Clay fraction mineralogy of a Cambisol in Brazil

Clay minerals having a 2:1 (tetrahedral:octahedral sheet) structure may be found in strongly weathering soils only if the local pedo-climatic environment prevents them from further weathering to other minerals such as iron oxides. The clay minerals impart important chemical properties to soils, in part by virtue of changes in the redox state of iron in their crystal structures. Knowing the chemical nature of soil clays is a first step in evaluating their potential reactivity with other soil constituents and processes, such as the chemical decomposition of organic substrates to be potentially used in environmental remediation. The purpose of this work was to characterize the iron oxides and iron-bearing clay minerals from a B horizon of a Cambisol developed on tuffite in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil, using chemical analysis, powder X-ray diffraction, Mössbauer spectroscopy, and thermal analysis. The iron oxides of this NaOH-treated clay-fraction were found to contain mainly maghemite (γFe₂O₃) and superparamagnetic goethite (αFeOOH). Kaolinite (Al₂Si₂O₅(OH)₄), smectite, and minor portions of anatase (TiO₂) were identified in the CBD-treated sample.     

慈溪市耕地中有机氯农药残留研究

分析了慈溪市耕地284个土壤样品的有机氯农药（六氯环己烷俗称六六六，双对氯苯基三氯乙烷俗称滴滴涕）残留状况．六六六残留量在不同土类之间无显著差异，但滴滴涕残留量差异明显，表现为潮土最高；水稻土次之；滨海盐土最低．按照国家无公害农产品产地环境质量标准中六六六和滴滴涕的限量标准，慈溪市99．6％的耕地符合无公害农产品产地的环境质量要求．     

Research in the flexural buckling modes of a cylindrical sandwich shell under the action of a temperature field inhomogeneous across its thickness

A solution to the problem on the stability according to the flexural buckling mode is given for a cylindrical sandwich shell with a transversely soft core of arbitrary thickness. The shell is under the action of a temperature field inhomogeneous across the thickness, and its end faces are fastened in such a way (in the axial direction, the face sections of the external layer are fixed, but of the internal one are free) that an inhomogeneous subcritical stress-strain state arises in the shell across the thickness of its layers. It is shown that, under such conditions, the buckling mode of the shell is mixed flexural. To reveal and investigate this mode, equations of subcritical equilibrium and stability of a corresponding degree of accuracy are needed.Translated from Mekhanika Kompozitnykh Materialov, Vol. 40, No. 6, pp. 715–730, November–December, 2004.     

Nonlinear stability of boundary layers for the Boltzmann equation with cutoff soft potentials

The study on the boundary layer is important in both mathematics and physics. This paper considers the nonlinear stability of boundary layer solutions for the Boltzmann equation with cutoff soft potentials when the Mach number of the far field is less than −1. Unlike the collision frequency is strictly positive in the hard potential or hard sphere model, the collision frequency has no positive lower bound for the cutoff soft potentials, so the decay in time cannot be expected. Instead, the present paper proves that the solution will always be in a small region around the boundary layer by noticing the decay property of collision operator in velocity.     

非饱和土吸力的温度性质

根据热力学理论，讨论非饱和土中的土吸力随温度变化的情况，得到在一般情况下非饱和土中的土吸力随着温度增加而线性减小的规律．     

Cyclic shear of saturated soil: the evolution of stress inhomogeneity

Received July 30, 2001 / Published online February 28, 2002     

<Emphasis Type="Italic">O</Emphasis>(1) loop model with different boundary conditions and symmetry classes of alternating-sign matrices

This work is a continuation of our recent paper where we discussed numerical evidence that the numbers of the states of the fully packed loop model with fixed pairing patterns coincide with the components of the ground state vector of the O(1) loop model with periodic boundary conditions and an even number of sites. We give two new conjectures related to different boundary conditions: we suggest and numerically verify that the numbers of the half-turn symmetric states of the fully packed loop model with fixed pairing patterns coincide with the components of the ground state vector of the O(1) loop model with periodic boundary conditions and an odd number of sites and that the corresponding numbers of the vertically symmetric states describe the case of open boundary conditions and an even number of sites.Translated from Teoreticheskaya i Matematicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 142, No. 2, pp. 284–292, February, 2005.     

Exploring nanomagnetism with soft X-ray microscopy

Magnetic soft X-ray microscopy images magnetism in nanoscale systems with a spatial resolution down to 15 nm provided by state-of-the-art Fresnel zone plate optics. X-ray magnetic circular dichroism (X-MCD) is used as the element-specific magnetic contrast mechanism similar to photoemission electron microscopy (PEEM), however, with volume sensitivity and the ability to record the images in varying applied magnetic fields which allows study of magnetization reversal processes at fundamental length scales. Utilizing a stroboscopic pump-probe scheme one can investigate fast spin dynamics with a time resolution down to 70 ps which gives access to precessional and relaxation phenomena as well as spin torque driven domain wall dynamics in nanoscale systems. Current developments in zone plate optics aim for a spatial resolution towards 10 nm and at next generation X-ray sources a time resolution in the fs regime can be envisioned.     

4.48 nm正入射软X射线激光用Cr/C多层膜高反射镜的研制

针对4.48nm类镍钽软X射线激光及其应用实验,设计制备了工作于这一波长的近正入射多层膜高反射镜。选择Cr/C为制备4.48nm高反射多层膜的材料对,通过优化设计,确定了多层膜的周期、周期数以及两种材料的厚度比。模拟了多层膜非理想界面对高反射多层膜性能的影响。采用直流磁控溅射方法在超光滑硅基片上实现了200周期Cr/C多层膜高反射镜的制备。利用X射线衍射仪测量了多层膜结构,在德国BessyⅡ同步辐射上测量了在工作波长处多层膜反射率,测量的峰值反射率达7.5%。对衍射仪测量的掠入射反射曲线和同步辐射测量的反射率曲线分别进行拟合,得到的粗糙度和厚度比的结果相近。测试结果表明,所制备的Cr/C多层膜样品结构良好,在指定工作波长处有较高的反射峰,达到了设计要求。     

采用适宜靶原子提高高次谐波的转化效率

通过对影响谐波转化效率因素的分析,提出选择适宜的靶原子对象,即选择在高能区具有较强连续态-基态耦合强度的靶原子,可以优化高次谐波的发射条件.本文的数值实验结果表明,利用该方案,可以把平台区尾部谐波的转化效率提高两个数量级.