Simultaneous determination of antioxidants at a chemically modified electrode with vitamin B12 by capillary zone electrophoresis coupled with amperometric detection

In the paper, a new kind of vitamin B₁₂ (acquo-cobalamine) chemically modified electrode was fabricated and applied in capillary zone electrophoresis coupled with amperometric detection (CZE-AD) for simultaneous determination of six antioxidants in fruits and vegetables. The catalytic electrochemical properties of the chemically modified electrode could obviously enhance oxidation peak heights responses by about five times to glutathione, ascorbic acid, vanillic acid, chlorogenic acid, salicylic acid, and caffeic acid compared with common carbon disk electrode. Furthermore, the effects of working electrode potential, pH and concentration of running buffer, separation voltage and injection time on CZE-AD were investigated. Under the optimum conditions, the six analytes could be completely separated and detected in a borate-phosphate buffer (pH 8.4) within 15 min. Their linear ranges were from 2.5 × 10⁻⁷ to 1.0 × 10⁻⁴ mol L⁻¹ and the detection limits were as low as 10⁻⁸ mol L⁻¹ magnitude (S/N = 3). The proposed method has been successfully employed to monitor the six analytes in practical samples with recoveries in the range 96.0-106.0% and RSDs less than 5.0%. Above results demonstrate that capillary zone electrophoresis coupled with electrochemical detection using vitamin B₁₂ modified electrode as detector is of convenient preparation, high sensitivity, good repeatability, and could be used in the rapid determination of practical samples.     

MHD flow and mass transfer of chemically reactive upper convected Maxwell fluid past porous surface

The magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) flow and mass transfer of an electrically conducting upper convected Maxwell (UCM) fluid at a porous surface are studied in the presence of a chemically reactive species. The governing nonlinear partial differential equations along with the appropriate boundary conditions are transformed into nonlinear ordinary differential equations and numerically solved by the Keller-box method. The effects of various physical parameters on the flow and mass transfer characteristics are graphically presented and discussed. It is observed that the order of the chemical reaction is to increase the thickness of the diffusion boundary layer. Also, the mass transfer rate strongly depends on the Schmidt number and the reaction rate parameter. Furthermore, available results in the literature are obtained as a special case.     

Model reduction for reacting flow applications

A model reduction approach based on Galerkin projection, proper orthogonal decomposition (POD), and the discrete empirical interpolation method (DEIM) is developed for chemically reacting flow applications. Such applications are challenging for model reduction due to the strong coupling between fluid dynamics and chemical kinetics, a wide range of temporal and spatial scales, highly nonlinear chemical kinetics, and long simulation run-times. In our approach, the POD technique combined with Galerkin projection reduces the dimension of the state (unknown chemical concentrations over the spatial domain), while the DEIM approximates the nonlinear chemical source term. The combined method provides an efficient offline–online solution strategy that enables rapid solution of the reduced-order models. Application of the approach to an ignition model of a premixed H₂/O₂/Ar mixture with 19 reversible chemical reactions and 9 species leads to reduced-order models with state dimension several orders of magnitude smaller than the original system. For example, a reduced-order model with state dimension of 60 accurately approximates a full model with a dimension of 91,809. This accelerates the simulation of the chemical kinetics by more than two orders of magnitude. When combined with the full-order flow solver, this results in a reduction of the overall computational time by a factor of approximately 10. The reduced-order models are used to analyse the sensitivity of outputs of interest with respect to uncertain input parameters describing the reaction kinetics.     

Weak discontinuities in a chemically reacting atmosphere

Summary The growth and decay of a weak discontinuity headed by a singular surface of arbitrary shape in three dimensions is investigated in a chemically reacting atmosphere, in the absence of dissipative mechanisms such as viscosity, diffusion and heat conduction. The combined effects of the disequilibrium due to the chemical reaction and a wave front curvature on the propagation of discontinuities have been examined and discussed. It has been observed that the chemical disequilibrium, with its Arrhenius rate dependence, causes the compression wave to steepen more swiftly that it does in an inert atmosphere. The critical values of the initial discontinuity, and time for shock formation, in cases of diverging and converging waves, have been determined.     

聚苯胺修饰电极制备过程中几个问题的探讨

报道聚苯胺修饰电极制备中尚须引起人们重视的几个问题。主要包括：循环伏安法扫描电位上限对聚合的影响，恒电位法最佳的聚合电位，以及仅具２００ｍＶ和９００ｍＶ两峰聚苯胺膜的制备，聚合电量对不同制备方法影响的差异性等等。并对制备聚苯胺修饰电极的几种方法进行了比较，从而指出了最佳的聚合方法和条件。     

第23届国际凝聚态核科学会议（ICCF-23）介绍

ICCF是凝聚态核科学研究领域最重要的系列性国际会议, ICCF-23于2021年6月9～11日在厦门大学召开,会议主席是田中群院士.共有33个国家和地区的433名代表参会,收录摘要86篇.本次会议的主要进展是多个小组在Pd(Ni)-D_2O(H_2O)电解体系和Pd(Ni)-D_2(H_2)体系中观测到超热,突破了传统上只有Pd-D和Ni-H体系才能产生超热的成见;多个小组在合金-D_2(H_2)体系中观测到稳定的十瓦级超热;两个小组证实氧化层在超热产生中起重要作用,纳米或介观尺寸样品明显好于体样品.多个小组观测到含氢体系在电解、气相和放电条件下的核嬗变并呈现出某种规律性.     

先进光刻胶材料的研究进展

本文简述了光刻技术及光刻胶的发展过程,并对应用于193纳米光刻和下一代EUV光刻的光刻胶材料的研究进展进行了综述,特别对文献中EUV光刻胶材料的研发进行了较为详细的介绍,以期对我国先进光刻胶的研发工作有所帮助.     

Chemically modified silica gel for selective solid-phase extraction and preconcentration of heavy metal ions

This paper describes our research on the synthesis of the sorbent with chemically bonded ketoimine groups, and, furthermore, using this sorbent in the SPE technique to extract and preconcentrate trace amounts of metal ions in water samples. Surface characteristics of the sorbent were determined by elemental analysis, NMR spectra for the solid phases (²⁹Si CP MAS NMR), and analysis of pore size distribution of the sorbent and nitrogen adsorption-desorption. The newly proposed sorbent with ketoimine groups was applied for the extraction and preconcentration of trace amounts of Cu (II), Cr (III) and Zn (II) ions from the water from a lake, post-industrial water and purified water unburdened back to the lake. The determination of the transition-metal ions was performed on an emission spectroscope with inductively coupled plasma ICP-OES. For the batch method, the optimum pH range for Cu (II) and Cr (III) extraction was equal to 5, and Zn(II)–to 8. All the metal ions can be desorbed from SPE columns with 10?mL of 0.5?mol?HNO₃. The detection limits of the method were found to be 0.7?µg?L^?1 for Cu (II), 0.08?µg?L^?1 for Cr (III), and 0.2?µg?L^?1 for Zn (II), respectively.     

Time-Resolved Chemically Induced Dynamic Nuclear Polarization of Biologically Important Molecules

In this work, we review the hyperpolarization technique named chemically induced dynamic nuclear polarization (CIDNP), focusing on the time-resolved variant of this method and its biological applications. We introduce the main principles of polarization formation in liquids at high magnetic fields, provided by the so-called spin sorting mechanism. Applications of CIDNP to studying fast reactions of short-lived free radicals of biologically important molecules are discussed, as well as the potential of the method to probe the structure and magnetic parameters of such radicals. We also explain the principles of protein CIDNP and discuss applications of time-resolved CIDNP to studies of protein structure and dynamics.     

Voltammetric Sensor for the Determination of Parathion Using an Electropolymerized Poly(Carmine) Film Electrode

A voltammetric sensor for the determination of parathion has been developed based on the use of a poly(carmine) film electrode. The reduction of parathion at the poly(carmine) modified glassy carbon electrode (GCE) is studied by cyclic voltammetry (CV) and linear scan voltammetry (LSV). Parathion yields a well-defined reduction peak at a potential of −0.595 V on the poly(carmine) modified GCE in pH 6.0 phosphate buffer solution (PBS). Compared with that on a bare GCE, the reduction peak current of parathion is significantly enhanced. All the experimental parameters are optimized for the determination of parathion. The reduction peak current is linear with the parathion concentration in the range of 5.0 × 10⁻⁸ to 1.0 × 10⁻⁵ mol L⁻¹, and the detection limit is 1.0 × 10⁻⁸ mol L⁻¹.