A deuterium-palladium electrode as a new sensor in non-aqueous solutions: potentiometric titration of weak acids in acetonitrile and benzonitrile

A deuterium-palladium electrode was employed as a new indicator electrode for the titration of weak acids in acetonitrile and benzonitrile. The investigated electrode showed a linear dynamic response for p-toluenesulfonic acid in the concentration range from 0.001 M to 0.1 M with a Nernstian slope of 48 mV in acetonitrile. Sodium methylate, potassium hydroxide and tetrabutylammonium hydroxide proved to be very suitable titrating agents for these titrations. The response time was less than 10-11 s and the lifetime of the electrode was limitless. Advantages of the electrode are: long-term stability, fast response, reproducibility, easy preparation and low cost.     

Fabrication of Bienzymatic Glucose Biosensor Based on Novel Gold Nanoparticles‐Bacteria Cellulose Nanofibers Nanocomposite

An exploration of gold nanoparticles–bacterial cellulose nanofibers (Au‐BC) nanocomposite as a platform for amperometric determination of glucose is presented. Two enzymes, glucose oxidase (GOx) and horseradish peroxidase (HRP) were immobilized in Au‐BC nanocomposite modified glassy carbon electrode at the same time. A sensitive and fast amperometric response to glucose was observed in the presence of electron mediator (HQ). Both of GOx and HRP kept their biocatalytic activities very well in Au‐BC nanocomposite. The detection limit for glucose in optimized conditions was as low as 2.3 µM with a linear range from 10 µM to 400 µM. The biosensor was successfully applied to the determination of glucose in human blood samples.     

Preparation and properties of PU/MCMMT nanocomposites

The cetyltrimethyl ammonium bromide (CTAB) was used as a swelling agent to be intercalated into the galleries of the montmorillonite (MMT) platelets to get the organic MMT (CMMT). Then 4,4′‐diphenylmethane diisocyanate (MDI) were grafted on CMMT by the reaction between hydroxyls in organic MMT platelets and MDI to synthesize the MDI modified CMMT (MCMMT). Polyurethane (PU)/MCMMT composites were prepared by situ polymerization. The MCMMT platelets dispersed in a PU matrix in nanometer scale. The dispersion and intercalation degree of the MCMMT platelets decreased with increase in the content of MCMMT. Under the same content of fillers, the tensile strength and tear strength of PU/MCMMT nanocomposites were higher than those of PU/organic MMT nanocomposites. The reinforcing effect of the MCMMT platelets to the PU was better than that of the organic MMT platelets. With increase in the content of MCMMT, the tensile strength and tear strength of the PU/MCMMT nanocomposites were increased, while the extent of the increase slowed down. Compared with those of PU, the thermal stability of PU/MCMMT nanocomposites was increased. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

O-glycoligases, a new category of glycoside bond-forming mutant glycosidases, catalyse facile syntheses of isoprimeverosides

A mutant α-xylosidase that lacks its catalytic acid/base residue efficiently catalyses the synthesis of O-linked isoprimeverosides (Xyl-α-1,6GlcOR) in near quantitative yields.     

新型3-(α-羟基吲哚亚甲基)吡咯烷-2,4-二酮衍生物的合成与除草活性研究

为了进一步研究3-羟亚甲基吡咯烷-2,4-二酮类化合物构效关系,以期发现高活性化合物,利用生物等排原理引入具有芳香性的吲哚环,合成了22个未见文献报道的新型3-羟亚甲基吡咯烷-2,4-二酮衍生物,其结构均经过1HNMR和元素分析确证.初步生物活性测试结果表明,这些化合物均具有一定的除草活性.初步的构效关系研究表明,该类吡咯烷-2,4-二酮类化合物的除草活性与平面A和B的相对构型有关.     

2-甲氨基-5-(2-芳氧吡啶-3-基)-1,3,4-噻二唑类化合物的合成与荧光性质研究

设计合成了一系列未见文献报道的2-甲氨基-5-(2-芳氧吡啶-3-基)-1,3,4-噻二唑衍生物,其结构均经过1HNMR,IR和元素分析表征.测定了其荧光性能,结果显示此类化合物具有较好的荧光性,其荧光发射波长在384～390nm范围,最大荧光量子产率为0.12.     

Ce(Ⅳ)-Ru(bpy)_3~(2+)化学发光体系测定利塞膦酸钠

在酸性介质中,利塞膦酸钠对Ce(Ⅳ)-Ru(bpy)32+化学发光体系有显著的增强作用,据此建立了静态注射化学发光法测定利塞膦酸钠的新方法。在优化的实验条件下,其测定范围在1.0～20.0 mg/L,检出限为0.6 mg/L,对10.0 mg/L样品进行11次平行测定,RSD为2.2%。     

光电子成像研究AgOCH3-和Ag-(CH3OH)x (x=1, 2)

用光电子成像技术和从头算法研究Ag^-(CH₃OH)_x (x=1, 2)和AgOCH₃^-. 从AgOCH₃^-振动分辨的光电子谱得 到AgOCH₃^-的绝热和垂直电离能分别为1.29(2)和1.34(2) eV. Ag^-(CH₃OH)_{1,2相似文献}   

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.     

Reconstruction of band-limited signals from multichannel and periodic nonuniform samples in the linear canonical transform domain

Linear canonical transforms (LCTs) are a family of integral transforms with wide application in optical, acoustical, electromagnetic, and other wave propagation problems. This paper addresses the problem of signal reconstruction from multichannel and periodic nonuniform samples in the LCT domain. Firstly, the multichannel sampling theorem (MST) for band-limited signals with the LCT is proposed based on multichannel system equations, which is the generalization of the well-known sampling theorem for the LCT. We consider the problem of reconstructing the signal from its samples which are acquired using a multichannel sampling scheme. For this purpose, we propose two alternatives. The first scheme is based on the conventional Fourier series and inverse LCT operation. The second is based on the conventional Fourier series and inverse Fourier transform (FT) operation. Moreover, the classical Papoulis MST in FT domain is shown to be special case of the achieved results. Since the periodic nonuniformly sampled signal in the LCT has valuable applications, the reconstruction expression for the periodic nonuniformly sampled signal has been then obtained by using the derived MST and the specific space-shifting property of the LCT. Last, the potential applications of the MST are presented to show the advantage of the theory.