[Source Constraints on Turquoise of the Erlitou Site by Infrared Spectra].

Shiyan district in Hubei province is a famous locality of high-quality turquoise with brightcolor, finegrain in the world. Erlitou archacologicalsite, which is about 300km north to the Shiyan Turquoise mine, has been excavated a remarkable number of turquoise artifacts since 2002. Some researchers infer that there was "a road of turquoise" between the two sites in history.

Enhanced removal of bilirubin on molecularly imprinted titania film.

Titania film imprinted by bilirubin molecule at the surface of quartz crystal was prepared using molecular imprinting and surface sol-gel process. The molecularly imprinted titania film was characterized by FTIR spectra, and the interaction between bilirubin and imprinted film was investigated using quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) technique. Compared with pure titania film, the molecularly imprinted titania film exhibits a much higher adsorption capacity for the target molecule, and the adsorption kinetic parameter estimated from the in situ frequency measurement is about 1.