Metal nanowire nonwoven cloth (MNNC) is a metal sheet that has resulted from intertwined metal nanowires 100 nm in diameter with several dozen micrometers of length. Thus, it is a new metallic material having both a flexibility of the metal sheet and a large specific surface area of the nanowires. As an application that utilizes these properties, we propose a high-cyclability electrode for Li storage batteries, in which an active material is deposited or coated on MNNC. The proposed electrode can work without any binders, conductive additives, and current collectors, which might largely improve a practical gravimetric energy density. Huge electrode surfaces provide efficient ion/electron transports, and sufficient interspaces between the respective nanowires accommodate large volume expansions of the active material. To demonstrate these advantages, we have fabricated a NiO-covered nickel nanowire nonwoven cloth (NNNC) by electroless deposition under a magnetic field and annealing in air. The adequately annealed NNNC was shown to be an excellent conversion-type electrode that exhibits a quite high cyclability, 500 mAh/g at 1 C after 300 cycles, compared to that of a composite electrode consisting of NiO nanoparticles. Thus, the present design concept will contribute to a game-changing technology in future lithium ion battery (LIB) electrodes.
A single step on-line concentration and separation method for peptides in non-aqueous capillary electrophoresis was developed. ACN containing 50 mM tetraethylammonium perchlorate was used as the electrophoretic medium; angiotensins I-IV were separated as a result of the differences in the magnitudes of their interactions with perchlorate anions. When the sample solution (ACN containing 0.5% trifluoroacetic acid and angiotensins) was injected as a large-volume plug, the analytes were concentrated at the inlet end of the capillary by both sweeping and stacking mechanisms; the separation procedure then started automatically without any operations such as polarity change. It was found that the concentration of analytes, injection period, and concentration of tetraethylammonium perchlorate in the electrophoretic medium were important factors for both separation and concentration efficiencies. The angiotensins were concentrated and separated with the large-volume injection of up to 80% of the effective capillary length.
The authors retrospectively searched for human papillomavirus (HPV) types 16 and 18 in 60 cases of carcinoma arising from the nasal cavities (NC) and paranasal sinuses (PS) by using the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) on DNA extracted from formalin‐fixed, paraffin‐embedded tissues. In cases of SCC (n = 49), the authors also compared the clinical features of patients with HPV‐positive and HPV‐negative results to determine the clinical significance of HPV. HPV 16 and 18 were detected in 7 of the 49 cases (14%) of SCC. In the other histologic types of carcinoma (n = 11), neither HPV 16 nor HPV 18 was detected. No significant differences in the clinical features were observed between patients with SCC with HPV‐positive and HPV‐negative results. The results suggest that HPV 16 and 18 are implicated in the pathogenesis of SCC arising from the NC and PS. However, the presence of HPV is not related to local progression, occurrence of metastases, or the prognosis of the patients.
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