Covalent functionalization of multi-walled carbon nanotubes by lipase

Lipase from Candida rugosa was covalently anchored onto acid-treated multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWNTs) through a self-catalytic mechanism. A variety of characterization techniques including FTIR, Raman spectroscopy, and XPS were employed to demonstrate the formation of the ester linkage between lipase and MWNTs. The MWNTs-lipase biocomposites showed significantly increased solubility in some common-used organic solvents, such as THF, DMF and chloroform. This study may offer a novel and facile route for covalent modification of carbon nanotubes, and expand the potential utilization of both lipases and MWNTs in the fields of biocatalyst and biosensor.     

Design of thin-walled viscoelastic shells with allowance for damage

Azerbaidzhan Institute of Construction Engineering, Baku. Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika, Vol. 27, No. 1, pp. 55–64, January, 1991.     

Intramolecular heterocyclization with accompanying exoiminization in the reaction of ammonia with 2-chloroperfluoro-1-cyclohexene-1-thiocyanate

The reaction of ammonia with 2-chloroperfluoro-1-cyclohexene-1-thiocyanate leads to 2-amino-7-iminoperfluoro-4,5,6-trihydrobenzo-1,3-thiazole (II) due to intramolecular heterocyclization in the Thorpe reaction with the concurrent exoiminization. Analysis of the IR spectra of (II) in CCl₄ and in the solid phase indicated that molecules of (II) in the crystal form hydrogen-bonded centrosymmetric dimers (D), which are in equilibrium with free molecules of (II) in solution.Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 10, pp. 2366–2370, October, 1991.The authors express their gratitude to D. I. Zagorevskii for taking the mass spectrum of (II) and to L. S. German for a useful discussion of this work.     

Integral manifolds and the reduction principle in stability theory. III

It is shown how, with the help of approximate integral manifolds, to solve the reduction problem in stability theory in the nonsingular critical case. A generalization of the first fundamental Lyapunov-Malkin theorem in critical cases is obtained.Translated from Ukrainskii Matematicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 43, No. 10, pp. 1324–1329, October, 1991.     

Fredholm property of elliptic boundary value problems for partial differential and differential- operator equations

In this paper we find conditions on boundary value problems for elliptic differential-operator equations of the 4-th order in an interval to be fredholm. Apparently, this is the first publication for elliptic differential-operator equations of the 4-th order, when the principal part of the equation has the form u′?n(t) + Au″(t) + Bu(t), where AB^-1/2 is a bounded operator and is not compact. As an application we find some algebraic conditions on boundary value problems for elliptic partial equations of the 4-th order in cylindrical domains to be fredholm. Note that a new method has actually been suggested here for investigation of boundary value problems for elliptic partial equations of the 4-th order.     

Ga1-xInxAs/InAsyP1-y/InP异质结的MOCVD生长及表征

Ga1-xInxAs(x>0.53)材料是未来长距离低损耗光纤通信的理想光源材料和探测器材料之一.我们采用水平常压MOCVD系统,在InP衬底上成功地生长了Ga1-xInxAs(x>0.53)/InAsyP1-y/Inp异质结材料.其中InAs1-yPy为组份阶梯变化的多层结构.由样品的(400)面X光衍射结果测定了各层组份.由二次离子质谱(SIMS)得到了样品剖面组份变化结果,证明InAs1-yPy层组份为阶梯状变化的.通过对光致发光结果和X光衍射结果比较,可以看到,InAsyP1-y层通过位错和弹性畸变二种方式来释放或积累Ga1-xInxAs与InP间的失配应力,从而减少了Ga1-xInxAs中的失配位错.有效地改善了Ga1-xInxAs的质量.已获得了x高达0.94表面光亮的Ga1-xInxAs/InAs1-yPy/InP异质结材料.     

An approach to deducing approximate solutions to the Cauchy problem for nonlinear differential equations

A new technique for the construction of numerical methods based on continued fractions is proposed. A characteristic feature of these algorithms is the fact that for certain values of the parameters it is possible to obtain both novel and traditional (explicit and implicit) numerical methods for the solution of the Cauchy problem for ordinary differential equations. Two-sided formulas are proposed by means of which it is possible to obtain on each integration step not only upper and lower approximations to the exact solution, but also information concerning the magnitude of the leading term of the error without the need for additional calculations of the right-hand side of the initial differential equation.Translated from Ukrainskii Matematicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 44, No. 12, pp. 1695–1701, December, 1992.