Encapsulation of a Porous Organic Cage into the Pores of a Metal–Organic Framework for Enhanced CO2 Separation

We present a facile approach to encapsulate functional porous organic cages (POCs) into a robust MOF by an incipient‐wetness impregnation method. Porous cucurbit[6]uril (CB6) cages with high CO₂ affinity were successfully encapsulated into the nanospace of Cr‐based MIL‐101 while retaining the crystal framework, morphology, and high stability of MIL‐101. The encapsulated CB6 amount is controllable. Importantly, as the CB6 molecule with intrinsic micropores is smaller than the inner mesopores of MIL‐101, more affinity sites for CO₂ are created in the resulting CB6@MIL‐101 composites, leading to enhanced CO₂ uptake capacity and CO₂/N₂, CO₂/CH₄ separation performance at low pressures. This POC@MOF encapsulation strategy provides a facile route to introduce functional POCs into stable MOFs for various potential applications.     

Lariat ethers in the chiral recognition of amino acid esters:electrospray ionization mass spectrometry investigation

The ability of the crown ethers (1–4), containing the ortho- or para- methoxyphenoxy-methyl substituents in their structure, to chiral recognition in reference to amino acid esters has been investigated by electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (ESI-MS). The method allows registering the diastereomeric complexes between the studied crowns as hosts and the protonated alanine, phenylglycine and phenylalanine methyl esters as guests in the gas phase. ESI-MS experiments using isotopically labeled guests provide robust and reproducible results, indicating a moderate degree of chiral discrimination in the series of the studied crown ethers. ESI-MS experiments using achiral amine as a reference yielded the results comparable with the previous method. It has been found that (S)-enantiomers of the crowns bind predominately (S)-enantiomers of the amino acid esters, and vice-versa. It has been shown that the chiral ortho-substituted crown (S)-1 demonstrates the more pronounced values for chiral discrimination as compared with the para-substituted crown (S)-2. This fact indicates the interrelationship between the chiral recognition and the lariat nature of crown 1. Increasing the size of the cavity and the presence of a flat aromatic moiety in crowns 3 and 4 strengthens their complexing ability, simultaneously weakening the enantioselectivity of the complexation.     

Coupled oscillators with power-law interaction and their fractional dynamics analogues

A one-dimensional chain of coupled oscillators with the long-range power-law interactions is considered. Equations of motion in the infrared limit are mapped onto the continuum equation with the Riesz fractional derivative of order α, when 0 < α < 2. The evolution of soliton-like and breather-like structures is obtained numerically and compared for two types of simulations: using the chain of oscillators and using the continuous medium equation with the fractional derivative.     

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Experimental observation of single mode panel flutter in supersonic gas flow

Single mode flutter is a type of panel flutter, which cannot be analyzed theoretically using conventional piston theory, and for this reason it is studied very little. No previous experiments, where this type of panel flutter was clearly detected, were conducted. In this paper a plate, designed such that it cannot experience “classical” coupled-mode type flutter, but can experience single mode flutter, is tested. Analysis of the tested data clearly indicates the occurrence of single mode panel flutter.     

Boundary value problems for strongly degenerate parabolic equations

Solutions of strongly degenerate parabolic partial differential equations are known to develop infinite spatial derivatives in finite time from smooth initial conditions over the real line. However, when Dirichlet or Neumann boundary conditions are prescribed on a finite interval, a smooth classical solution may exist for all Eq., with derivatives vanishing as t tends to infinity. With some simple extra conditions relating two nonlinear coefficients in the degenerate equation, classical solvability is proved in general.     

Commissioning of electron cooling in CSRe

The 400 MeV/u 12C6+ion beam was successfully cooled by the intensive electron beam near 1 A in CSRe.The momentum cooling time was estimated near 15 s.The cooling force was measured in the cases of different electron beam profiles,and the different angles between the ion beam and electron beam.The lifetime of the ion beam in CSRe was over 80 h.The dispersion in the cooling section was confirmed as positive close to zero.The beam sizes before cooling and after cooling were measured by the moving screen.The beam diameter after cooling was about 1 mm.The bunch length was measured with the help of the signals from the beam position monitor.The diffusion was studied in the absence of the electron beam.     

Commissioning of electron cooling in CSRm

A new generation electron cooler has started operation in the heavy ion synchrotron CSRm which is used to increase the intensity of heavy ions. Transverse cooling of the ion beam after horizontal multi-turn injection allows beam accumulation at the injection energy. After optimization of the accumulation process an intensity increase in a synchrotron pulse by more than one order of magnitude has been achieved. In given accumulation time interval of 10 seconds, 108 particles have been accumulated and accelerated to the final energy. The momentum spread after accumulation and acceleration in the 10-4 range has been demonstrated in six species of ion beams. Primary measurements of accumulation process varying with electron energy, electron beam current, electron beam profile, expansion factor and injection interval have been performed. The lifetimes of ion beams in the presence of electron beams were roughly measured with the help of DCCT signal.     

Communication with a chaotic traveling wave tube microwave generator

Traveling wave tubes (TWTs) are vacuum electronic amplifiers (see Beck, Gittins, and Pierce) that are commonly used for communication in the centimeter wavelength range. Increasing demand for high data flow in wireless communication systems (satellite communication systems are a good example) raises needs for making TWT's more compact and efficient. Motivated by this we suggest a scheme in which a TWT with feedback is operated in a highly nonlinear regime where the device behaves chaotically. The chaos is controlled using small controls. Then, at the receiving end a receiving TWT synchronizes to the chaotic transmitter and amplifies the received signal with nearly no distortion. Results on numerical simulations of the proposed scheme are reported and used to evaluate its effectiveness.