Preparation and characterization of waterborne alkyd-amino baking coatings based on waste polyethylene terephthalate.

The recycling of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) is the most attractive method for PET waste management because it not only decreases the load on landfill space, but also provides opportunities for reducing the use of raw petrochemical products. Therefore, in this investigation, neopentyl glycol is used for alcoholysis of waste PET, and glycolyzed PET product was applied for preparation of the waterborne alkyd resin. Furthermore, the waterborne alkyd-amino baking coatings were prepared from the waterborne alkyd based on glycolyzed waste PET and melamine formaldehyde resin and applied on tinplate.

The Effects of Different Methods of Anaesthesia for Laparoscopic Radical Gastrectomy with Monitoring of Entropy.

Aim: To investigate the effects of methods of total intravenous anaesthesia (TIVA) and combined intravenous and inhaled anaesthesia (CIIA) for laparoscopic radical gastrectomy under the same anaesthetic depth monitored by entropy indices.

Patients And Methods: One hundred patients undergoing laparoscopic radical gastrectomy were randomly distributed into group I (anaesthetized by TIVA) and group II (anaesthetized by CIIA), each group including 50 patients. TIVA was performed with propofol and remifentanil by means of target controlled infusion (TCI) for the patients in group I.

Synthesis of semiconducting polymer microparticles as solid ionophore with abundant complexing sites for long-life Pb(II) sensors.

Intrinsically electrically semiconducting microparticles of semiladder poly(m-phenylenediamine-co-2-hydroxy-5-sulfonic aniline) structures containing abundant functional groups, like -NH-, -N=, -NH2, -OH, -SO3H as complexation sites, were efficiently synthesized by chemical oxidative copolymerization of m-phenylenediamine and 2-hydroxy-5-sulfonic aniline. The obtained copolymers were found to be nonporous spherical microparticles that were able to achieve greater π-conjugated structure, smaller particle aggregate size, and stronger interaction with Pb(II) ions than poly(m-phenylenediamine) containing only -NH-, -N=, and -NH2. A potentiometric Pb(II) sensor was fabricated on the basis of the copolymer microparticles as a crucial solid ionophore component within plasticized PVC.

Combinatorial screening of potentiometric Pb(II) sensors from polysulfoaminoanthraquinone solid ionophore.

A potentiometric Pb(II)-selective sensor was fabricated by a combinatorial screening of electrically conducting polysulfoaminoanthraquinone (PSA) nanoparticles as a solid ionophore, ion exchangers (oleic acid (OA) and NaTPB), plasticizers in a polyvinyl chloride (PVC) matrix, membrane thickness, inner filling ion species, and concentration. The membrane sensor with the composition of PSA/PVC/DOP (dioctyl phthalate)/OA (1.0:33:61:5.

Lead-ion potentiometric sensor based on electrically conducting microparticles of sulfonic phenylenediamine copolymer.

A potentiometric sensor to detect lead ions using newly synthesized conducting copolymer microparticles as an ionophore in self-supporting poly(vinyl chloride) membrane matrix plasticized with dioctyl phthalate was developed. The copolymer microparticles containing many ligating functional groups including amino, imino and sulfonic groups were synthesized by a chemical oxidative copolymerization of m-phenylenediamine (mPD) and p-sulfonic-m-phenylenediamine (SPD) in pure water. Due to the presence of -NH-, -N=, -NH2, and -SO3H ligating groups on the microparticles, a linear Nernstian response is obtained within a Pb(II) activity range from 1.

Lead ion-selective electrodes based on polyphenylenediamine as unique solid ionophores.

A novel membrane electrode for Pb(II) ion detection based on semi-conducting poly(m-phenylenediamine) microparticles as a unique solid ionophore was fabricated. The electrode exhibited significantly enhanced response towards Pb(II) over the concentration range from 3.16×10(-6) to 0.