scholarly journals Preparation and Application of Sustained-Release Potassium Ferrate(VI)

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Xuan Xu ◽  
Wei Wei ◽  
Ping Tao ◽  
Yan Zhang

In this study, a composite system for the sustained release of potassium ferrate(VI) (sustained-release K2FeO4) was prepared and applied for water treatment. The objective of this research was to maximize the effectiveness of K2FeO4for water treatment by enhancing its stability using diatomite. The sustained-release K2FeO4was characterized using X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. The results indicated that no new crystal phase was formed during the preparation and some K2FeO4crystals entered the pores of the diatomite. From K2FeO4release experiments, we found that the decomposition rate of K2FeO4was obviously decreased, which greatly improved the contact rate between released K2FeO4and pollutants. Via degradation of methyl orange, which was used as a model pollutant, the influential factor of K2FeO4content within the complete sustained-release K2FeO4system was studied. The optimal K2FeO4content within the sustained-release K2FeO4system was approximately 70%. In natural water samples, sustained-release K2FeO4at a dosage of 0.06 g/L and with a reaction time of 20 minutes removed 36.84% of soluble microbial products and 17.03% of simple aromatic proteins, and these removal rates were better than those observed after traditional chlorine disinfection.

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (7) ◽  
pp. 950-959
Author(s):  
Yu Li ◽  
Xiangwen Kong ◽  
Fan Hu

Background: Clarithromycin is widely used for infections of helicobacter pylori. Clarithromycin belongs to polymorphic drug. Crystalline state changes of clarithromycin in sustained release tablets were found. Objective: The aim of this study was to find the influential factor of the crystal transition of clarithromycin in preparation process of sustained-release tablets and to investigate the possible interactions between the clarithromycin and pharmaceutical excipients. Methods and Results: The crystal transition of active pharmaceuticals ingredients from form II to form I in portion in clarithromycin sustained release tablets were confirmed by x-ray powder diffraction. The techniques including differential scanning calorimetry and infrared spectroscopy, x-ray powder diffraction were used for assessing the compatibility between clarithromycin and several excipients as magnesium stearate, lactose, sodium carboxymethyl cellulose, polyvinyl-pyrrolidone K-30 and microcrystalline cellulose. All of these methods showed compatibilities between clarithromycin and the selected excipients. Alcohol prescription simulation was also done, which showed incompatibility between clarithromycin and concentration alcohol. Conclusion: It was confirmed that the reason for the incompatibility of clarithromycin with high concentration of alcohol was crystal transition.


2011 ◽  
Vol 299-300 ◽  
pp. 77-81
Author(s):  
Yang Xu ◽  
Sheng Zhi Hao ◽  
Xiang Dong Zhang ◽  
Min Cai Li ◽  
Chuang Dong

The surface irradiation of 6063 aluminum alloy by high current pulsed electron was conducted with the aim of replacing the complicated pre-treatment in the processes of electroless plating. To explore the microstructure changes, optical metallography, SEM (scanning electron microscope), XRD (X-ray diffraction) analyses were carried out, and the sliding tests were used for the detection of wear resistance. It was concluded that the HCPEB irradiation could replace the pre-treatment of aluminum substrate as required in conventional electroless plating with a decreased surface roughness of Ni-P alloy plating layer. The plates exhibited an amorphous microstructure as demonstrated by XRD analysis. The plates, produced with the routine of HCPEB irradiation, activation and electroless plating possess, also exhibited good quality, even better than that of conventional electroless plating technique.


Author(s):  
Laura A. Lallemand ◽  
James G. McCarthy ◽  
Sean McSweeney ◽  
Andrew A. McCarthy

Chlorogenic acids (CGAs) are a group of soluble phenolic compounds that are produced by a variety of plants, includingCoffea canephora(robusta coffee). The last step in CGA biosynthesis is generally catalysed by a specific hydroxycinnamoyl-CoA quinate hydroxycinnamoyltransferase (HQT), but it can also be catalysed by the more widely distributed hydroxycinnamoyl-CoA shikimate/quinate hydroxycinnamoyltransferase (HCT). Here, the cloning and overexpression of HCT fromC. canephorainEscherichia colias well as its purification and crystallization are presented. Crystals were obtained by the sitting-drop technique at 293 K and X-ray diffraction data were collected on the microfocus beamline ID23-2 at the ESRF. The HCT crystals diffracted to better than 3.0 Å resolution, belonged to space groupP42212 with unit-cell parametersa=b= 116.1,c= 158.9 Å and contained two molecules in the asymmetric unit. The structure was solved by molecular replacement and is currently under refinement. Such structural data are needed to decipher the molecular basis of the substrate specifities of this key enzyme, which belongs to the large plant acyl-CoA-dependent BAHD acyltransferase superfamily.


Author(s):  
Abyson Joseph ◽  
Valakunja Nagaraja ◽  
Ramanathan Natesh

The transcriptional activity of RNA polymerase (RNAP) is controlled by a diverse set of regulatory factors. A subset of these regulators modulate the activity of RNAP through its secondary channel. Gre factors reactivate stalled elongation complexes by enhancing the intrinsic cleavage activity of RNAP. In the present study, the protein MSMEG_6292, a Gre-factor homologue from Mycobacterium smegmatis, was expressed heterologously in Escherichia coli and purified using standard chromatographic techniques. The hanging-drop vapour-diffusion crystallization method yielded diffraction-quality crystals. The crystals belonged to the trigonal space group P3121 (or its enantiomorph P3221), with unit-cell parameters a = b = 83.15, c = 107.07 Å, α = β = 90, γ = 120°. The crystals diffracted to better than 3.0 Å resolution. Molecular-replacement attempts did not yield any phasing models; hence, platinum derivatization was carried out with K2PtCl4 and derivative data were collected to 3.4 Å resolution.


2018 ◽  
Vol 74 (12) ◽  
pp. 1684-1691
Author(s):  
Marek L. Główka ◽  
Sylwia Kałużyńska ◽  
Malwina Krause ◽  
Katarzyna Gobis ◽  
Henryk Foks ◽  
...  

Tuberculosis still remains a very important problem, especially its multidrug resistant varieties (MDR-TB). Among the potential tuberculostatics, there are two benzimidazole derivatives, namely 5,6-dimethyl-2-phenylethylbenzo[d]imidazole (1) and (E)-5,6-dimethyl-2-styryl-1H-benzo[d]imidazole (2) which showed significant tuberculostatic activities, better than those of Pyrazinamide and Isoniazyd. Also, the cytotoxicity of 1 appeared promising. The compounds were studied (with the use of X-ray diffraction) in the form of the hemihydrate of 1, C17H18N2·0.5H2O (1a), the methanol hemisolvate of 2, C17H16N2·0.5CH3OH (2a), and the acid oxalate salt of 2, namely (E)-5,6-dimethyl-2-styryl-1H-benzo[d]imidazolium hydrogen oxalate, C17H17N2 +·C2HO4 − (2b). All three structures reveal a similar extended conformation, despite the flexible linker between the two aromatic systems and the different types of strong intermolecular hydrogen bonds. The molecules of 2a are practically planar due to the double bond in the linker, which enables conjugation along the whole molecule, while the molecules of 1a exhibit the possibility of parallel orientations of their aromatic systems, despite the aliphatic (ethyl) linker.


2011 ◽  
Vol 284-286 ◽  
pp. 377-381
Author(s):  
Ji Chu Zhang ◽  
Ze Peng Zhang ◽  
Bo Hu ◽  
Gang Liu

In this paper, Ca2+-montmorillonite (Ca2+-Mt) was modified with cationic surfactant hexadecyl trimethyl ammonium Bromide (CTAB) directly, without changing Ca2+-Mt into Na+-montmorillonite (Na+-Mt). X-ray diffraction (XRD), thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), contact angle tests and rotary viscosity tests were used to characterize the structure and property of the organo-montmorillonite. The results of XRD show that interlayer space (d001) of the product is 4.05nm. The results of TGA indicate the ratio of weight loss of the organic components in the product is 37.7%. The results of FT-IR indicate there are organic components and hardly any water molecules in the product. All these findings indicate that the CTAB has intercalated into the galleries of Ca2+-Mt. Contact angle tests shows the product is well hydrophobic and the hydrophobic property is as good as that of organo-montmorillonite modified from Na+-Mt. Rotary viscosity tests show that the viscosity of the product at the rotational speed of 6R/min is 1226mPa·s, much better than that of the organo- montmorillonite modified from Na+-Mt which is 1070 mPa·s. The thixotropy index of the product is 9.22, much better than that of the organo-montmorillonite modified from Na+-Mt which is 5.88. It can be concluded that organo-montmorillonite with perfect interlayer expansion and thixotropic property was prepared by modifying Ca2+-Mt with CTAB directly.


2008 ◽  
Vol 569 ◽  
pp. 45-48
Author(s):  
Hai Yun Jin ◽  
Guan Jun Qiao ◽  
Zong Ren Peng ◽  
Ji Qiang Gao

SiC particles coated with nano-BN were synthesized and the machinable SiC/BN ceramic nano-composites were fabricated by Plasma Active Sintering (PAS) in N2 atmosphere. The existing and distribution of h-BN phase were revealed by X-ray diffraction (XRD), and SEM. For the existing of weak interface between h-BN and SiC grains, the machinability of both SiC/BN micro-composites and nano-composites were improved obviously. Because the nano-sized h-BN crystals were homogeneously dispersed around the SiC grains of the matrix, the fracture strength of the nano-composites was better than the SiC/h-BN micro-composite.


1996 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 804-812 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. Namikawa ◽  
M. Egami ◽  
S. Koyama ◽  
Y. Shiohara ◽  
H. Kutami

Large YBa2Cu3O7−x (Y123) single crystals (larger than 13 mm cubed) have been grown along the c-axis reproducibly by the modified pulling method. The crystallinity of Y123 single crystal was investigated by x-ray diffraction and x-ray topography. Crystals grown from an MgO single crystal seed had some low angle subgrain boundaries which tilted 0.1–0.8° from each other. These grain boundaries originated from the seed crystal, and the subgrains were extended along the growth direction from the seed crystal. Y123 single crystals with no marked subgrains in the whole area were obtained by using Y123 single subgrain crystal seeds. FWHM of the x-ray rocking curve for the crystal so produced was about 0.14°, which was much better than the spectrum consisting of several separated peaks obtained from the previous crystals. Tc onset of the annealed sample was about 93.6 K, and the transition width was about 0.9 K. The low angle subgrain boundaries did not seem to be effective pinning centers for the magnetic flux.


2019 ◽  
Vol 814 ◽  
pp. 365-371
Author(s):  
Si Tong Lu ◽  
Dong Ying Zhang ◽  
Zhang Hu ◽  
Si Dong Li ◽  
Pu Wang Li

In this paper, chitosan and caffeic acid were used as starting materials to prepare chitosan caffeates by reflux-heating and freeze-drying. The structures of chitosan caffeates were characterized by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), X-ray diffraction (XRD) and potentiometric titration. At the same time, the physical properties of chitosan caffeates were tested and the hemostatic properties were evaluated. The results showed that four chitosan caffeates with different mass ratios of chitosan and caffeic acid (1:1, 1:2, 1:4, 1:6) had been successfully prepared, which enhanced the water solubility. FTIR analysis demonstrated that caffeic acid had been successfully grafted onto chitosan chains. XRD showed that the crystal form of chitosan changed to some extent and the chain had some regularity in some directions, but its crystallinity reduced. Chitosan caffeates, particularly mass ratio of 1:1, showed excellent hemostatic properties and even better than chitosan and the positive control (Yunnan Baiyao), which were expected to be developed as an effective biomaterial for hemostasis.


2013 ◽  
Vol 702 ◽  
pp. 191-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ning Li ◽  
Lin Lin Wang ◽  
Xiao Ming Wang ◽  
Wei Zeng Chen

The amorphous/nanocrystalline Ni-Mo alloys are obtained in alkaline nickel carbonate solution in this paper. By using X-ray diffraction (XRD) and scanning electronic microscopy (SEM) to testify microstructure and morphology of the deposits. It is found that the deposits are composed of amorphous and nanocrystalline structure phases. Compared with the nickel sulfate solution, the amorphous/nanocrystalline alloys are more accessible to be obtained in carbonate solution under the same conditions as the sulfate solution. The internal stress between the deposit and the basement is inexistent with the tiny granules and well-proportioned grains at the coating surface. The stability of the alkaline nickel carbonate solution is much better than the sulfate solution, and the deposit performance is relatively better and easy to be controlled.


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