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Perchlorate is a compound of increasing concern as an environmental contaminant and is being regulated at increasingly stringent levels. Reliable methods are needed to consistently analyze perchlorate at low concentration levels. This research investigates the use of solid-phase extraction cartridges as an alternative to large-volume injection loops to achieve low-level (microg/L level) perchlorate quantitation. The method involves commercially available strong anion exchange (SAX) cartridges. Water samples are filtered (100 to 1000 mL) using the cartridge, which removes the perchlorate from the solution by anion exchange. Then, after the desired volume is filtered, the perchlorate is extracted using 4 mL of 1% NaOH. In addition, a cleanup method is developed to remove competing anions (chloride, sulfate, and carbonate) that are often found in environmental samples. Analyses are performed with an ion chromatograph using a 10-microL injection loop, yielding a perchlorate method detection limit (MDL) of 210 microg/L. One-liter volumes of a 2-microg/L perchlorate spiked deionized water solution are filtered with SAX SPE. Following extraction and analysis, an MDL of 0.82 microg/L is obtained, comparable to that found for 1-mL injection loop systems (reported as low as 0.53 microg/L). MDL studies are then conducted on perchlorate-amended groundwater (solution concentration of 70 microg/L) and surface water (solution concentration of 10 microg/L) using a filtration volume of 200 mL. The MDLs are 6.7 microg/L for the groundwater and 2.4 microg/L for the surface water. 相似文献
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Navida Nasir Nataliya Melnychenko-Koblyuk Ingeborg Bednar 《Journal of solid state chemistry》2010,183(10):2329-2342
Three series of vacancy-free quaternary clathrates of type I, Ba8ZnxGe46−x−ySiy, Ba8(Zn,Cu)xGe46−x, and Ba8(Zn,Pd)xGe46−x, have been prepared by reactions of elemental ingots in vacuum sealed quartz at 800 °C. In all cases cubic primitive symmetry (space group Pm3?n, a∼1.1 nm) was confirmed for the clathrate phase by X-ray powder diffraction and X-ray single crystal analyses. The lattice parameters show a linear increase with increase in Ge for Ba8ZnxGe46−x−ySiy. M atoms (Zn, Pd, Cu) preferably occupy the 6d site in random mixtures. No defects were observed for the 6d site. Site preference of Ge and Si in Ba8ZnxGe46−x−ySiy has been elucidated from X-ray refinement: Ge atoms linearly substitute Si in the 24k site whilst a significant deviation from linearity is observed for occupation of the 16i site. A connectivity scheme for the phase equilibria in the “Ba8Ge46” corner at 800 °C has been derived and a three-dimensional isothermal section at 800 °C is presented for the Ba-Pd-Zn-Ge system. Studies of transport properties carried out for Ba8{Cu,Pd,Zn}xGe46−x and Ba8ZnxSiyGe46−x−y evidenced predominantly electrons as charge carriers and the closeness of the systems to a metal-to-insulator transition, fine-tuned by substitution and mechanical processing of starting material Ba8Ge43. A promising figure of merit, ZT ∼0.45 at 750 K, has been derived for Ba8Zn7.4Ge19.8Si18.8, where pricey germanium is exchanged by reasonably cheap silicon. 相似文献
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Aaltonen T Adelman J Akimoto T Albrow MG Alvarez González B Amerio S Amidei D Anastassov A Annovi A Antos J Aoki M Apollinari G Apresyan A Arisawa T Artikov A Ashmanskas W Attal A Aurisano A Azfar F Azzi-Bacchetta P Azzurri P Bacchetta N Badgett W Barbaro-Galtieri A Barnes VE Barnett BA Baroiant S Bartsch V Bauer G Beauchemin PH Bedeschi F Bednar P Behari S Bellettini G Bellinger J Belloni A Benjamin D Beretvas A Beringer J Berry T Bhatti A Binkley M Bisello D Bizjak I Blair RE Blocker C 《Physical review letters》2008,100(16):161803
We present the results of a search for pair production of a new heavy toplike quark t' decaying to a W boson and another quark using the Collider Detector at Fermilab II detector in run II of the Tevatron pp collider. Using a data sample corresponding to 760 pb(-1) of integrated luminosity, we fit the observed spectrum of total transverse energy and reconstructed t' quark mass to a combination of standard model processes and t' pair production. We see no evidence for t't' production, and we infer a lower limit of 256 GeV/c(2) on the mass of the t' at 95% C.L. assuming standard strong couplings for the t'. 相似文献
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Klara Markova Klaudia Chmelova Srgio M. Marques Philippe Carpentier David Bednar Jiri Damborsky Martin Marek 《Chemical science》2020,11(41):11162
Computational design of protein catalysts with enhanced stabilities for use in research and enzyme technologies is a challenging task. Using force-field calculations and phylogenetic analysis, we previously designed the haloalkane dehalogenase DhaA115 which contains 11 mutations that confer upon it outstanding thermostability (Tm = 73.5 °C; ΔTm > 23 °C). An understanding of the structural basis of this hyperstabilization is required in order to develop computer algorithms and predictive tools. Here, we report X-ray structures of DhaA115 at 1.55 Å and 1.6 Å resolutions and their molecular dynamics trajectories, which unravel the intricate network of interactions that reinforce the αβα-sandwich architecture. Unexpectedly, mutations toward bulky aromatic amino acids at the protein surface triggered long-distance (∼27 Å) backbone changes due to cooperative effects. These cooperative interactions produced an unprecedented double-lock system that: (i) induced backbone changes, (ii) closed the molecular gates to the active site, (iii) reduced the volumes of the main and slot access tunnels, and (iv) occluded the active site. Despite these spatial restrictions, experimental tracing of the access tunnels using krypton derivative crystals demonstrates that transport of ligands is still effective. Our findings highlight key thermostabilization effects and provide a structural basis for designing new thermostable protein catalysts.Illustration of cooperative thermostabilization effects of the double-lock system that: (i) induced backbone changes, (ii) closed the molecular gates, (iii) reduced the volumes of the main and slot access tunnels, and (iv) occluded the active site. 相似文献
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Luís F. Guido Daniel O. Carvalho Jakub Taborsky Jana Skopalova Helena M. E. B. Saldanha Petr Bednar 《Chromatographia》2015,78(19-20):1233-1243
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Poda AR Bednar AJ Kennedy AJ Harmon A Hull M Mitrano DM Ranville JF Steevens J 《Journal of chromatography. A》2011,1218(27):4219-4225
The ability to detect and identify the physiochemical form of contaminants in the environment is important for degradation, fate and transport, and toxicity studies. This is particularly true of nanomaterials that exist as discrete particles rather than dissolved or sorbed contaminant molecules in the environment. Nanoparticles will tend to agglomerate or dissolve, based on solution chemistry, which will drastically affect their environmental properties. The current study investigates the use of field flow fractionation (FFF) interfaced to inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) as a sensitive and selective method for detection and characterization of silver nanoparticles. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) is used to verify the morphology and primary particle size and size distribution of precisely engineered silver nanoparticles. Subsequently, the hydrodynamic size measurements by FFF are compared to dynamic light scattering (DLS) to verify the accuracy of the size determination. Additionally, the sensitivity of the ICP-MS detector is demonstrated by fractionation of μg/L concentrations of mixed silver nanoparticle standards. The technique has been applied to nanoparticle suspensions prior to use in toxicity studies, and post-exposure biological tissue analysis. Silver nanoparticles extracted from tissues of the sediment-dwelling, freshwater oligochaete Lumbriculus variegatus increased in size from approximately 31-46nm, indicating a significant change in the nanoparticle characteristics during exposure. 相似文献
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F. Bednar M. H. de Oliveira J. Paris T. G. M. van de Ven 《Journal of Polymer Science.Polymer Physics》2008,46(3):253-262
A convenient method to monitor polymer dissolution is to measure the pressure drop created by passing a polymer solution through a capillary constriction rheometer. In this work, we studied the dissolution of polyethylene oxide (PEO) and cationic starch (C‐starch). We found that for freshly dissolved and entangled PEO, the main contribution to the overall pressure drop is due to the contraction and expansion of PEO entanglements at the entrance and exit of the capillary, and that the friction in the capillary plays a minor role. On the other hand, for well‐dissolved PEO, because of the absence of PEO entanglements, the loss of pressure is mainly due to friction. At high velocities the contraction and expansion coefficient for freshly dissolved PEO was more than 20 times higher than for well‐dissolved PEO, resulting in a three times higher overall pressure drop. C‐starch consists of amylopectin (~ 85%) and amylose and is known to contain clusters when freshly dissolved, likely formed from the globular amylopectin molecules. For C‐starch, the main contribution to the overall pressure drop is due to friction. Entrance and exit effects contribute only 10% to the overall pressure drop, which might be due to the linear amylose molecules in C‐starch. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part B: Polym Phys 46: 253–262, 2008 相似文献
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After providing a survey of the pertinent known literature, this paper defines the notion of a face of class B of a compact convex set and provides necessary and sufficient conditions on the class of all such faces in order that the given convex set be a Choquet simplex. 相似文献
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Aaltonen T Adelman J Akimoto T Albrow MG Alvarez González B Amerio S Amidei D Anastassov A Annovi A Antos J Aoki M Apollinari G Apresyan A Arisawa T Artikov A Ashmanskas W Attal A Aurisano A Azfar F Azzi-Bacchetta P Azzurri P Bacchetta N Badgett W Barbaro-Galtieri A Barnes VE Barnett BA Baroiant S Bartsch V Bauer G Beauchemin PH Bedeschi F Bednar P Behari S Bellettini G Bellinger J Belloni A Benjamin D Beretvas A Beringer J Berry T Bhatti A Binkley M Bisello D Bizjak I Blair RE Blocker C 《Physical review letters》2008,101(12):121801
We search for pair production of doubly charged Higgs particles (H+/- +/-) followed by decays into electron-tau (etau) and muon-tau (mutau) pairs using data (350 pb(-1) collected from [over]pp collisions at sqrt[s]=1.96 TeV by the CDF II experiment. We search separately for cases where three or four final-state leptons are detected, and combine results for exclusive decays to left-handed etau (mutau) pairs. We set an H+/- +/- lower mass limit of 114(112) GeV/c(2) at the 95% confidence level. 相似文献
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Aaltonen T Adelman J Akimoto T Albrow MG Alvarez González B Amerio S Amidei D Anastassov A Annovi A Antos J Aoki M Apollinari G Apresyan A Arisawa T Artikov A Ashmanskas W Attal A Aurisano A Azfar F Azzi-Bacchetta P Azzurri P Bacchetta N Badgett W Barbaro-Galtieri A Barnes VE Barnett BA Baroiant S Bartsch V Bauer G Beauchemin PH Bedeschi F Bednar P Behari S Bellettini G Bellinger J Belloni A Benjamin D Beretvas A Beringer J Berry T Bhatti A Binkley M Bisello D Bizjak I Blair RE Blocker C 《Physical review letters》2008,100(10):101802
We have performed a search for B(s)(0) --> micro(+) micro(-) and B(0) --> micro(+) micro(-) decays in pp collisions at square root s = 1.96 TeV using 2 fb(-1) of integrated luminosity collected by the CDF II detector at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider. The observed number of B(s)(0) and B0 candidates is consistent with background expectations. The resulting upper limits on the branching fractions are B(B(s)0) --> micro(+) micro(-)) <5.8 x 10(-8) and B(B(0) --> micro(+) micro(-))<1.8 x 10(-8) at 95% C.L. 相似文献