Influence of the phase composition of the support on the catalytic activity of bimetallic catalysts

The influence of the nanocrystalline structure of an aluminum-zinc spinel support on the catalytic activity of bimetallic Pt-Sn catalysts in dehydrogenation of 2-methylbutane was studied. The formation of the spinel structure in solid-phase reactions of aluminum and zinc oxides was examined.     

Application of Colloidal Gold to Fluorophotometric Determination of Human IgG

A method for the determination of human immunoglobulin G(IgG) based on a colloidal gold label by fluorospectrophotometry was developed. The sandwich immunoreaction among goat-anti-human IgG, human IgG and goat-anti-human IgG labeled with colloidal gold nanoparticles was applied in this experiment. First, a sandwich immunocomplex was formed on the surface of 96 well clear polystyrene high bind stripwellTM microplate. After the formation of the sandwich immunocomplex, a solution was added to dissociate the immunocomplex at room temperature. Then the solution of each well was transferred into the corresponding test tube. Thirdly, the rhodamine B solution was injected into each test tube. The rhodamine B chloraurate was extracted into ether that was measured with a spectrofluorometer. The experimental results indicate that the fluorescence intensity increased with the increase of human IgG concentration. The fluorescence intensity of rhodamine B chloraurate at 570 nm was proportional to the logarithm of human IgG concentration in a range from 10 to 5×105 ng/mL. It was shown that the determination of human IgG was easily made with the proposed fluorospectrophotometry.     

A study of reversible gamma-induced structural transformations in vitreous Ge23.5Sb11.8S64.7 by high-resolution X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy

The structural origin of reversible gamma-induced effects in vitreous Ge(23.5)Sb(11.8)S(64.7) has been investigated by high-resolution X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). The changes in valence band spectrum from gamma-irradiation suggest a decrease of sulfur lone pair electron concentration accompanied by changes in bonding states of S and Ge. The appearance of additional doublets in the core-level XPS spectra of Ge, Sb, and S atoms for gamma-irradiated sample is described by the formation of over- and under-coordinated charged defect pairs (Ge(3)(-)-S(3)(+)) as a result of radiation treatment. The results verify the switching of Ge-S covalent bonds into S-S bonds as the main microstructural mechanism for gamma-induced optical effects in this glass.     

Self-assembly of extended polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons on Cu111

We present a low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy study on the self-assembly of extended polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons with different symmetries on the Cu111 surface. All molecules show a commensurate monolayer structure, with significant structural differences with respect to the unit cell of the molecular lattice and the orientational ordering. We find that the molecular lattice and the molecular orientation are largely dominated by molecule-substrate interactions, whereas molecule-molecule interactions determine the molecular packing density via steric repulsion. Moreover, we show that the structure of the monolayer is transferred to the second layer via molecule-molecule interaction.     

Phaseless Inverse Problems That Use Wave Interference

We consider the inverse problems for differential equations with complex-valued solutions in which the modulus of a solution to the direct problem on some special sets is a given information in order to determine coefficients of this equation; the phase of this solution is assumed unknown. Earlier, in similar problems the modulus of the part of a solution that corresponds to the field scattered on inhomogeneities in a wide range of frequencies was assumed given. The study of high-frequency asymptotics of this field allows us to extract from this information some geometric characteristics of an unknown coefficient (integrals over straight lines in the problems of recovering the potential and Riemannian distances between the boundary points in the problem of the refraction index recovering). But this is physically much more difficult to measure the modulus of a scattered field than that of the full field. In this connection the question arises how to state inverse problems with the full-field measurements as a useful information. The present article is devoted to the study of this question. We propose to take two plane waves moving in opposite directions as an initiating field and to measure the modulus of a full-field solution relating to interference of the incident waves. We consider also the problems of recovering the potential for the Schrödinger equation and the permittivity coefficient of the Maxwell system of equations corresponding to time-periodic electromagnetic oscillations. For these problems we establish uniqueness theorems for solutions. The problems are reduced to solving some well-known problems.     

Algebraic Method for Group Classification of (1+1)-Dimensional Linear Schrödinger Equations

In the present paper, we study the existence of solutions for some nonlocal problems involving the \(p(x)\)-Laplacian operator. The approach is based on a new sub-supersolution method.     

E-inversive semigroups with a completely simple kernel

We show that an E-inversive semigroup S has a completely simple kernel K_S if and only if it contains a primitive idempotent (in that case, K_S is the set-theoretic union of the groups eSe, where e is a primitive idempotent of S). Along the way, some equivalent conditions for a semigroup to be E-inversive are given. Moreover, some applications of the above theorem will be pointed out.     

On Countable-Dimensional Spaces with the Menger Property, Rational Dimension and a Question of S. D. Iliadis

 This paper deals with the class of spaces which are countable unions of zero-dimensional sets and with the larger class of Haver’s C-spaces. All spaces are assumed to be separable and metrizable. We are concerned with various aspects of universality of these classes when they are combined with the covering analogue for σ-compactness defined by Menger and the rational dimension introduced by Menger and N?beling. A solution of a problem of S. D. Iliadis [16] concerning universal spaces for rational dimension will result. Received 11 September 1998; in revised form 12 January 1999