流变学法研究部分水解聚丙烯酰胺/Cr(III)交联反应I.浓度的影响

采用流变学法系统地考察了部分水解聚丙烯酰胺（HPAM）/Cr(III)交联体系的 反应动力学。HPAM溶液的粘性模量G”大于弹性模量G’,且其数值随时间不发生变 化,体系为粘性溶液。而HPAM/Cr(III)体系的G’和G”的数值都随时间变化,G” 在反应开始阶段大于G’,当反应进行一段时间后,G’超过G”占据主要地位,体 系成为弹性体系。交联过程可分为三个阶段：第一上升阶段,平缓上升阶段和第二 上升阶段。利用G’～ t曲线可以推测反应机理。实验发现成胶速率随反应物HPAM 和Cr(III)的浓度的增加而增加,而成胶时间缩短。在羧基浓度过量的情况下,交 联反应对Cr(III)浓度的反应级数是1。凝胶的有效弹性交联密度随聚合物浓度的增 加而增,且随凝胶反应的进行而增加。凝胶的交联点间的平均分子量随Cr(III)浓 度的增加和交联反应的进行而下降。     

Finite size effect on the Raman frequency of phonons in nano-semiconductors

A comprehensive study on Raman spectroscopy with different excitation wavelengths, sample sizes, and sample shapes for optic phonons (OPs) and acoustic phonons (APs) in polar and non-polar nano-semiconductors has been performed. The study affirms that the finite size effect does not appear in the OPs of polar nano-semiconductors, while it exists in all other types of phonons. The absence of the FSE is confirmed to originate from the long-range Fr¨ohlich interaction and the breaking of translation symmetry. The result indicates that the Raman spectra of OPs cannot be used as a method to characterize the scale and crystalline property of polar nano-semiconductors.     

Random frog: An efficient reversible jump Markov Chain Monte Carlo-like approach for variable selection with applications to gene selection and disease classification

The identification of disease-relevant genes represents a challenge in microarray-based disease diagnosis where the sample size is often limited. Among established methods, reversible jump Markov Chain Monte Carlo (RJMCMC) methods have proven to be quite promising for variable selection. However, the design and application of an RJMCMC algorithm requires, for example, special criteria for prior distributions. Also, the simulation from joint posterior distributions of models is computationally extensive, and may even be mathematically intractable. These disadvantages may limit the applications of RJMCMC algorithms. Therefore, the development of algorithms that possess the advantages of RJMCMC methods and are also efficient and easy to follow for selecting disease-associated genes is required. Here we report a RJMCMC-like method, called random frog that possesses the advantages of RJMCMC methods and is much easier to implement. Using the colon and the estrogen gene expression datasets, we show that random frog is effective in identifying discriminating genes. The top 2 ranked genes for colon and estrogen are Z50753, U00968, and Y10871_at, Z22536_at, respectively. (The source codes with GNU General Public License Version 2.0 are freely available to non-commercial users at: http://code.google.com/p/randomfrog/.)     

聚合物交联反应诱导相分离过程的光散射二维相关分析研究

采用二维相关分析技术对聚醚砜(PES)/环氧树脂/二(2,6-二甲基苯胺基)甲烷体系的相分离过程的光散射数据进行了分析研究. 分析结果表明二维光散射分析可以提供一维光散射较难得到的信息: 在该体系相分离的演化过程早期, 即扩散控制期内, 体系中较小尺寸相区的粗大化早于较大的相区. 在相分离的中后期, 较小尺寸的富集相因碰撞融合产生更大尺寸相区的变化优先于较大尺寸相区的粗大化过程. 其原因可能是: 一方面这种增长方式比较有利于体系的能量较快地降低, 另一方面是在相分离的中后期界面运动导致的流动作用影响不容忽视.     

流变学法研究交联聚合物凝胶的抗剪切性能

流变学法研究交联聚合物凝胶的抗剪切性能;交联聚合物;凝胶;屈服应力;流变学方法     

低温凝胶燃烧法合成Y2O3∶Er3+，Yb3+纳米晶上转换发光材料

分别以柠檬酸和甘氨酸为燃烧剂,采用低温凝胶燃烧法合成了Er³⁺、Yb³⁺共掺Y₂O₃纳米晶粉体。通过TG-DSC、XRD、SEM等分析手段对两种燃烧剂所对应的反应过程及纳米晶粉体的物理性能进行了分析,结果表明甘氨酸法具有更高的反应效率、更好的粉体分散性及粒径均匀性。在980 nm激光二极管(LD)激发下,对甘氨酸法所得样品的上转换发光性能分析表明,绿光和红光发射谱带分别来自于Er³⁺的⁴S_3/2/ ²H_11/2→ ⁴I_15/2和⁴F_9/2→ ⁴I_15/2跃迁。此外,对Er³⁺和Yb³⁺掺杂浓度、粉体煅烧温度对纳米晶样品上转换发光性能的影响进行了讨论。     

Noise incorporated subwindow permutation analysis for informative gene selection using support vector machines

Selecting a small subset of informative genes plays an important role in accurate prediction of clinical tumor samples. Based on model population analysis, a novel variable selection method, called noise incorporated subwindow permutation analysis (NISPA), is proposed in this study to work with support vector machines (SVMs). The essence of NISPA lies in the point that one noise variable is added into each sampled sub-dataset and then the distribution of variable importance of the added noise could be computed and serves as the common reference to evaluate the experimental variables. Further, by using the non-parametric Mann-Whitney U test, a P value can be assigned to each variable which describes to what extent the distributions of the gene variable and the noise variable are different. According to the computed P values, all the variables could be ranked and then a small subset of informative variables could be determined to build the model. Moreover, by NISPA, we are the first to distinguish the variables into a more detailed classification as informative, uninformative (noise) and interfering variables in comparison with other methods. In this study, two microarray datasets are employed to evaluate the performance of NISPA. The results show that the prediction errors of SVM classifiers could be significantly reduced by variable selection using NISPA. It is concluded that NISPA is a good alternative of variable selection algorithm.     

Structures and Surface States of Polymer Brushes in Good Solvents: Effects of Surface Interactions

The influence of the surface interaction on the mesoscopic structure of grafted polymers in good solvents has been examined. At high surface coverage, tethered polymers are in the brush state and the parabolic segment density profile is confirmed by self-consistent field theory (SCFT) calculations. It is found that this is a universal behavior for a whole range of surface interactions from complete repulsion to strong attraction. More interestingly, finite surface repulsion may lead to the maximum in the proximal layer of its segment density profile, which is significantly different from both the depletion layer of pure repulsion and the adsorbing layer of attraction. In addition to the brush state on both repulsive and attractive surfaces, three additional surface states were identified by analyzing the scaling behavior of the layer thickness of polymer brushes: the mushroom state on repulsive substrates, the dilute and the semidilute surface states on attractive substrates.     

基于聚乙烯醇/Fe2O3纳米颗粒的纤维素酶固定化

以聚乙烯醇/Fe2O3磁性纳米颗粒为纤维素酶固定化载体, 通过反复冻融的方法成功地实现了纤维素酶固定化. 采用透射电镜、红外光谱仪、振动样品磁强度计对固定化酶复合体进行了表征, 结果显示, 固定化酶复合体为大小约1 μm的微凝胶团, 内含10 nm左右的Fe2O3纳米颗粒. 研究影响固定化因素后发现, 当pH为6, 固定化时间为11 h, 纤维素酶/PVA质量比为4, PVA/Fe质量比为50时, 固定化纤维素酶效果最好. 通过该方法固定后酶活回收率达42%, 酶水解效率显著提高, 经过5次反应后的固定化酶相对酶活力保留50%以上. 因此, 基于聚乙烯醇/Fe2O3纳米颗粒的纤维素酶固定有利于酶的循环使用并显著提高酶的使用效率, 是一种有效固定化纤维素酶的新方法.     

受限薄膜中不对称两嵌段共聚高分子的微相形态

用强分凝理论方法研究了组分不对称(f≈0.25)的两嵌段共聚高分子在受限薄膜中的微相形态--层状相、平行柱状相和垂直柱状相.发现对中性基底,无论薄膜厚度为多少,垂直柱状相总是最稳定的相;而对亲少数相的基底,嵌段高分子的平均组成以及基底和两嵌段之间的相互作用能对薄膜体系的相行为有决定性影响.随着薄膜厚度的增加,层状相(包括奇数和偶数层数)、平行柱状相和垂直柱状相都有可能交替出现.