Determination and quantification of active phenolic compounds in pigeon pea leaves and its medicinal product using liquid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry

A novel method using liquid chromatography coupled to electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (LC-ESI-MS) has been optimized and established for the qualitative and quantitative analysis of ten active phenolic compounds originating from the pigeon pea leaves and a medicinal product thereof (Tongluo Shenggu capsules). In the present study, the chromatographic separation was achieved by means of a HiQ Sil C18V reversed-phase column with a mobile phase consisting of methanol and 0.1% formic acid aqueous solution. Low-energy collision-induced dissociation tandem mass spectrometry (CID-MS/MS) using the selected reaction monitoring (SRM) analysis was employed for the detection of ten analytes which included six flavonoids, two isoflavonoids and two stilbenes. All calibration curves showed excellent coefficients of determination (r(2) ≥ 0.9937) within the range of tested concentrations. The intra- and inter-day variations were below 5.36% in terms of relative standard deviation (RSD). The recoveries were 95.08-104.98% with RSDs of 2.06-4.26% for spiked samples of pigeon pea leaves. The method developed was a rapid, efficient and accurate LC-MS/MS method for the detection of phenolic compounds, which can be applied for quality control of pigeon pea leaves and related medicinal products.     

在氧化铈表面掺铝以显著提高其抛光光学玻璃的抛蚀量

将水合碳酸铈与硝酸铝和氨水共同进行机械球磨,使新形成的无定型氢氧化铝包覆在细小的碳酸铈颗粒表面,经脱水干燥和煅烧,以制备出表面掺杂有氧化铝的氧化铈。结果表明:球磨中间产物仍然以水合碳酸铈为主,氢氧化铝的形成阻碍了碳酸铈的无定型化和向氢氧化铈的转化过程。在氧化铝掺杂量不超过10%的条件下,煅烧产物均具有立方萤石型结构。所有掺杂铝的氧化铈粉体对ZF7和K9光学玻璃的抛光速率均比纯氧化铈的有很大提高,证明铝的掺杂能够大大提高氧化铈的抛光性能。其最佳掺杂量为0.6%,煅烧条件为在1000℃下煅烧2 h。此时的MRR值为纯氧化铈的两倍以上。     

NdFeB材料微波吸收特性的研究

采用高能球磨和晶化热处理方法制备钕铁硼吸波粉体,研究制备工艺对钕铁硼粉体吸波性能的影响。结果发现:高能球磨和适当晶化热处理可改善NdFeB粉体的组织结构、复介电常数和复磁导率;NdFeB粉体的反射率最小值为-15.5 dB,高能球磨48 h后粉体的反射率最小值降到-23 dB,高能球磨粉体经600℃晶化热处理后反射率最小值为-19 dB;高能球磨和晶化热处理可降低NdFeB粉体的吸收峰频率;高能球磨会使NdFeB粉体的吸波带宽变窄,经600℃晶化热处理后吸波带宽变宽,并且随着晶化热处理的温度升高,吸波带宽变得更宽。     

微流控芯片在表面等离子体共振生物传感器中的应用

作为众所周知的生物传感器技术,表面等离子体共振（SurfacePlasmonResonance,SPR）正在被越来越普遍地用于实现各种生物化学检测方法,特别是用途广泛的固相表面生物检测（Sol—id—PhaseBioassay）。SPR对样品进行非标记检测,能够用于测量生物化学反应全过程的反应动力学。为了提高SPR的检测效率,通常将微流控技术（Microfluidics）与SPR相结合,即在SPR生物传感器中使用微流控芯片（MicrofluidicChip）作为反应装置。基于微型化带来的优势,使用微流控芯片作为反应装置可以有效地缩短生物化学检测方法的反应时间,并减少样品消耗。微流控芯片还可以平行排布相同的结构单元,提高SPR生物传感器的检测通量。因此,使用微流控芯片作为反应装置是SPR生物传感器,特别是商品化的SPR生物传感器的发展趋势。     

Combination synchronization of three classic chaotic systems using active backstepping design

In this paper, an active backstepping design is proposed to achieve combination synchronization between three different chaotic systems: Lorenz system, Chen's system, and Lu? system. The proposed method is a systematic design approach and consists in a recursive procedure that interlaces the choice of a Lyapunov function with the design of active control. Numerical simulations are shown to verify the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed control technique.     

GPU accelerated CESE method for 1D shock tube problems

In the present study, a GPU accelerated 1D space–time CESE method is developed and applied to shock tube problems with and without condensation. We have demonstrated how to implement the CESE algorithm to solve 1D shock tube problems using an older generation GPU (the NVIDIA 9800 GT) with relatively limited memory. To optimize the code performance, we used Shared Memory and solved the inter-Block boundary problem in two ways, namely the branch scheme and the overlapping scheme. The implementations of these schemes are discussed in detail and their performances are compared for the Sod shock tube problems. For the Sod problem without condensation, the speedup over an Intel CPU E7300 is 23 for the branch scheme and 41 for the overlapping scheme, respectively. While for problems with condensation, both schemes achieve higher acceleration ratios, 53 and 71, respectively. The higher speedup of the condensation case can be ascribed to the source term calculation which has a local dependence on the mesh point and the SOURCE kernel has a higher acceleration ratio.     

The multi-dimensional limiters for solving hyperbolic conservation laws on unstructured grids

Novel limiters based on the weighted average procedure are developed for finite volume methods solving multi-dimensional hyperbolic conservation laws on unstructured grids. The development of these limiters is inspired by the biased averaging procedure of Choi and Liu [10]. The remarkable features of the present limiters are the new biased functions and the weighted average procedure, which enable the present limiter to capture strong shock waves and achieve excellent convergence for steady state computations. The mechanism of the developed limiters for eliminating spurious oscillations in the vicinity of discontinuities is revealed by studying the asymptotic behavior of the limiters. Numerical experiments for a variety of test cases are presented to demonstrate the superior performance of the proposed limiters.     

Efficient anti-stokes signal generation through degenerate four wave mixing in an all solid photonic bandgap fiber

We reported the generation of visible red light through degenerate four wave mixing (FWM) in an all solid photonic bandgap fiber (PBGF), which was achieved by pumping the fiber with a 800 nm Ti:sapphire-based femtosecond pulse laser. At a fiber length of 30 m, a broadband anti-Stokes spectrum range from 620 nm to 740 nm was obtained at the highest pump power, the spectrum evolution as a function of pump power and propagation distance had been measured. Furthermore, the intensity-dependent parametric gain characteristic is also calculated, which accords well with the experimental results.     

Quantum steganography with large payload based on entanglement swapping of χ-type entangled states

In this paper, we firstly propose a new simple method to calculate entanglement swapping of χ-type entangled states, and then present a novel quantum steganography protocol with large payload. The new protocol adopts entanglement swapping to build up the hidden channel within quantum secure direct communication with χ-type entangled states for securely transmitting secret messages. Comparing with the previous quantum steganographies, the capacity of the hidden channel is much higher, which is increased to eight bits. Meanwhile, due to the quantum uncertainty theorem and the no-cloning theorem its imperceptibility is proved to be great in the analysis, and its security is also analyzed in detail, which is proved that intercept-resend attack, measurement-resend attack, ancilla attack, man-in-the-middle attack or even Dos(Denial of Service) attack couldn't threaten it. As a result, the protocol can be applied in various fields of quantum communication.     

New arbitrated quantum signature of classical messages against collective amplitude damping noise

Recently, Chong et al. [Opt. Comm. 284, (2011) 893-895] pointed out that a dishonest party in Yang and Wen's arbitrated quantum signature scheme [Opt. Comm. 283, (2010) 3198-3201] is able to reveal the other party's secret key without being detected by using the Trojan-horse attacks. However, the solution to avoid the attack still remains open. This work further points out that in Yang and Wen's scheme, the arbitrator is unable to arbitrate the dispute between two users. Consequently, a user can deny that he/she has signed or verified a signature without performing a Trojan-horse attack. A solution is proposed to solve this problem as well as the open problem mentioned earlier.