Microtribological and electrochemical corrosion behaviors of polydopamine coating on APTS-SAM modified Si substrate

A polydopamine coating (coded as PDAc) was prepared successfully on a Si substrate through a two-step process. Briefly, to improve the adhesion of PDAc on the Si substrate, a self-assembled monolayer of 3-aminopropyl triethoxysilane (coded as APTS-SAM) was firstly generated on the bare Si wafer. Thereafter, the PDAc with different thickness was fabricated through the chemical adsorption and autopolymerization of the dopamine hydrochloride on the APTS-SAM coated Si substrate. The formation of PDAc on the APTS-SAM modified Si substrate was proved by the characterizations of contact angle measurement, attenuated total reflectance Fourier transform infrared (ATR-FTIR) analysis, and X-ray photoelectron spectroscope (XPS), etc. The ellipsometric thickness measurement and atomic force microscopy (AFM) image analysis showed that the PDAc became thicker and rougher with the deposition time prolongation. Microtribological study showed that the thickness and roughness of the PDAc played a significant role in the tribological properties. In comparison with the bare Si substrate, the PDAc with thinner thickness possessed lower friction and was anticipated to be used as protecting coating in the field of boundary lubrication. The electrochemical corrosion behaviors of the prepared PDAc were investigated using the electrochemical station and a low corrosion current density was revealed, implying that the PDAc had good anti-corrosion capability and might find potential applications in the field of corrosion resistance.     

铒镱共掺微环谐振器的放大特性分析

对铒镱共掺微环谐振器的放大特性进行了理论分析,给出了器件的传递函数和功率增益的公式.在抽运光波长为0.98 μm、信号光中心工作波长为1.55μm的情况下,分析了抽运光功率、信号光功率、铒镱掺杂浓度、微环与信道间的振幅耦合比率对放大器放大特性的影响,给出了上下信道的传输光谱,并对其结构进行了优化设计.模拟结果表明,与同等长度的直条形铒镱共掺波导放大器相比,该器件町获得更高的信号光增益,选取Ppo=8 mW,Pso=36.5μw,NEr=1×1026m-3,NYb=3×1027m-3时,该器件可容易地获得11.6 dB以上共至高达60 dB的信号光功率增益.这种强放大功能的铒镱共掺微环谐振型放大器,将更有利于器件在尺寸上的小型化、集成化.     

激光偏振性对亚心形扁藻生物效应的影响

实验研究了偏振与非偏振激光对亚心形扁藻的促长作用、叶绿素含量以及色素粗提物吸收光谱等生物学效应的影响.采用488 nm,70 mW输出功率的氩激光,辐照哑心形扁藻,隔天取样进行细胞计数,培养至第6天提取叶绿素,测量叶绿素含量并扫描叶绿素的吸收光谱.实验结果表明,偏振激光与非偏振激光辐照对藻细胞密度、生长速率的促长作用区别不显著;偏振性与否对叶绿素含量的累积没有明显的区别;激光偏振性对色素粗提物的吸收光谱没有影响.激光偏振性与否均可对亚心形扁藻的生物效应产生有效的作用,激光偏振性与激光生物效应关系的研究有待于进一步深入.     

Finite-size effects in a D-dimensional ideal Fermi gas

By using the Euler-MacLaurin formula,this paper studies the thermodynamic properties of an ideal Fermi gas confined in a D-dimensional rectangular container.The general expressions of the thermodynamic quantities with the finite-size corrections are given explicitly and the effects of the size and shape of the container on the properties of the system are discussed.It is shown that the corrections of the thermodynamic quantities due to the finite-size effects are significant to be considered for the case of strong degeneracy but negligible for the case of weak degeneracy or non-degeneracy.It is important to find that some familiar conclusions under the thermodynamic limit are no longer valid for the finite-size systems and there are some novel characteristics resulting from the finite-size effects,such as the nonextensivity of the system,the anisotropy of the pressure,and so on.     

Synthesis and physicochemical characterization of two gadolinium(III) TTDA-like complexes and their interaction with human serum albumin

Two novel derivatives of TTDA (3,6,10-tri(carboxymethyl)-3,6,10-triazadodecanedioic acid), TTDA-BOM and TTDA-N'-BOM, each having a benzyloxymethyl group, were synthesized. (17)O NMR longitudinal and transverse relaxation rates and chemical shifts of aqueous solutions of their Gd(III) complexes were measured at variable temperature with a magnetic field strength of 9.4 T. The water exchange rate (k(ex)(298)) values for [Gd(TTDA-BOM)(H(2)O)](2-) (117 x 10(6) s(-1)) and [Gd(TTDA-N'-BOM)(H(2)O)](2-) (131 x 10(6) s(-1)) are significantly higher than those of [Gd(DTPA)(H(2)O)](2-) (4.1 x 10(6) s(-1)) and [Gd(BOPTA)(H(2)O)](2-) (3.45 x 10(6) s(-1)). The rotational correlation time (tau) values for [Gd(TTDA-BOM)(H(2)O)](2-) (119 ps) and [Gd(TTDA-N'-BOM)(H(2)O)](2-) (125 ps) are higher than those of [Gd(DTPA)(H(2)O)](2-) (103 ps) and [Gd(TTDA)(H(2)O)](2-) (104 ps). The stepwise stoichiometric binding constants of [Gd(TTDA-BOM)(H(2)O)](2)(-) and [Gd(TTDA-N'-BOM)(H(2)O)](2)(-) bound to HSA are obtained by ultrafiltration studies. Fluorescent probe displacement studies exhibit that [Gd(TTDA-BOM)(H(2)O)](2-) and [Gd(TTDA-N'-BOM)(H(2)O)](2-) can displace dansylsarcosine from HSA with inhibition constants (K(i)) of 1900 and 1600 microM, respectively; however, they are not able to displace warfarin. These results indicate that [Gd(TTDA-BOM)(H(2)O)](2-) and [Gd(TTDA-N'-BOM)(H(2)O)](2-) have a weak binding to site II on HSA. In addition, the mean bound relaxivity (r(1b)) and bound relaxivity (r(1)(b)) values for the [Gd(TTDA-BOM)(H(2)O)](2-)/HSA and [Gd(TTDA-N'-BOM)(H(2)O)](2-)/HSA adducts are obtained by ultrafiltration and relaxivity studies, respectively. The bound relaxivity of these adducts values are significantly higher than those of [Gd(BOPTA)(H(2)O)](2-)/HSA and [Gd(DTPA-BOM(3))(H(2)O)](2-)/HSA. These results also suggest that bound relaxivity is site dependent. In binding sites studies of Gd(III) chelates to HSA, a significant decrease of the relaxation rates (R(1obs)) was observed for the [Eu(TTDA-BOM)(H(2)O)](2-) complex which was added to the [Gd(TTDA-N'-BOM)(H(2)O)](2-)/HSA solution, and this indicated that these Gd(III) complexes share the same HSA binding site. Finally, as measured by the Zn(II) transmetalation process, the kinetic stability of these Gd(III) complexes are significantly higher than that of [Gd(DTPA-BMA)(H(2)O)].     

A modulation invariant Carleson embedding theorem outside local <Emphasis Type="Italic">L</Emphasis><Subscript>2</Subscript>

Yen Do and Christoph Thiele developed a theory of Carleson embeddings in outer L_p spaces for the wave packet transform

$${F_\phi }(f)(u,t,\eta ) = \int {f(x){e^{i\eta (u - x)}}\phi \left( {\frac{{u - x}}{t}} \right)} \frac{{dx}}{t},(u,t,\eta ) \in R \times (0,\infty ) \times R$$

of functions f ∈ L_p(R) in the range 2 ≤ p ≤ ∞, referred to as local L². In this article, we formulate a suitable extension of this theory to exponents 1 < p < 2, answering a question posed by Do and Thiele. The proof of our main embedding theorem involves a refined multi-frequency Calderón-Zygmund decomposition in the vein of work by Di Plinio and Thiele and by Nazarov, Oberlin, and Thiele. We apply our embedding theorem to recover the full known range of L^p estimates for the bilinear Hilbert transforms without reducing to discrete model sums or appealing to generalized restricted weak-type interpolation.

     

A new derivative-free SCG-type projection method for nonlinear monotone equations with convex constraints

Based on a modified line search scheme, this paper presents a new derivative-free projection method for solving nonlinear monotone equations with convex constraints, which can be regarded as an extension of the scaled conjugate gradient method and the projection method. Under appropriate conditions, the global convergence and linear convergence rate of the proposed method is proven. Preliminary numerical results are also reported to show that this method is promising.     

氢化物发生-原子荧光法测定高温合金中痕量铋的测量不确定度评定

介绍氢化物发生–原子荧光光谱法(HG–AFS)测定高温合金中痕量铋(Bi)的不确定度评定方法,建立了数学模型,分析了测量过程中不确定度的来源,并对不确定度分量进行了量化。当高温合金中铋含量为0.00016%时,扩展不确定度为0.00002%(k=2)。     

Precursor‐involved and Conversion Rate‐controlled Self‐assembly of a 'Super Gelator' in Thixotropic Hydrogels for Drug Delivery

Enzymatic hydrogelation is a totally different process to the heating‐cooling gelation process, in which the precursors of the gelators can be involved during the formation of self‐assembled structures. Using thixotropic hydrogels formed by a super gelator as our studied system, we demonstrated that the enzyme concentration/conversion rate of enzymatic reaction had a strong influence on the morphology of resulting self‐assembled nanostructures and the property of resulting hydrogels. The principle demonstrated in this study not only helps to understand and elucidate the phenomenon of self‐assembly triggered by enzymes in biological systems, but also offers a unique methodology to control the morphology of self‐assembled structures for specific applications such as controlled drug release.