A [001]-Oriented Hittorf's Phosphorus Nanorods/Polymeric Carbon Nitride Heterostructure for Boosting Wide-Spectrum-Responsive Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution from Pure Water

Red phosphorus is a promising photocatalyst with wide visible-light absorption up to 700 nm, but the fast charge recombination limits its photocatalytic hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) activity. Now, [001]-oriented Hittorf's phosphorus (HP) nanorods were successfully grown on polymeric carbon nitride (PCN) by a chemical vapor deposition strategy. Compared with the bare PCN and HP, the optimized PCN@HP hybrid exhibited a significantly enhanced photocatalytic activity, with HER rates reaching 33.2 and 17.5 μmol h⁻¹ from pure water under simulated solar light and visible light irradiation, respectively. It was theoretically and experimentally indicated that the strong electronic coupling between PCN and [001]-oriented HP nanorods gave rise to the enhanced visible light absorption and the greatly accelerated photoinduced electron–hole separation and transfer, which benefited the photocatalytic HER performance.     

Binding of caffeic acid to human serum albumin by the retention data and frontal analysis

A new mathematical model and frontal analysis were used to characterize the binding behavior of caffeic acid to human serum albumin (HSA) based on high‐performance affinity chromatography. The experiments were carried out by injecting various mole amounts of the drug onto an immobilized HSA column. They indicated that caffeic acid has only one type of binding site to HSA on which the association constant was 2.75 × 10⁴/m . The number of the binding site involving the interaction between caffeic acid and HSA was 69 nm . The data obtained by the frontal analysis appeared to present the same results for both the association constant and the number of binding sites. This new model based on the relationship between the mole amounts of injection and capacity factors assists understanding of drug–protein interaction. The proposed model also has the advantages of ligand saving and rapid operation. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

A Mizuno-Todd-Ye predictor-corrector infeasible-interior-point method for linear programming over symmetric cones

We propose a new general type of splitting methods for accretive operators in Banach spaces. We then give the sufficient conditions to guarantee the strong convergence. In the last section, we apply our results to the minimization optimization problem and the linear inverse problem including the numerical examples.     

Inequalities for eigenvalues of the drifting Laplacian on Riemannian manifolds

This paper studies eigenvalues of the drifting Laplacian on compact Riemannian manifolds with boundary (possibly empty) and provides a general inequality for them. Using the general inequality, we obtain universal inequalities for eigenvalues of the drifting Laplacian of Payne-Pólya-Weinberger-Yang type for manifolds supporting some special functions. We also obtain a lower bound for the first eigenvalue of the square of the drifting Laplacian on compact manifolds with boundary under some condition on the Bakry-Ricci curvature.     

Adaptive controller design for a switched model of air-breathing hypersonic vehicles

Since most of the control strategies for air-breathing hypersonic vehicles (AHVs) concentrate on the control-oriented models built at/around a specific working point, it is somewhat hard to extend them to the broader flight envelop. Aiming at the above deficiency, this paper formulates the dynamics of AHVs as several sub-models, which switch to each other in accordance with the flight condition and make up of the control-oriented switched model (COSM). With the aid of the COSM, two adaptive tracking controllers are proposed for the purposes of velocity tracking and altitude tracking, sequentially. By utilizing neural networks and designing robust control laws, the possible changes on the force and moment coefficients in the COSM are successfully handled. The time-varying inertia parameters of AHVs are also considered at design level. It is worth emphasizing that while this strategy is developed based on a switched model, the resulting control algorithm is continuous with no connection to the switching signal. Analysis indicates that both velocity and altitude tracking errors remain small within the whole flight envelop, which is further confirmed by a simulation study.     

金属有机骨架薄膜材料的三阶非线性光学性能研究进展

金属有机骨架(MOFs)材料因其可设计的结构以及灵活可控的配位模式,在三阶非线性光学(NLO)领域引起了广泛的关注。与液体分散状态相比,MOFs在固体状态下的三阶NLO性能更为重要,这不仅可以深入了解MOFs本身所固有的光学性能,还有助于实现MOFs在光学器件中的实际应用。然而,由于散射的存在和透光率的限制,单独的MOFs材料难以直接实现固体状态下的三阶NLO性能研究,将MOFs制备成具有较好光学透过性的薄膜是研究其NLO性能最为可行的一种策略。MOFs薄膜不仅很好地继承了MOFs所固有的三阶NLO性能,而且还结合了薄膜的高透光率以及灵活的机械性能。基于此,本文分析总结了MOFs薄膜的制备方法及其NLO性能研究方面的相关工作,并根据目前MOFs薄膜在三阶NLO性能方面的研究现状对其未来发展予以了展望。     

AFS–3100原子荧光光度计联机异常故障排除

介绍了北京海光仪器公司生产的AFS–3100原子荧光光度计在使用过程中仪器与电脑通讯失败的故障原因及排除方法。     

微波消解–石墨炉原子吸收法测定化妆品中的铅

建立了微波消解–石墨炉原子吸收光谱法测定化妆品中铅的方法。探讨了样品前处理条件、基体改性剂的选择和优化、石墨炉升温条件等对测定结果的影响。在优化的试验条件下,铅的质量浓度在0~100 ng/mL范围内与吸光度具有良好的线性关系,线性相关系数r=0.9991,检出限为0.33 ng/mL。用该法对5种化妆品中的铅进行测定,加标回收率在95.0%~106.1%之间,测定结果的相对标准偏差不大于3.6%。该方法可应用于化妆品中痕量铅的分析。