In order to improve the efficiency of intumescent flame retardants (IFRs), a novel macromolecular charring agent named poly(ethanediamine-1,3,5-triazine-p-4-amino-2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidine) (PETAT) with gas phase and condense phase synergistic flame-retardant capability was synthesized and subsequently dispersed into polypropylene (PP) in combination with ammonium polyphosphate (APP) via a ...

We investigate the impact of interface roughness (IFR) scattering on the performance of a series of the state-of-the-art GaAs/AlxGa1−xAs terahertz quantum cascade lasers (THz-QCLs) through a calculation of the induced inhomogeneous broadening and intersubband scattering rates. Our analysis includes two GaAs/Al0.15Ga0.85As THz-QCL devices with measured maximum operating temperatures at Tmax = 17...

Ischemic postconditioning (IPoC) reduces infarct size following ischemia/reperfusion. Whether or not phosphorylation of RISK (reperfusion injury salvage kinases) (AKT, ERK1/2, P70S6K, GSK3beta) is causal for protection by IPoC is controversial. We therefore studied the impact of RISK on IPoC in anesthetized pigs subjected to 90 minutes of left anterior descending coronary artery hypoperfusion a...

OBJECTIVES This work compares the diagnostic performance of adenosine-free coronary pressure wire indices based on lesion location. BACKGROUND Several adenosine-free coronary pressure wire indices have been proposed to assess the functional significance of coronary artery lesions; however, there is a theoretical concern that lesion location and the mass of perfused myocardium may affect diagn...

The isometric fluctuation relation (IFR) [P. I. Hurtado et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 108, 7704 (2011)10.1073/pnas.1013209108] relates the relative probability of current fluctuations of fixed magnitude in different spatial directions. We test its validity in an experiment on a tapered rod, rendered motile by vertical vibration and immersed in a sea of spherical beads. We analyze the stati...

We propose a novel method for defining the exclusive and exhaustive table of serine proteases specificity determining interface forming residues (IFR). The IFR are obtained by “hard body docking” among 73 structurally aligned, sequence wise non redundant, serine protease structures, with 3 inhibitors: ecotine, ovomucoid third domain inhibitor and basic pancreatic trypsin inhibitor. In silico co...