A Facile Chemical Synthesis of Cu2O Nanocubes Covered with Co3O4 Nanohexagons for the Sensitive Detection of Glucose

Copper (I) oxide nanocubes (Cu₂O NCs) covered with cobalt oxide nanohexagons (Co₃O₄ NHs) were prepared through simple chemical method. Here, ascorbic acid is used as reducing and capping agent for the synthesis of nanocubes and nanohexagons. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM), Transmission electron microscopy (TEM), Energy‐dispersive X‐ray spectroscopy (EDX) and X‐ray diffraction spectroscopy (XRD) were employed to confirm the prepared nanocomposite. Cu₂O NCs?Co₃O₄ NHs nanocomposite is drop cast on the glassy carbon electrode (GCE) for the fabrication of glucose sensor. The fabricated Cu₂O NCs?Co₃O₄ NHs/GCE exhibited a better electrocatalytic activity towards the determination of glucose than that of individually fabricated Cu₂O NCs and Co₃O₄ NHs modified GCE. Our finding exhibited a wide linear range from 1 μM to 5330 μM with LOD of 0.63 towards glucose. In addition, the sensor attained appreciable stability, repeatability and reproducibility. Practicality of the sensor was demonstrated in human serum samples. The main advantages of the fabricated sensor are simple, biocompatible, cost effective, fast response and highly stable electrode surface.     

Alternative Synthesis of C60‐Diphenylaminofluorene Derivatives for Nonlinear Photonic Applications: Method of Preparation and Characterization

An alternative synthetic route for the preparation of key intermediate synthons 7‐α‐bromoacetyl‐2‐diphenylaminofluorene (α‐BrDPAF‐H) and 7‐α‐bromoacetyl‐9,9‐dialkyl‐2‐diphenylaminofluorene (α‐BrDPAF‐C_n) was demonstrated. The latter reactions involved the first step of dialkylation of 2‐bromofluorene at C₉ position of the fluorene moiety, the second step of a diphenylamino group attachment at C₂ position of the resulting dialkylfluorene, and the third step of Friedel‐Craft acylation of α‐bromoacetyl group at C₇ position of dialkylated diphenylaminofluorene. From the intermediates α‐BrDPAF‐H and α‐BrDPAF‐C_n, a series of C₆₀‐keto‐DPAF nanostructures, such as the fullerene monoadducts C₆₀(>DPAF‐H) and C₆₀(>DPAF‐C_n), where n is 2, 4, or 10, were synthesized in a reasonable yield. Molecular mass ions of the dyads C₆₀(>DPAF‐H), C₆₀(>DPAF‐C₂), C₆₀(>DPAF‐C₄), and C₆₀(>DPAF‐C₁₀) were clearly detected in positive ion matrix‐assisted laser desorption ionization mass spectrum (MALDI–MS) that confirmed the composition mass of each compound synthesized.     

Relative wavefunctions, vertex functions and coupling constants for the virtual decay of 4He

The d + d, t + p and h + n relative wavefunctions and their asymptotic normalizations are considered in the framework of the generator coordinate method (GCM) and compared with ATMS (amalgamation of two-body correlation into multiple scattering processes) method which used the realistic Reid soft core interaction. The asymptotic normalization of relative wavefunctions provide various coupling constants, the cluster probability amplitude (the so-called Z ^1/2-factor) and matter RMS radii. These wavefunctions are also used to obtain ⁴He − d − d, ⁴He − t − p and ⁴He − h − n vertex functions in the virtual decay of ⁴He. The extrapolation of vertex functions for negative values of q ² upto the corresponding poles provide the vertex constants which are comparable with other estimates. It is noticed that in GCM the coupling constants C ² for ⁴He − d − d vertex is less than 2 as has been obtained in the forward dispersion relation technique.     

Long-term morpho-dynamics in special type of estuary

Thousands of rocky hills and islands scattered in the Pearl River delta plain and the adjacent coastal waters in South China have been or will be acted as deposition nucleus during the evolution process of the delta. The Huangmaohai estuarine complex consists of two of the eight major outlets of the Pearl River estuarine system. Since sea level reached the present level approximately 6000 years ago, especially in the last 250 years, the Huangmaohai estuarine complex has progressed to the sea by filling up the sea inlets formed between these rocky islands and between mainland and islands. This 'filling up' process left deep imprints on the long-term mor-pho-dynamic equilibrium in the estuaries. The present paper reveals that the long-term mor-pho-dynamic relation originating from this 'filling up' process in the Huangmaohai estuarine complex is different from that in many coastal plain estuaries in several aspects: (1) longitudinal variation of estuary width, (2) longitudinal variation of tidal range, (3)     

Quasielastic reactions around the coulomb barrier in 16O+118Sn

Measurement of elastic and quasielastic reaction cross sections were done in ¹⁶O + ¹¹⁸Sn system at two different energies above the barrier. Attempts are being made to understand the results in the framework of coupled reaction channel model.