Stabilization and characterization of colloidal gas aphron dispersions

Colloidal gas aphrons (CGAs) are finding increasing application in water processing, bioseparation, bubble-entrained floc flotation, separation of oil from sand, etc. This article proposes an effective method of encapsulation to stabilize the CGA bubbles with silicic sol solution for their characterization. The stabilized CGA bubbles can keep shapes and sizes for at least 12 h; even the bubbles smaller than 25 mum can also be stabilized and exist for very long times. Effects of concentration and pH of silicic sol solution on CGA stabilization were studied. The optimal ranges of concentration and pH of silicic sol solution are 0.15-0.25 mol/dm(3) and 7-10, respectively. The bubble distortion behavior in disturbance and size distribution of CGAs were examined by using the stabilization method and photographic techniques.     

Photochemically catalyzed reaction of ochratoxin A with D- and L-cysteine

The photolysis (>300 nm) of ochratoxin A (OTA, N-[[(3R)-5-chloro-8-hydroxy-3-methyl-1-oxo-7-isochromanyl]carbonyl]-3-phenyl-L-alanine, 1) in the presence of excess (2 and 12 molar equiv) cysteine (CySH) has been investigated and found to yield sulfur adducts 5 and 6 that are characterized by liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry and 1H-NMR spectroscopy. The adduct 5 was ascribed to the Michael addition conjugate resulting from covalent attachment of CySH to the ochratoxin quinone (4) generated by photooxidation of OTA. This species was also formed by photolysis of a synthetic sample of the hydroquinone of OTA (ochratoxin hydroquinone, 3) in the presence of 12 equiv L-CySH. The conjugate 5 derived from photolysis of 3 with L-CySH was used for 1H-NMR analysis. The sulfur adduct 6 was the major species detected from covalent attachment of CySH to photoactivated OTA, and it resulted from direct displacement of the OTA Cl atom by CySH. The implications of the cysteinyl adducts to the in vivo toxicity of OTA are discussed, with particular emphasis given to conjugate 5, as products from the photooxidative pathway may be of relevance to the nephrotoxic properties of OTA.     

Metal-ligand bonding and rutile- versus CdI2-type structural preference in platinum dioxide and titanium dioxide

First principles electronic structure calculations were carried out to determine the relative stabilities of the rutile- and CdI₂-type structures of platinum dioxide (PtO₂) and titanium dioxide (TiO₂). The orbital interactions between the transition metal d- and oxygen p-orbitals were analyzed to gain insight into why PtO₂ has both the rutile- and CdI₂-type structures, but TiO₂ has only the rutile-type structure. The cause for the large difference in the c/a ratios of the CdI₂-type structures of TiO₂ and PtO₂ was examined.     

Nonlinear optical probe of biopolymer adsorption on colloidal particle surface: poly-L-lysine on polystyrene sulfate microspheres

A nonlinear optical technique--second harmonic generation (SHG)--has been applied to characterize the adsorption of poly-L-lysine on micrometer size polystyrene particles, whose surface is covered with negatively charged sulfonate groups, in aqueous solutions. Adsorption behavior of the biopolymer with two chain lengths (14 and 75 amino acid units; PL14 and PL75) has been examined. Centrifugation experiments were also performed to support the adsorption measurements made using SHG. The adsorption free energies of the two polymers PL75 and PL14 are determined as -16.57 and -14.40 kcal/mol, respectively. The small difference in the adsorption free energies of the two chain lengths, however, leads to dramatic difference in the concentration needed for saturated surface coverage: nearly 50 times higher concentration is needed for the smaller polymer. Under acidic colloidal conditions, polylysine is found to adsorb in a relatively flat conformation on the surface. The surface area that each polylysine molecule occupies is nearly 1 order of magnitude larger than the size of the molecule in its extended form. The low adsorption density is likely a result from Coulombic repulsion between the positive charges on the amino acid units of PL. The measurements demonstrate the utility of SHG as an efficient and sensitive experimental approach for measuring adsorption characteristics of bio/macromolecules on colloidal particles and define surface and colloidal conditions for achieving maximum surface coverage of a widely used biopolymer.     

New Temperature Integral Approximate Formula for Non-isothermal Kinetic Analysis

A new approximate formula for temperature integral is proposed. The linear dependence of the new fomula on x has been established. Combining this linear dependence and integration-by-parts, new equation for the evaluation of kinetic parameters has been obtained from the above dependence. The validity of this equation has been tested with data from numerical calculating. And its deviation from the values calculated by Simpson's numerical integrating was discussed. Compared with several published approximate formulae, this new one is much superior to all other approximations and is the most suitable solution for the evaluation of kinetic parameters from TG experiments. This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Approximate formulae for calculation of the integral òT0Tmexp(-E/RT)dT

Summary In this paper two approximate formulae have been developed for calculation of the integral ò^T₀T^mexp(-E/RT)dT by using integration-by-parts approaches. They are in the following forms: I(m,T) = (RT^m+2)/(E+(m+2)RT)exp(-E/RT) I(m,T) = (RT^m+2)/(E+(m+2)(0.00099441E+0.93695599RT)exp(-E/RT) The validity of the two formulae has been confirmed and their accuracies have been tested with data from numerical calculating. In contrast to existing other integral methods, both the present approaches are simply used, accurate, and can be used for arbitrary values of m.     

242-260nm波长区CS2分子的多光子解离电离

在242－260nm波氏范围通过CS2分子的共振增强多光子电离（REMPI）获得了母体离子CS和碎片离子的分质量激发谱．在λ＜246.4nm区间，CS激发谱上呈现出来源于CS2双光子电离的弥散谱带,碎片离子激发谱的归属强烈提示多光子过程中有中性基电子态的CS和S（经由CS2的光解离）产生：（1）CS 的谱带主要来源于中性CS碎片经由单光子跃迁产生的（1＋1）共振增强电离，（2）除了部分S 的谱峰来自CS 的光解外，多数S 的锐谱峰来自中性S原子经由3p3（2D0）4p，3p3（4S0）np（n＝6，7，8）←3p43pJ（J＝2，1,0）双光子跃迁产生的（2＋1）共振增强电离．     

流动注射微柱预分离富集荧光光度法测定肥料中的铈

用抗坏血酸将Ce(Ⅳ)还原为Ce(Ⅲ),以多聚磷酸钠作为增强剂,建立了铈的流动注射荧光分析法,考查了各种因素对测定Ce的影响.此方法线性范围为2.0×10-9～1.2×10-8 g·ml-1.采用流动注射微柱预分离富集测定了GBW07602标样和氨基酸微肥中的铈含量.测定结果与推荐值有良好的一致性.     

Transient rheological behavior of lyotropic (acetyl)(ethyl)cellulose/m-cresol solutions

The chiroptical properties and transient rheological behavior of (acetyl)(ethyl)cellulose (AEC) m-cresol liquid crystalline solutions have been investigated. Chiroptical properties were manipulated through (i) increasing degree of acetylation of ethyl cellulose (EC), and (ii) blending AEC with EC. At the same average degree of acetylation (DA), the chiroptical properties of pure AEC were different from those of the EC/AEC mixtures. However, at the same DA, the AEC and mixed AEC/EC solutions showed similar steady state flow and oscillatory behaviors, but the transient behaviors were different. At high flow rates the mixed AEC/EC solutions exhibited double recoil after cessation of steady-state flow, whereas the AEC solutions showed double recoil only in the high DA AEC solutions. All solutions, pure and mixed, had the same stress relaxation behavior. Both pitch and handedness affected the transient behavior. After cessation of high shear rate flow, the rate of modulus evolution decreased with increasing pitch, and was faster in right-handed mesophases than in left-handed ones at a similar pitch.