Doped Lead Halide White Phosphors for Very High Efficiency and Ultra-High Color Rendering

Near-UV-pumped white-light-emitting diodes with ultra-high color rendering and decreased blue-light emission is highly desirable. However, discovering a single-phase white light emitter with such characteristics remains challenging. Herein, we demonstrate that Mn doping as low as 0.027 % in the hybrid post-perovskite type (TDMP)PbBr₄ (TDMP=trans-2,5-dimethylpiperaziniium) enables to achieve a bright pure white emission replicating the spectrum of the sun's rays. Thus, a white phosphor exhibiting an emission with CIE coordinates (0.330, 0.365), a high photoluminescence quantum yield of 60 % (new record for white light emission of hybrid lead halides), and an ultra-high color rendering index (CRI=96, R9=91.8), corresponding to the record value for a single phase emitter was obtained. The investigation of the photoluminescence properties revealed how free excitons, self-trapped excitons, and low amount of Mn dopants are coupled to give rise to such pure white emission.     

Obionin B: An o-pyranonaphthoquinone decaketide from an unidentified fungus (MSX 63619) from the Order Pleosporales

A fungal extract (MSX 63619), from the Mycosynthetix library of over 50,000 fungi, displayed promising cytotoxicity against a human tumor cell panel. Bioactivity-directed fractionation led to the isolation of an o-pyranonaphthoquinone decaketide, which we termed obionin B (1). The structure of 1 was deduced via spectroscopic and spectrometric techniques. The IC₅₀ value of 1 was moderate, ranging from 3 to 13 μM, depending on the cell line tested.     

Efficient uncoupled stochastic analysis with non-proportional damping

The use of normal modes of vibration in the analysis of structures with non-proportional damping reduces the size of the resulting set of governing equations, but does not decouple them. A common practice consists in decoupling the equations by disregarding the off-diagonal elements in the modal damping matrix. Recently, an approximation based on an asymptotic expansion of the modal transfer matrix has been proposed in a deterministic framework to partially account for off-diagonal terms, but still with a set of uncoupled equations. This paper aims at extending this method in a stochastic context. First the mathematical background is introduced and the method is illustrated with a simple example. Then its relevance is demonstrated within the context of the structural analysis of a large and realistic structure.     

A guide to RBF-generated finite differences for nonlinear transport: Shallow water simulations on a sphere

The current paper establishes the computational efficiency and accuracy of the RBF-FD method for large-scale geoscience modeling with comparisons to state-of-the-art methods as high-order discontinuous Galerkin and spherical harmonics, the latter using expansions with close to 300,000 bases. The test cases are demanding fluid flow problems on the sphere that exhibit numerical challenges, such as Gibbs phenomena, sharp gradients, and complex vortical dynamics with rapid energy transfer from large to small scales over short time periods. The computations were possible as well as very competitive due to the implementation of hyperviscosity on large RBF stencil sizes (corresponding roughly to 6th to 9th order methods) with up to O(10⁵) nodes on the sphere. The RBF-FD method scaled as O(N) per time step, where N is the total number of nodes on the sphere. In Appendix A, guidelines are given on how to chose parameters when using RBF-FD to solve hyperbolic PDEs.     

Time-Resolved Digital Image Correlation in the Scanning Electron Microscope for Analysis of Time-Dependent Mechanisms

Experimental Mechanics - Background: Advancements in the Digitial Image Correlation (DIC) technique over the past decade have greatly improved spatial resolution. However, many processes, such as...     

Legendre’s Necessary Condition for Fractional Bolza Functionals with Mixed Initial/Final Constraints

Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications - The present work was primarily motivated by our findings in the literature of some flaws within the proof of the second-order Legendre necessary...     

Electronic correlation and effective interactions in small alkali clusters

The crucial importance of correlation effects versus delocalization, and their nature in small Alkali clusters is analysed from an ab-initio point of view through a detailed investigation of the Li₂ dimer. The role of the external correlation (provided by extended basis sets and large Configuration Interaction calculations) is shown to lower the energy of ionic configurations and to increase their weight in the electronic wavefunction, increasing simultaneously the importance of delocalization versus internal correlation within thes-band. Effective interactions are determined from accurate diabatic calculations on dimers and transfered to clusters via an effective hamiltonian spanned bys orthogonal orbitals. Although not including explicitely thep-band, this model provides results in good agreement with abinitio calculations on Lithium clusters.