Insertion of cations into WO<Subscript>3</Subscript> investigated by QCM techniques

The electrochemical insertion of Li⁺, Na⁺, and hydrogen ions into thin layers of WO₃ was investigated with the help of an electrochemical quartz crystal microbalance. Solutions of perchlorates in propylene carbonate were used as electrolytes, and the first cycle of coloration/discoloration cycles was studied. In both cases, insertion of cations was accompanied by a massive and partly irreversible uptake of the solvent in a molar ratio from 1:1 to 1:2 (ion vs solvent). The insertion of Na was observed for the first time. Molecules of water coinserted with H⁺ indicated that the inserted species is H₃O⁺ rather than merely a proton H⁺. Very small but observable insertion of Mg²⁺ from perchlorate/PC solution proceeded in a marginal but observable extent from ClO₄ ^-/PC solution.     

Reaction and transport effects in the heterogeneous systems for lean gas purification

Sorption of hydrogen chloride gas by active soda and that of hydrogen sulfide gas by calcium oxide are explored by experiment as promising means of removing these detrimental contaminants from fuel gas: active Na₂CO₃ was prepared by the calcination of commercial NaHCO₃ at 200 °C; reactive CaO was formed by decomposing a fine-grained, high-calcium limestone at 830 °C. Techniques with a differential reactor were employed to explore the rate of reaction of HCl with Na₂CO₃ at 500 °C and that of H₂S with CaO at 800 °C. Time-resolved data on the sorbents’ conversion were collected as a function of mean particle size in the range between 0.285 and 1.12 mm. The surface reaction constants, deduced via the tractable model from the initial reaction rates of the two reactions, slightly increase with the increasing particle size. The proposed correlations enable to interpolate or cautiously extrapolate to other isotropic, irregularly shaped solids. The effective diffusivities educed by means of the model from the experimental curves decrease significantly with the increasing conversion and are affected by the particle size in both sorptions. The developed reaction rate equations can conveniently be applied to the design and simulation of the deep dechloridization and the bulk desulfurization of hot producer gas.     

Microstructure and properties of polyhydroxybutyrate-calcium phosphate cement composites

The biopolymer (polyhydroxybutyrate) microparticles-calcium phosphate composites were prepared by mechanical mixing of the basic composite components with the addition of hardening liquid after ethanol-composite mixture suspension moulding. The composite microstructures were more compact than the pure cement samples as confirmed by the lower values of specific areas and mesopore volumes. Both the specific areas and mesopore volumes decreased with soaking time in a simulated body fluid. The low polyhydroxybutyrate degradation in composites was found after soaking in simulated body fluid, which was terminated after one week. The formation of a dense apatite layer bonded directly to the surface of polyhydroxybutyrate microparticles was observed. The highest diametral tensile strength (13 MPa) and compressive strength (95 MPa) values of up to 50 % higher than in pure cement were measured in samples with 10 % of polyhydroxybutyrate. The addition of polyhydroxybutyrate microparticles had no effect on the setting time.     

The Molecular and Crystal Structures of 2-Iodokojic Acid: Experimental and Theoretical Determination

Abstract  

The crystal structure of 2-iodokojic acid, (2-jodo-3-hydroxy-6-hydroxymethyl)-4-H-pyran-4-one) (C₆H₅IO₄, Mr = 268.00) has been determined by single crystal X-ray diffraction analysis. The compound crystallizes in the orthorhombic crystal system with space group Pc2₁b and unit cell parameters: a = 4.0830(2), b = 15.3510(5), c = 23.517(1) ? and Z = 8. The final reliability index is 0.0288 for 2,584 observed reflections. The two molecules of iodokojic acid, slightly differing in their molecular structure, are localized in independent part of unit cell. The crystal packing is stabilized by O–H···O hydrogen bonds and I···O intermolecular interactions. The molecular structure of iodokojic acid determined experimentally little differs from that obtained by the applied theoretical (Hartree–Fock and four versions of DFT) methods, the differences should not be taken as a measure of the reliability of the theoretical methods.     

Perfect residuated lattice ordered monoids

Bounded Rℓ-monoids form a large subclass of the class of residuated lattices which contains certain of algebras of fuzzy and intuitionistic logics, such as GMV-algebras (= pseudo-MV-algebras), pseudo-BL-algebras and Heyting algebras. Moreover, GMV-algebras and pseudo-BL-algebras can be recognized as special kinds of pseudo-MV-effect algebras and pseudo-weak MV-effect algebras, i.e., as algebras of some quantum logics. In the paper, bipartite, local and perfect Rℓ-monoids are investigated and it is shown that every good perfect Rℓ-monoid has a state (= an analogue of probability measure).     

Commuting Linear Operators and Decompositions; Applications to Einstein Manifolds

For linear operators which factor P=P ₀ P ₁ ??? P _? , with suitable assumptions concerning commutativity of the factors, we introduce several notions of a decomposition. When any of these hold then questions of null space and range are subordinated to the same questions for the factors, or certain compositions thereof. When the operators P _i are polynomial in other commuting operators \(\mathcal{D}_{1},\ldots,\mathcal{D}_{k}\) then we show that, in a suitable sense, generically factorisations algebraically yield decompositions. In the case of operators on a vector space over an algebraically closed field this boils down to elementary algebraic geometry arising from the polynomial formula for P. The results and formulae are independent of the \(\mathcal{D}_{j}\) and so the theory provides a route to studying the solution space and the inhomogenous problem Pu=f without any attempt to “diagonalise” the \(\mathcal{D}_{j}\). Applications include the construction of fundamental solutions (or “Greens functions”) for PDE; analysis of the symmetry algebra for PDE; direct decompositions of Lie group representations into Casimir generalised eigenspaces and related decompositions of vector bundle section spaces on suitable geometries. Operators P polynomial in a single other operator \(\mathcal{D}\) form the simplest case of the general development and here we give universal formulae for the projectors administering the decomposition. As a concrete geometric application, on Einstein manifolds we describe the direct decomposition of the solution space and the general inhomogeneous problem for the conformal Laplacian operators of Graham-Jenne-Mason-Sparling.     

Asymptotics of Stationary Navier Stokes Equations in Higher Dimensions

We show that the asymptotics of solutions to stationary Navier Stokes equations in 4, 5 or 6 dimensions in the whole space with a smooth compactly supported forcing are given by the linear Stokes equation. We do not need to assume any smallness condition. The result is in contrast to three dimensions, where the asymptotics for steady states are different from the linear Stokes equation, even for small data, while the large data case presents an open problem. The case of dimension n = 2 is still harder.     

Preparation of <Superscript>95m</Superscript>Tc radiotracer

Several procedures for preparation of the ^95mTc radiotracer following irradiation of a thin Mo target with deuterons were tested. The procedures consisting of alkaline-oxidative fusion of the irradiated target in a mixture of Na₂O₂ + NaOH and subsequent liquid–liquid extraction with 2-butanone, and acid decomposition of the target in a mixture of H₂SO₄ + HNO₃ followed by extraction chromatography with PAN-Aliquat 336 composite material appeared suitable for the given purpose.     

Local bounded commutative residuated ℓ-monoids

Bounded commutative residuated lattice ordered monoids (Rℓ-monoids) are a common generalization of, e.g., BL-algebras and Heyting algebras. In the paper, the properties of local and perfect bounded commutative Rℓ-monoids are investigated.