Synthesis and luminescence properties of mesophase silica thin films doped with in-situ formed europium complex

Mesophase silica thin film doped with in-situ formed ternary Eu complex was synthesized by adding ligands (DBM=dibenzoylmethane, phen=1,10-phenanthroline), Eu ions (EuCl₃·6H₂O), and Pluronic P123 triblock copolymer into hydrolyzed tetramethoxy-silane (TMOS). The structure of this inorganic/organic film was characterized as a 2d-hexagonal structure by X-ray diffraction (XRD) and TEM analysis. The excitation spectra (λ_em=612 nm) and emission spectra (λ_ex=325 nm) indicated that the ternary complex, Eu-DBM-phen, was formed in-situ during the formation of the film. The mesophase silica thin film doped with the in-situ formed Eu complex showed a higher quantum efficiency compared to a pure Eu(DBM)₃phen complex and a mesophase silica thin film doped with in-situ formed binary Eu-phen complex.     

Site of ductile fracture initiation in cold forging: A finite element model

Ductile fracture occurs due to micro-void nucleation, growth and finally coalescence into micro-crack. In this study a new ductile fracture condition that based on the microscopic phenomena of void nucleation, growth and coalescence was proposed. Using this condition and combining with finite element model to predict the fracture locations in bulk metal forming, the results show that it is in close accordance with observations of some experimental specimens. However, in order to obtaining the high trustiness many experiments have to be carried out.     

A note on the Schrödinger smoothing effect

The Kato–Yajima smoothing estimate is a smoothing weighted L² estimate with a singular power weight for the Schrödinger propagator. The weight has been generalized relatively recently to Morrey–Campanato weights. In this paper we make this generalization more sharp in terms of the so‐called Kerman–Sawyer weights. Our result is based on a more sharpened Fourier restriction estimate in a weighted L² space. Obtained results are also extended to the fractional Schrödinger propagator.     

Free boundary constant mean curvature surfaces in a strictly convex three-manifold

Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry - Let C be a strictly convex domain in a three-dimensional Riemannian manifold with sectional curvature bounded above by a constant, and let $$Sigma $$ be a...     

Design of a production system with a feedback buffer

In this paper, we deal with an M/G/1 Bernoulli feedback queue and apply it to the design of a production system. New arrivals enter a “main queue” before processing. Processed items leave the system with probability 1-p or are fed back with probability p into an intermediate finite “feedback queue”. As soon as the feedback queue is fully occupied, the items in the feedback queue are released, all at a time, into the main queue for another processing. Using transform methods, various performance measures are derived such as the joint distribution of the number of items in each queue and the dispatching rate. We then derive the optimal buffer size which minimizes the overall operating cost under a cost structure. This revised version was published online in June 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

alpha-1,4-Glucan lyase performs a trans-elimination via a nucleophilic displacement followed by a syn-elimination

alpha-Glucan lyase (EC 4.2.2.13, GLase) cleaves alpha-1,4-glucosidic bonds via an elimination reaction to produce 1,5-d-anhydrofructose. GLase was inactivated by the mechanism based alpha-glucosidase inactivator, 5-fluoro-beta-l-idosyl fluoride. The trapped glycosyl-enzyme intermediate was isolated and the nucleophilic amino acid residue (Asp 553) identified is equivalent to the residue so identified in sequence-related alpha-glucosidases. This intermediate undergoes a syn-elimination reaction to release the product. Further evidence against a direct trans-elimination mechanism was provided by the absence of a primary kinetic isotope effect on the substrate substituted with deuterium at the C2 position.     

Analysis of Bounds for Multilinear Functions

We analyze four bounding schemes for multilinear functions and theoretically compare their tightness. We prove that one of the four schemes provides the convex envelope and that two schemes provide the concave envelope for the product of p variables over .