Synthesis of Ethynylated Phenothiazine Based Fluorescent Boronic Acid Probes

Ethynylated phenothiazine based fluorescent boronic acid probes were prepared. Sonogashira coupling reaction was used to introduce substituted phenylethynylene fragments to the phenothiazine fluorophore to extend the π-conjugation and to enhance the emission property. The photophysical properties and the binding properties of these probes with hydroxyl acids were investigated. We found that the probes with significant ICT effect show emissions which are sensitive to solvent polarity. The phenothiazine moiety is proved to be electron-donating. We found the substitution profile imparts significant effect on the photophysical properties of the probes. For example, one of the probes shows d-PeT effect, whereas the regioisomer probe with similar π-conjugation fragment but different substitution profile shows the a-PeT effect. The easy derivatization of phenothiazine fluorophore, the structure-photophysical property relation and the novel d-PeT fluorescence transduction profile of the phenothiazine based probes described herein may inspire more investigation into this fascinating research area.     

近红外光谱定量分析的新方法:半监督最小二乘支持向量回归机

在近红外光谱定量分析中,样品化学值测定的准确度是运用数学模型进行定量分析精确度的理论极限。但能够准确获取化学值的样品数量比较少,许多模型在建模时只考虑这部分样品数据,而不考虑大量的无化学值的样品数据。针对该问题,本文在LS-SVR的基础上,提出了可以同时利用有化学值(标签)和无化学值样品数据的半监督LS-SVR(S2LS-SVR)模型。类似于LS-SVR,该模型也只需求解一个线性方程组。最后,以烤烟样品数据集为实验材料,建立了四种样品成分(总糖、还原糖、总氮和烟碱)的定量分析模型。四种样品成分的预测值与实际值的平均误差分别为6.62%,7.56%,6.11%和8.20%,相关系数分别为0.974 1,0.973 3,0.923 0和0.948 6。经分析比较发现S2LS-SVR模型优于PLS和LS-SVR,从而验证了S2LS-SVR模型的可行性和有效性。     

Morphology and elemental behaviour in the alteration layer of borosilicate glass in simulated groundwater

To understand the behaviour of nuclear waste glass in groundwater, borosilicate glasses were placed in simulated groundwater for more than 200 days. The composition of the simulated groundwater was similar to that of the groundwater in Beishan (a potential nuclear waste site). The pH value of groundwater was adjusted to 7.5, and the ratio of the surface area of glass to the volume of the solution (SA/V) was set to 10?m^?1. Solutions and bulk glasses were characterised to obtain the elemental behaviour and surface morphology of the glass/solution interface, which was named the alteration layer. The mean thicknesses of the alteration layer were 5.16?±?0.11?µm and 11.67?±?0.28?µm at 70°C and 90°C, respectively. A thicker alteration layer was attributed to the lower surface activation energy of the glass and a high ion exchange between K⁺ and Na⁺ in the interface between the glass surface and the solution. For the elemental behaviour, mobile species B and Na were depleted, while K and Ca from the solution were enriched in the alteration layer due to ion exchange. Network species Si decreased in the layer, leading to the corrosion of the backbone of the glass; however, species Al increased, which implied that some [SiO₄] units were partially replaced by [AlO₄] units. In this work, glass in groundwater suffered much more intense corrosion than that in de-ionised water.     

Electronic band structure of a type-II ’W’ quantum well calculated by an eight-band k·p model

In this paper, we present an investigation of type-II 'W' quantum wells for the InAs/Ga_1-xIn_xSb/AlSb family, where 'W' denotes the conduction profile of the material. We focus our attention on using the eight-band k?p model to calculate the band structures within the framework of finite element method. For the sake of clarity, the simulation in this paper is simplified and based on only one period---AlSb/InAs/Ga_1-xIn_xSb/InAs/AlSb. The obtained numerical results include the energy levels and wavefunctions of carriers. We discuss the variations of the electronic properties by changing several important parameters, such as the thickness of either InAs or Ga_1-xIn_xSb layer and the alloy composition in Ga_1-xIn_xSb separately. In the last part, in order to compare the eight-band k?p model, we recalculate the conduction bands of the 'W' structure using the one-band k?p model and then discuss the difference between the two results, showing that conduction bands are strongly coupled with valence bands in the narrow band gap structure. The in-plane energy dispersions, which illustrate the suppression of the Auger recombination process, are also obtained.     

Blowup Criterion for Viscous Baratropic Flows with Vacuum States

We prove that the maximum norm of the deformation tensor of velocity gradients controls the possible breakdown of smooth(strong) solutions for the 3-dimensional (3D) barotropic compressible Navier-Stokes equations. More precisely, if a solution of the 3D barotropic compressible Navier-Stokes equations is initially regular and loses its regularity at some later time, then the loss of regularity implies the growth without bound of the deformation tensor as the critical time approaches. Our result is the same as Ponce’s criterion for 3-dimensional incompressible Euler equations (Ponce in Commun Math Phys 98:349–353, 1985). In addition, initial vacuum states are allowed in our cases.     

The Calibration Method of TOFr in the STAR Experiment

a tray of time of flight detector based on mrPc technology took part in the physics run of star both in p+p and d+au collisions in 2003. together with the information from the time Projection chamber(tPc) and the pseudo–vertex Position detector (pvPd) of the star experiment,corrections are done to calibrate the new prototype tof. the intrinsic time resolution of tofr reaches 85ps and it extends the π/K and K/p separation up to 1.6gev/c and 3.0gev/c respectively.     

活体声荧光成像研究

声荧光应用于生物组织成像研究是最近二年发展起来的新兴领域,本文报道利用高灵敏度的致冷CCD探测系统获取了活体声荧光图像,同时利用一种能在活体内增强声荧光的化学发光试剂FCLA（Fluoresceinyl Cypridina Luminescent Analog,海荧荧光素类似物）,成功地实现了在动物在体成像,这种方法可望在医学影像诊断中得到广泛的实际应用。     

The time-dependent cellular response mechanism upon exposure to zinc oxide nanoparticles

Zinc oxide nanoparticle is one of the nanomaterials people engaged most in their life and its health effect has been taken into concern. In this work, A549 cell line was used as cell model, and the cytotoxicity of zinc oxide nanoparticles was revealed to be concentration-dependent. Through the measurement of cellular proteome, much more differentially expressed proteins were observed after the cells being treated for 9 h than 24 h. Also, most of these proteins expressed in the pattern which showed a significant decrease after exposure to zinc oxide nanoparticles and then an increase at 24 h. Intracellular reactive oxygen species and glutathione determination indicated that high level of oxidative stress was presented in cell after treatment with zinc oxide nanoparticles for 9 h. It can be observed from western blot analysis that the expression of NF-κB p65, PNPase, and HSP90 rose significantly after 9 h of exposure. Thus, a deduction was reached that toxicity of nanoparticles consists both of particle toxicity and ion toxicity, and a long-time treatment may conceal the toxicity induced by particles. The conclusion we made highlighted the importance of exposure time in the study of nanoparticle toxicity and would provide a new perspective for studying toxicity mechanism of nanoparticles.