The use of water-soluble phthalocyanines as textile dyes in nylon/elastane fabric: fastness and antibacterial effectiveness

This work reports on dyeing of nylon/elastane fabric with water-soluble phthalocyanines ( 1-4 ) bearing quinoline 5-sulfonic acid substituents on the peripheral or nonperipheral positions and determining the antibacterial efficiency of the phthalocyanine compounds and the dyed nylon/elastane fabrics. The light, washing, water, perspiration, and rubbing fastness properties of nylon/elastane fabrics dyed with phthalocyanines were also determined. The results showed that all dyed fabrics showed very good wet fastness values. The lightfastness value of the nylon/elastane fabric dyed with phthalocyanine dye ( 1 ) showed a much better value than the others. Also, the antibacterial efficiencies of the dyed nylon fabrics and the dye compounds were investigated against a gram-negative ( Escherichia coli ) and a grampositive ( Staphylococcus aureus ) bacteria by using disc diffusion method. The results showed that the dyed nylon/elastane fabrics and the compounds exhibited antibacterial activities against both bacteria.     

SOME CENTRAL LIMIT THEOREMS FOR SUPER BROWNIAN MOTION

The author proves a central limit theorem for the critical super Brownian motion, which leads to a Gaussian random field. In the transient case the limitingfield is the same as that obtained by Dawson (1977). In the recurrent case it is aspatially uniform field. The author also give a central limit theorem for the weightedoccupation time of the super Brownian motion with underlying dimension numberd 3, completing the results of Iscoe (1986).     

独居石微晶玻璃中玻璃相含量的红外光谱定量测定

独居石微晶玻璃由偏磷酸盐玻璃和独居石两相组成。玻璃和独居石的红外吸收谱带彼此不相重叠,且1275和616cm~(-1)谱带的吸收强度随玻璃相的含量变化而变化。两谱带的对数吸光度比值与玻璃相含量(w％)的相关系数r=0.9975,其回归方程为y=48.356 25.93x。合成独居石的IR谱中952和616cm~(-1)谱带的吸光度比值也随不同的Ce_2O_3/La_2O_3比值规律变化。其r=0.9917,回归方程为y=0.2211exp(0.0221x)。高的相关性表明IR技术可在磷酸盐微晶玻璃物相定量分析中得到实际应用。     

The Atlas project-a new pulsed power facility for high energydensity physics experiments

Atlas is a facility being designed at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) to perform high-energy-density experiments in support of weapon physics and basic research programs. It is designed to be an international user facility, providing experimental opportunities to researchers from national laboratories and academic institutions. For hydrodynamic experiments, it will be capable of achieving a pressure exceeding 30 Mbar in a several cubic centimeter volume. With the development of a suitable opening switch, it will be capable of producing more than 3 MJ of soft X-rays. The capacitor bank design consists of a 36 MJ array of 240 kV Marx modules. The system is designed to deliver a peak current of 45-50 MA with a 4-5-μs rise time. The Marx modules are designed to be reconfigured to a 480-kV configuration for opening switch development. The capacitor bank is resistively damped to limit fault currents and capacitor voltage reversal. An experimental program for testing and certifying prototype components is currently under way. The capacitor bank design contains 300 closing switches. These switches are a modified version of a railgap switch originally designed for the DNA-ACE machines. Because of the large number of switches in the system, individual switch prefire rates must be less than 10^-4 to protect the expensive target assemblies. Experiments are under way to determine if the switch-prefire probability can be reduced with rapid capacitor charging     

The localization and thermal diffusion of positive muons in niobium

The depolarization rate for spin polarized ⁺ particles implanted into a high purity niobium crystal was studied as a function of temperature. The results were analyzed in terms of nuclear dipolar field inhomogeneity due to the host⁹³Nb, and the local field averaging effect of the muon's motion. An analysis is presented in terms of the structure of the muon wavefunction and parameters characterizing the muon diffusion.Supported in part by the U. S. National Science FoundationSupported by the U. S. Energy Research and Development AdministrationSupported by the U. S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration     

Computational interpretation of megagauss-magnetic-field-induced metallic surface plasma initiation and evolution

Numerical simulations of experiments in which plasma is formed on an aluminum surface by megagauss magnetic fields provide the first computational demonstration of a magnetic-field threshold that must be reached for aluminum plasma to begin to form. The computed times of plasma initiation agree reasonably well with the observations across the full range of rod diameters, leading to the conclusion that plasma formation is a thermal process. Computationally, plasma forms first in low-density material that is resistive enough to expand across the magnetic field and yet conductive enough that Ohmic heating exceeds expansion cooling.