[Combined repair of large defect caused by radical surgery of advanced tongue cancer with rib-major pectoralis myocutaneous flap carrying costal parietal pleura].

Objective: To explore the clinical value and safety of using rib-major pectoralis myocutaneous flap carrying costal parietal pleura in combined repair of large soft and hard tissue defect caused by radical surgery of advanced tongue cancer.

Methods: Six patients with advanced tongue carcinoma involving the floor of mouth and mandible were performed combined radical neck dissection with glossectomy and mandibulectomy, which caused large soft and hard tissue defect. Six rib-major pectoralis myocutaneous flaps carrying costal parietal pleura were transferred for immediate repair of the large defects.

[Intraoral submandibular gland excision and how to deal with external maxillary artery].

Objective: To investigate the feasibility and safety of intraoral submandibular gland excision.

Methods: Analyze the relationship between the external maxillary artery and submandibular gland, and offer a reliable anatomical base for 10 cases of intraoral submandibular gland excision, including 8 cases of chronic sialadenitis, 1 case of pleomorphic adenoma and 1 case of cyst of submandibular gland.

Results: The external maxillary artery went across the surface of gland submandibular, and its branches provided nutrition for the gland in most cases.

Preparation of montmorillonite/titania nanocomposite and enhanced electrorheological activity.

We prepared a new type of electrorheological particle composed of TiO2 nanocrystallites-coated montmorillonite (MMT/TiO2) nanocomposite by the sol-gel technique. The characterizations including TGA, XRD, TEM, SEM, EDS, and FTIR showed that TiO2 was deposited on the surface of the MMT flakes with anatase nanocrystallite. An obviously enhanced ER effect was found in the MMT/TiO2 nanocomposites based ER fluids compared with pure MMT and TiO2.

Guest-controlling effects on ER behaviors of beta-cyclodextrin polymer.

An effective and novel approach to obtaining electrorheological particles with high performance through the formation of host-guest complexes has been achieved. The significant preponderance of the host-guest complex formation is that the host structure can be controlled easily by adding different guests. Based on this point, six supramolecular complexes of beta-cyclodextrin cross-linking polymer with salicylic acid (beta-CDP-1), 5-chlorosalicylic acid (beta-CDP-2), 3,5-dichlorosalicylic acid (beta-CDP-3), 5-nitrosalicylic acid (beta-CDP-4), 3,5-dinitrosalicylic acid (beta-CDP-5), or 3-hydroxy-2-naphthoic acid (beta-CDP-6) particles were synthesized.

Core/shell nanocomposite based on the local polarization and its electrorheological behavior.

Aimed at the increase of electrorheological effect, a novel core/shell material was prepared by the combination of mechanochemical activity and sol-gel technique. The structure analyses X-ray diffraction, Fourier transform infrared spectrometry, scanning electron microscopy, and energy-dispersive spectrometry showed that a modified kaolinite/titanium oxide nanocomposite consisted of the mechanochemically activated kaolinite/NaCl complex coated by titanium oxide. A distinct enhancement of the electrorheological activity was found by using such particles dispersed in silicone oil than those of kaolinite or titanium oxide alone under a direct current electric field.

Synthesis of functional microcapsules containing suspensions responsive to electric fields.

A sort of functional microcapsules, which contain a suspension responsive to electric fields, is prepared by in situ polymerization of urea and formaldehyde. The suspension is made up of pigment phthalocyanine green (PPG) and tetrachloroethylene. In order to solve the particles' separation from the suspension during the microencapsulation and to obtain microcapsules applying to electronic ink display, the dispersibility of the particles, the contact angles between the particles and the tetrachloroethylene, and the influences of different emulsifiers on the microencapsulation are investigated.

Preparation of microcapsules containing two-phase core materials.

Urea-formaldehyde (UF) microcapsules containing two-phase core materials in which phthalocyanine blue BGS (beta-CuPc) particles were homodispersed in tetrachloroethylene (TCE) were prepared by in situ polymerization. The effects of the various process parameters, including the type of surface modifier, the viscosity of UF prepolymer, the type of water-soluble surfactant, and the concentration of oil-soluble surfactant in the capsule core on the dispersity of beta-CuPc particles in TCE and the properties of the capsule wall and the adsorption of beta-CuPc particles on the internal surface of capsule wall were experimentally investigated. It was shown that using octadecylamine (ODA) to modify beta-CuPc particles resulted in a significant increase of the dispersing extent (DE) and the electrophoresis velocity of the particles in TCE (about 4 and 20 times more than that of unmodified).

A new approach of enhancing the shear stress of electrorheological fluids of montmorillonite nanocomposite by emulsion intercalation of poly-N-methaniline.

Poly-N-methaniline/montmorillonite (PNMA-MMT) nanocomposite particles with high dielectric constant as well as suitable conductivity were synthesized by an emulsion intercalation method and characterized by FT-IR, XRD, and TEM spectrometry, respectively. The electrorheological (ER) properties of the suspensions of PNMA-MMT particles in silicone oil (20 wt%) were investigated under DC electric fields. It was found that the shear stress of poly-N-methaniline/montmorillonite electrorheological fluid (ERF) is 6.