Modification of surface properties of electrospun polyamide nanofibers by means of a perfluorinated acridine

Polyamide 6 (PA6) nanofibers were prepared from formic acid solutions by using electrospinning technique. The fibers were smooth, defects free and with diameters smaller than 200 nm. Small amounts of a perfluorinated acridine were added as dopant to the feed solution to modify the wettability of the fibers. The effect of doping on the contact angle values is well apparent. The contact angle values go from 50° of pure PA6 to 120° when 6% of acridine is added. A comparison between fibers and films of pure and doped polyamide 6 was carried out in order to determine the effect of morphology on wettability. Thermal annealing near the T_g of the polymer promoted the segregation of the molecules to the surface, reaching contact angles of 131° with smaller amounts (4%) of acridine. The surface segregation was also promoted by time aging.     

Analytic gradients in the improved BCS method

The first derivatives of the total energy with respect to nuclear displacement have been calculated in the framework of the Improved Bardeen–Cooper–Schrieffer (IBCS) method. It permits the quick determination of the stationary points. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Proper holomorphic mappings between some nonsmooth domains

Sunto In questo lavoro si studia il problema dell'existenza o meno di mappe olomorfe proprie, F: (p,q) (pq) dove (,) Cⁿ sono domini limitati, pseudoconvessi, non lisci, di Reinhardt con centro di simmetria sulla frontiera (per la definizione v. (2), introduzione). In caso affermativo si fornisee esplicitamente l'espressione di tali mappe (v, teoremi I e II nell'introduzione).

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The author, during the redaction of this paper, was supported by MPI (40% and 60%) funds.     

Blocking sets in 3-designs

We characterize the existence of blocking sets in a particular class of S (3,4,v) and we give a construction to obtain S(3,4,2v) having blocking sets.Lavoro eseguito nell'ambito del GNSAGA e con contributo del M.P.I.     

Equazioni ellittiche del secondo ordine di tipo non variazionale in aperti non limitati

Summary In this paper we study the Dirichlet problem, for second order, linear elliptic partial differential equations with discontinuous coefficients in unbounded domains. We obtain some results about existence and uniqueness of the solution in W²().

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Lavoro eseguito nell'ambito del G.N.A.F.A. del C.N.R.     

Electromagnetic transition probability from the ground to the first excited 2+ state in138ce

The ratio of the B(E2) values for the 0 ₁ ⁺ → 2 ₁ ⁺ transitions in¹³⁸Ce and¹⁴²Ce was measured by Coulomb excitation with α-particles. From the known value of the transition probability in¹⁴²Ce it results: B(E2,¹³⁸Ce, 0 ₁ ⁺ → 2 ₁ ⁺ =0.45 +/?0.03 e² b ²     

The behaviour of alkylcobalt carbonyls under “oxo” conditions

Both normal and secondary alkylcobalt carbonyls are shown not to undergo isomerization under catalytic “oxo” conditions, and the relevance of this obervation for the mechanism of the “oxo” reaction is discussed.     

Development and Validation of a High-Performance Thin-Layer Chromatographic Method,with Densitometry,for Quantitative Analysis of Tizoxanide (a Metabolite of Nitazoxanide) in Human Plasma

JPC – Journal of Planar Chromatography – Modern TLC - A new simple, rapid, and selective high-performance thin-layer chromatographic (HPTLC) method with metronidazole as the internal...     

DEUSS: a perdeuterated poly(oxyethylene)-based resin for improving HRMAS NMR studies of solid-supported molecules

A novel resin called DEUSS (perdeuterated poly(oxyethylene)-based solid support) has been prepared by anionic polymerization of deuterated [D4]ethylene oxide, followed by cross-linking with deuterated epichlorohydrin. DEUSS can be suspended in a wide range of solvents including organic and aqueous solutions, in which it displays a high swelling capacity. As measured by proton HRMAS of the swollen polymer, the signal intensity of the oxyethylene protons is reduced by a factor of 110 relative to the corresponding nondeuterated poly(oxyethylene)poly(oxypropylene) (POEPOP) resin, thus facilitating detailed HRMAS NMR studies of covalently linked molecules. This 1H NMR invisible matrix was used for the solid-phase synthesis of peptides, oligoureas, and a series of amides as well as their characterization by HRMAS NMR spectroscopy. On-bead NMR spectra of high quality and with resolution comparable to that of liquid samples were obtained and readily interpreted. The complete absence of the parasite resin signals will be of great advantage, for example, for the optimization of multistep solid-phase stereoselective reactions, and for the conformational study of resin-bound molecules in a large variety of solvents.     

Subbundles of maximal degree of the normal bundle of algebraic space curves almost complete intersection of special type

Summary LetX⊂P ³ be an irreducible smooth curve which is not a complete intersection. The main result of this paper shows that whenX is an a.c.i. of special type, i.e. its homogeneous ideal is generated by three polynomial of the same degreem, and additionallym>2, the subbundles of maximal degree of the normal bundle ofX inP ³ correspond to the singular points of maximal multiplicity of a plane curve which is the image ofX by a map (the linear system of the surfaces of minimal degree throughX). In particular this normal bundle is stable. The initial case of this family of curves, i.e. form=3, has been studied by E. Ballico-Ph. Ellia with different methods.

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Riassunto SiaX⊂P ³ una curva irriducibile e liscia che non è una completa intersezione. Il risultato principale di questa Nota mostra che quandoX è una almost completa intersezione di tipo speciale, cioè il suo ideale omogeneo è generato minimamente da 3 polinomi dello stesso gradom, e, inoltre,m>2, i sottofibrati di grado massimo del fibrato normale diX inP ³ corrispondono ai punti singolari di molteplicità massima di una curva piana che è l’immagine diX tramite una mappa (il sistema lineare delle superficie di grado minimo passanti perX). In particolare questo fibrato normale è stabile. Il caso iniziale di questa famiglia di curve, i.e. perm=3, è stato studiato da E. Ballico-Ph. Ellia con differenti metodi.

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This research is supported by GNSAGA (Italy).

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The main results of this paper have been the object of a talk at the meeting on ?Curves in Projective Space? held at Rocca di Papa in june 1985.