Studies on the photooxidation mechanism of polymers. II. The role of quinones as sensitizers in the photooxidative degradation of polystyrene

During the quinone-sensitized photooxidative degradation of polystyrene film and its solution in benzene, an initial rapid decrease of average molecular weight has been observed by GPC and viscosity measurements. The reaction rates are strongly increased by quinones such as p-quinone, duroquinone, anthraquinone, and chloranil. It has been suggested that this photosensitized degradation of polystyrene occurs by a singlet oxygen reaction which might be related to an energy transfer mechanism from excited triplet states of quinones to molecular oxygen. The photooxidative degradation of polystyrene in solution can be diminished by addition of typical singlet oxygen quenchers such as 1,3-cyclohexadiene or β-carotene.     

Protein adsorption on supported phospholipid bilayers

Quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation (QCM-D) measurements were used to investigate the adsorption of human fibrinogen, human serum albumin, bovine hemoglobin, horse heart cytochrome c, human immunoglobulin (hIgG), and 10% fetal bovine serum on supported bilayers of egg-phosphatidylcholine (eggPC) lipids. For comparison the adsorption of fibrinogen and hIgG to eggPC bilayers was also studied with surface plasmon resonance (SPR). The supported bilayers were formed in situ by vesicle adhesion and spontaneous fusion onto a SiO(2) surface. The supported lipid bilayer is highly protein resistant: The irreversible adsorption measured with the QCM-D technique was below the detection level, while reversible protein adsorption was detected for all the proteins in the range 0.3-4% of the saturation coverage on a hydrophobic thiol monolayer on gold. The adsorbed amounts were slightly higher for the SPR measurements. Possible mechanisms for the protein resistance of eggPC bilayers are briefly discussed.     

Properties of theρ-meson in dense nuclear matter

The properties of-mesons in dense nuclear matter are studied in a model which satisfies unitarity and current conservation. The important coupling of the-meson to two pions as well as the strong mixing of pions and delta-nucleon-hole states in nuclear matter are included. The-meson self energy in nuclear matter is evaluated with in-medium pion propagators and the corresponding vertex corrections required by current conservation. We find that the-meson width grows drastically with increasing density while its mass remains almost unchanged.     

Stability and accuracy of time-extrapolated ADI-FDTD methods for solving wave equations

Some recent work on the ADI-FDTD method for solving Maxwell's equations in 3-D have brought out the importance of extrapolation methods for the time stepping of wave equations. Such extrapolation methods have previously been used for the solution of ODEs. The present context (of wave equations) brings up two main questions which have not been addressed previously: (1) when will extrapolation in time of an unconditionally stable scheme for a wave equation again feature unconditional stability, and (2) how will the accuracy and computational efficiency depend on how frequently in time the extrapolations are carried out. We analyze these issues here.     

Parallel searching on m rays

We investigate parallel searching on m concurrent rays. We assume that a target t is located somewhere on one of the rays; we are given a group of m point robots each of which has to reach t. Furthermore, we assume that the robots have no way of communicating over distance. Given a strategy S we are interested in the competitive ratio defined as the ratio of the time needed by the robots to reach t using S and the time needed to reach t if the location of t is known in advance.

If a lower bound on the distance to the target is known, then there is a simple strategy which achieves a competitive ratio of 9—independent of m. We show that 9 is a lower bound on the competitive ratio for two large classes of strategies if m2.

If the minimum distance to the target is not known in advance, we show a lower bound on the competitive ratio of 1+2(k+1)^k+1/k^k where k=logm where log is used to denote the base-2 logarithm. We also give a strategy that obtains this ratio.     

A 1:1 complex between a hydroxyl radical and ozone

A hydrogen bonded complex between a hydroxyl radical and ozone has been found in argon matrices at 9 K. The shift of the OH stretch (-12.6 cm-1) indicates that this complex is somewhat weaker than the OH-CO complex (-21.8 cm-1, D0相似文献   

Enhanced adsorption of alkyl glucosides on the silica/water interface by addition of amine oxides

The effect of adding a small amount of dodecyl dimethylamine oxide (DDAO) on adsorption on silica from an aqueous solution of dodecyl maltoside (C12G2) has been investigated. The C12G2 itself does not adsorb significantly on silica at any concentration. DDAO on the other hand readily adsorbs in a bilayer-like structure at concentrations approaching the critical micelle concentration (cmc), but the adsorbed amount at the concentrations it has been applied in these mixtures is small. In contrast, by combination of the two surfactants, significant adsorption is observed at concentrations where the adsorption of the pure DDAO, as well as pure C12G2, is very low. We thus see a strong enhancement of the adsorption from the mixed system. The adsorption is suggested to be a two-step process, where individual DDAO molecules first adsorb to the silica surface through electrostatic interactions, and then C12G2 adsorbs at the hydrophobic sites the DDAO tails constitute through hydrophobic bonding. A minimum concentration of DDAO is required to induce adsorption from a solution with constant C12G2 concentration. This concentration is lower for C12G2 solutions below and equal to cmcC12G2 than above cmcC12G2. In addition, the total adsorbed amount shows a maximum around cmcC12G2 of the mixture for a solution with low DDAO contents. Both these effects are explained by incorporation of DDAO in the mixed micelles above cmc(mix), which leads to a desorption of DDAO from the surface.