The prediction of the peak width at half height in HPLC

The prediction of the peak width at half height is an important aspect in the optimization of the chromatographic operating conditions. In this paper, a linear relationship, between the peak widths at half height and the retention values with various isocratic elution is observed. In gradient elution, however, the relationship between the peak widths at half height and the so-called invented retention values that correspond to the mobile phase composition by eluting the solute from the column end is developed. We believe that there is almost the same band width at half height inside the column (in unit of length) for different solutes. The peak width at half height in the chromatogram (in unit of time) is mainly determined by the capacity factor of the solute when it is eluted from the column end. The larger the capacity factor of a solute eluted from the column end, the more slowly will be the solute eluted from the column end and the wider will be the peak width at half height. It is possible to predict the peak width at half height in various isocratic and gradient elutions by using this linear relationship.     

液相色谱双保留机理动力学过程研究

本文根据质量平衡原理建立了反相色谱双保留机理的质量平衡模型, 导出了色谱流出曲线的一阶矩和二、三阶中心矩, 获得了双保留机理色谱容量因子和塔片高度的表达式. 讨论了各种色谱动力学参数对柱效和峰形的影响, 对改善色谱峰对称度和提高柱效的措施作了理论说明。     

硅胶负载氯掺杂二氧化钛光催化剂的水热制备与光催化活性评价

利用水热法, 以硅胶为载体, 以Ti(SO4)2为钛源, NaCl为氯源制备了具有良好性能的硅胶负载氯掺杂二氧化钛(CTS)光催化剂, 考察了氯投加量、焙烧温度及钛硅比对光催化活性的影响. 结果表明, 氯投加量为15% (nCl/nTi)、钛硅物质的量比为3:1、焙烧温度为750 ℃时制备的CTS具有最佳的光催化活性, 其比表面积为60.8 m2·g-1. CTS中的硅胶除了作为载体, 还起到了促进锐钛矿二氧化钛的生成并抑制其向金红石相转变的作用; 氯掺杂二氧化钛(CT)经硅胶负载后, 其表面孔结构发生了变化, 并且热稳定性增加. 苯酚降解实验表明, 与CT相比, CTS以0.7740 g·g-1的二氧化钛含量具有更高的光催化活性.     

Effect of Extracorporeal Shockwave Treatment on the Melanogenic Activity of Cultured Melanocytes

In addition to the traditional lithotripsy treatment, extracorporeal shockwaves (ESWs) have been shown to be effective in the treatment of certain musculoskeletal disorders and in enhancing skin flap neovascularization. However, relatively little is known about its effect on melanocytes. To investigate its effect on the melanogenic activity of cultured melanocytes, mouse B16F10 melanocytes were treated with defocused ESWs of different energies (15, 21, and 27 kV) and at different doses (300 and 600 impulses). Cell viability was measured 1 and 24 h after treatment. Melanin content was measured and compared against a standard curve generated with fungal melanin. Cellular tyrosinase activity was calculated with the 3,4-dihydroxyphenylalanine (DOPA) oxidase assay. The results demonstrated that ESW treatment reduced cell viability. Our results also indicated that the overall decrease in cell viability lasted for 6 days. After ESW treatment with 300 or 600 impulses at 21 kV, no significant change in melanin content or tyrosinase activity of the B16F10 melanocytes was noted as compared to those of the control. The present study suggests that ESW treatment does not alter the melanogenic activity of the cultured melanocytes.     

Separation mechanism of chiral compounds in chiral stationary phase liquid chromatography

In this paper, the concept of reversed- or normal-phase chiral stationary phase liquid chromatography has been put forward according to the polar strength of mobile and stationary phases. The statistical model developed in HPLC has been used to investigate the separation mechanism of D- and L-enantiomer in chiral stationary phase liquid chromatography. It has been observed that the variation of capacity factor of enantiomers with mobile phase composition in both reversed-phase and normal-phase chiral stationary phase liquid chromatography can be described by the fundamental elution equation lnk' = a + blnC_b + _cC_b. The effect of mobile phase composition on the selectivity of enantiomers D and L in normal-phase chiral stationary phase liquid chromatography can be described by the equation lnα = Δa + ΔblnC_b, but in reversed-phase chiral stationary phase liquid chromatography the selectivity is almost independant of the mobile phase composition.     

A modified large-scale structure-preserving doubling algorithm for a large-scale Riccati equation from transport theory

A large scale nonsymmetric algebraic Riccati equation XCX ? XE ? AX + B = 0 arising in transport theory is considered, where the n × n coefficient matrices B,C are symmetric and low-ranked and A, E are rank one updates of nonsingular diagonal matrices. By introducing a balancing strategy and setting appropriate initial matrices carefully, we can simplify the large-scale structure-preserving doubling algorithm (SDA_ls) for this special equation. We give modified large-scale structure-preserving doubling algorithm, which can reduce the flop count of original SDA_ls by half. Numerical experiments illustrate the effectiveness of our method.