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As an important nuclear material, uranium is one of the most concerned elements in the nuclear fuel cycle, which could interact with many inorganic and organic ligands. Amine templates have a significant structural-oriented effect on the construction of uranyl oxalate complex. In this work, the piperazine diamine templates were used to synthesize uranyl oxalate complex and their crystal structures were resolved by single crystal diffraction, and their spectra were studied by IR, Raman, UV–vis, fluorescence, and EPR techniques. The final results show that crystal structures, properties and applications of uranyl oxalate complex have a close correlation with polyamine templates. The single crystal structure results show that the structural-oriented effect of piperazine diamine template is greatly affected by the proportion and concentration of solute in the surrounding environment. And the alkyl substituents on N atoms of amine templates are related to the tight of structures. Interestingly, 5# has a potential application as the original material for multiple reuse of fluorescent sensor materials. At present, there is no clear and in-depth study on the internal mechanism of such phenomena in solid uranyl complexes, and the specific mechanism needs to be further explored.

In this article, the exponential stabilization of stochastic complex networks with time delays, uncertainties and switching jump diffusions (SCNTDUSJD) is investigated via adaptive aperiodically intermittent control. It deserves mentioning that switching jump diffusions are state dependent and adaptive aperiodically intermittent control is applied to study the stabilization of SCNTDUSJD for the first time. Primarily, the Lyapunov function of SCNTDUSJD is constructed. Based on graph theory and the Lyapunov method, some sufficient conditions are given to ensure the exponential stability of SCNTDUSJD, which reflects that the controller plays an important role in the realization of stabilization. At the same time, our results can be applied to stochastic coupled oscillators with switching jump diffusions. Finally, in order to explain the effectiveness of theoretical results, relative numerical results are presented.

Several protonated amine-templated uranyl oxalate complex were designed and synthesized, and the structures and optical properties were investigated by different techniques. The amine templates have a significant structural-oriented effect on the construction of uranyl oxalate complex. When alkyl substituents are added to N atoms, templated amines will be more flexible and helps build the crystals with a denser structure and a better thermal stability. The crystal properties are closely related to the amine templates: 4# (using N,N-diethylcyclohexylamine as the template) has a potential application as CO gas storage materials; 1# (using cyclohexylamine as the template) has a potential application for ultraviolet irradiation chemical dosimeter.

There are a large number of interactions at molecular and cellular levels between the plant polysaccharides and immune system. Plant polysaccharides present an interesting effects as immunomodulators, particularly in the induction of the cells both in innate and adaptive immune systems. Activation of DCs could improve antitumoral responses usually diminished in cancer patients, and natural adjuvants provide a possibility of inducing this activation. ABP is a purified polysaccharide isolated from Achyranthes bidentata, a traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). The aim of this study is to investigate modulation of phenotypic and functional maturation of murine DCs by ABP. Both phenotypic and functional activities were assessed with use of conventional scanning electronic microscopy (SEM) for the morphology of the DC, transmitted electron microscopy (TEM) for intracellular lysosomes inside the DC, cellular immunohistochemistry for phagocytosis by the DCs, flow cytometry (FCM) for the changes in key surface molecules, bio-assay for the activity of acidic phosphatases (ACP), and ELISA for the production of pro-inflammatory cytokine IL-12. In fact, we found that purified ABP induced phenotypic maturation revealed by increased expression of CD86, CD40, and MHC II. Functional experiments showed the down-regulation of ACP inside DCs (which occurs when phagocytosis of DCs is decreased, and antigen presentation increased with maturation). Finally, ABP increased the production of IL-12. These data reveal that ABP promotes effective activation of murine DCs. This adjuvant-like activity may have therapeutic applications in clinical settings where immune responses need boosting. It is therefore concluded that ABP can exert positive modulation to murine DCs.