About the Green New Deal, dreams given form

By Larry Kummer. From the Fabius Maximus website.   Summary: The Green New Deal, recently advocated by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, could start the biggest decade for government projects since the 1960's Great Society & Apollo. Big beyond most people's imagination. But it has received little critical analysis (other than calling it "socialism"). Here is a brief…

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Integration of Yolk–Shell Units into Robust and Highly Reactive Nanoreactor: A Platform for Cascade Reactions

Chem. Commun., 2019, Accepted Manuscript
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Yingchun Guo, Lei Feng, Xiaomei Wang, Xu Zhang
The three-dimensional integrated yolk-shell (3D-IYS) nanoreactor with spatially separated functionalities was fabricated via protection-deprotection approach and core-shell colloidal crystal templates (CS-CCTs). The resulted bifunctional catalyst served as a platform for...
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[ASAP] Silylated Ge9 Clusters as New Ligands for Cyclic (Alkyl)amino and Mesoionic Carbene Copper Complexes

Inorganic Chemistry

DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.8b03338

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[ASAP] Role of Phosphine Sterics in Strained Aminophosphine Chelate Formation

Inorganic Chemistry

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Boronic acid derivatized lanthanide–polyoxometalates with novel B–OH–Ln and B–O–Nb bridges

Chem. Commun., 2019, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C8CC09872G, Communication

Shujun Li, Yue Zhao, Huihui Qi, Yanfang Zhou, Shuxia Liu, Xiaoming Ma, Jie Zhang, Xuenian Chen
Boronic acid derivatized Ln–POMs were synthesized by pH-controlled formation of B–OH–Ln and B–O–Nb bridges.
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Visible Light triggered selective reduction of nitroarenes to azo compounds catalysed by Ag@organic molecular cage

Chem. Commun., 2019, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C8CC10078K, Communication

Yu-Bin Dong, Gongjun Chen, Wen-Ling Xin, Jing-Si Wang, Jun-Yan Cheng
Herein, a new Ag nanoparticle (Ag NP) loaded organic molecular cage was reported. The obtained Ag@1 can be a highly heterogeneous catalyst for the selective reduction of nitroarenes to azo...
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Diphosphination of CO2 and CS2 mediated by frustrated Lewis pairs - catalytic route to phosphanyl derivatives of formic and dithioformic acid

Chem. Commun., 2019, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C9CC00621D, Communication

Natalia Szynkiewicz, Łukasz Ponikiewski, Rafał Grubba
The first example of CO₂ diphosphination is described. Reactions of unsymmetrical diphosphanes with CE₂ (E = O, S) catalyzed by BPh₃ insert a CE₂ molecule into the P-P bond with...
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Synthesis of coordination polymer thin films with conductance-response to mechanical stimulation

Chem. Commun., 2019, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C8CC10195G, Communication

Chunhua Chen, Wei Zhang, Yue Hong, Zhikai Le, Qiang Li, Wenwu Li, Ming Hu
Synthesis of coordination polymer thin films which are tough and highly oriented is of vital importance for exploring electronic functions under mechanical stimulation.
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Self-assembled Organic Nanotube Promoted Allylation of Ketones in Aqueous Phase

Chem. Commun., 2019, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C9CC00941H, Communication

Hui Sun, Jian Jiang, Yimen Sun, Qingwu Zhang, Minghua Liu
A self-assembled organic nanotube was found to promote the allylation of ketone reaction in aqueous phase.
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Hydrophobic hydration affects growth of clathrate hydrate: insight from NMR relaxometric and calorimetric study

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Shang Ma, Li Sun, Malcolm Kelland, Qingyu Wang, Dongfang Li, Yixian Zhang, Jian Dong
Water tightly bound to the kinetic inhibitors of tetrahydrofuran hydrate and natural gas hydrate has a relaxation time scale of sub-milliseconds. The amounts of such water are related to the...
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Kids To Strike For The Climate!

By Paul Homewood

 

h/t Joe Public/Patsy Lacey/Robin Guenier

 

 

Shock news from the Guardian – Children want to bunk off school for the day!

 

The school climate strikes that have led to tens of thousands of young people taking to the streets around the world over recent months are poised to arrive in the UK next Friday.

Thousands of pupils are expected to walk out of lessons at schools and colleges across the country amid growing concern about the escalating climate crisis.

The movement started in August when the 16-year-old schoolgirl Greta Thunberg held a solo protest outside Sweden's parliament. Now, up to 70,000 schoolchildren each week are taking part in 270 towns and cities worldwide.

Individual protests have been held in the UK, but next week a coordinated day of action is expected to result in walkouts in more than 30 towns and cities – from Lancaster to Truro, and Ullapool to Leeds.

Jake Woodier, of the UK Youth Climate Coalition, which is helping to coordinate the strikes, said Greta's message about the need for radical, urgent change had struck a chord with hundreds of thousand of young people in the UK.

"The images of what Greta did and then the huge strikes by schoolchildren in other countries have been widely shared by young people on social media and have really inspired people."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/feb/08/global-school-strikes-over-climate-change-head-to-the-uk

 

One wonders why they don't hold these protest marches at weekends. (Silly me- nobody would turn up, the kids would have better things to do, like playing on their X-Boxes!)

Meanwhile the hard left wing head teachers union seem to think it is a good idea to encourage kids and parents to break the law:

 

 

Perhaps, if the children really are concerned about the climate, they could make a really positive contribution by walking to school instead of arriving in mummy's car, throwing away their i-Pads, Nintendos and smart phones, and donating their pocket money the UN's climate fund.

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GWPF Call For Insect Decline Paper To Be Withdrawn

By Paul Homewood

 

Confirmation that the GWPF have sent a formal complaint to PNAS, regarding the paper published by them on insect decline last October:

 

 

London, 11 February: The scientific paper behind newspaper claims that insect populations were threatened with extinction was based on data known to be unreliable. That's according to the Global Warming Policy Foundation, which today called for the paper to be withdrawn.

The paper, by US scientists Bradford C Lister and Andres Garcia, claimed that a rapid decline in insect populations in a rainforest in Puerto Rico was the result of rising temperatures. The Washington Post called the study "hyperalarming", while the Guardian discussed climate change causing "insect collapse".

However, the authors' evidence that temperatures had, in fact, risen turns out to be based on a single weather station, which was known to be unreliable because of undocumented changes to equipment and location resulting in a substantial and abrupt increase in recorded temperatures in September 1992.

Since 1992, temperatures at this station have actually declined.

The Global Warming Policy Foundation has issued a formal complaint to the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the journal that published the article, asking that the paper be withdrawn.

Letter to the editor of PNAS (PDF)

https://www.thegwpf.org/hyper-alarming-study-was-hype/

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[ASAP] Selective, Fast-Response, and Regenerable Metal–Organic Framework for Sampling Excess Fluoride Levels in Drinking Water

Journal of the American Chemical Society

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[ASAP] Development of a Terpene Feedstock-Based Oxidative Synthetic Approach to the Sesquiterpenes

Journal of the American Chemical Society

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[ASAP] Self-Assembly Processes of Octahedron-Shaped Pd6L4 Cages

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Chemiresistive Thin-film Translating Biological Recognition into Electrical Signal: An Innovative Signaling Mode for Contactless Biosensing

Chem. Commun., 2019, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C9CC00298G, Communication

Jian Shu, Zhenli Qiu, Qian Zhou, Dianping Tang
An innovative signaling mode in which the chemiresistive thin-film electrode monitors the specific gaseous component that results from the biological recognition event to indirectly detect targets in liquid phase is...
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UN Thwarts Slum Schools – Part 1

Instructs UK to stop assisting parent-financed schools - under the guise of enforcing the International Convention on the Rights of the Child.

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Tranny Madness: A Triumph Of Will Over Reality

Item Mother, 38, is arrested in front of her children and locked in a cell for seven HOURS after calling a transgender woman a man on Twitter

A mother was arrested in front of her children and locked up for seven hours after referring to a transgender woman as a man online.

Three officers detained Kate Scottow at her home before quizzing her at a police station about an argument with an activist on Twitter over so-called 'deadnaming'.

The 38-year-old, from Hitchin, Hertfordshire, had her photograph, DNA and fingerprints taken and remains under investigation.

More than two months after her arrest on December 1, she has had neither her mobile phone or laptop returned, which she says is hampering her studies for a Masters in forensic psychology…

Confirming the arrest, Hertfordshire Police said: 'We take all reports of malicious communication seriously.'..

Sitcom writer Graham Linehan was given a verbal harassment warning by West Yorkshire Police after transgender activist Stephanie Hayden reported him for referring to her by her previous names and pronouns on Twitter.

A man dressing as or pretending to be a woman is a man. A "transgender woman" is a man. A man who has mutilated his body, chemically or by the knife, to better resemble a woman is a man.

This is truth: this is Reality. Speaking truth, speaking of Reality is rapidly becoming illegal. And must. Everybody knows of Reality, but everybody also wants their will to be Supreme. If Reality were legal, those who claim their will is Supreme will be reminded constantly that their will is not Supreme. This being intolerable, Reality must be not be allowed to damage the illusion.

This is the true religion of man.

The man who insists of speaking of Reality is not the same as the tranny or tranny ally who claims Reality is false. For the man speaking of Reality knows his will is (or should be) subservient to Reality. While those who embrace tranny madness—and many other similar beliefs—sees himself as his own god. And this is so even if, as most don't, use those words to describe their belief in Self. But it is still true, and is why this is not a culture war but a war of religion, which explains why heretics have to be hunted down and punished. Which is Supreme? Man or Reality?

Anyway, we hear British police don't carry guns. Though we can suppose they are now issued with erasers.

Item The tricky business of gender identity

Last November, a school in Brighton called Dorothy Stringer made the news when it was revealed that 76 of its pupils are either transgender or gender-non-conforming (TGNC). This isn't as unusual as you might think. At another school, which also hit the headlines last year, 17 pupils are in the process of changing gender and many schools now have policies in place to support pupils who identify as TGNC, including more than 80 with "gender neutral" uniforms. Referrals to the Tavistock, Britain's only NHS clinic specialising in children and young people who are TGNC, jumped from 697 in 2014-15 to 2,016 in 2016-17, an increase of 289 per cent.

In some cases, these patients will be prescribed "puberty blockers", drugs that delay the onset of puberty. If they're over 16, they may be offered hormone therapy so they develop the secondary sexual characteristics associated with the gender they identify with — breasts for those transitioning to female and facial hair for those transitioning to male. Older patients may even be given the option of gender reassignment surgery, provided their psychotherapist is satisfied they are genuinely suffering from "gender dysphoria" (see below).

So how do these packs of girls, for it is mostly girls, suddenly decide they are really boys? Obviously, such things are "in the air". They get the idea from their parents, from the teachers (try home schooling, please), from the culture, and from each other. Young girls are, much more than boys, pack animals.

When such a fad throbs through the student body, not one person in authority has the guts to say "Cut it out!" Not the teachers, not the parents. All live in either enthusiastic embrace of tranny madness, or in fear of the mob.

They cannot count on authority. Authority is cutting and running.

Until 2013, gender dysphoria was referred to in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), the psychiatrist's Bible, as "Gender Identity Disorder". But it was renamed because of the stigma attached to the word disorder and it is now taboo for mental health professionals to think of it as a mental illness. (Last year, the World Health Organisation stopped classifying transgender people as mentally ill.)

A similar kind of thing happened with homosexuality, and now with "conversions", e.g. this, this, this (since homosexuals or transsexuals do not exist in any essential way, there is nothing to convert). Doctors who speak in favor of Reality have to learn to duck: "LGBT COMMUNITY OUTRAGED AS JOHN HOPKINS PSYCHIATRIST SAYS THAT BEING TRANSGENDER IS A MENTAL DISORDER AND SEX CHANGES ARE BIOLOGICALLY IMPOSSIBLE."

Item The EU will protect you from reality (tweet)

Speech that incites racist and xenophobic violence and hatred is illegal.

Companies are now assessing 89% of flagged content within 24 hours, and promptly act to remove it when necessary, while respecting freedom of expression.

Clicking the link in the tweet leads us to Andrus Ansip, who says, "Nobody should feel unsafe or threatened due to illegal hateful content remaining online."

"Vera Jourova, European Commissioner for Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality, said: 'Illegal hate speech online is not only a crime, it represents a threat to free speech and democratic engagement.'"

Item There are many more examples. Such as in Australia, where "Teacher[s] are being told to 'queer up' the curriculum."

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Formation of an Interlocked Double-Chain from an Organic-Inorganic [2]Rotaxane

Chem. Commun., 2019, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C8CC09339C, Communication

Jesus Ferrando-Soria, Antonio Fernandez, Inigo Vitorica-Yrzebal, Deepak Asthana, Christopher Muryn, Floriana Tuna, Grigore A. Timco, Richard E. P. Winpenny
Here we show that a structure containing a polymeric interlocking daisy chain is obtained from the reaction of an inorganic-organic [2]rotaxane [HB{Cr^III₇Ni^II(μ-F)₈(O₂C^tBu)₁₆}], where B is an organic thread terminated with...
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Polymeric Ionic Liquid as Cathode Interlayer of Organic Photovoltaics with Improved Reproducibility

Chem. Commun., 2019, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C8CC10222H, Communication

Chunhua Li, Xuan Liu, Dandan Tu, Qing Yang, Xuegang Chen, Can Li, Xin Guo
A polymeric ionic liquid (PIL) was synthesized from a small-molecule one (MIL, the monomer) and they are respectively used as a cathode interlayer in organic solar cells. Compared with the...
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Visible-Light Activated Metal Catalyst-Free Vicinal Diazidation of Olefins with Sulfonium Iodate (I) Species

Chem. Commun., 2019, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C9CC00007K, Communication

Thurpu Raghavender Reddy, Dodla Sivanageswara Rao, Sudhir Kashyap
A visible light-induced vicinal diazidation of various alkenes using stable sulfonium bis(acetoxy)iodate(I) and sodium azide as radical precursor is described. The trimethylsulfonium [bis(azido)iodate(I)] species, intrinsically generated in situ, demonstrated unprecedented...
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A Plane That Landed On Greenland’s Surface In 1942 Has Been Found…Buried Under 103.6 Meters Of Ice

Is Greenland's Ice Disappearing?

Image Source: AVweb, August 2018 

I. Emergency Landing In 1942

In July, 1942, a squadron of six U.S. P-38 fighter planes and two B-17 bombers embarked on a flight mission to England when they were suddenly bombarded by severe weather.

All 8 planes were consequently forced to emergency-land on the southeastern corner of the Greenland ice sheet, about 29 kilometers from the coastal edge.

While all 25 of the occupants were ultimately rescued, the 8 planes had to be abandoned atop the surface of Greenland as it existed in 1942.  Eventually the planes were buried beneath decades of ice and snow accumulation.

II. The first "Lost Squadron" plane rescued in 1992…buried under 268 feet of ice

Over the course of the next several decades, nostalgic interest in a search-and-recovery effort grew.  After all, the Lost Squadron planes were effectively new when they were abandoned and, if preserved well enough, they could potentially be restored to flying condition .

The first several attempts to locate the planes during the 1980s were unsuccessful, as the search crews had underestimated how deep beneath the surface the planes were after 40-plus years of ice sheet growth.  It ultimately took 12 tries before the first plane was spotted.

In 1988 the search crews were finally able to pinpoint the location of a P-38 that was ultimately named "Glacier Girl".   She was buried 260 feet (79.2 meters) below the surface of the ice sheet as it existed in 1988.

By 1992 the 260-foot depth had grown to 268 feet (81.7 meters), and "Glacier Girl" was slowly (piece-by-piece) retrieved from the ice.

III. Another Lost Squadron plane was found in mid-2018…buried under 340 feet of ice

Accompanied by far less fanfare, another Lost Squadron P-38 was located in 2018 using drone technology.

This plane was found buried under another 72 feet – 21.9 meters – of ice relative to the 1992 recovery site for the first P-38 rescue (340 feet versus 268 feet).

IV. Potential implications and Greenland observations

• Greenland's interior ice is melting more slowly now than 95% of the last 9,000 years

Image Source: MacGregor et al., 2016 and AAAS press release

• An anthropogenic influence on Greenland's ice melt is too small to be detected

Image Source: Haine, 2016

• The Greenland Ice Sheet surface area is larger now than 95% of the last 8,000 years

Image Source: Briner et al., 2016

• Greenland hasn't warmed overall since the 1920s and 1930s

Image Source: Hanna et al., 2011

"The annual whole [Greenland] ice sheet 1919–32 warming trend is 33% greater in magnitude than the 1994–2007 warming."   (Box et al., 2009)

• Greenland ice melt has added just 1.5 cm to sea levels since 1900 – with no contribution during 1940-2000

Image Source: Fettweis et al ., 2017

• Greenland has been cooling during the last decade

"Here we quantify trends in satellite-derived land surface temperatures and modelled air temperatures, validated against observations, across the entire ice-free Greenland. … Warming trends observed from 1986–2016 across the ice-free Greenland is mainly related to warming in the 1990's. The most recent and detailed trends based on MODIS (2001–2015) shows contrasting trends across Greenland, and if any general trend it is mostly a cooling. The MODIS dataset provides a unique detailed picture of spatiotemporally distributed changes during the last 15 years. … Figure 3 shows that on an annual basis, less than 36% of the ice-free Greenland has experienced a significant trend and, if any, a cooling is observed during the last 15 years (<0.15 °C change per year)." (Westergaard-Nielsen et al., 2018)

"For the most recent 10 years (2005 to 2015), apart from the anomalously warm year of 2010, mean annual temperatures at the Summit exhibit a slightly decreasing trend in accordance with northern North Atlantic-wide cooling.  The Summit temperatures are well correlated with southwest coastal records (Ilulissat, Kangerlussuaq, Nuuk, and Qaqortoq)." (Kobashi et al., 2017)

• Greenland was much warmer than today throughout most of the last 10,000 years

Image Source: Kobashi et al., 2017

"Greenland temperature reached the Holocene thermal maximum with the warmest decades occurring during the Holocene (2.9 °C warmer than the recent decades) at 7960 ± 30 years B.P."  (Kobashi et al., 2017)

Image Source: McFarlin et al., 2018

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Boronate- and borinate-based π-systems for blue thermally activated delayed fluorescence materials

Chem. Commun., 2019, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C8CC10282A, Communication

Kyohei Matsuo, Takuma Yasuda
Blue thermally activated delayed fluorescence emitters based on boronate-ester, -thioester, and borinate-ester were developed.
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Hybridization Chain Reaction-Based Nanoprobe for Cancer Cell Recognition and Amplified Photodynamic Therapy

Chem. Commun., 2019, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C8CC10074H, Communication

mengyi xiong, Qiming Rong, Gezhi Kong, Chan Yang, Yan Zhao, Feng-Li Qu, Xiaobing Zhang, Weihong Tan
Precision diagnosis and effective treatment are the cores for early cancer therapy. Here, we for the first time reported a hybridization chain reaction-based nanoprobe for selective and sensitive cancer cells...
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Scientists use eclipse data to study motions in the solar corona

During a total solar eclipse, the Sun's corona and prominences are visible to the naked eye [image credit: Luc Viatour / https://Lucnix.be ]

The Sun continues to pose questions for scientists, such as the way solar cycle variability works and the surprisingly intense heat of its corona, compared to its surface.

A team of scientists who collected numerous observations of last summer's total solar eclipse via telescopes and electronic cameras has used the data to better understand motions within the solar corona, the Sun's outer atmosphere, says Space Reporter.

Jay Pasachoff of Williams College in Williamstown, MA, who led the team in observing the eclipse in Salem, Oregon, presented their findings to the 232nd Meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) in early June.

His team has observed numerous solar eclipses during various times in the 11-year sunspot cycle.

The Sun's corona is visible only during the total phase of a solar eclipse, which lasted about two-and-a-half minutes on August 21, 2017.

"We could see giant streamers coming out of low solar latitudes as well as plumes out of the Sun's north and south poles, all held in their beautiful shapes by the Sun's magnetic field. In the months since the eclipse, we have used computers to pick out the best part of dozens of the images to make extremely high-contrast images that allow us to measure motions at extremely high speeds in the corona, as we compare our composite images with some made by co-ordinated colleagues 65 minutes farther east along the path of totality," Pasachoff said.

Incredibly, motions within the solar corona attained speeds of several hundred miles per second during the eclipse.

Because the sunspot cycle is approaching solar minimum, when the Sun is least active, coronal streamers extending millions of miles into space were seen only in the Sun's equatorial regions, he explained.

Thin gas plumes were seen extending both north and south of the Sun's disk.

Although the solar corona is about one million times fainter than the rest of the Sun, it is also significantly hotter than the Sun's surface for reasons scientists do not yet fully understand.

Full report here.

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Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #347

The Week That Was: 2019-02-09 (February 9, 2019) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project   Quote of the Week: "On specific energy and climate issues I'm guided by what the data tell me, not by claims made in the scientific literature. This is why you will find me disagreeing…

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Alkoxy radicals generation: facile photocatalytic reduction of N-alkoxyazinium or azolium salts

Chem. Commun., 2019, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C9CC00035F, Highlight

Luca Capaldo, Davide Ravelli
The generation of alkoxy radicals from N-alkoxyazinium or azolium salts, occurring via the facile mono-electronic photocatalytic reduction of the starting compounds, has been recently reported. The photogenerated radicals can be...
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Bridging exosome and liposome through zirconium-phosphate coordination chemistry: a new method for exosome detection

Chem. Commun., 2019, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C9CC00220K, Communication

Lei Wang, Yucai Yang, Yunfei Liu, Limin Ning, Xiang Yang, Genxi Li
We have proposed a new exosomes-zirconium-liposomes sandwich structure to detect exosomes by using zirconium-phosphate coordination chemistry. The combined use of the intrinsic property of phosphate in both exosomes and liposomes...
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Experimental characterization of multi-nozzle atomization interference for dust reduction between hydraulic supports at a fully mechanized coal mining face

Abstract

To analyze the distribution pattern concerning multi-nozzle interference spray particle granularity between hydraulic supports, the present study conducts atomization interference experimental characterization for three types of nozzles used in coal mines based on a Doppler laser interference spray dust suppression simulation experimental system. The results indicate that for single-nozzle atomization, the impact of spray pressure on spray droplet size is gradually subdued, and a spray pressure of 8 MPa yields the best result; compared with single-nozzle spray, the multi-nozzle atomization interference effect can downsize the spray field overlapping zone, leading to an improved uniformity of overall spray particle distribution. As the spray field overlapping coefficient k increases, the particle size of the interference spray field decreases first and then increases. As the spray field overlapping coefficient reaches 0.4, the distribution of spray droplet size is most concentrated, corresponding to the optimal atomized dust suppression effect. Practical testing indicates that the optimal spray field overlapping coefficient measured at a fully mechanized mining face agrees well with the experimental result. Under the optimal parameters, the average total dust and respirable dust suppression rates measured at various measuring points on the downwind side during support relocation reach 78.93% and 80.53%, respectively.

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Population vs Thermometers

No big surprise, we put lots of thermometers where there are lots of people. Continue reading →

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