布洛芬热分解及其动力学研究

通过布洛芬(ibuprofen)的热分解及其动力学研究,运用简单的热分解动力学方法进行计算分析,求出相关的活化能,指前因子和动力学参数。将布洛芬每个温度范围下的热分解过程分为3个阶段分别进行分析计算,发现每个阶段都满足一级反应方程。从而算出布洛芬热分解过程的活化能,指前因子和相关系数。通过对布洛芬热分解过程的研究,及对布洛芬TG和DTG曲线的研究,得出布洛芬在热分解过程中分为3个阶段,分别进行脱水,C-C键断裂和分子键断裂。并且随着升温速率的提高,布洛芬失重速率会逐渐趋向于温度升高的方向发展,即温度升高,布洛芬最大失重速率越大。     

基于相场模拟对镍基高温合金制备工艺优化及设计

材料制备过程中微结构演变的定量描述是材料设计的核心。近年来基于精准热力学和扩散动力学数据库的相场模拟是对微结构演变进行定量描述一种行之有效的方法。作为航空发动机和燃气涡轮叶片等高温零部件的主要用材,高性能镍基高温合金制备工艺的优化及设计一直是各国材料学者研究的热点和难点。首先概述了相场方法及其最新研究进展,以及相场法与CALPHAD(CALculation of PHAse Diagram)数据库耦合技术的发展,随后详细介绍了国内外有关镍基高温合金凝固、固溶及时效过程微结构演变定量相场模拟的报道,以及当前用于建立镍基高温合金微结构与力学性能关系的可行方法。之后给出了两个基于定量相场模拟对镍基高温合金固溶及时效热处理机制进行优化及设计的实例,进一步证明了相场模拟在高性能镍基高温合金设计中的重要作用。最后,指出了对镍基高温合金制备过程微结构演变进行定量相场模拟以及后续工艺优化和设计中存在的主要问题及发展趋势。     

浅谈新建本科院校化学类实验教学质量的保障

为确保化学类专业实验教学质量,实现新建本科院校培养高级应用型人才的培养目标,构建了一套化学类专业实验教学质量保障体系,并在实践中取得了良好的成效。     

Orally active, hydrolytically stable, semisynthetic, antimalarial trioxanes in the artemisinin family

In only three chemical operations, natural trioxane lactone artemisinin (1) was converted into a series of C-10 carbon-substituted 10-deoxoartemisinin compounds 4-9. The three steps involved lactone reduction, replacement of the anomeric lactol OH by F using diethylaminosulfur trifluoride, and finally boron trifluoride-promoted substitution of F by aryl, heteroaryl, and acetylide nucleophiles. All of these C-10 nonacetal, chemically robust, enantiomerically pure compounds 4-9 have high antimalarial potencies in vitro against Plasmodium falciparum malaria parasites, and furans 5a and 5b and pyrrole 7a are antimalarially potent also in vivo even when administered to rodents orally.     

Cation transport: an example of structural based selectivity

Through the high-resolution structure of the gramicidin A channel in lamellar phase lipids and the characterization of specific ion peptide interactions, fundamental principles for ion channel selectivity and conductance efficiency are illustrated with atomic resolution detail. Delocalized cation binding in the first turn of the helix reduces the unfavorable entropy contribution upon binding. Stepwise dehydration minimizes the energy barrier for cation entry and provides valence selectivity in this channel. Three or more water molecules in the monovalent cation binding site result in flexibility in the cation solvation environment causing weak cation size selectivity. Lack of cation induced structural modification avoids the formation of a significant energy barrier, thus permitting efficient cation transport.     

An automatic braking system that stabilizes leukocyte rolling by an increase in selectin bond number with shear

Wall shear stress in postcapillary venules varies widely within and between tissues and in response to inflammation and exercise. However, the speed at which leukocytes roll in vivo has been shown to be almost constant within a wide range of wall shear stress, i.e., force on the cell. Similarly, rolling velocities on purified selectins and their ligands in vitro tend to plateau. This may be important to enable rolling leukocytes to be exposed uniformly to activating stimuli on endothelium, independent of local hemodynamic conditions. Wall shear stress increases the rate of dissociation of individual selectin-ligand tether bonds exponentially (, ) thereby destabilizing rolling. We find that this is compensated by a shear-dependent increase in the number of bonds per rolling step. We also find an increase in the number of microvillous tethers to the substrate. This explains (a) the lack of firm adhesion through selectins at low shear stress or high ligand density, and (b) the stability of rolling on selectins to wide variation in wall shear stress and ligand density, in contrast to rolling on antibodies (). Furthermore, our data successfully predict the threshold wall shear stress below which rolling does not occur. This is a special case of the more general regulation by shear of the number of bonds, in which the number of bonds falls below one.     

Kalirin inhibition of inducible nitric-oxide synthase

Nitric oxide (NO) acts as a neurotransmitter. However, excess NO produced from neuronal NO synthase (nNOS) or inducible NOS (iNOS) during inflammation of the central nervous system can be neurotoxic, disrupting neurotransmitter and hormone production and killing neurons. A screen of a hippocampal cDNA library showed that a unique region of the iNOS protein interacts with Kalirin, previously identified as an interactor with a secretory granule peptide biosynthetic enzyme. Kalirin associates with iNOS in vitro and in vivo and inhibits iNOS activity by preventing the formation of iNOS homodimers. Expression of exogenous Kalirin in pituitary cells dramatically reduces iNOS inhibition of ACTH secretion. Thus Kalirin may play a neuroprotective role during inflammation of the central nervous system by inhibiting iNOS activity.     

Studies on the ultrastructure, histochemistry and cytochemistry of the uninfected digestive gland of Bithynia tentaculata (Mollusca: Gastropoda) and on the ultrastructure of this host organ in snails infected with larval digeneans

The structure and function of the digestive gland of the gastropod mollusc, Bithynia tentaculata, was investigated using ultrastructural, histochemical, and cytochemical techniques. The digestive gland was shown to be composed of two main cell types, the "digestive" cells and "secretory" cells. The digestive cells appeared to be concerned with the absorption and digestion of nutrients, while secretory cells produced digestive enzymes and calcareous concretions. Undifferentiated cells were scattered between these two main cell types. The pathological effects of larval digeneans on the digestive gland were also investigated, at the ultrastructural level. In such infected snails the digestive gland appeared to be degenerating. The significance of this tissue destruction was briefly discussed.     

混凝土坝裂缝变形的不确定性分析模型

混凝土坝裂缝的发生和发展受到不确定因素影响。将大坝系统及其安全监控看作一个受诸多因素影响的不确定性系统,结合裂缝实测资料,应用近似推理模型和信息分配法,建立了裂缝变形的不确定性分析模型。