Preparation and Research of a Bionic Woven Tracheal Stent with Horizontal Pipeline

The paper designed a bionic woven tracheal stent and the stent was a multi-layer tubular structure with a transverse pipeline.Polydioxanone( PDO) monofilament and β-hydroxybutyrate and β-hydroxyvalerate copolymers/polylactic( PHBV/PLA) multifilament were chosen as the tissue engineering tracheal stent materials,and chitosan was chosen as the coating material. This study selected appropriate basic fabric structures and prepared the tracheal stent by setting reasonable weaving parameters,then treated the sample with coating and heat setting. Radical compression performances of the horizontal pipeline and longitudinal pipeline of this tracheal stent were investigated,and the experimental results showed that the stent had good performance on radial supporting force and elastic recovery,which meant it could supply adequate supports for cell growth and tissue regeneration of tracheal lesions; the horizontal pipeline could provide a good experimental foundation for reconstruction of the cartilage ring.

The correlation between nitrogen species in coke and NO_x formation during regeneration

Nitrogen oxides （NOx） emission during the regeneration ofcoked fluid catalytic cracking （FCC） catalysts is an en- vironmental issue. In order to identify the correlations between nitrogen species in coke and different nitrogen- containing products in tail gas, three coked catalysts with multilayer structural coke molecules were prepared in a fixed bed with model compounds （o-xylene and quinoline） at first. A series of characterization methods were used to analyze coke, including elemental analysis, FT-IR, XPS, and TG-MS. XPS characterization indicates all coked catalysts present two types of nitrogen species and the type with a higher binding energy is related with the inner part nitrogen atoms interacting with acid sites. Due to the stronger adsorption ability on acid sites for basic nitrogen compounds, the multilayer structural coke has unbalanced distribution of carbon and ni- trogen atoms between the inner part and the outer edge, which strongly affects gas product formation. At the early stage of regeneration, oxidation starts from the outer edge and the product NO can be reduced to N2 in high CO concentration. At the later stage, the inner part rich in nitrogen begins to be exposed to 02. At this period, the formation of CO decreases due to lack of carbon atoms, which is not beneficial to the reduction of NO. There- fore, nitrogen species in the inner part of multilayer structural coke contributes more to NOx formation. Based on the multilayer structure model of coke molecule and its oxidation behavior, a possible strategy to control NOx emission was discussed merely from concept.

Surface Plasmon Resonance Based Sensing of Different Chemical and Biological Samples Using Admittance Loci Method

The admittance loci method plays an important role in the design of multilayer thin film structures. In this paper, admittance loci method has been explored theoretically for sensing of various chemical and biological samples based on surface plasmon resonance （SPR） phenomenon. A dielectric multilayer structure consisting of a Boro silicate glass （BSG） substrate, calcium fluoride （CaF2） and zirconium dioxide （ZrO2） along with different dielectric layers has been investigated. Moreover, admittance loci as well as SPR curves of metal-dielectric multilayer structure consisting of the BSG prism, gold metal film and various dielectric samples have been simulated in MATLAB environment. To validate the proposed simulation results, calibration curves have also been provided.