The effects of various foreign substances on the cloud point of Triton X 100 and Triton X 114

The nonionic surfactants Triton X 100 and Triton X 114 form isotropic micellar solutions around 25°C. One of the characteristic features of these solutions is the fact that at higher temperatures they undergo clouding and liquid-liquid phase separation. Addition of various additives to the surfactant solutions does change the temperature at which the clouding phenomenon occurs. In this paper such effect of additives on the clouding phenomenon of Triton X 100 and Triton X 114 are discussed.     

Tb3+离子4f75d组态能级的电子云扩大效应

研究了电子云扩大效应对Tb3+离子5d能级的影响. 利用光谱理论, 将电子云扩大效应比率β同Tb3+离子4f75d组态的自旋允许和禁阻跃迁能级的能级差联系起来, 通过复杂晶体化学键理论确定了化学键的共价性、 相应键体积极化率以及配体离子的有效电荷与β的线性关系, 同时得到了对β有影响并与Tb3+离子自身相关的因子.     

Unusual effect of molecular weight and concentration on thermoresponsive behaviors of well‐defined water‐soluble semirigid polymers

A series of water‐soluble semirigid thermoresponsive polymers with well‐defined molecular weights based on mesogen‐jacketed liquid crystal polymers (MJLCPs), poly[bis(N‐hydroxyisopropyl pyrrolidone) 2‐vinylterephthalate] (PHIPPVTA) have been synthesized via reversible addition fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) polymerization. Dynamic light scattering (DLS) revealed that the novel monomer and polymers have thermoresponsive properties with cloud point in the range between 10 and 90 °C. The cloud point was increased by 56.2 °C when the polymer molecular weight increased from 0.47 × 10⁴ g mol^?1 to 3.69 × 10⁴ g mol^?1. In addition, the cloud point of PHIPPVTA was decreased by 18.8 °C with the increase of polymer concentration from 5 to 10 mg mL^?1. A slight increase (0.1–3.5 °C) of cloud point has been observed after knocking off the end‐groups of PHIPPVTA. Moreover, the cloud point of polymer increased with increasing of its molecular weight with or without the trithiocarbonate end‐groups, which showed the opposite trend comparing with other thermoresponsive polymers with flexible backbones. These polymers show a dramatic solvent isotopic effect that the cloud point in D₂O was lower than in H₂O. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem, 2012     

CHEMICAL REACTIONS IN SURFACTANT AGGREGATES

This review article summarized the research on chemical reactions in surfactant aggregates which has been carried out in China in the recent ten years.     

ADSORPTION OF COLLOIDAL MATERIALS ON POLYMER SURFACES

Polypropylene surfaces were rendered cationic by hydrophobic implantation and by grafting a quaternized polyvinyl pyridine onto a plasma treated surface. The polypropylene surface with the grafted polymer showed a strong adsorption of an anionic surfactant, corresponding to about ten monomolecular layers. High concentration of electrolyte caused a reduction of the adsorption at low concentrations of surfactant.     

Aqueous solution behavior of comb‐shaped poly(2‐ethyl‐2‐oxazoline)

A series of comb polymers consisting of a methacrylate backbone and poly(2‐ethyl‐2‐oxazoline) (PEtOx) side chains was synthesized by a combination of cationic ring‐opening polymerization and reversible addition–fragmentation chain transfer polymerization. Small‐angle neutron scattering (SANS) studies revealed a transition from an ellipsoidal to a cylindrical conformation in D₂O around a backbone degree of polymerization of 30. Comb‐shaped PEtOx has lowered T_g values but a similar elution behavior in liquid chromatography under critical conditions in comparison to its linear analog was observed. The lower critical solution temperature behavior of the polymers was investigated by turbidimetry, dynamic light scattering, transmission electron microscopy, and SANS revealing decreasing T_cp in aqueous solution with increasing molar mass, the presence of very few aggregated structures below T_cp, a contraction of the macromolecules at temperatures 5 °C above T_cp but no severe conformational change of the cylindrical structure. In addition, the phase diagram including cloud point and coexistence curve was developed showing an LCST of 75 °C of the binary mixture poly[oligo(2‐ethyl‐2‐oxazoline)methacrylate]/water. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem, 2013     

Non-manifold surface reconstruction from high-dimensional point cloud data

We present an algorithm capable of reconstructing a non-manifold surface embedded as a point cloud in a high-dimensional space. Our algorithm extends a previously developed incremental method and produces a non-optimal triangulation, but will work for non-orientable surfaces, and for surfaces with certain types of self-intersection. The self-intersections must be ordinary double curves and are fitted locally by intersecting planes using a degenerate quadratic surface. We present the algorithm in detail and provide many examples, including a dataset describing molecular conformations of cyclo-octane.     

Studies on electron cloud instability in BEPCⅡ

Electron Cloud Instability has been studied in the operation of BEPC. The BEPCⅡ began the commissioning in November 2006 and the positron beam current has reached 500 mA. Because of such a high beam current, some instabilities such as ECI, bunch lengthening et al, have appeared during the operation. The experimental investigation on ECI during the commissioning of BEPCⅡ will be reported in this paper.     

基于CT-RAG和学习量子粒子群的云计算任务-资源分配算法

目前已有的云计算任务-资源分配算法仅针对独立任务进行同构资源分配,同时在分配时未考虑任务优先级；为了克服其缺点,提出了一种基于虚拟CT-RAG(Task-Resource Assignment Graph in Cloud Environment, CT-RAG)和学习量子粒子群的任务-资源分配模型；首先,定义了虚拟CT-RAG图和任务优先级,并描述了采用其获取任务-资源分配方案初始解的方法；然后采用具有学习能力的量子粒子群在可行解空间中寻优,通过为粒子安装学习机,粒子在每轮迭代的过程中根据适应度的变化情况自适应地调整动作选择概率,从而加快获取全局最优解和加快收敛速度；仿真实验表明:文中方法能有效地解决云计算环境下依赖型任务的异构资源调度,获取了全局最优解356.67,较其它方法具有较大的优越性。     

Weak deflection angle and shadow cast by the charged-Kiselev black hole with cloud of strings in plasma

In this study, the gravitational deflection angle of photons in the weak field limit (or the weak deflection angle) and shadow cast by the electrically charged and spherically symmetric static Kiselev black hole (BH) in the string cloud background are investigated. The influences of the BH charge Q, quintessence parameter γ, and string cloud parameter a on the weak deflection angle are studied using the Gauss-Bonnet theorem, in addition to studying the influences on the radius of photon spheres and size of the BH shadow in the spacetime geometry of the charged-Kiselev BH in string clouds. Moreover, we study the effects of plasma (uniform and non-uniform) on the weak deflection angle and shadow cast by the charged-Kiselev BH surrounded by the clouds of strings. In the presence of a uniform/nonuniform plasma medium, an increase in the string cloud parameter a increases the deflection angle α. In contrast, a decrease in the BH charge Q decreases the deflection angle. Further, we observe that an increase in the BH charge Q causes a decrease in the size of the shadow of the BH. We notice that, with an increase in the values of the parameters γ and a, the size of the BH shadow increases, and therefore, the intensity of the gravitational field around the charged-Kiselev BH in string clouds increases. Thus, the gravitational field of the charged-Kiselev BH in the string cloud background is stronger than the field produced by the pure Reissner-Nordstrom BH. Moreover, we use the data released by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration, for the supermassive BHs M87* and Sgr A*, to obtain constraints on the values of the parameters γ and a.