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In this study, 2-(aminomethyl)phenol and its derivatives, the reactants for 2-substituted 1,3-benzoxazines, are synthesized by HCl hydrolysis from the typical benzoxazines. The phenol/aniline-based mono-oxazine benzoxazine, PH-a, and the bisphenol A/aniline-based bis-oxazine benzoxazine, BA-a, are used as examples to demonstrate the feasibility of this new approach. Their chemical structures are characterized by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) and Raman spectroscopies, and are further verified by elementary analysis. CD532 chemical structure Their thermal properties are studied by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). These two 2-(aminomethyl) phenolic derivatives are reacted with paraformaldehyde to close the oxazine rings. A benzoxazine with a phenyl substituent at the 2-position of the oxazine ring is obtained from the 2-((phenylamino)methyl)phenol (hPH-a) and benzaldehyde. All these results highlight the success of the HCl hydrolysis and the formation of stable intermediates, namely 2-(aminomethyl) phenolic derivatives, from readily available benzoxazine monomers. This further demonstrates the feasibility of using these intermediates as reactants for a novel benzoxazine synthesis.This research investigated the effects of different synbiotic administration programs on broiler productive performance and foot pad dermatitis (FPD). Molecular insights on caecal microbiota and plasma metabolomics were also performed. - A total of 1000 one-day-old male chicks were grouped by the synbiotic treatment. The synbiotic was either sprayed as gel droplets onto newly hatched chicks at the hatchery (100 g/10,000 birds) or supplemented in-feed during the entire rearing period (1000, 500, and 250 g/ton according to feeding phase), or both. Only the treatments' combination produced significant results in comparison with the control group (untreated), improving feed conversion ratio from 14 to 29 d and in the overall period of the trial (1.570 vs. 1.509 and 1.643 vs. 1.596, respectively; p less then 0.05) while lowering FPD occurrence at slaughter (17% vs. 5%; p less then 0.05). These findings can be related to significant variations of caecal microbiota, like higher Firmicutes to Bacteroidetes ratio (with favorable implications for host's energy-harvesting potential from the diet) and more beneficial microbial consortium presumably sustaining eubiosis. Overall, these results indicate that administering synbiotics through gel droplets at the hatchery combined to in-feed supplementation for the whole growing cycle positively affects broiler feed efficiency and welfare.Three binary fcc-structured alloys (fcc-Ir0.50Pt0.50, fcc-Rh0.66Pt0.33 and fcc-Rh0.50Pd0.50) were prepared from [Ir(NH3)5Cl][PtCl6], [Ir(NH3)5Cl][PtBr6], [Rh(NH3)5Cl]2[PtCl6]Cl2 and [Rh(NH3)5Cl][PdCl4]·H2O, respectively, as single-source precursors. All alloys were prepared by thermal decomposition in gaseous hydrogen flow below 800 °C. Fcc-Ir0.50Pt0.50 and fcc-Rh0.50Pd0.50 correspond to miscibility gaps on binary metallic phase diagrams and can be considered as metastable alloys. Detailed comparison of [Ir(NH3)5Cl][PtCl6] and [Ir(NH3)5Cl][PtBr6] crystal structures suggests that two isoformular salts are not isostructural. In [Ir(NH3)5Cl][PtBr6], specific Br…Br interactions are responsible for a crystal structure arrangement. Room temperature compressibility of fcc-Ir0.50Pt0.50, fcc-Rh0.66Pt0.33 and fcc-Rh0.50Pd0.50 has been investigated up to 50 GPa in diamond anvil cells. All investigated fcc-structured binary alloys are stable under compression. Atomic volumes and bulk moduli show good agreement with ideal solutions model. For fcc-Ir0.50Pt0.50, V0/Z = 14.597(6) Å3·atom-1, B0 = 321(6) GPa and B0' = 6(1); for fcc-Rh0.66Pt0.33, V0/Z = 14.211(3) Å3·atom-1, B0 =259(1) GPa and B0' = 6.66(9) and for fcc-Rh0.50Pd0.50, V0/Z = 14.18(2) Å3·atom-1, B0 =223(4) GPa and B0' = 5.0(3).In this work, we have successfully produced a conductive and stretchable knitted cotton fabric by screen printing of poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) polystyrene sulfonate (PEDOTPSS) and poly(dimethylsiloxane-b-ethylene oxide)(PDMS-b-PEO) conductive polymer composite. It was observed that the mechanical and electrical properties highly depend on the proportion of the polymers, which opens a new window to produce PEDOTPSS-based conductive fabric with distinctive properties for different application areas. The bending length analysis proved that the flexural rigidity was lower with higher PDMS-b-PEO to PEDOTPSS ratio while tensile strength was increased. The SEM test showed that the smoothness of the fabric was better when PDMS-b-PEO is added compared to PEDOTPSS alone. Fabrics with electrical resistance from 24.8 to 90.8 kΩ/sq have been obtained by varying the PDMS-b-PEO to PEDOTPSS ratio. Moreover, the resistance increased with extension and washing. However, the change in surface resistance drops linearly at higher PDMS-b-PEO to PEDOTPSS ratio. The conductive fabrics were used to construct textile-based strain, moisture and biopotential sensors depending upon their respective surface resistance.This paper aims to propose an online relative complex permittivity measurement system at high temperature based on microwave interferometer. A ridge waveguide with a TE10 mode was used in which the sample was heated and measured simultaneously at a frequency of 2450 MHz, and the microwave interferometer is used to collect the amplitude and phase difference of the incident signal. The Extreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost) algorithm trained by the corresponding simulation data is used to construct the inversion model to calculate the complex dielectric coefficient of the tested material. Besides, this paper uses linear regression algorithm (LR) to calibrate the measurement system in order to improve the measurement accuracy. The entire system was tested using different materials at room temperature, and the maximum error of the measurement accuracy is less than 8% compared to the theoretical data. The robustness of the entire system was also tested by measuring Macor materials up to 800 °C. This proposed method provides an effective way to understand the mechanism between microwaves and matter at high temperatures.