Identifying factors controlling the selective ethane dehydrogenation on Pt-based catalysts from DFT based micro-kinetic modeling

Light olefins such as ethylene and propylene are important industrial feedstocks, having essential applications in the production of plastics, ethylbenzene, and...     

Chain transfer reactions in emulsion polymerization of butadiene/styrene

Calculation of regulating index r from M̄_W values determined by experiments is proposed. The calculation is based on the assumption that the M̄_W values only depend on the conversion and the regulating index in emulsion polymerization. On this basis the calculation of regulator concentration in the latex particles was also possible. M̄_W values calculated in this way and experimental M̄_W values show good agreement.     

Variational symmetries and Lagrangian multiforms

Letters in Mathematical Physics - By considering the closure property of a Lagrangian multiform as a conservation law, we use Noether’s theorem to show that every variational symmetry of a...     

PVCH-PE-PVCH三嵌段共聚物在超临界CO2中的熔融再结晶行为

本研究组在前期研究中发现, 改变溶剂的挥发速率可以调节体系中PE结晶和PVCH玻璃化之间的竞争, 进而调节PE结晶的受限程度. 超临界二氧化碳(scCO2)是一种非极性溶剂, 其对无定形聚合物(如PS)有很强的溶胀作用, 可显著降低聚合物的玻璃化转变温度, 提高原来被冻结的高分子链的活动能力. PVCH的分子结构与PS相似, 研究结果表明, scCO2对PVCH组分也有很强的溶胀能力, 导致PVCH的玻璃化转变温度降低, 从而可以改变PE嵌段的受限状态. 本文研究了PVCH-PE-PVCH在scCO2中的熔融再结晶行为.     

Seawater—A test of multicomponent electrolyte solution theories. I. The apparent equivalent volume,expansibility, and compressibility of artificial seawater

The apparent equivalent volume _V, expansibility _E, and compressibility _K of an artificial seawater solution containing10 ionic components (Na⁺, Mg²⁺, Ca²⁺, K⁺, Sr²⁺, Cl^–, SO ₄ ^2– , HCO ₃ ^– , Br^–, and F^–) and one nonionic component (H₃BO₃) has been determined from0 to40°C (in5° intervals) and from0.1 to0.8 m ionic strength at1 atm. The concentration dependence (I_v=volume ionic strength) of the _V's, _E's, and _K's have been examined by using a Masson-type equation, = ^° +S'I _V ^1/2, and a Redlich-type equation, = ^° +SI _V ^1/2 +BI _V, where ^° is the infinite-dilution value, S is the empirical Masson slope, S is the theoretical Debye-Hückel slope, and B is an empirical deviation constant. By using Young's rule, = E_i(i), the apparent equivalent volumes, expansibilities, and compressibilities for sea salt have been estimated from the ionic and nonionic components making up the mixture. The estimated apparent molal quantities agree very well with the directly measured values providing the concentration terms, S _i and B_i, are weighted according to the methods of Wood and Reilly.Contribution Number 1599 from the University of Miami.     

Magnetic microsphere-based methods to study the interaction of teicoplanin with peptides and bacteria

Teicoplanin (teic) from Actinoplanes teichomyceticus is a glycopeptide antibiotic used to treat many Gram-positive bacterial infections. Glycopeptide antibiotics inhibit bacterial growth by binding to carboxy-terminal d-Ala-d-Ala intermediates in the peptidoglycan of the cell wall of Gram-positive bacteria. In this paper we report the derivatization of magnetic microspheres with teic (teic-microspheres). Fluorescence-based techniques have been developed to analyze the binding properties of the microspheres to two d-Ala-d-Ala terminus peptides. The dissociation constant for the binding of carboxyfluorescein-labeled d-Ala-d-Ala-d-Ala to teic on microspheres was established via fluorimetry and flow cytometry and was determined to be 0.5 × 10⁻⁶ and 3.0 × 10⁻⁶ mol L⁻¹, respectively. The feasibility of utilizing microparticles with fluorescence methods to detect low levels (the limit of bacterial detection was determined to be 30 colon-forming units; cfu) of Gram-positive bacteria has been demonstrated. A simple microfluidic experiment is reported to demonstrate the possibility of developing microsphere-based affinity assays to study peptide–antibiotic interaction.