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Flow‐Injection Chemiluminescent Determination of Thiamine in Pharmaceutical Samples by On‐line Photodegradation
2004
Abstract A simple, sensitive, and precise method for the determination of thiamine hydrochloride in a flow‐injection system is described. The method is based on the UV irradiation of thiamine in acid medium. Then, the photo‐fragments are oxidized by permanganate in acid medium, and the resultant chemiluminescent intensity is measured. The optimum conditions for the photoreaction and for the chemiluminescence emission were investigated. The method allows the determination of thiamine, over the range 0.05(LOD)–84 mg · l−1, with a throughput of 30 h−1, and a RSD (n, 20) at 20 and 0.5 mg · l−1 of the thiamine level of 2.5 and 1.3%, respectively. The method was applied to pharmaceutical preparat…
Photoinductive efficiency of soil extracted humic and fulvic acids
2002
Humic and fulvic acids extracted from soils of different genesis were investigated for their ability to photoinduce the transformation of fenuron (2 x 10(-4) mol(-1)) at 365 nm. The ratio of the initial rate of fenuron consumption over the rate of light absorption by humic substances was found to be higher for fulvic acids (range 2.0 x 10(-3) to 9.0 x 10(-5)) than for humic acids (range 1.7 x 10(-4) to - 3.6 x 10(-5)). Within the FAs population, this ratio decreased as the specific absorption coefficient at 365 nm increased. It seems therefore that most of 365-nm absorbing components have no photoinductive activity and even reduce that of photoinductive chromophores.
Photo-oxidation behaviour of polyethylene/multi-wall carbon nanotube composite films
2009
Abstract The resistance to accelerated photo-oxidation of polyethylene/multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MW-CNTs) composite films was compared with the photo-oxidation behaviour of pristine polyethylene film. The polyethylene/MW-CNTs films containing different CNTs loading were subjected to accelerated UV-B exposure. At short exposure time, i.e. under 200 h, the rates of carbonyl formation are very similar to that observed for pristine polyethylene film but at longer irradiation times the carbonyl formation increases for lower MW-CNTs contents (0.1, 0.2 and 0.5% wt./wt.), and decreases for higher MW-CNTs contents (1 and 2% wt./wt.). By adding a UV-stabilizer to the films their photo-oxidation …
Improvement of the mechanical properties of photo-oxidized films after recycling
2002
Mechanical recycling of post-consumer plastics gives rise, in most cases, to secondary materials with mechanical properties worse than those of the reclaimed polymer. This is mostly due to the thermomechanical treatment undergone during the melt reprocessing operations. In this work, low density polyethylene films have been photo-oxidized in artificial accelerated ageing conditions and then the brittle films have been melt reprocessed. It is shown that the secondary material, after reprocessing, shows mechanical properties, in particular elongation at break, better than those of the photo-oxidized films. This behaviour has been attributed to the fact that the melt reprocessing has the effec…