A density functional and Monte Carlo simulation study of end-grafted polymers immersed by simple fluids is presented. The polymer molecules are modeled as freely jointed tangent hard spheres with the end segments linked to the surface. The authors analyze an influence of the chain length, the grafting density, and a nature of solvent on the brush structure. Adsorption of hard-sphere mixtures on the modified surface is also discussed. The theory precisely approximates simulation data. 相似文献
Summary: A probability model, based on the “in‐out” recursive analysis, is developed for obtaining the average molecular weights of star polymers formed by connecting polydispersed primary chains onto a multifunctional coupling agent. The average properties and the polydispersity index of the formed star polymers can be described as a function of the reaction conversion and the average properties of the polydispersed primary chains without the knowledge of the whole distribution. The results indicate that, although PI of the resulting star polymers might increase at the intermediate conversion for the higher functionalities of the core molecules, the resulting star polymers generally have narrower molecular weight distributions at the complete conversion compared to the initial polydispersed polymer chains.
A schematic illustration of the star polymer formation. 相似文献
2-Methyl-3-butyn-2-ol (MBOH) transformation was used as a test reaction in order to determine the acid-base properties of
a SiO2/AlPO4 (80∶20 w/w) catalyst. Experiments were carried out in a microcatalytic pulse reactor and in a continuous-flow reactorvia Temperature Programmed Surface Reactions-Mass Spectrometry (TPSR-MS). Results are compared to acid-base properties calculated
by other instrumental techniques. 相似文献
A class of interconnection networks for efficient parallel MD simulations based on hamiltonian cubic symmetric graphs is presented.
The cubic symmetric graphs have many desirable properties as interconnection networks since they have a low degree and are
vertex- and edge-transitive. We present a method for scheduling collective communication routines that are used in parallel
MD and are based on the property that the graphs in question have a Hamilton cycle, that is, a cycle going through all vertices
of the graph. Analyzing these communication routines shows that hamiltonian cubic symmetric graphs of small diameter are good
candidates for a topology that gives rise to an interconnection network with excellent properties, allowing faster communication
and thus speeding up parallel MD simulation. 相似文献
Thermal evacuation of a surfactant template from pure siliceous MCM-41 and MCM-41 containing aluminium in hydrogen flow was
investigated. Micelle templated MCM-41 were prepared using hexadecyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB). The products of thermal
surfactant degradation outside and inside pores were identified at various temperatures using 13C solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, gas chromatography coupled with mass spectrometer (GC-MS) and
temperature programmed desorption coupled with mass spectrometer (TPD-MS). The GC-MS and 13C MAS NMR results obtained from this study provide an insight into the mechanism of surfactant transformation during MCM-41
synthesis on molecular level. 相似文献
By using a convex sequence Bor [H. Bor, A study on local properties of factored Fourier series, Nonlinear Anal. 57 (2004) 191-197] has obtained a result dealing with local properties of factored Fourier series for summability. In this paper, we have generalized that result for summability. Some new results have also been obtained. 相似文献
A separation method is reported for particle and biochemical analysis based on affinity interactions between particle surfaces under magnetic field. In this method, magnetic particles with immunoglobulin G (IgG) or streptavidin on the surface are flowed through a separation channel to form a deposition matrix for selectively capturing nonmagnetic analytes with protein A or biotin on the surface due to specific antigen (Ag)--antibody (Ab) interactions. This separation method was demonstrated using model reactions of IgG--protein A and streptavidin-biotin on particle surface. The features of this new separation method are (1) the deposited Ag-Ab complex can be examined and further analyzed under the microscope, (2) a kinetic study of complex binding is possible, and (3) the predeposited matrix can be formed selectively and changed easily. The detection limits were about 10(-11) g. The running time was less than 10 min. The selectivities of studied particles were 94% higher than those of label-controlled particles. This method extends the applications of analytical magnetapheresis to nonmagnetic particles. Preliminary study shows that this separation method has a great potential to provide a simple, fast, and selective analysis for particles, blood cells, and immunoassay related applications. 相似文献
beta-Carotene in vegetables and nutritional products is analyzed using solid-phase microextraction (SPME) coupled with liquid chromatography (LC) to improve the speed of analysis and to reduce the consumption of organic solvents. The relative standard deviations (RSDs) of this analytical method for beta-carotene determinations in vegetables and nutritional products are approximately 10% and 5%, respectively. The amount of beta-carotene was found to vary from 0.35 +/- 0.05 ppm to 76.5 +/- 6.9 ppm for several vegetables in Taiwan. This method was linear over the range of 0.4-40 ppm with correlation coefficients higher than 0.997. The experimentally determined level of beta-carotene in nutritional products varied from 3.8 +/- 0.2 ppm to 24.6 +/- 1.1 ppm following SPME-LC. The recoveries of beta-carotene for these measurements following SPME were all higher than 97% +/- 2% (n = 3). The detection limits of beta-carotene for this method were from 0.027 to 0.054 ppm. Conventional solvent extractions take approximately 4-6 h for extraction and reconcentration but SPME takes approximately 1 h. From several tens to hundreds of milliliters, organic solvents can be saved using SPME. SPME provides better analyses on beta-carotene than conventional solvent extraction for nutritional products in terms of speed, precision, simplicity, and solvent consumption. 相似文献
We report a new method of blood typing based on the agglutination of red blood cell (RBC) with serum-treated magnetic particles in analytical magnetapheresis. Blood typing of ABO was demonstrated. The agglutination patterns of RBCs are different for different blood types and can be used to determine the ABO blood typing in analytical magnetapheresis. Six samples can be tested in each run. The running time was less than 10 min. Magnetic particles were prepared in the laboratory. The amount of RBCs needed for the agglutination test was about 1.0 microl of adult blood. The blood typing of ABO was used to illustrate the capable applications of analytical magnetapheresis to nonmagnetic samples like cells without magnetic labels. Analytical magnetapheresis has a great potential for cell related analysis. 相似文献
We present several transformations that can be used to solve the quadratic two-parameter eigenvalue problem (QMEP), by formulating an associated linear multiparameter eigenvalue problem. Two of these transformations are generalizations of the well-known linearization of the quadratic eigenvalue problem and linearize the QMEP as a singular two-parameter eigenvalue problem. The third replaces all nonlinear terms by new variables and adds new equations for their relations. The QMEP is thus transformed into a nonsingular five-parameter eigenvalue problem. The advantage of these transformations is that they enable one to solve the QMEP using existing numerical methods for multiparameter eigenvalue problems. We also consider several special cases of the QMEP, where some matrix coefficients are zero 相似文献