→Tb³⁺, Ce³⁺→Dy³⁺, Ce³⁺→Mn²⁺ and Bi³⁺→Mn²⁺ energy transfers were also observed. In particular, Ce³⁺→Tb³⁺ energy transfer leads to an efficient green emitting phosphor.     

Ce emission in hexagonal and orthorhombic phases of CaSO4

CaSO₄ exists in several phases. The most common phase of CaSO₄ is orthorhombic and reported Ce³⁺ emission corresponds to this phase. However, significant change in the emission of Ce³⁺ is observed when CaSO₄ crystallizes in hexagonal phases. The emission is observed at 354 nm as compared to the spilt band at 305 and 326 nm for the orthorhombic phase. The preparation procedure and photoluminescence spectra for orthorhombic and hexagonal phases are described in this paper.     

Isothermal decay of colour centres in microcrystalline powders of alkali bromides

The bleaching of F-centres on storing in darkness of electrolytically coloured single crystals and microcrystalline powders of solid solutions of KBr with other alkali bromides is reported. The colouration of the microcrystalline powders decays isothermally while that of single crystals is comparatively stable. The decay proceeds slower in the powders of mixed crystals than in the pure materials. A tentative explanation is suggested.     

Comparison of enthalpy relaxation between two different molecular masses of a bisphenol-A polycarbonate

Summary The present work is an extension of an earlier study that compared the stress relaxation between two molecular masses of a bisphenol-A polycarbonate due to thermal aging. The enthalpy relaxation of the same materials has been characterized. First, by measuring the change in enthalpy loss (ΔH_a) and fictive temperature (T_f) as a function of aging temperature (T_a) ranging from -25 to 120°C, using differential scanning calorimetry. For the limited aging time of 120 h, ΔH_a and T_f changes were only appreciable for (T_g -70 K)<T_a<T_g . While the influence of molecular mass was somewhat discernible, enthalpy measurements were not as sensitive as stress relaxation tests in differentiating molecular mass effects. In a second investigation, the kinetics of enthalpy relaxation upon isothermal aging at 130°C was evaluated using the peak shift method and found to be comparable to literature values. The plot of ΔH_a as a function of log (aging time) showed two distinct regions: a brief non-linear portion (less than 1 h aging) which is followed by a linear relationship as typically reported in the literature. In contrast to the linear region, the non-linear relaxation behaviour of the poorly aged state does not appear to be dependent on molecular mass.     

Facile cleavage of a phenyl group from SbPh3 by dirhenium carbonyl complexes

The complex Re₂(CO)₈[μ-η²-C(H)C(H)Buⁿ](μ-H) (1) reacts with SbPh₃ at 68 °C to yield the new σ-phenyl dirhenium complex Re₂(CO)₈(SbPh₃)(Ph)(μ-SbPh₂) (4) in 72% yield. Compound 4 contains two rhenium atoms held together by a bridging SbPh₂ ligand. One rhenium atom contains a σ-phenyl group. The other rhenium atom contains a SbPh₃ ligand. Compound 4 was also obtained in 34% yield from the reaction of Re₂(CO)₁₀ with SbPh₃ in the presence of UV–Vis irradiation together with some monorhenium products: HRe(CO)₄SbPh₃ (5), Re(Ph)(CO)₄SbPh₃ (6) and fac-Re(Ph)(CO)₃(SbPh₃)₂ (7) in low yields. Complex 4 is split by reaction with an additional quantity of SbPh₃ to yield the monorhenium SbPh₃ complexes 6, 7 and mer-Re(Ph)(CO)₃(SbPh₃)₂ (8) that contain a σ-phenyl ligand. When 4 was treated with hydrogen, the phenyl ligand was eliminated as benzene and the dirhenium complexes Re₂(CO)₈(μ-SbPh₂)(μ-H) (10), and Re₂(CO)₇(SbPh₃)(μ-SbPh₂)(μ-H) (11), were formed that contain a bridging hydrido ligand. The doubly SbPh₂-bridged dirhenium complex Re₂(CO)₇(SbPh₃)(μ-SbPh₂)₂ (9) that has no metal–metal bond was also formed in these two reactions.     

UV-INDUCED ELEVATION OF SKIN GLYCOSAMINOGLYCAN LEVELS I: RAPID MEASUREMENT OF SKIN GLYCOSAMINOGLYCANS BY TITRATION WITH ACRIDINE ORANGE*

Abstract— We have developed a simple, rapid, sensitive procedure for measuring polyanionic glycosaminoglycans (GAG) in unfixed defatted lyophilizedSK–1 hairless mouse skin by means of quantitative measurement of uptake of the fluorescent dye acridine orange (AO), which was shown to be GAG-specific under the conditions of these experiments. This method is suitable for detecting and estimating elevations in steady skin GAG levels due to UV irradiation.     

Homogeneity in powers of zero-dimensional first-countable spaces

A construction of L. Brian Lawrence is extended to show that the -power of every subset of the Cantor set is homogeneous via a continuous translation modulo a dense set. It follows that every zero-dimensional first-countable space has a homogeneous -power.