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Cloaking and imaging at the same time
In this letter, we propose a conceptual device to perform subwavelength
imaging with positive refraction. The key to this proposal is that a drain is
no longer a must for some cases. What's more, this device is an isotropic
omnidirectional cloak with a perfect electric conductor hiding region and shows
versatile illusion optical effects. Numerical simulations are performed to
verify the functionalities.Comment: 15 pages, 4 figure
Preparation and Characterization of a Complex of Paeonol and Hydroxypropyl-β-cyclodextrin
Purpose: To improve the solubility of paeonol in water by complexing with hydroxypropyl-β-cyclodextrin (HP-β-CD) and also to characterize the physicochemical properties of the complex.Methods: The complex of paeonol and HP-β-CD was prepared by freeze-drying method. Its physicochemical properties were studied by phase-solubility method, ultraviolet-visible spectrometry (UV), infrared spectrometry (IR), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), x-ray diffractometry (XRD) and thermogravimetric/differential scanning calorimetry (TG/DSC).Results: The phase-solubility results showed that paeonol formed a 1:1 stoichiometric complex with HP-β-CD while UV and IR spectra suggested that HP-β-CD and paeonol in the complex interacted by a non-covalent bond. SEM and XRD indicate that the heat stability of paeonol was significantly improved by complexing with HP-β-CD.Conclusion: Paeonol can be efficiently complexed with HP-β-CD to form a complex by freeze-drying method. The aqueous solubility and heat stability of paeonol is significantly improved by complexation HP-β-CD.Keywords: Paeonol, Hydroxypropyl-β-cyclodextrin, Complexation, Aqueous solubility, Heat stabilit
Resistance comparison of domesticated silkworm (Bombyx mori L.) and wild silkworm (
In this study, the resistance difference to phoxim between Bombyx mori L. and Bombyx mandarina M was investigated. For the both silkworm species, the whole body of each larval were collected, and on the third day of the 5th instar, the brain, midgut, fat bodies, and silk gland were collected for enzymatic activity assay of acetylcholinesterase (AChE). Our results showed that in the early larval stages, the resistance difference to phoxim was not significant between the two species. However, in the 4th and 5thinstar, the resistance differences showed significant increase. When compared to B. mori L, the LC50 of B. mandarina was 4.43 and 4.02-fold higher in the 4th and 5th instar, respectively. From the 1st to 5thinstar, the enzymatic activities of AChE of B. mandarina were 1.60, 1.65, 1.81, 1.93 and 2.28-fold higher than that of B. mori, respectively. For the brain, midgut, fat body, and silk gland on the third day of the5th instar, the enzymatic activity ratios of B. mandarina to B. mori were 1.90, 2.23, 2.76, and 2.78, respectively. The AChE-I50 values of B. mori and B. mandarina detected by eserine method were 5.02 × 10-7 and 5.23 × 10-7 mol/L, respectively. Thus, our results indicate that the higher enzymatic activities of AChE and the insensitivity to specific inhibitor of the enzyme might be the underlying mechanisms for higher phoxim resistance in B. mandarina
Topological Electronic Structure and Its Temperature Evolution in Antiferromagnetic Topological Insulator MnBi2Te4
Topological quantum materials coupled with magnetism can provide a platform
for realizing rich exotic physical phenomena, including quantum anomalous Hall
effect, axion electrodynamics and Majorana fermions. However, these unusual
effects typically require extreme experimental conditions such as ultralow
temperature or sophisticate material growth and fabrication. Recently, new
intrinsic magnetic topological insulators were proposed in MnBi2Te4-family
compounds - on which rich topological effects could be realized under much
relaxed experimental conditions. However, despite the exciting progresses, the
detailed electronic structures observed in this family of compounds remain
controversial up to date. Here, combining the use of synchrotron and laser
light sources, we carried out comprehensive and high resolution angle-resolved
photoemission spectroscopy studies on MnBi2Te4, and clearly identified its
topological electronic structures including the characteristic gapless
topological surface states. In addition, the temperature evolution of the
energy bands clearly reveals their interplay with the magnetic phase transition
by showing interesting differences for the bulk and surface states,
respectively. The identification of the detailed electronic structures of
MnBi2Te4 will not only help understand its exotic properties, but also pave the
way for the design and realization of novel phenomena and applications.Comment: 18 pages, 4 figur
Effect of a Zn impurity on T_c and its implication to pairing symmetry in LaFeAsOF
The effect of non-magnetic Zn impurity on superconductivity in
LaFeZnAsOF system is studied systematically. In the
presence of Zn impurity, the superconducting transition temperature increases
in the under-doped regime, remains unchanged in the optimally doped regime, and
is severely suppressed in the over-doped regime. Our results suggest a switch
of the symmetry of the superconducting order parameters from a -wave to
or -wave states as the charge carrier doping increases in
FeAs-based superconductors.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures. Format changed and a few revisons mad
Phenothiazine-based copolymer with redox functional backbones for organic battery cathode materials
Organic battery materials are receiving increasing attention owing to their elemental abundance, environmental sustainability, and structural diversity. Challenges including the solubility in electrolytes, moderate redox potentials and inactive molecular fragments prevent organic materials from being ideal cathodes for practical implementation. Although polymerization, salification and alike are effective in lowering the solubility in electrolytes, they unavoidably bring additional inactive fragments into the molecular structures, resulting in the sacrifice of theoretical galvanometric capacity compared with the pristine molecule. In this study, we use two redox-active fragments to construct an insoluble copolymer as a cathode material for organic batteries. The copolymer avoids the use of unnecessary molecular weight while maintaining high specific capacity and cycling stability. We find that a twisted geometry between the two redox-active fragments leads to a cross-conjugation effect that further consolidates the low stability of individual fragment and enhances the flexibility of copolymer chains by forming mesopores that accelerate ion diffusion. The copolymer shows a high capacity of 142.5 mAh g^{-1} with energy/power density of 577 Wh kg^{-1}/1685 W kg^{-1} and a decent capacity retention of 87% after 500 cycles. Our strategy demonstrates the feasibility of designing organic battery materials that are qualified for taking solubility, capacity, and stability into consideration
Obvious enhancement of the total reaction cross sections for P with Si target and the possible relavent mechanisms
The reaction cross sections of P and the corresponding isotones on
Si target were measured at intermediate energies. The measured reaction cross
sections of the N=12 and 13 isotones show an abrupt increase at . The
experimental results for the isotones with as well as P can
be well described by the modified Glauber theory of the optical limit approach.
The enhancement of the reaction cross section for P could be explained
in the modified Glauber theory with an enlarged core. Theoretical analysis with
the modified Glauber theory of the optical limit and few-body approaches
underpredicted the experimental data of P. Our theoretical analysis
shows that an enlarged core together with proton halo are probably the
mechanism responsible for the enhancement of the cross sections for the
reaction of P+Si.Comment: 16 pages, 5 figures, to be published in Phys.Rev.
Observation of in-gap surface states in the Kondo insulator SmB6 by photoemission
Kondo insulators (KIs) are strongly correlated materials in which the
interactions between 4f and conduction electrons lead to a hybridization gap
opening at low temperature 1-2. SmB6 is a typical KI, but its resistivity does
not diverge at low temperatures, which was attributed to some in-gap states
3-10. However after several decades of research, the nature and origin of the
in-gap states remain unclear. Recent band calculation and transport
measurements suggest that the in-gap states could actually be ascribed to
topological surface states. SmB6 thus might be the first realization of
topological Kondo insulator (TKI) 13, the strongly correlated version of
topological insulator (TI) 11,12. Here by performing angle-resolved
photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES), we directly observed several dispersive
states within the hybridization gap of SmB6, which cross the Fermi level and
show negligible kz dependence, indicative of their surface origin. Furthermore,
the circular dichroism (CD) ARPES results of the in-gap states suggest the
chirality of orbital momentum, and temperature dependent measurements have
shown that the in-gap states vanish simultaneously with the hybridization gap
around 150 K. These strongly suggest their possible topological origin.Comment: 18 pages, 8 figure
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