Sterilization of foods with low-energy electrons (“soft-electrons”)

Electrons with an energy of 300 keV or lower were defined as “Soft-electrons”, which showed several advantages over conventional irradiation with gamma-rays or high-energy electrons in decontamination of grains and spices. Energies of electrons necessary to reduce microbial loads to levels lower than 10 CFU/g were 60 keV for brown rice, 75 keV for wheat, 100 keV for white pepper, coriander and basil, 130 keV for buckwheat, 160 keV for rough rice, and 210 keV for black pepper. Electrons with such energies did not significantly influence the quality.     

On transversely flat conformal foliations with good measures

Transversely flat conformal foliations with good transverse invariant measures are Riemannian in the sense. In particular, transversely similar foliations with good measures are transversely Riemannian as transversely -foliations.

     

利用高分辨率光谱和从头算理论研究9-甲基蒽的大振幅运动

本文利用平行超音速射流和光频梳技术观察到9-甲基蒽(9MA)的多普勒的高分辨率和高精度光谱. CH₃内部旋转的势能曲线用六重对称正弦函数表示. 之前报道的9MA-d12的势垒(V₆)远远低于9MA-h12[M. Baba, et al., J. Phys. Chem. A 113, 2366 (2009)]. 本文对多组分分子轨道法进行从头算方法的理论计算. 氘代取代势垒降低的部分原因是H和D原子核的波函数不同.     

Development of a new radiation detector utilizing CNTs as anodes

A new gas-multiplication radiation detector utilizing CNTs as anodes is proposed. A very compact detector with good spatial and temporal resolutions might be built. The designing and development of a prototype detector is described. Argon gas or liquid is adopted as radiation-converting medium. The detector body can be evacuated and cooled down to liquid nitrogen temperature. Silicon wafers on which single-wall CNTs are grown are used as the detector anode.     

Carbon-13 NMR spectra of hydroxylated bile acid stereoisomers

Carbon-13 NMR signals were assigned for the complete set of the 26 theoretically possible isomers of methyl 5β-cholanates having one to three hydroxy groups at positions C-3, C-7 and/or C-12 in the nucleus. Substituent effects on the ¹³C NMR shielding data serving to characterize the position and configuration of the hydroxy groups are discussed.     

In situ surface plasmon resonance measurements of self-assembled monolayers of ferrocenylalkylthiols under constant potentials.

A commercial system for surface plasmon resonance (SPR) possessing a batch-type flow channel has been simply modified so as to conduct in situ SPR measurements under polarization of an Au sensor chip at constant potentials. The modified instrument can monitor electrochemical reactions of monolayer materials with high stability and high reproducibility. The redox reaction of a self-assembled monolayer (SAM) of 6-ferrocenyl-1-hexanethiol (FcHT) induced the resonance angle shifts, the magnitudes of which accorded with the Nernst equation. The measurements in electrolyte solutions containing different electrolyte anions revealed that the SPR measurements detected ion pairing of electrolyte anions with oxidized FcHT. In cases of measurements in alkylsulfonic acid solution, simulation of the results based on the N-layer model has clarified that alkylsulfonate anions make an assembled layer on the FcHT SAM.     

Galois coverings of the product of the projective lines by abelian surfaces

We consider the quotient space of an abelian surface by a finite subgroup of the automorphism group. We classify the analytic representation of the group and the branch divisor of the natural projection to the quotient space, where the quotient space is isomorphic to the product of the projective lines.     

Stabilization of Bicontinuous Cubic Phase and Its Two-Sided Nature Produced by Use of Siloxane Tails and Introduction of Molecular Nonsymmetry

A recent intriguing finding that a helical network arrangement forms the bicontinuous cubic phase is attracting great attention for the possibility of new routes to asymmetric synthesis by achiral molecules. However, the design of the molecular structure for the cubic phase is still unrevealed. In this work, a nonsymmetric core molecule with larger naphthalene and smaller benzene moieties at each side of the central linkage and the same disiloxanyldecyloxy terminal at both terminals is shown to be the first example of molecule forming both single-layered and double-layered core assembly modes in the Ia3d phase as a single molecule system. The molecule forms the former mode at high temperatures as a thermodynamically stable phase, similarly to the symmetric naphthalene core system, whereas, on cooling below a temperature (∼350 K), a metastable Ia3d phase forms a double-layered core state down to room temperature, which is common to the benzene core system. As another effect of the nonsymmetric core, the cubic phase is maintained at room temperature for more than 100 days with slight distortion. Infrared spectral studies and quantum chemical calculations suggested the easy transformation between the two core assembly modes. The core nonsymmetry can be a versatile fine-tuning of the core assembly mode and phase stability for the cubic phase molecules.