Emergence of multicluster chimera states

We thank Prof. L. Huang for helpful discussions. This work was partially supported by ARO under Grant No. W911NF-14-1-0504 and by NSF of China under Grant No. 11275003. The visit of NY to Arizona State University was partially sponsored by Prof. Z. Zheng and the State Scholarship Fund of China.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Mesoscopic Interactions and Species Coexistence in Evolutionary Game Dynamics of Cyclic Competitions

Date of Acceptance: 27/11/2014Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Self-adaptation of chimera states

This work was partially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grants No. 11647052 and No. 61431012), by the Scientific Research Program Funded by Shaanxi Provincial Education Department (Program No. 17JK0553), by the Young Talent fund of University Association for Science and Technology in Shaanxi, China (Program No. 20170606), and by the Natural Science Basic Research Plan in Shaanxi Province of China (Program No. 2018JQ1010). Z.-G.H acknowledges support of K. C. Wong Education Foundation. Y.-C.L is supported by ONR under Grant No. N00014-16-1-2828.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Possible Influences on Ammonia Nitrogen Determination by Nessler's Reagent Spectrophotometry

Nessler's reagent spectrophotometry is the traditional method for ammonia nitrogen (NH3-N) determination, which is adopted in the national standard of the People's Republic of China (HJ 535-2009). In order to improve the accuracy of such method, possible influences, Nessler's Reagent preparation, pH value of the solution, metal ions, organic solvents and natural organic matters, on NH3-N determination were discussed. The results suggested that the method B, employing KI, HgI2 and NaOH, is preferred in Nessler's Reagent preparation. And the Nessler's Reagent Spectrophotometry may be executed over a wide pH range (4-11). The metal ions, organic solvents and natural organic matters have significant influences in NH3-N detection. Keywords Nessler's Reagent, Ammonia Nitrogen, pH, Metal Ion, Organic Solvent, Natural Organic Matter. DOI: 10.7176/JNSR/11-24-02 Publication date: December 31st 202

Aqua­(2-hydr­oxy-5-sulfonatobenzoato-κO 1)bis­(2-phenyl-1H-1,3,7,8-tetra­aza­cyclo­penta­[l]phenanthrene-κ2 N 7,N 8)zinc(II)

In the title compound, [Zn(C7H4O6S)(C19H12N4)2(H2O)], the ZnII ion is coordinated by two N,N′-bidentate 2-phenyl-1H-1,3,7,8-tetra­azacyclo­penta­[l]phenanthrene ligands, one O-monodentate 5-sulfosalicylate dianion and a water mol­ecule. This results in a distorted cis-ZnO2N4 octa­hedral coordination geometry for the metal ion. In the crystal, mol­ecules are expanded into a three-dimensional supra­molecular motif via O—H⋯O, O—H⋯N and N—H⋯(O,S) hydrogen bonds. In addition, π–π stacking inter­actions between the aromatic rings of the polycyclic ligands consolidate the sturcture [shortest centroid–centroid distance = 3.501 (2) Å]

2-Amino­benzimidazolium hydrogen sulfate

In the title salt, C7H8N3 +·HSO4 −, the benzimdazole ring system is planar [mean deviation 0.0086 (1) Å]. In the crystal, N—H⋯O and O—H⋯O hydrogen-bond inter­actions give rise to a layer motif

Effects of tourmaline on growth of three kinds of microorganisms

Tourmaline is a kind of widespread minerals and has been used in many fields of society. Owing to the special electric properties, tourmaline can destroy the hydrogen bond between water molecules. The growth of microorganism may be affected with addition of tourmaline; therefore the effects of tourmaline on three different kinds of microorganisms were studied using microcalorimetric method. The kinetic parameters of growth process were obtained through the thermogenic curves. The results show that high concentration tourmaline inhibited the growth of prokaryotic cells (the growth rate constant of Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus decreased 68.77 and 35.25% at tourmaline concentration of 160 g/L), while promoted eukaryotic cell (the growth rate constant of Candida albicans increased 40.73% at tourmaline concentration of 160 g/L). However, the low concentration tourmaline had complex effects on growth of the studied microorganisms.Key words: Microcalorimetric, water cluster, growth rate, inhibitory ratio