Facile method to prepare monodispersed Ag/polystyrene composite microspheres and their properties

This article presents a facile method to prepare silver/polystyrene composite microspheres. In this approach, monodispersed polystyrene (PS) particles were synthesized with carboxyl acid groups on the surfaces of the PS particles via dispersion polymerization at first. With the addition of [Ag(NH₃)₂]⁺ to the PS dispersion, [Ag(NH₃)₂]⁺ was absorbed to the surfaces of the PS particles, and then by heating the system, [Ag(NH₃)₂]⁺ complex ions were reduced to silver to form the Ag/PS composite microspheres. In the synthesis of PS dispersion, PVP was used as dispersant to stabilize the PS particles, it also acted as reducing agent in the reduction of [Ag(NH₃)₂]⁺ complex ions to silver, so no additional reducing agent was needed. The resulting composite microspheres were characterized by TEM, SEM, XPS, and XRD. The catalytic properties and surface‐enhance Raman scattering (SERS) was studied as well. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem 47: 4547–4554, 2009     

On Cesari's property (Q)

In the present paper, we generalize, within the family of convex-valued multifunctions, a selection theorem of Cole (Ref. 1). This then leads us to prove some new results concerning Cesari's property (Q) and to the introduction of the Cesari limit of sets, which is then compared to the Kuratowski-Mosco limit.This work was done while the author was a visiting professor at the University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy. Financial support was provided by CNR and by NSF Grant No. 84-03135.     

Energy dependence of non-linear dynamical features in e^＋e^- collisions

A study of the d.ynamical fluctuation properties at various c.m.energies in e~ e~- collisions is performed using the Monte Carlo method.The results suggest that,after the normalized factorial moments of 3-dimensional phase space are analyzed using an isotropical phase space partition,the NFM describing non- linear dynamical properties show a power-law scaling,i.e.,the dynamical fluctuations in higher dimensional phase space are isotropic.For c.m.energies s~(1/2)≤80 GeV,the scaling exponentsφ_q increase rapidly with the c.m.energy and for c.m.energies s~(1/2)>80 GeV,theφ_q gradually saturate.     

拓扑线性空间中的Drop定理与Drop性质

给出了拓扑线性空间中的一个Drop定理.利用此Drop定理,证明了拓扑线性空间中的每个序列紧凸集具有Drop性质;每个可数紧闭凸集具有拟Drop性质.而且结出了拓扑线性空间中Drop性质和拟Drop性质的序列流特征.也讨论了Drop性质和拟Drop性质与泛函取极值之间的联系.     

Evolution of TiO2 coating layers on lamellar sericite in the presence of La and the pigmentary properties

TiO₂-coated sericite powders were prepared by the chemical deposition method starting from lamellar sericite and TiCl₄ in the presence or absence of La³⁺ cations. After calcination at 900 °C for 1 h, the resultant TiO₂ nanoparticles on the sericite surfaces existed in anatase phase. The light scattering indexes of the TiO₂-coated lamellar sericite powders were dozens of times higher than that of the naked lamellar sericite powders. The presence of La³⁺ in the deposition solution was beneficial to the formation of the small-sized anatase TiO₂ nanoparticles, resulting in the formation of the dense and uniform island-like TiO₂ coating layers in a large range of the weight ratios of TiO₂ to sericite from 5% to 20%. The TiO₂-coated lamellar sericite powders prepared in the presence of La³⁺ had higher light scattering index than that prepared in the absence of La³⁺. XPS analysis shows that when La³⁺ cations were absent in the reaction solution, TiO₂ coating layers anchored at the sericite surface via the Ti-O-Si and Ti-O-Al bonds. The presence of La³⁺ cations caused the formation of Si-O-La and Al-O-La bonds at the sericite surface and Ti-O-La bond at the surface of TiO₂ coating layers. After coating TiO₂ on the sericite surface, the yellowness of the TiO₂-coated sericite powders obviously increased and the brightness slightly decreased.     

Encapsulated clay particles in polystyrene by RAFT mediated miniemulsion polymerization

RAFT grafted montmorillonite (MMT) clays [i.e., N,N‐dimethyl‐N‐(4‐(((phenylcarbonothioyl)thio)methyl)benzyl)ethanammonium‐MMT (PCDBAB‐MMT) and N‐(4‐((((dodecylthio)carbonothioyl)thio)methyl)benzyl)‐N,N‐dimethylethanammo‐nium‐MMT (DCTBAB‐MMT)] of various loadings were dispersed in styrene (S) monomer and the resultant mixtures emulsified and sonicated in the presence of a hydrophobe (hexadecane) into miniemulsions. The stable miniemulsions thus obtained were polymerized to yield encapsulated polystyrene‐clay nanocomposites (PS‐CNs). The molar mass and polydispersity index (PDI) of the PS‐CNs depended on the amount of RAFT agent in the system, in accordance with the features of the RAFT process. The morphology of the PS‐CNs ranged from partially exfoliated to an intercalated morphology, depending on the percentage clay loading. The thermomechanical properties of the PS‐CNs were better than those of the neat PS polymer, and were dependent on the molar mass, PS‐CN morphology and clay loading. The similarities and differences of the PS‐CNs prepared here by miniemulsion polymerization were compared to those prepared using the same RAFT agents and polymer system by bulk polymerization (as reported by us in a previous article). © Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem 46: 7114–7126, 2008     

Weak Compactness Criteria for Set Valued Integrals and Radon Nikodym Theorem for Vector Valued Multimeasures

Some criteria for weak compactness of set valued integrals are given. Also we show some applications to the study of multimeasures on Banach spaces with the Radon-Nikodym property.     

Syntheses,Crystal Structures and Thermal Properties of Two Dicadmiun（Ⅱ） Complexes CdeLeX2 （HL = N-（3-Methoxylsalicylidene）-3- dimethylaminopropylamine,X = Cl （1）, NCS （2））

Two Cd（Ⅱ） complexes, Cd2L2Cl2 （1） and Cd2L2（NCS）2 （2） （HL = N-（3-methoxylsalicylidene）-3-dimethylaminopropylamine） were synthesized and determined by EA, IR, TG and single-crystal X-ray diffraction. The crystallographic data are as follows： monoclinic, space group P21/n, a = 9.2710（9）, b = 18.0069（18）, c = 18.5562（19） A^°, β= 99.741（4）°, V = 3053.1（5）, Z = 4,μ = 1.605, F（000） = 1536, R = 0.0264 and wR = 0.0699 for 1; orthorhombic, space group Pca21, a = 16.196（3）, b = 11.506（2）, c = 36.126（7） A^°, V = 6732（2）, Z = 8,μ = 1.428, F（000） = 3264, R = 0.0376 and wR = 0.0877 for 2. There are two geometrically different octahedral Cd（Ⅱ） atoms, with N4O2 and O4Cl2 donor sets for 1 while N4O2 and N2O4 for 2. In the dinuclear Cd（Ⅱ） centers, the Cd（Ⅱ） atoms are held together by two deprotonted phenolate oxygen atoms from tetradentate L^- ligands. The thermal gravity data show two step decompositions with the residues of CdO for two complexes.     

基于灰色关联分析的财产保险公司偿付能力的模糊综合评判

为解决财产保险公司的偿付能力的评价问题,建立了基于灰色关联分析的模糊综合评判模型.选取了2003-2005年我国8家财产保险公司的相关数据,用灰色关联分析中的点关联系数求解隶属度得出评判矩阵,用范数灰关联度法确定因素集中各因素的权重,从而对其偿付能力进行模糊综合评判,得出各公司的偿付能力所属的类别.并对评语集中各评语赋予适当的权重,对所研究的8家财产保险公司依据其偿付能力的情况进行了排序.     

Time-resolved photoluminescence of delta-doped AlGaAs/GaAs heterostructures

The photoluminescence (PL) at low temperature of three delta-doped AlGaAs/GaAs heterostructures is investigated under continuous and pulsed excitations. The PL under continuous excitations allows the identification of the trapping centres and probes the carrier's transfer to the GaAs channel. The time-resolved photoluminescence (TRPL) inquires about carrier dynamics and gives radiative lifetimes of different levels. The DX level shows two time constants of the intensity decay relating the splitting of the valence band under impurity strains which reduce the crystal symmetry. The two time constants evolve with temperature and exhibit an increase near T=50 K.