8-Meth-oxy-3-methyl-3,4-di-hydro-2H-1,3-benzoxazine.

The title compound, C10H13NO2, crystallizes with two crystallographically independent mol-ecules of similar geometry in the asymmetric unit; the six-membered oxazine rings adopts a half-chair conformation. Neither hydrogen bonds nor π-π inter-actions are observed in the crystal structure.

Different Airway Inflammatory Phenotypes Correlate with Specific Fungal and Bacterial Microbiota in Asthma and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.

Background: Studies of chronic airway inflammatory diseases have increasingly focused on airway microbiota. However, the microbiota characteristics of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients with different airway inflammatory phenotypes remain unclear. Objective: We aimed to reveal the differences of fungal and bacterial microbiota between eosinophilic asthma (EA) and noneosinophilic asthma (NEA) patients and between eosinophilic COPD (EC) and noneosinophilic COPD (NEC) patients. Further, explore whether similarities exist in the airway microbiota of patients with the same phenotype. Methods: Induced sputum samples were collected from 45 asthma subjects and 39 COPD subjects. The airway microbiota of the subjects was profiled by nearly full-length 16S rRNA and internal transcribed space (ITS) sequencing. Results: Subjects with eosinophilic phenotype (EA and EC) showed significant differences in both fungal and bacterial microbiota compared to the corresponding subjects with noneosinophilic phenotype (NEA and NEC). In addition, no differences were observed between the fungal microbiota of subjects with the same phenotype (EA vs. EC, NEA vs. NEC). In bacterial microbiota, the greater relative abundance of Streptococcus thermophilus was observed in EA and EC subjects, while Ochrobactrum was enriched in NEA and NEC subjects. In fungal microbiota, the EA and EC subjects showed higher relative abundances of Aspergillus and Bjerkandera, while the NEA and NEC subjects were enriched in Rhodotorula and Papiliotrema. Conclusions: Different airway inflammatory phenotypes were related to specific fungal and bacterial microbiota in both asthma and COPD, while the same airway inflammatory phenotype revealed a degree of similarity in airway microbiota, particularly in fungal microbiota.

6-Allyl-8-meth-oxy-3-phenyl-3,4-dihydro-2H-benzo[e][1,3]oxazine.

In the title compound, C(18)H(19)NO(2), the allyl group is disordered over two sets of sites [occupancy ratio 0.662 (4):0.338 (4)]. The dihedral angle between the phenyl and benzene rings is 87.44 (10)°. The oxazinane ring adopts a sofa conformation.

Covalent polymer functionalized graphene oxide/poly(ether ether ketone) composites for fused deposition modeling: improved mechanical and tribological performance.

This paper presents a novel method using poly(aryl ether ketone) containing pendant carboxyl groups to covalently functionalize graphene oxide. The functionalized graphene oxide (LFG) was used to prepare poly(ether ether ketone) (PEEK) composites through melt blending. It is found that LFG has great interface adhesion to the PEEK matrix, and just a small amount of it can simultaneously improve the strength and toughness of the composites, while unmodified graphene oxide could enhance strength but cause toughness damage. The tensile and impact strength of composite with 0.1 wt% LFG are 5.7% and 20.5% higher than that of neat PEEK, respectively. In addition, 0.5 wt% LFG composite shows great friction and wear performance with friction coefficient and specific wear rate 27.3% and 18.3% lower than that of PEEK. Furthermore, the composites can be used as practical high-performance additive manufacturing materials because LFG is able to improve the mechanical performance of the fused deposition modeling (FDM) composite samples significantly.