In this work, we present a two-step method to controllably synthesize novel and highly efficient upconversion materials, Lu5O4F7:Er(3+),Yb(3+) nano/micro-crystals, and investigate their size/morphology induced tunable upconversion properties. In addition to the common phenomenon aroused by a surface quenching effect, direct experimental evidence for the regulation of phonon modes is obtained in...

Article history: Received: 22.5.2013. Received in revised form: 16.9.2013. Accepted: 11.10.2013. Pre-quenching and pre-normalization are selected as pre-treatment processes. Microstructures, the tensile strength and hardness of zero-time-holding quenched 40Cr steel with different pre-treatment are investigated. The results show that the zerotime-holding 40Cr steel quenched by prequenching is fi...

Tool steels are widely used materials for making elements of metals, polymers, ceramics and composites. Inflated consumer expectations of contemporary civilization entail the manufacture of better and better tools, accompanied by reduced energy consumption. The application of simulators and controls of technological processes enables the design of optimum processes without the need for time con...

In This research, gold nanoparticles were synthesized and functionalized by the antibody of aflatoxins. The quenching of the fluorescence of excitation emission matrices (EEM) of two type of aflatoxins (B1, G1), provoked by the gold nanoparticles, was studied by principal component analysis (PCA) and multivariate curve resolution with alternating least squares (MCR-ALS). These aflatoxins show q...

Perdeuterated phenanthrene (d-phen) exhibits strong room-temperature phosphorescence (RTP) when adsorbed on Whatman 1PS filter paper. An oxygen sensor was developed that depends on oxygen quenching of RTP intensity of adsorbed d-phen. The system designed employed a continuous flow of nitrogen or nitrogen-air onto the adsorbed phosphor. The sensor is simple to prepare and needs no elaborate fabr...

The innovative hot stamping press of quenchable steel mainly includes two stages: hot forming of blank at elevated temperature and quenching of hot stamped part in closed water-cooled tools. Crucial stage in hot stamping process is quenching of hot formed part in water-cooled tool to achieve final high ultimate tensile strength. In quenching stage, cooling rate of hot stamped part has a signifi...

BACKGROUND Differential gel electrophoresis (DIGE) is a technology widely used for protein expression analysis. It is based on labelling with fluorescent Cy dyes. In comparative fluorescence gel electrophoresis experiments, however, unspecific labelling using N-hydroxy-succinimide-ester-based labelling protocols was recently detected. Cross-talk was observed due to failure of the quenching proc...

The article presents influence of pH and glucose concentration on phenylboronic acid (PBA) fluorescence studied by steady-state and time-resolved measurements. Fluorescence of PBA decreases with growing pH. These changes reflected acid-base equilibrium of PBA and allowed to estimate value of pKd as 9.2, which is comparable with literature data. Fluorescence intensity of phenylboronic acid is qu...

Reconstructed jets initiated from heavy quarks provide a powerful tool to probe the properties of quark–gluon plasma (QGP) and explore mass hierarchy jet quenching. In this article, we review recent theoretical progresses on heavy-flavour in high-energy nuclear collisions at RHIC LHC. We focus yields substructures charm bottom quark with jet-quenching effects, such as modification factors, tran...

curcumin (cur) is the active curcuminoid with many physiological, biochemical, and pharmacological properties. solubility and stability of cur is the limiting factors for realizing its therapeutic potential. bovine β-casein is an abundant milk protein that is highly amphiphilic and self-assembles into stable micellar nanoparticles in aqueous solution. β-casein nanoparticle can solubilize cur mo...