Metabolites of Eurotium Species, Their Antioxidative Properties and Synergism with Tocopherol

Natural antioxidants and synergists for tocopherol (Toc) have been isolated as acetone or ethyl acetate extracts from mycelial mats or culture broth of Eurotium species. The acetone extract, eluted stepwise with benzene and ethyl acetate by silica gel column chromatography, gave fractions that were synergistic with Toe. However, the benzene fraction appeared better because it was highly soluble in oil and did not change the color and taste of the oil. The metabolites in the benzene fraction differed in the various Eurotium species in their composition in respect to known metabolites with antioxidative activity.     

Reversible Optical Change of Amorphous Red Phosphorus in Reduced Phosphate Glasses

Amorphous red phosphorus formed in reduced phosphate glasses was found to show a photodarkening effect by illuminating the glasses with light approximately equivalent to its absorption edge; the optical transmission edge shifts toward longer wavelengths on illumination, and then a distinct deepening of the reddish color is observable visually. The photo-darkened specimen recovers its original transmission when it is heated at 300° to 350°C. This darkening-restoring process is confirmed to be reversible by repeated illumination and heating. Transmission measurements over a range of elevated temperatures suggest that this optical characteristic of red phosphorus is unique to its amorphous state.     

Light-Focusing Glass Fibers and Rods

Glass fibers and rods with radially parabolic refractive-index distributions were produced by exchanging potassium ions from a salt bath or a lower-index cladding glass for thallium ions in the glass composition. A fiber 1 m long and 0.25 mm in diameter could be bent around a curve of radius 10 cm without deforming the Gaussian mode pattern; the depolarization of a laser beam was < −20 dB. The resolution of a rod 3.14 mm long and 1.0 mm in diameter with a focal length of 1.64 mm was of the order of 450 lines/mm. Attenuation (caused primarily by absorption induced by trace impurities) was 100 to 250 dB/km at 6328 Å; since further improvement with respect to loss is expected, these fiber guides are promising materials for use in long-distance optical communications.     

Photosensitive Characteristics of Dopant-Free, Ultraviolet-Sensitive Calcium Aluminate Glasses

Calcium aluminate glasses show high sensitivity to ultraviolet radiation without the doping of optically active components. In this paper, photosensitive characteristics and the cause of UV-induced coloring were investigated for these glasses. Ultraviolet rays below 270 nm were effective for inducing the coloring. The most effective wavelength agreed with that of the apparent absorption edge. In the ternary system with SiO₂ or GeO₂, the sensitivity was monotonically reduced with the amount of the third component and almost vanished for the compositions containing 40 mol%. On the basis of the establishment of a close correlation between two optical absorption bands and two electron spin resonance signals induced by UV illumination, the UV-induced coloring was concluded to be due to the emergence of an aluminum-oxygen hole center (Al-OHC) and an ozonide (O₃^-).     

Photosensitive Mechanism of Dopant-Free, Ultraviolet-Sensitive Calcium Aluminate Glasses

Calcium aluminate glasses show high sensitivity to ultraviolet radiation without the doping of optically active components. A mechanism is proposed to account for their photosensitivity on the basis of the result that the cause of UV-induced coloring is the emergence of two kinds of paramagnetic centers, an aluminum-oxygen hole center (Al-OHC) and an ozonide (O^-₃). In this model, a peroxy linkage connecting tetrahedrally coordinated Al³⁺s and a physically dissolved O₂ molecule are assumed to be present in the glasses as structural defects. On exposure to UV rays, the peroxy linkage homolvtically dissociates into a pair of A1-OHC's by absorbing UV quanta and one of the two resulting A1-OHC's combines with a nearby O₂ to form an ozonide. Experimental evidences substantiating the mechanism are also reported.     

High-Temperature Creep of Polycrystalline Magnesia: II,Effects of Additives *

The creep of magnesia doped with 0.035 to 2.26 cation % of nine other oxides and three binary mixtures thereof and of three seawater products (about 96, 98, and 99.5y0 MgO) was evaluated in transverse bending at 1200° to 1500°C, with strain rates of about 10−²%/hr, and average grain sizes of 5 to 50p. The results obtained were compared with those for pure magnesia. Most additives accentuated the plastic (diffusion-controlled) nature of the creep process presumably by pinning dislocations and/or slowing grain growth. In most cases the rate-determining diffusing species seemed to be the cation, Mg, but in two cases it was suspected that oxygen boundary diffusion was controlling. Porosities above ˜10% appear to increase the temperature dependence of creep, probably by introducing boundary sliding. The agreement of the creep data with those of other diffusion-controlled processes (electrical conductivity, sintering, and grain growth) is demonstrated.     

To Explore High Magnetoelectrochemical Chirality

Cu films were electrodeposited under a magnetic field of 5 T on the Pt disc electrodes with diameters of 3 mm~25μm.Such magnetoelectrodeposited(MED)Cu films were employed as an electrode,and cyclic voltammograms were measured for the electrochemical reactions of an amino acid of alanine.Chiral behavior was observed as oxidation current difference between the enantiomers.Clear magnetoelectrochemical chirality was observed on the micro-disk electrode and on the kinetic-controlled electrode process of alanine.The chiral response was durable for more than 10cycles of the consecutive voltammetric measurements of the enantiomers.     

基于FastDTW的道岔故障智能诊断方法

道岔控制列车的行驶方向,是轨道交通系统的关键设备.文中采用ZD7型号道岔转辙机动作电流数据,提出基于快速动态时间规整算法(FastDTW)的道岔故障智能诊断方法.根据原始电流曲线特性将曲线分段处理,通过FastDTW计算待诊断电流曲线与模板电流曲线的扭曲路径距离,根据动态确定的最优阈值诊断故障.实验表明,该方法可适用于单动、双动型号道岔故障诊断问题,仅需200条道岔动作电流历史数据.该方法诊断准确率较高,时间较短,也适用于准确性、实时性要求较高的新型列控系统.