The combinations of 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium chloride with NbCl5 yielded ionic mixtures with different melting point temperatures and acidity depending on the niobium molar fraction. The mixtures were characterized by thermal (DSC) and spectroscopic (FT-IR and H NMR) analysis. The Pechmann reactions of different phenols with ethylacetoacetate, producing coumarins, was used as model to evalua...

Individual grasshoppers were observed foraging on either single food plant species or binary mixtures of them. Individuals ate slightly less on the mixtures, but grew faster on them. In the mixtures, individuals fed regularly from both plant species, typically eating both within a single meal. Feeding bouts were longer on the preferred plant species in the mixture. The pattern of foraging behav...

In this study we investigated the chemical-physical properties of mixtures containing the protic ionic liquid (PIL) N-butyl-pyrrolidinium bis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl)imide (PYRH4TFSI), propylene carbonate (PC) and lithium bis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl)imide (LiTFSI) in view of their use as electrolytes for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). We showed that these electrolytic solutions might display c...

In this study I briefly illustrate application of the Gaussian mixtures to approximate empirical distributions of financial indices (DAX, Dow Jones, Nikkei, RTSI, S&P 500). The resulting distributions illustrate very high quality of approximation as evaluated by Kolmogorov-Smirnov test. This implies further study of application of the Gaussian mixtures to approximate empirical distributions of ...

Surface-enhanced Raman scattering has been proven a powerful means in the fast detection and recognition of chemicals at trace levels, while quantitative analysis especially the compositional analysis of trace chemical mixtures remains a challenge. We report here a "triangle-rule" based on the principal component analysis (PCA) of surface-enhanced Raman scattering spectra, to calculate the comp...

We derive a Landau free energy functional for polymeric mixtures containing components with different sequence statistics. We then apply this general field theory to two mixtures that belong to the Ising universality class: mixtures of two different linear random copolymers, and ternary systems of linear random copolymers and two homopolymers. We discuss the instability conditions for the homog...

n-BuLi in diamine/dialkyl ether mixtures forms ensembles of hetero- and homosolvated dimers. Solutions in TMEDA/THF (TMEDA = N,N,N',N'-tetramethylethylenediamine) are not amenable to detailed investigation because of rapid ligand exchange. TMCDA/THF mixtures (TMCDA = trans-N,N,N',N'-tetramethylcyclohexanediamine) afford clean assignments for a mixture of homo- and heterosolvated dimers but demo...

Densities, structural effects and viscosities of binary nonelectrolyte systems including nitrobenzene + 2-propanol, 2-butanol and 2-pentanol at temperatures (293.15 to 323.15) K and normal atmospheric pressure were measured using an Anton-Paar SVM 3000 stabinger viscometer. Excess molar volumes  and viscosity deviations Δη were calculated and correlated by the Redlich-Kister equation to estimat...

Metabolic profiling of biological samples involves nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy and mass spectrometry coupled with powerful statistical tools for complex data analysis. Here, we report a robust, sparseness-based method for the blind separation of analytes from mixtures recorded in spectroscopic and spectrometric measurements. The advantage of the proposed method in comparison t...

Effective thermal conductivity of mixtures of  uids and nanometer-size particles is measured by a steady-state parallel-plate method. The tested  uids contain two types of nanoparticles, Al2O3 and CuO, dispersed in water, vacuum pump  uid, engine oil, and ethylene glycol. Experimental results show that the thermal conductivities of nanoparticle– uid mixtures are higher than those of the bas...