玻璃纤维/环氧树脂复合材料热分解动力学参数的确定

采用热重分析仪对空气和氮气气氛中的玻璃纤维增强环氧树脂基复合材料进行热分析,得到该材料在空气气氛中的烧蚀热为3125～3440J/g,而在氮气气氛中并未出现明显的氧化放热峰。基于阿伦纽斯形式的多步分解模型和直接解法,计算了该材料在空气气氛中的热分解动力学参数。分析表明:阿伦纽斯形式的多步分解模型能够较好地描述该材料的热分解过程;直接解法适用于计算复合材料的热分解动力学参数;确立的热分解动力学参数是正确有效的。     

波段外10.6 μm激光辐照下光导型HgCdTe探测器的电学响应

 利用描述半导体内热载流子效应的１维能量平衡模型,对波段外10.6 μm激光辐照下光导型HgCdTe探测器的电学响应进行了数值模拟。结果表明：在激光开始辐照和停止辐照瞬间,探测器电阻的快速变化是由载流子温度的迅速变化引起的;在激光辐照过程中以及激光停照后,探测器电阻的缓慢变化是由晶格温度的缓慢变化进而导致载流子温度发生缓慢变化所致。模拟结果与对实验曲线的定性分析得出的结论一致。     

Ab initio calculations of pKa values of some organic acids in aqueous solution

The acidity of different classes of organic compounds in aqueous solution has been calculated. The calculations are carried out at the SCF level with inclusion of entropic and thermochemical correction to yield free energies of dissociations.

The polarized continuum model is used to describe the solvent. The model furnishes pK_a values in relatively good agreement with experimental data. Scaling different parts of solvation energies provides a significant improvement in results and signifies the importance of balance of individual contributions from electrostatic, cavity, dispersion and repulsion interactions.     

The k-Client Problem

Virtually all previous research in online algorithms has focused on single-threaded systems where only a single sequence of requests compete for system resources. To model multithreaded online systems, we define and analyze the k-client problem, a dual of the well-studied k-server problem. In the basic k-client problem, there is a single server and k clients, each of which generates a sequence of requests for service in a metric space. The crux of the problem is deciding which client's request the single server should service rather than which server should be used to service the current request. We also consider variations where requests have nonzero processing times and where there are multiple servers as well as multiple clients.We evaluate the performance of algorithms using several cost functions including maximum completion time and average completion time. Two of the main results we derive are tight bounds on the performance of several commonly studied disk scheduling algorithms and lower bounds of on the competitive ratio of any online algorithm for the maximum completion time and average completion time cost functions when k is a power of 2. Most of our results are essentially identical for the maximum completion time and average completion time cost functions.     

Surface chemistry of atmospheric plasma modified polycarbonate substrates

Surface of polycarbonate substrates were activated by atmospheric plasma torch using different gas pressure, distance from the substrates, velocity of the torch and number of treatments. The modifications were analyzed by contact angle measurements, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), atomic force microscopy (AFM) and UV-vis spectrophotometry. Plasma treatment caused the surface characteristics to become more hydrophilic as measured by the water contact angle, which decreased from 88° to 18°. The decrease in contact angle was mainly due to oxidation of the surface groups, leading to formation of polar groups with hydrophilic property. XPS results showed an increase in the intensity of -(C-O)- groups and also introduction of new functional groups i.e. -(O-CO)- after the treatment process. AFM topographic images demonstrated an increase in the rms roughness of the surface from 2.0 nm to 4.0 nm caused by the treatment. Increase in rms roughness of the surface caused relevant decrease in transmission up to ∼2-5%.