Nitrogen-skinned carbon nanocone enables non-dynamic electrochemistry of individual metal particles

Nano-impact electrochemistry is an efficient way to probe the physical and chemical properties of individual particles.Unfortunately,limited by the weak adsorption between particles and a microelectrode(ME),the particle collision events evolve randomly to be elastic or inelastic.These events occur intermittently to produce unmarked transient signal sets that seriously interfere with single particle measurement.Here,we report a nitrogen-skinned carbon nanocone electrode(NS-CNCE) to enhance its adsorption capacity greatly towards metal particles and thus realize non-dynamic(i.e.,inelastic impacts) single particle analysis.The surface of NS-CNCEs characteristic of excellent adhesion,smoothness,and conductivity can effectively capture the landing metal particles to form a stable contact for efficient electronic communication.Using superior NS-CNCEs,we investigated electrochemical oxidation of Ag(or Au) particles and electrocatalytic amplification of Pt particles,respectively,under non-dynamic electrochemistry.The determined particle size is highly consistent with the physical characterization.Statistical analysis of transient signals confirms the strong adhesion of NS-CNCEs to metal particles,which is also in line with the prediction of a particle-electrode adsorption energy model.The proposed strategy has effectively solved the major challenge of general single metal particle collision analysis.

CARDIAC FUNCTION AND HISTOLOGICAL CHANGES AFTER NON-DYNAMIC CARDIOMYOPLASTY AND PRELIMINARY STUDY OF DYNAMIC CARDIOMYOPLASTY

By means of histological method and ultrasound cardiographic (UCG) examination, the left-right ratio of transectional area of muscle fiber of latissimus dorsi muscle (LDM) after non-dynamic cardiomyoplasty was 77.4% ?11.7% in GroupⅠ (3 weeks after operation), and 78.4+ 11.6% in Group Ⅱ (3 months after operation). There were muscular atrophy and hyperplasia of LDM, but the basical structure was retained. The ejection fraction (EF) decreased significantly after operation (P<0.05), but the difference between two groups was non?significant. Also, dynamic cardiomyoplasty was performed on a sheep. UCG showed the increased cardiac systolic function after operation. ATPase, succinodehydrogenase (SDH) and PAS examination implied the strengthening of fatigue-esistant ability in skeletal muscles after long-term electrical stimulation. So cardiomyoplasty is suggested to be a supplementary measure in treating end-stage heart failure.

Quantum ekpyrotic mechanism in Fermi-bounce curvaton cosmology

Within the context of the Fermi-bounce curvaton mechanism,we analyze the one-loop radiative corrections to the four-fermion interaction,generated by the non-dynamical torsion field in the Einstein-Cartan-Holst-Sciama-Kibble theory.We show that contributions that arise from the one-loop radiative corrections modify the energy-momentum tensor,mimicking an effective Ekpyrotic fluid contribution.Therefore,we call this effect quantum Ekpyrotic mechanism.This leads to the dynamical washing out of anisotropic contributions to the energy-momentum tensor,without introducing any new extra Ekpyrotic fluid.We discuss the stability of the bouncing mechanism and derive the renormalization group flow of the dimensional coupling constantξ,checking whether any change of its sign takes place towards the bounce.This enforces the theoretical motivations in favor of the torsion curvaton bounce cosmology as an alternative candidate to the inflation paradigm.