pH-Sensitive Oscillatory Motion of a Urease Motor on the Urea Aqueous Phase

A self-propelled object coupled with an enzyme reaction between urease and urea was investigated at the air/aqueous interface. A plastic object that was fixed to a urease-immobilized filter paper was used as a self-propelled object, termed a urease motor, placed on an aqueous urea solution. The driving force of the urease motor is the difference in the surface tension around the object. Oscillatory motion or no motion was triggered depending on the initial pH of the urea solution. Both the frequency and maximum speed of the oscillatory motion varied depending on the initial pH of the water phase. The mechanisms underlying the oscillatory motion and no motion were discussed in relation to the bell-shaped enzyme activity of urease in the enzyme reaction and the surface tension around the urease motor.     

A generalized super AKNS hierarchy associated with orthosymplectic Lie superalgebra OSP(2,2) and its super bi-Hamiltonian structures

For the orthosymplectic Lie superalgebra $\text{◂⋅▸}OSP(2,2)$, we choose a set of basis matrices. A linear combination of those basis matrices presents a spatial spectral matrix. The compatible condition of the spatial part and the corresponding temporal parts of the spectral problem leads to a generalized super AKNS (GSAKNS) hierarchy. By making use of the supertrace identity, the obtained GSAKNS hierarchy can be written as the super bi-Hamiltonian structures.     

松木-聚氯乙烯复合材料催化热解特性的研究

通过热重法研究了松木与聚氯乙烯复合材料的催化热解特性,结果表明聚氯乙烯脱氯阶段与松木的纤维素、半纤维素热分解阶段温度区间重合,二者共热解时存在协同效应,并且HCl的释放对纤维素的脱水反应能够产生催化作用,HCl释放也对木质素的热分解及碳化反应有着明显的催化作用,导致二者共热解制备的碳化物产率提高,约为29.61%。并且利用元素分析仪、扫描电镜和能谱仪对成碳材料进行表征分析,结果表明成碳材料表面粗糙呈现多孔结构,其碳元素含量较高达到74.67%。     

Dynamic analysis of the double crank mechanism with a 3D translational clearance joint employing a variable stiffness contact force model

Nonlinear Dynamics - Oblique collisions are more likely to happen in the realistic translational joint with clearance, compared to the full front impacts. It can be a quite demanding task to...     

A New Radar-Signal Parameter for Recognition of Wind-Related Weather Hazards

Radiophysics and Quantum Electronics - Wind-related weather hazards remain difficult to recognize targets for weather radars. Methods that use estimates of the width of the reflected-signal...     

Optical Multisensor Systems in Analytical Spectroscopy

Journal of Analytical Chemistry - A review of works in developing optical multisensor systems, a new class of specialized spectroscopic analyzers, is presented. The development and use of such...     

Asymptotic Behavior of Least Energy Solutions for a Fractional Laplacian Eigenvalue Problem on ℝN

Acta Mathematica Sinica, English Series - We are interested in the existence and asymptotic behavior for the least energy solutions of the following fractional eigenvalue problem $$\left({\rm{P}}...