112 research outputs found

    ИНФОРМАЦИОННАЯ БЕЗОПАСНОСТЬ СЕТЕЙ СВЯЗИ

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    Современная информационно-телекоммуникационная система представляет собой сложную систему, состоящую из большого числа компонентов различной степени автономности, которые связаны между собой и обмениваются данными. Практически каждый компонент может подвергнуться внешнему воздействию или выйти из строя. Появление на отечественном рынке и внедрение в эксплуатацию современных импортных цифровых АТС приводят к повышению уязвимости телефонных сетей связи и информационных ресурсов организаций

    Parameterization of NMR relaxation curves in terms of logarithmic moments of the relaxation time distribution

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    This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 668119 (project “IDentiFY”). We thank Dr. Reiner Zorn for helpful comments on his article [7]; Dr. Oliver Neudert and Dr. Carlos Mattea for introduction to the field-cycling relaxometry and their suggestions about a test sample; and Prof. Dr. Michael Vogel for permission to use the 7Li stimulated-echo data.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

    Low-field and variable-field NMR relaxation studies of H2O and D2O molecular dynamics in articular cartilage

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    Osteoarthritis (OA) as the main degenerative disease of articular cartilage in joints is accompanied by structural and compositional changes in the tissue. Degeneration is a consequence of a reduction of the amount of macromolecules, the so-called proteoglycans, and of a corresponding increase in water content, both leading to structural weakening of cartilage. NMR investigations of cartilage generally address only the relaxation properties of water. In this study, two-dimensional (T1-T2) measurements of bovine articular cartilage samples were carried out for different stages of hydration, complemented by molecular exchange with D2O and treatment by trypsin which simulates degeneration by OA. Two signal components were identified in all measurements, characterized by very different T2 which suggests liquid-like and solid-like dynamics. These measurements allow the quantification of separate hydrogen components and their assignment to defined physical pools which had been discussed repeatedly in the literature, i.e. bulk-like water and a combination of protein hydrogens and strongly bound water. The first determination of 2H relaxation dispersion in comparison to 1H dispersion suggests intramolecular interactions as the dominating source for the pronounced magnetic field dependence of the longitudinal relaxation time T1

    Molecular velocity auto-correlations in glycerol/water mixtures studied by NMR MGSE method

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    Molecular dynamics in binary mixtures of water and glycerol was studied by measuring the spectrum of water velocity auto-correlation in the frequency range from 0.05 to 10 kHz by using the NMR method of modulated gradient spin echo. The method shows that the diversity of diffusion signature in the short spin trajectories provides information about heterogeneity of molecular motion due to the motion in the micro-vortexes of hydrodynamic fluctuation, which is especially pronounced for the mixtures with the low glycerol content. As concentration of glycerol increases above 10vol%, a new feature of spectrum appears due to interaction of water molecules with the clusters formed around hydrophilic glycerol molecules. New spectrum exposes a rate thickening of molecular friction, according to Einstein-Smoluchowski-Kubo formula, which inhibits rapid molecular motions and creates the conditions for a slow process of spontaneously folding of disordered poly-peptides into biologically active protein molecules when immersed in such a mixture.Comment: 14 pages, 8 figure

    Effect of initial conformation on the starch biopolymer film formation studied by NMR

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    The formation of a rigid porous biopolymer scaffold from aqueous samples of 1% w/v (suspension) and 5% w/v (gel) corn starch was studied using optical and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) techniques. The drying process of these systems was observed using a single-sided NMR scanner by application of the Carr–Purcell–Meiboom–Gill pulse sequence at diffrent layer positions. The echo decays were analyzed and spin–spin relaxation times (T2) were obtained for each layer. From the depth dependent T2 relaxation time study, it was found that the molecular mobility of water within the forming porous matrix of these two samples varied notably at diffrent stages of film formation. At an intermediate stage, a gradual decrease in mobility of the emulsion sample towards the air–sample interface was observed, while the gel sample remained homogeneous all along the sample height. At a later stage of drying, heterogeneity in the molecular dynamics was observed in both samples showing low mobility at the bottom part of the sample. A wide-angle X-ray diffraction study confirmed that the structural heterogeneity persisted in the final film obtained from the 5% corn starch aqueous sample, whereas the film obtained from the 1% corn starch in water was structurally homogeneous

    The effect of silica fume and organosilane addition on the porosity of cement paste

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    The present work systematically investigates the influence of silica fume and organosilane addition on the hydration dynamics and the capillary pore formation of a cement paste. The cement samples were prepared with two water-to-cement ratios with increasing amounts of silica fume and of (3-Aminopropyl)triethoxysilane (APTES) organosilane. Low-field 1H nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) relaxation measurements were performed during the hydration of the samples and after hydration, in order to reveal the dynamics of water molecules and the pore distribution. Increasing concentrations of silica fume impact the perceived hydration dynamics through the addition of magnetic impurities to the pore solution. However, there is a systematic change in the capillary pore size distribution with an increase in silica fume concentration. The results also show that the addition of APTES majorly affects the hydration dynamics, by prolonging the dormancy and hardening stages. While it does not influence the pore size distribution of capillary pores, it prevents cyclohexane from saturating the capillary pores

    Non-exponential 1H and 2H NMR relaxation and self-diffusion in asphaltene-maltene solutions

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    The distribution of NMR relaxation times and diffusion coefficients in crude oils results from the vast number of different chemical species. In addition, the presence of asphaltenes provides different relaxation environments for the maltenes, generated by steric hindrance in the asphaltene aggregates and possibly by the spatial distribution of radicals. Since the dynamics of the maltenes is further modified by the interactions between maltenes and asphaltenes, these interactions - either through steric hindrances or promoted by aromatic-aromatic interactions - are of particular interest. Here, we aim at investigating the interaction between individual protonic and deuterated maltene species of different molecular size and aromaticity and the asphaltene macroaggregates by comparing the maltenes’ NMR relaxation (T1 and T2) and translational diffusion (D) properties in the absence and presence of the asphaltene in model solutions. The ratio of the average transverse and longitudinal relaxation rates, describing the non-exponential relaxation of the maltenes in the presence of the asphaltene, and its variation with respect to the asphaltene-free solutions are discussed. The relaxation experiments reveal an apparent slowing down of the maltenes’ dynamics in the presence of asphaltenes, which differs between the individual maltenes. While for single-chained alkylbenzenes, a plateau of the relaxation rate ratio was found for long aliphatic chains, no impact of the maltenes’ aromaticity on the maltene-asphaltene interaction was unambiguously found. In contrast, the reduced diffusion coefficients of the maltenes in presence of the asphaltenes differ little and are attributed to the overall increased viscosity

    High Temperature Fast Field Cycling Study of Crude Oil

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    A set of crude oil samples with different composition and characteristics is studied by means of Fast Field Cycling (FFC) 1H relaxometry, which probes the distribution of longitudinal relaxation times T1 as a function of the Larmor frequency. Investigation of T1 profiles at different temperatures is able to provide an insight into the dynamics and structural changes of oil components, with our particular interest being the high temperature behaviour of asphaltene. It is well-known that asphaltenes tend to form porous clusters in crude oils, which can cause severe problems for the process of oil extraction. Therefore, FFC experiments are conducted on Stelar Spinmaster FFC2000 in the temperature range 203K < T <443K, where the upper limit of 443K is aimed at approximating the typical maximal in-situ well temperatures. FFC relaxometry data of crude oils at such a high temperature are obtained for the first time with the use of a specially modified NMR probe. Inverse Laplace transformation is applied to the longitudinal agnetization decays, yielding T1 distributions at different frequencies. A comparative analysis of these distributions for different Larmor frequencies and temperatures showed that there is a systematic variation of the frequency dependence of T1 correlating with the asphaltene content in the samples, at temperatures similar to the well conditions
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