Water Catalysis of the Reaction of Methanol with OH Radical in the Atmosphere is Negligible

Faced with the contradictory results of two recent experimental studies [Jara‐Toro et al., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2017 , 56, 2166 and Chao et al., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2019 , 58, 5013] of the possible catalytic effect of water vapor on CH₃OH + OH reaction, we report calculations that corroborate the conclusion made by Chao et al. and extend the rate constant evaluation down to 200 K. The rate constants of the CH₃OH + OH reaction catalyzed by a water molecule are computed as functions of temperature and relative humidity using high‐level electronic structure and kinetics calculations. The Wuhan–Minnesota Scaling (WMS) method is used to provide accurate energetics to benchmark a density functional for direct dynamics. Both high‐frequency and low‐frequency anharmonicities are included. Variational and tunneling effects are treated by canonical variational transition state theory with multidimensional small‐curvature tunneling. And, most significantly, we include multistructural effects in the rate constant calculations. Our calculations show that the catalytic effect of water vapor is not observable at 200–400 K.     

大气环境下的钢筋混凝土桥梁时变可靠度分析

为了探究钢筋混凝土桥梁抗力退化对桥梁可靠性能的影响,综合考虑一般大气环境下混凝土强度、钢筋强度、混凝土与钢筋黏结性能的降低,建立普通钢筋混凝土桥梁的抗力退化时变模型,分析规范车辆荷载作用的桥梁时变可靠度。研究结果表明,(1)一般大气环境下,桥梁抗力随着服役时间的增加而减小,其中钢筋强度退化对桥梁抗力的影响最大,其次是钢筋与混凝土黏结性能降低,而混凝土强度退化对桥梁抗力的影响相对较小; (2)桥梁可靠指标随着服役时间的增加而减小,密集行车占比越大,桥梁承载能力失效的概率就越大;非平稳车载作用下的桥梁可靠指标小于平稳车载,桥梁需要维修补强的时间比平稳车载提前; (3)多梁式简支梁桥在建造时应该提高边梁的安全储备,在管养时可以采取限载措施进行干预。     

Blue-phase liquid crystal display with high dielectric material

A blue-phase liquid crystal display (BPLCD) with low operating voltage and high transmittance is demonstrated by using a high dielectric material, which is used as an insulation layer or protrusion fixed on the pixel and common electrodes in in-plane switching (IPS) mode. The operating voltage is reduced to about 14 V and the transmittance is improved for the BPLCD with high dielectric constant protrusion. Compared with the conventional protrusion electrode structure, the proposed protrusion can make manufacturing process simple and easy because the electrode has no complex shape. The results will be significant in designing optimal BPLCDs.     

Highly transparent cerium doped gadolinium gallium aluminum garnet ceramic prepared with precursors fabricated by ultrasonic enhanced chemical co-precipitation

Cerium doped gadolinium gallium aluminum garnet (GGAG:Ce) ceramic precursors have been synthesized with an ultrasonic chemical co-precipitation method (UCC) and for comparison with a traditional chemical co-precipitation method (TCC). The effect of ultra-sonication on the morphology of powders and the transmittance of GGAG:Ce ceramics are studied. The results indicate that the UCC method can effectively improve the homogenization and sinterability of GGAG:Ce powders, which contribute to obtain high transparent GGAG ceramic with the highest transmittance of 81%.     

Absence of Cherenkov properties of coherent radio emission from atmospheric showers at frequencies below 100 MHz

In many modern papers devoted to the calculation of radio emissions from extensive atmospheric showers (EASs) in the 10–100 MHz range, the radiation from EASs of charged particles moving with a velocity higher than the speed of light in air is identified as Vavilov—Cherenkov radiation (VCR). In this paper it is shown that radio emissions from EASs at frequencies less than 100 MHz do not possess the properties of VCR recorded from EASs in the optical range. Original Russian Text ? N.N. Kalmykov, A.A. Konstantinov, 2009, published in Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta. Fizika, 2009, No. 3, pp. 99–102.     

大气激光通信链路的性能仿真

大气衰减和大气湍流严重影响着大气激光通信的链路质量。建立了大气信道的激光通信链路模型，研究了衰减信道和湍流信道中光链路的传输影响，对最大通信速率、链路功率余量和误码率进行了分析和计算。结果表明，大气湍流严重影响系统误码率，当大气闪烁指数斫是0．07时，可达到的最小误码率为10^-9。分析结果可为系统设计提供参考依据。     

High-dimensional model representations generated from low order terms--lp-RS-HDMR

High-dimensional model representation (HDMR) is a general set of quantitative model assessment and analysis tools for improving the efficiency of deducing high dimensional input-output system behavior. RS-HDMR is a particular form of HDMR based on random sampling (RS) of the input variables. The component functions in an HDMR expansion are optimal choices tailored to the n-variate function f(x) being represented over the desired domain of the n-dimensional vector x. The high-order terms (usually larger than second order, or equivalently beyond cooperativity between pairs of variables) in the expansion are often negligible. When it is necessary to go beyond the first and the second order RS-HDMR, this article introduces a modified low-order term product (lp)-RS-HDMR method to approximately represent the high-order RS-HDMR component functions as products of low-order functions. Using this method the high-order truncated RS-HDMR expansions may be constructed without directly computing the original high-order terms. The mathematical foundations of lp-RS-HDMR are presented along with an illustration of its utility in an atmospheric chemical kinetics model.     

超光滑表面加工方法的新进展

通过回顾超光滑表面加工技术的发展历程,对多种具有代表性的超光滑表面加工方法的原理和应用作了简单阐述,并重点提出和介绍了一种大气等离子体抛光方法。该方法实现了利用常压等离子体激发化学反应来完成超光滑表面的无损伤抛光加工,并首次引入电容耦合式炬型等离子体源,为高质量光学表面的加工提供了一条新的途径。试验结果表明,在针对单晶硅的加工过程中实现了1μm/min的加工速率和Ra 0.6nm的表面粗糙度。     

非视线紫外通信大气传输特性的蒙特卡罗模拟

基于蒙特卡罗方法建立了紫外光非视线传输多次散射模型,利用单次散射近似法和实验方法验证了模型的有效性,并利用该模型完成了非视线紫外光通信大气传输特性的模拟.模拟时光波长取紫外光通信的最佳工作波段(250 nm附近),分析了不同传输距离下能见度、风、雨、雾等参量对系统能量透射比的影响.结果指出,系统能量透射比随传输距离增大而剧烈减小,在天气较差传输条件下能量衰减得更快；风力大小的变化对通信系统影响不大.较近距离通信传输时(一两百米),通信系统受天气条件的影响较小.