Films of mesoporous materials attract broad interest because of their wide applicability in the fields of optics and electronics. Although many of these films have a regular local porous structure, the structural regularity has not been used practically yet because of difficulties in its control on macroscopic scales. Here, we demonstrate the preparation of mesoporous silica films whose porous structure can be described as a single crystal, that is, a long-range order of cage-like pores is maintained over centimetre scales. These films have a three-dimensional hexagonal (space group P6(3)/mmc) porous structure, and the in-plane arrangement of the pores is strictly controlled by a polymeric substrate surface that has been treated by rubbing. This new class of single-crystalline films with mesoscopic periodic structure is a significant breakthrough in bottom-up nanotechnology, and could lead to novel devices, for example, optics in a soft X-ray region, and quantum electronics.
BACKGROUND: Hypertension is an important risk factor of coronary heart disease. A new guidelines for hypertension prevention and management in The Seventh Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure in the United States recommended lifestyle modification or medical treatment for subjects with prehypertension. However, whether prehypertension increases the risk of coronary atherosclerosis in the Japanese population is still unknown.
METHODS: A cross-sectional study in a clinical setting was conducted. The subjects were 705 patients (417 males and 288 females) aged 30 years and older who underwent a first-time coronary angiography for suspected or known coronary heart disease at 5 major cardiology departments in the Fukuoka metropolitan area between September 1996 and August 1997.
RESULTS: Compared to subjects with normal blood pressure, those with prehypertension had an increased risk of coronary atherosclerosis even after adjusting for other factors.
CONCLUSION: Prehypertension may be an important clinical entity which requires treatment in the Japanese population.
In situ visualization of the distribution and behaviour of water in a polymer electrolyte fuel cell during power generation has been demonstrated using a synchrotron X-ray imaging technique. Images were recorded using a CCD detector combined with a scintillator (Gd(2)O(2)S:Tb) and relay lens system, which were placed at 2.0 m or 2.5 m from the fuel cell. The images were measured continuously before and during power generation, and data on cell performance was recorded. The change of water distribution during power generation was obtained from X-ray images normalized with the initial state of the fuel cell. Compared with other techniques for visualizing the water in fuel cells, this technique enables the water distribution and behaviour in the fuel cell to be visualized during power generation with high spatial resolution. In particular, the effects of the specifications of the gas diffusion layer on the cathode side of the fuel cell on the distribution of water were efficiently identified. This is a very powerful technique for investigating the mechanism of water flow within the fuel cell and the relationship between water behaviour and cell performance.
A comprehensive analysis of gened relativistic spacetimes which admit a shearfree, irrotational and geodesic time-like coogruence is presented. The equations governing the models for a gened energy-momentum tensor are wrilten down. Coordinates in which the metric of such spacetimes takes on a simplified form are established. The general subwses of 'zero anisotropic stress', 'zero heat-flux vector' and 'two-component Ruids' are investigated. In particular, perfect-fluid Friedmann-Robertson-Walker models and spatially homogeneous models are discussed. Models with a variety of physically relevant energy-momentum tensors are considered. Anisowopic fluid models and viscous fluid models with heat conduction are examined. Also. models with B perfect Ruid plus a magnetic field or with pure radiation. and models with two non-collinw perfect fluids (satisfying a variety of physical conditions) are inwtigated. In particular. models with a (single) perfect Ruid which is tilting with respect to the shem-free, vorticity-free and acceleration-free time-like congruence are discussed.PACS numbers: 0420J. 9880H
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