Different feeding and gustatory responses to ecdysone and 20-hydroxyecdysone by larvae of the silkworm,Bombyx mori

The feeding and gustatory responses to ecdysone and 20-hydroxyecdysone were investigated in the silkworm,Bombyx mori. 20-Hydroxyecdysone reduced feeding response strongly in fourth- and fifth-instar larvae, whereas ecdysone had no effect on feeding response. 20-Hydroxyecdysone stimulated the R receptor, the receptor to feeding deterrents, to a great degree. By contrast, ecdysone was much less effective for stimulating the R receptor. These results indicate that ecdysone and 20-hydroxyecdysone have different effects on feeding response due to different interactions with mouthpart chemoreceptors.     

Studies on biaxial stretching of polypropylene film. IX. Melting behavior of biaxially stretched film in one step

Melting temperature of a film biaxially stretched in one step in air at 152 or 140°C increases with increase of vA, whereas heat of fusion and density decrease with increase of vA, where vA is the degree of stretching in area. The rapid decrease in density occurs for vA > 10. Extrapolation of the plot of the density versus vA^?1/2 gives a value of 0.870 g/cm³ at infinite vA, which has been reported as the amorphous density of isotactic polypropylene by Farrow. This is so because the fine structure of the film becomes more and more amorphous with further stretching and reaches completely amorphous state at infinite vA. The temperature of stretching has a strong effect on the thermal behavior of a film; a low stretching temperature (140°C) brings about lower melting temperature, heat of fusion, and density. Crystallinity after melt press has not so large an effect on the melting behavior as the stretching temperature. Melting temperature and the shape of the thermogram also depend on the heating rate. There is an appropriate heating rate depending on vA which gives the minimum melting temperature. With stretched samples, a small side peak or a shoulder appears at a relatively low temperature in the thermogram when a high heating rate is used.     

高速气流冲击式粉体表面改性装置——HYBRIDIZATION系统及应用

利用高速气流冲击法进行粉体/粉体系表面改性技术,是迄今为止各种粉体材料开发中最为引人注目的技术之一。HYBRIDIZATION(下称HYB)系统是利用高速气流冲击法对微粉体进行干式/机械化处理,是使材料复合化的最实用的装置,可对各类有机物、无机物、金属等进行广泛组合,通用性很强,适用于许多行业领域。从本文所述的系统构成、型式,有关的典型球形化处理的运转特性,利用复合化高温粉体测定被处理粉体表面温度,利用颜料改变色调等的处理特点及该系统的适用性等(一部分是从已发表的学术论文及专利上摘录的),可以说明HYB系统的概况。     

The effect of annealing on mechanical and tribological properties of diamond-like carbon multilayer films

The diamond-like carbon (DLC) multilayer films have been deposited by plasma CVD deposition onSi wafer substrate. The deposited films have then been post-annealed in vacuum at 250 °C for 2 h. Changes in internal stress, hardness, critical load, friction coefficient and wear have been investigated toassess the influence of annealing on mechanical and tribological properties of DLC multilayer films. At the same time, DLC single layerfilms are also deposited and annealed in the same method for a comparison.The results show that there is 28–33% decrease in internal stress and 10–13% decrease in hardness of theDLC single layer films after the anneal treatment. However, for the DLC multilayer films, there is 41–43% decreasein internal stress and less than 2% decrease in hardness. In addition, the annealed DLC multilayer filmhas the same friction and wear properties as that un-annealed film. This result indicates that the anneal treatment isan effective method for the DLC multilayer films to reduce the internal stress and to increase the critical load.The by-effect of the annealing, decrease of hardness and wear resistance of the multilayer film, can be restrictedby the multilayer structure.     

Solubility of Si3N4 in Liquid SiO2

The nitrogen solubility in the SiO₂-rich liquid in the metastable binary SiO₂-Si₃N₄ system has been determined by analytical TEM to be 1%–4% of N/(O + N) at 1973–2223 K. Analysis of the near edge structure of the electron energy loss peak indicates that nitrogen is incorporated into the silicate network rather than being present as molecular N₂. A regular solution model with a positive enthalpy of mixing for the liquid was used to match the data for the metastable solubility of N in the presence of crystalline Si₃N₄ and to adjust the computed phase diagram. The solubility of Si₃N₄ in fused SiO₂ is far less than reported in liquid silicates also containing Al, Mg, and/or Y. Apparently, these cations act as modifiers that break anion bridges in the silicate network and, thereby, allow further incorporation of Si₃N₄ without prohibitive amounts of network cross-linking. Finally, indications emerged regarding the diffuse nature of the Si₃N₄-SiO₂ interface that leads to amorphous regions of higher N content.     

Microstructure of TiO2 and ZnO Films Fabricated by the Sol-Gel Method

Titanium dioxide and zinc oxide films were fabricated by spin-on and dip-coating methods. Both types of films exhibited columnar grains when the single coating was thin, ∼10 nm. The columnar TiO₂ films were dense, as confirmed by their density values calculated from the refractive index and TEM results. The addition of Al cations into the ZnO suppressed grain growth, because Zn had a lower diffusivity in the doped films. The doped ZnO films had nearly the same electrical resistivity as that of the undoped films.     

Composite sheets with biodegradable polymers and paper,the effect of paper strengthening agents on strength enhancement,and an evaluation of biodegradability

Composite sheets composed of biodegradable polymers (BP) and paper were prepared, and their physical and biodegradable properties were investigated. The paper sheets were soaked in BP emulsions and cured at 100°C for 20 min. The wet strength of composite sheets with the same basis weight increased significantly with increasing BP content, although dry strength increased only moderately. A 0.5% addition of a common wet paper‐strengthening agent, poly(amidoamine‐epichlorohydrin) (PAE) resin, enhanced the wet strength, which reached 9.3 MPa, of composite sheets consisting of a BP : paper ratio of 20 : 80. Further enhancement was achieved by the addition of polyvinylamines (PVAm). The wet tensile strength of composite sheets consisting of BP and paper (20 : 80) increased by 27% with the addition of 0.2% PVAm and 0.5% PAE, whereas it was enhanced by only 3–4% with the addition of 0.7% PAE. The biodegradability of the composite sheets was somewhat retarded by the addition of PAE and PVAm. However, a 90% weight loss was observed 60 days after placing composite sheet samples in soil. A similar weight loss was observed after 45 days for composites without additives and after 30 days for base paper alone. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Appl Polym Sci 96: 861–866, 2005     

High-Temperature Fracture Mechanism of Low-Ca-Doped Silicon Nitride

High-purity Si₃N₄ (with 2.5 wt% glassy SiO₂) doped with 0 to 450 at.ppm of Ca was prepared as a model system to investigate the effects of grain-boundary segregants on fracture phenomenology at 1400°C. Subcritical crack-growth (SCG) resistance as well as creep resistance was degraded significantly by the presence of a small amount of Ca. The internal friction of the doped materials exhibited the superposition of a grain-boundary relaxation peak and a high-temperature background, and the apparent viscosity of the grain-boundary film was determined from the peak. Based on these experimental data, the fracture mechanism at 1400°C was divided into three regions: "brittle," SCG, and creep failure as a function of both external strain rate and Ca concentration, C _Ca. From the investigation of the C _Ca dependence of the critical strain rate for the transition from "brittle" to SCG fractures, the SCG phenomenon is suggested to be triggered by small-scale, grain-boundary sliding. The C _Ca dependence of "steady-state" creep rate was far from the theoretical dependence of diffusional creep via a solution-precipitation mechanism. The discrepancy was interpreted to be due to the presence of an impurity-insensitive creep component. This component may correspond to the lowest limit of the tensile creep rate in Si₃N₄ polycrystalline materials containing intergranular glassy-SiO₂ film.     

Activation of a Au/TiO2 Catalyst by Loading a Large Amount of Fe–Oxide: Oxidation of CO Enhanced by H2 and H2O

Catalytic activity of a 1 wt% Au/TiO₂ catalyst is markedly improved by loading a large amount of FeO_x, on which the oxidation of CO in excess H₂ is selectively promoted at temperature lower than 60 °C. Oxidation of CO with O₂ on the FeO_x/Au/TiO₂ catalyst is markedly enhanced by H₂, and H₂O moisture also enhances the oxidation of CO but its effect is not so large as the promotion by H₂. We deduced that activation of Au/TiO₂ catalyst by loading FeO_x is not caused by the size effect of Au particles but a new reaction path via hydroxyl carbonyl intermediate is responsible for the superior activity of the FeO_x/Au/TiO₂ catalyst.