Giant persistent currents in quasiperiodic mesoscopic rings

Giant persistent currents that occur in quasiperiodic Thue–Morse array of mesoscopic rings are proposed. As the order of the system increases, the maximum persistent current increases exponentially. The giant persistent current in a system with higher order is greater than that in traditional structures. It is found that the maximum persistent current occurs in the ring near the middle position of the array. The persistent current is also proportional to the sharpness of the transport resonance, which is dependent on the width of the allowed band in the bandstructure. A rule to determine the occurrence energy of the giant persistent currents for a system with arbitrary order is also proposed.     

Dirac bound states of anharmonic oscillator in external fields

We explore the effect of the external magnetic and Aharonov–Bohm (AB) flux fields on the energy levels of Dirac particle subjects to mixed scalar and vector anharmonic oscillator field in the two-dimensional (2D) space. We calculate the exact energy eigenvalues and the corresponding un-normalized two-spinor-components wave functions in terms of the chemical potential parameter, magnetic field strength, AB flux field and magnetic quantum number by using the Nikiforov–Uvarov (NU) method.     

点内电子-电子库仑作用会引起退相干么?

利用一个开放的多端Aharonov—Bohm(AB)装置研究了存在点内库仑作用时，电子通过量子点时的相干性．作者发现点内库仑作用不会引起任何退相干效应，即电子隧穿通过量子点是完全相干的．另外，作者还发现，在两端AB装置中，电导AB振荡的振幅非对称性来源于受限的结构和库仑作用两方面．因此，不能把振幅的非对称性和退相干过程联系起来．     

丙烯酸基蓖麻油氨基甲酸酯齐聚物的合成和表征

合成和表征了丙烯酸基蓖麻油氨基甲酸酯齐聚物(VTPU)。证明:2,4-甲苯二异氰酸酯(2,4-TDI)与丙烯酸羟乙酯(HEA)封端反应生成丙烯酸基单异氰酸酯(IPT)为二级反应。同样,ITP与蓖麻油(CAO)扩链反应亦为二级。通过对缩合反应速率常数和表观活化能的研究表明:VTPU的结构主要由2,4-TDI中对位和邻位二异氰酸基的活性差异所控制,而齐聚物表观粘度与二异氰酸酯的结构规整性有关。动态粘弹谱测试表明:当VTPU中硬链段含量为59%时,聚合物呈分相结构,抗张强度最高为18.2MPa,若增加至67%时,在100.7℃呈现单一转变峰,动态模量因而下降。     

A balance-evolution artificial bee colony algorithm for protein structure optimization based on a three-dimensional AB off-lattice model

Protein structure prediction is a fundamental issue in the field of computational molecular biology. In this paper, the AB off-lattice model is adopted to transform the original protein structure prediction scheme into a numerical optimization problem. We present a balance-evolution artificial bee colony (BE-ABC) algorithm to address the problem, with the aim of finding the structure for a given protein sequence with the minimal free-energy value. This is achieved through the use of convergence information during the optimization process to adaptively manipulate the search intensity. Besides that, an overall degradation procedure is introduced as part of the BE-ABC algorithm to prevent premature convergence. Comprehensive simulation experiments based on the well-known artificial Fibonacci sequence set and several real sequences from the database of Protein Data Bank have been carried out to compare the performance of BE-ABC against other algorithms. Our numerical results show that the BE-ABC algorithm is able to outperform many state-of-the-art approaches and can be effectively employed for protein structure optimization.     

Possible key intermediates in arsenic biochemistry: Synthesis and identification by liquid chromatography electrospray ionization mass spectrometry and high resolution mass spectrometry

Arsenic is a type 1 carcinogen and its toxicity is critically dependent on chemical speciation. However, after decades of research, the biogenesis of at least fifty naturally occurring arsenic species is still not well understood.Here, based on experimental work, it is proposed a set of pathways for the formation of multiple arsenic species that might help to clarify the present situation.These are focused on the thiol protein arsenic bond and on its interaction with reactive metabolites. In fact, arsenic bound to glutathione interacting with sulfur adenosyl methionine (SAM), MethylCB₁₂ and AdoCB₁₂, forms a number of complexes that might be key intermediates in arsenic biochemistry. These include dimethylarsino glutathione (DMAG) m/z 412 [M + H]⁺, synthesized non-enzymatically from glutathione and cacodylate. Trimethylarsonio glutathione (TMAG) m/z 426 [M]⁺ synthesized from DMA, GSH and SAM, apparently by a classical Challenger methylcarbonium attack. Tetramethyl arsonium ion m/z 135 [M]⁺ is formed in a third step, apparently by carbanion methylation. The presence of trimethylarsine oxide (TMAO) m/z 137 [M + H]⁺ is attributed to the hydrolysis of TMAG or TMA, or to carbanion methylation of dimethylarsinoyl glutathione (m/z 428 [M]⁺) formed from cacodylate and GSH. Cantoni type attacks of DMAG on SAM were unsuccessful, eventually due to competition of the trivalent S⁺ atom of SAM for the As^III atom attack. The presence of dimethylarsonio diglutathione (DMADG m/z 717 [M]⁺), is suggested to result from a GS^- attack on dimethylarsenoyl glutathione (m/z 428 [M + H]⁺). The presence of dimethylarsenoyladenosine (m/z 372 [M + H]⁺), trimethylarsenosugar adenine (m/z 370 [M]⁺), and dimethylthioarsenosugar adenine (m/z 388 [M + H]⁺), is explained by the synthesis of the pecursor dimethylarsonio-adenosine glutathione DMAAG (m/z 661 [M]⁺), a likely source of oxo-and trimethylated arsenosugars, as well as of thio-arsenosugars by the cleavage of its S-C bond. The results gathered suggest that cell vacuoles might play a major role in arsenic metabolism, and that the dominance of oxo-As sugars, in algae extracts, may be supported by a mechanism of synthesis independent of DMAAG (m/z 661).They also offer an explanation for the reason why arsenobetaine, and tetramethylarsonium are loosely bound to biotic tissues. Four arsenic species new to science, to the best of our knowledge, and a number of known arsenic compounds were synthesized in this work, identified by HPLC–ESI-MSⁿ and FTICR–ESI-MS, and suggestions regarding their mechanisms of synthesis were advanced. These results provide a framework for arsenic biochemistry which may explain the origin of a significant part of arsenic known metabolites.     

AB嵌段型均匀剂的分子设计与合成

介绍了AB嵌段型均匀剂的组成及原理,研究了一种新型AB嵌段型均匀剂的分子设计与合成,考察了链转移剂对特性粘度的影响以及引发剂对B段相对分子质量的影响。红外光谱谱图显示合成的均匀剂具有AB嵌段结构。应用试验表明,设计并合成制备的AB嵌段型均匀剂具有优良的不同胶相间的均化作用,提高了不同极性共用橡胶的力学性能。     

硝基甲烷热解机理的量子化学研究

用ab initio和NMDO 两种方法, 对CH~3NO~2沿C-N键断裂的热解反应过程 进行了较细致的计算研究。所得势能曲线(E-Rc-n) 彼此一致,并与Kaufman等[1]的近期结果相符。将各单点下所得正则离域化处理, 发现当C和N原子间的距离Rc-n=1.6-1.8A时, 定域成键σc-n-MO从能级较低的五的个占有MO跃升为HOMO(即第16个MO)。考察占有末占有前沿轨道 能级和位相, 可推在CH~3NO~2热 解的初抬阶段, 通过分子重排成C-O键的可能性较小 。其热解引发步骤可能是生成.CH~3和.NO~2双自由基。     

[Mo2FeS8O2][Et4N]3CH3CN原子簇化合物的晶体结构

[Mo_2FeS_8O_2][Et_4N]_3·CH_3CN晶体属三斜晶系,PI空间群.α=9.998(1)A,b=13.868(3)A,c=16.796(3)A,α=74.66(2)°,β=85.41(1)°,ν=72.21(1)°,Ζ=2.结构参数经块矩阵最小二乘法精修后,最后的偏离因子R=0.037,R_w=0.034.平均键长Mo—Fe为2.722A,Mo—S为2.358A,Fe—S为2.244A,Mo—O为1.697A.结果表明:标题化合物是一个结构新颖的原子簇化合物.它是由一个三价原子簇阴离子与三个一价的乙基季铵阳离子靠静电引力结合在一起,又溶剂合一个乙氰分子的原子簇化合物而形成.     

饱和烃C-H键的活化及其配位催化反应的研究 III:PtCl4^2^-配位离子催化戊烷氧化氯化反应的EHMO计算

EHMO method is applied to calculate the total energies of the alkane coordinated to mixing orbital