高压下制备的累托石/酚醛树脂复合材料微结构和热性能研究

 采用物理方法在高压下制备了酚醛树脂（PF）/累托石（REC）纳米复合材料,用X射线衍射（XRD）、透射电子显微镜（TEM）及热分析（DSC/TGA）等方法,研究了复合材料的物相、显微结构以及热学性能。结果表明,不通过层间高分子聚合反应,不预先对累托石进行有机化处理,在高压下,由聚合物分子插入粘土层间,可以形成剥离型树脂/粘土纳米复合材料,并且其热学性能发生了较大的改变。     

环境样品中痕量锑的形态分析研究进展

环境样品中不同形态锑,其生物活性及其毒性不同,其形态分析具有重要意义。由于环境样品中锑的含量相对较低,不同形态锑的分析具有挑战性。归纳总结了环境样品中痕量超痕量锑的形态分析概况及近年来的发展趋势,内容主要包括样品的前处理和不同形态锑的分析方法,指出了未来的发展方向。     

不同产地川党参微量元素的聚类分析

用原子吸收火焰法（FAAS）测定了28个不同产地和采收时间的川党参的7种微量元素,用DPS8．5版软件对测试结果进行聚类分析。结果显示,除重庆武隆县以外的川党参都非常接近,该法可简便地鉴别不同产地和采收时间的川党参真伪。     

原位实时近红外光谱研究核壳乳液聚合过程

将苯乙烯(St)和丙烯酸丁酯(BA)单体以不同的聚合方式制备核壳乳液和共聚乳液, 并采用近红外光谱技术实现了对乳液反应过程的原位实时监测, 通过对近红外光谱的谱带归属和主成分分析, 为近红外光谱技术判别乳液聚合过程提供了科学依据, 也为判断反向核壳乳液核壳翻转的拐点提出了一种新的方法. 采用簇类独立软模式法(SIMCA)建立了定性判别模型, 得到了很好的判别结果, 为进一步研究近红外光谱技术用于核壳乳液聚合过程奠定了基础.     

Flow Injection Chemiluminescence Method for Nalbuphine Hydrochloride in Pharmaceutical Formulations Using Tris(2,2'-bipyridyl)ruthenium(II) Chloride-diperiodatocuprate(III) Reaction

Asensitive and selective method employing chemiluminescence(CL) coupled with flow injection(FI) is reported for nalbuphine hydrochloride(NAL) assay in pharmaceutical formulations. The enhancement effect of NAL on the CL reaction between tris(2,2'-bipyridyl)ruthenium(II) chloride-diperiodatocuprate(III) {Ru[(bpy)₃]²⁺-Cu(III) complex} in acidic medium is used as analytical measurement. The optimal conditions of the CL reaction were sulfuric acid 1.0×10^-3 mol/L, Ru[(bpy)₃]²⁺ 7.5×10^-5 mol/L, Cu(III)/Ag(III) complexes 4.0×10^-4/5.0×10^-4 mol/L, sample loop volume of 120 μL and flow rate of 2.5 mL/min. The sensitivities of the method in terms of detection(S/N=3) and quantification(S/N=10) limits are 5×10^-4 and 0.001 ppm(1 ppm=1 mg/L), respectively. The linear response of the instrument in the form of CL intensity with respect to NAL concentration is over the range 0.001-15.0 ppm(R²=0.9999) with relative standard deviation from 0.8% to 3.2% and injection throughput of 120 injection/h. The applications of the method include the quantitative analysis of NAL in pharmaceutical injection samples. Variations and the average results of the proposed method are not signi-ficantly different from the results of a reported method by applying F- and paired student t-test. The most likely CL reaction mechanism is written in accordance with spectrophotometric and CL studies.     

Voltammetric Determination of Allura Red AC onto Carbone-paste Electrode Modified by Silica with Embedded Cetylpyridinium Chloride

In current study the carbon-paste electrode modified by silica with embedded cetylpyridinium chloride for determination of Allura Red AC have been developed. The optimal conditions were determined to be for the square-wave voltammetric quantification: pH=2, E_ads=300 mV, t_ads=300 s, amplitude – 40 mV, frequency – 25 Hz and potential scan rate is 250 mV sec⁻¹. The calibration plot has linearity in the concentration ranges 0.04–0.2 μM and 0.2–1.00 μM. The LOD and LOQ are equal to 0.005 μM and 0.015 μM respectively. The crafted sensor has been applied successfully to model solutions and in jelly candies analysis with RSD no more than 10 %.     

Spatio-Temporal Variation of the Bacterial Communities along a Salinity Gradient within a Thalassohaline Environment (Saline di Tarquinia Salterns,Italy)

The “Saline di Tarquinia” salterns have been scarcely investigated regarding their microbiological aspects. This work studied the structure and composition of their bacterial communities along the salinity gradient (from the nearby sea through different ponds). The communities showed increasing simplification of pond bacterial diversity along the gradient (particularly if compared to those of the sea). Among the 38 assigned phyla, the most represented were Proteobacteria, Actinobacteria and Bacteroidetes. Differently to other marine salterns, where at the highest salinities Bacteroidetes dominated, preponderance of Proteobacteria was observed. At the genus level the most abundant taxa were Pontimonas, Marivita, Spiribacter, Bordetella, GpVII and Lentibacter. The α-diversity analysis showed that the communities were highly uneven, and the Canonical Correspondence Analysis indicated that they were structured by various factors (sampling site, sampling year, salinity, and sampling month). Moreover, the taxa abundance variation in relation to these significant parameters were investigated by Generalized Linear Models. This work represents the first investigation of a marine saltern, carried out by a metabarcoding approach, which permitted a broad vision of the bacterial diversity, covering both a wide temporal span (two years with monthly sampling) and the entire salinity gradient (from the nearby sea up to the crystallisation ponds).     

Integrating Rigidity Analysis into the Exploration of Protein Conformational Pathways Using RRT* and MC

To understand how proteins function on a cellular level, it is of paramount importance to understand their structures and dynamics, including the conformational changes they undergo to carry out their function. For the aforementioned reasons, the study of large conformational changes in proteins has been an interest to researchers for years. However, since some proteins experience rapid and transient conformational changes, it is hard to experimentally capture the intermediate structures. Additionally, computational brute force methods are computationally intractable, which makes it impossible to find these pathways which require a search in a high-dimensional, complex space. In our previous work, we implemented a hybrid algorithm that combines Monte-Carlo (MC) sampling and RRT*, a version of the Rapidly Exploring Random Trees (RRT) robotics-based method, to make the conformational exploration more accurate and efficient, and produce smooth conformational pathways. In this work, we integrated the rigidity analysis of proteins into our algorithm to guide the search to explore flexible regions. We demonstrate that rigidity analysis dramatically reduces the run time and accelerates convergence.     

Modular Breath Analyzer (MBA): Introduction of a Breath Analyzer Platform Based on an Innovative and Unique,Modular eNose Concept for Breath Diagnostics and Utilization of Calibration Transfer Methods in Breath Analysis Studies

Exhaled breath analysis for early disease detection may provide a convenient method for painless and non-invasive diagnosis. In this work, a novel, compact and easy-to-use breath analyzer platform with a modular sensing chamber and direct breath sampling unit is presented. The developed analyzer system comprises a compact, low volume, temperature-controlled sensing chamber in three modules that can host any type of resistive gas sensor arrays. Furthermore, in this study three modular breath analyzers are explicitly tested for reproducibility in a real-life breath analysis experiment with several calibration transfer (CT) techniques using transfer samples from the experiment. The experiment consists of classifying breath samples from 15 subjects before and after eating a specific meal using three instruments. We investigate the possibility to transfer calibration models across instruments using transfer samples from the experiment under study, since representative samples of human breath at some conditions are difficult to simulate in a laboratory. For example, exhaled breath from subjects suffering from a disease for which the biomarkers are mostly unknown. Results show that many transfer samples of all the classes under study (in our case meal/no meal) are needed, although some CT methods present reasonably good results with only one class.