Getting their feet wet : Low‐cost hydrocarbon surfactants act as fluid modifiers for supercritical carbon dioxide (scCO2). Increased terminal branching of the surfactant chains aids micelle formation (see middle picture: CO2 green), and more chains allows water to be incorporated (right, blue).
LetRn/m(z∶γ)=Pn(z∶γ)/(1?γz)m be a rational approximation to exp (z),z ∈C, of ordern for all real positiveγ. In this paper we show there exists exactly one value ofγ in each of min(n+1,m) interpolation intervals such that the uniform error overR? is at a local minimum. 相似文献
In many cases, initial release of drugs from microparticles is undesirable. In the present study, Pluronic®F127, which shows thermosensitive characteristic, was used for controlling both the initial release and the sustained release of insulin from microspheres. Calcium-alginate insulin microspheres were prepared by emulsion technology and dispersed in a thermosensitive semisolid gel, the PF127. In vitro study demonstrated that PF127 could protect the activity of insulin in some extent and control the initial release and sustained release of insulin well. The results of in vivo hypoglycemic experiment carried out on diabetic rats also displayed a well correlation with in vitro release patterns. The results suggested that PF127 could sustain insulin release through a subcutaneous injection, and this material was available to deliver insulin aiming for prolonged and smooth hypoglycemic function. 相似文献
Costimulatory molecules are important regulators of T cell activation and thus favored targets for therapeutic manipulation of immune responses. One of the key costimulatory receptors is CD80, which binds the T cell ligands, CD28, and CTLA-4. We describe a set of small compounds that bind with high specificity and low nanomolar affinity to CD80. The compounds have relatively slow off-rates and block both CD28 and CTLA-4 binding, implying that they occlude the shared ligand binding site. The compounds inhibit proinflammatory cytokine release in T cell assays with submicromolar potency, and as such, they represent promising leads for the development of novel therapeutics for immune-mediated inflammatory disease. Our results also suggest that other predominantly beta proteins, such as those that dominate the cell surface, may also be accessible as potentially therapeutic targets. 相似文献
The structure factor of liquid CS2 has been measured at ambient temperature by the 7C2 diffractometer at the Laboratoire Leon Brillouin?, Saclay, France. The result has been modelled by the reverse Monte Carlo (RMC) method. The only reported neutron diffraction measurement on liquid CSe2 has also been investigated in detail. In both cases initial configurations for the RMC runs have been obtained by molecular dynamics simulation using a simple soft sphere potential. It has been found that the main features of experimental results have been reproduced even by this choice suggesting that the structure of these systems is almost entirely described by the excluded volume. Examination of model size dependence of results has also been carried out revealing the importance of using large simulation boxes. 相似文献
We have generated 4.7 W of UV (255-nm) radiation with wall plug efficiency of 0.12% by frequency doubling the green (511-nm) output of a kinetically enhanced medium-scale copper-vapor laser (CVL) in cesium lithium borate (CLBO). Frequency doubling in beta -barium borate produced 3.9 W of UV radiation with wall plug efficiency of 0.1%. We found that conversion was better with CLBO because of the reduced constraints on CVL beam quality, less UV absorption, and smaller UV walk-off. 相似文献