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Phase analysis and oxygen strorage capacity of ceria-lanthana-based TWC promoters prepared by sol-gel routes
2002
Ceria–lanthana-based promoters of three-way catalysts are synthesized by two different sol–gel routes, involving nitrate precursors. The oxygen uptake ability of these compounds is measured by O2 chemisorption. The specific surface area is determined by N2 adsorption (BET). X-ray diffraction data are analyzed by Rietveld refinement, demonstrating that lanthanum forms solid solution with CeO2; its total amount in ceria depends on the competitive formation of La–Al mixed oxides and on the synthetic method. The O2 uptake ability is essentially determined by the La content in the ceria–lanthana solid solution, while it is independent on the surface area and on the CeO2 particle size. The O2 upt…
Ionic transport and heat capacity of glass-forming metalnitrate mixtures
1997
Abstract Ionic transport of the glass-forming metalnitrate mixtures [Ca(NO 3 ) 2 ] 0.44 [KNO 3 ] 0.56 (MKN), and [Mg(NO 3 ) 2 ] 0.44 [NaNO 3 ] 0.56 (MNN) was investigated near the glass transition using broadband spectroscopy of the complex conductivity to 300 MHz. The real part of the conductivity exhibits a transition from frequency independent to power law behavior as found in most ionic conductors. At high frequencies the frequency exponent approaches unity and becomes larger at low temperatures. In the real part of the dielectric constant, a relaxation step could be observed in CRN. A detailed evaluation of the results within the modulus formalism is presented. The imaginary part of t…
Plant chlorophyll fluorescence: active and passive measurements at canopy and leaf scales with different nitrogen treatments
2015
Highlight We studied for the first time the temporal and spatial limits within which active and passive chlorophyll fluorescence measurements are comparable.
Evaluation of advanced silica packings for the separation of biopolymers by high-performance liquid chromatography
1987
Following previous studies of the use of non-porous monodisperse 1.5-microns n-octyl- and n-octadecyl-bonded silicas in gradient elution of proteins, this work was aimed at elucidating further the properties of this novel column material for peptide and protein separations in comparison with wide-pore silicas. First, it is demonstrated that with short columns (e.g., 35 X 8 mm I.D.) packed with these non-porous reversed-phase materials, mixtures of small peptides and mixtures of proteins can be very efficiently resolved. When the chain length of the bonded ligand was varied, the retention of a test set of proteins in gradient elution followed the ligand sequence C18 greater than C8 approxima…
Liquid chromatographic procedure for the evaluation of β-blockers in pharmaceuticals using hybrid micellar mobile phases
1997
Abstract A reversed-phase chromatographic procedure with a micellar eluent is proposed for the determination of several β-blockers (acebutolol, atenolol, carteolol, celiprolol, labetalol, metoprolol, nadolol, oxprenolol, propranolol, and timolol) in pharmaceutical formulations (tablets, capsules, and ophthalamic solutions). A study is shown on the chromatographic behaviour of these drugs with mobile phases containing sodium dodecyl sulphate (0.075–0.15 M ) and propanol (0–15%, v/v), at different pH values (3–7). The excellent correlation between log of the octanol-water partition coefficient and log of capacity factor, for the ten drugs in mobile phases of SDS and propanol, suggested that t…
Quantitative retention—structure and retention—activity relationship studies of ionic and non-ionic catecholamines by micellar liquid chromatography
1997
When ionic surfactants are used as mobile phases in micellar liquid chromatography, MLC, the retention of compounds is governed by hydrophobic and electrostatic forces. In the absence of electrostatic effects, the hydrophobicity of a compound is the predominant factor affecting its retention and its interaction with micelles. Because both interactions should be considered for ionic compounds, a novel retention model is proposed which includes the hydrophobicity of a compound and the molar fraction of its charged form. High correlations between the logarithm of the capacity factors and structural parameters were obtained for ionic compounds with different degrees of ionization. The effect of…
Description of the retention behaviour in micellar liquid chromatography as a function of pH, surfactant and modifier concentration
1997
Abstract Micellar liquid chromatography permits the elution of solutes of diverse polarity. One of the most outstanding advantages of the technique is its capability of predicting the retention with high accuracy, as a function of different experimental variables. The separation of a group of compounds is usually optimized by varying the concentrations of surfactant and modifier in the mobile phase. The pH is, however, for many solutes, a variable that should be considered in the description of their elution behaviour. A global model that takes into account, simultaneously, the concentrations of surfactant and modifier, and the pH as chromatographic variables, is proposed for ionizable solu…
Influence of brine concentration on swelling pressure of pork meat throughout salting.
2009
Abstract The influence of sodium chloride on the water holding capacity of meat is well known and described in literature. An increase in water holding capacity is associated with an increase in the swelling pressure in the protein matrix. A novel device was used to measure the swelling pressure during brine salting of muscle cylinders (40 × 50 mm), in different NaCl brine concentrations (2.5 to 25%) over 6 days at 4 °C. Changes in meat composition, weight and height of non-constrained control samples were also measured. The aim of this work was to prove the feasibility of using the developed device in order to quantify the influence of the brine concentration on the magnitude of the swelli…
On the Measurement of Dead Time in Micellar Liquid Chromatography
1996
Abstract Modelling of the retention of solutes in micellar liquid chromatography allows the optimization of the resolution of a mixture of solutes and the determination of physico-chemical retention parameters. Both tasks imply the calculation of capacity factors, which are severely affected by the value of dead time. However, the determination of the dead time is not easy when a micellar mobile phase is used owing to the wide and variable perturbations that appear at the heads of the chromatograms. Four different criteria of determination of a reference time in the chromatograms are proposed and compared. The criteria are applied to mobile phases containing a varying concentration of surfa…
Antioxidant capacity in fruit of Citrus cultivars with marked differences in pulp coloration: Contribution of carotenoids and vitamin C.
2020
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the specific contribution of carotenoids and vitamin C to the lipophilic and hydrophilic antioxidant capacity, respectively, of the pulp of citrus fruits using the genetic diversity in pigmentation and in the carotenoid complement. To this end, six citrus varieties were selected: two mandarins, Clemenules (Citrus clementina) and Nadorcott (C. reticulata); two grapefruits (C. paradisi), Marsh and Star Ruby; and two sweet oranges (C. sinensis), Valencia late and Valencia Ruby. Total carotenoid content and composition in the pulp of fruits were very different, in relation to their color singularities. Valencia Ruby and Nadorcott had the highest caroten…