Meta-analysis on thermo-migration of tiny/nano-sized particles in the motion of various fluids

The importance of thermophoresis and its essential role in particle migration have led to many published reports (i.e. aim and objectives). However, there exists no report on thermo-migration of tiny/nano-sized particles in the motion of various fluids. A meta-analysis on the significance of either nano or tiny particles exposed to thermophoretic force owing to temperature gradient during the dynamics of liquid substances is deliberated upon in this report. The method of slope linear regression through the data point was adopted to scrutinize sixty (60) published reports in which the effects of thermophoresis (thermodiffusion) is deliberated upon. The outcome of the study shows that different responses to the force of a temperature gradient are sufficient enough to enhance the temperature distribution and the concentration of non-Newtonian fluid due to an increase in thermophoresis. Thermophoretic effect increases the concentration of fluids in which the relationship between the shear stress and shear strain is non-linear. Skin friction coefficients is a decreasing function of thermophoresis. Increase in thermophoretic deposition is achievable due to an increase in thermophoresis. The effect of haphazard motion of nanoparticles should be investigated when it increases negligibly and considerably large. Thermal radiation strongly influences the significance of thermo-migration of tiny particles on fluid flow.     

FLTD三电极场畸变气体开关寿命特性

针对设计的一种场畸变气体开关,研究中间电极材料分别为不锈钢和黄铜条件下的烧蚀特性,结合开关寿命期间静态与触发特性的变化规律,获得决定开关寿命的关键因素,为三电极场畸变气体开关的性能优化提供理论支撑。研究结果表明,采用不锈钢和黄铜作为中间电极的烧蚀区域以及表面粗糙度均随着放电次数增加而增大,黄铜电极烧蚀较为严重且表面有明显的烧蚀圆斑,不锈钢电极则具有更高的表面粗糙度,阴阳极表面烧蚀存在明显差异,随着放电次数的增加,击穿点向电极边缘区域集中,影响开关的沿面绝缘特性,是导致开关寿命终结的主要原因。     

Nonparametric Quantile Inference for Cause-specific Residual Life Function Under Length-biased Sampling

Acta Mathematicae Applicatae Sinica, English Series - This paper considers a competing risks model for right-censored and length-biased survival data from prevalent sampling. We propose a...     

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.     

Subtle Alignment of Organic Semiconductors at the Donor/Acceptor Heterojunction Facilitates the Photoelectric Conversion Process

Chinese Journal of Polymer Science - The aligned molecular packing structure is vital to the anisotropic charge transport in conjugated polymer and small molecule thin films. However, how this...     

Modeling and character analyzing of multiple fractional-order memcapacitors in parallel connection

Recently,the memory elements-based circuits have been addressed frequently in the nonlinear circuit theory due to their unique behaviors.Thus,the modeling and characterizing of the mem-elements become essential.In this paper,the analysis of the multiple fractional-order voltage-controlled memcapacitors model in parallel connection is studied.Firstly,two fractional-order memcapacitors are connected in parallel,the equivalent model is derived,and the characteristic of the equivalent memcapacitor is analyzed in positive or negative connection.Then a new understanding manner according to different rate factor K and fractional orderαis derived to explain the equivalent modeling structure conveniently.Additionally,the negative order appears,which is a consequence of the combination of memcapacitors in different directions.Meanwhile,the equivalent parallel memcapacitance has been drawn to determine that multiple fractional-order memcapacitors could be calculated as one composite memcapacitor.Thus,an arbitrary fractional-order equivalent memcapacitor could be constructed by multiple fractional-order memcapacitors.     

On the rainbow matching conjecture for 3-uniform hypergraphs

Aharoni and Howard and, independently, Huang et al. (2012) proposed the following rainbow version of the Erdős matching conjecture: For positive integers n, k and m with n ⩾ km, if each of the families \(F_{1},\ldots,F_{m}\subseteq\left(\begin{array}{c}[n]\\ k\end{array}\right)\) has size more than \(\max\{\left(\begin{array}{c}n\\ k\end{array}\right)-\left(\begin{array}{c}n-m+1\\ k\end{array}\right),\left(\begin{array}{c}km-1\\ k\end{array}\right)\}\), then there exist pairwise disjoint subsets e₁,…,e_m such that e_i ∈ F_i for all i ∈ [m]. We prove that there exists an absolute constant n₀ such that this rainbow version holds for k = 3 and n ⩾ n₀. We convert this rainbow matching problem to a matching problem on a special hypergraph H. We then combine several existing techniques on matchings in uniform hypergraphs: Find an absorbing matching M in H; use a randomization process of Alon et al. (2012) to find an almost regular subgraph of H − V(M); find an almost perfect matching in H − V(M). To complete the process, we also need to prove a new result on matchings in 3-uniform hypergraphs, which can be viewed as a stability version of a result of Łuczak and Mieczkowska (2014) and might be of independent interest.

     

借助几何图形理解高等数学中的抽象概念和结论

高等数学的很多内容比较抽象,学生不易理解.通过几个例子说明如何将抽象的数学概念和结论与几何图形有机的结合起来,加深对这些概念结论的理解,激发学生的学习兴趣.     

衰减振荡电流下火花电阻的光谱诊断

气体开关是脉冲功率系统的关键部件,开关的火花通道阻抗直接影响负载电压的陡度及其能量传输效率。提出一种光谱学诊断方法,通过对火花通道成像光谱的时空分辨测量,获得通道半径及电导率,从而计算时变的火花电阻。光谱测量结果表明,氮气间隙火花放电通道电子温度为2~3eV,通道电导率先增大后减小,最大值约16 000S,随着放电发展,火花通道电阻从绝缘状态快速跌落并趋于稳定值,时变趋势与电学计算结果基本吻合。3~100kPa范围内,随着气压增大,放电通道半径减小,火花通道电阻增大。     

Modifications on reduced titanium dioxide photocatalysts: A review

A large variety of reduced titanium dioxide (TiO_2-x) materials have been reported recently. Reduced TiO₂, usually resulting from the removal of oxygen atoms or hydrogen incorporation, is proved to be efficient for achieving highly photocatalytic performance including photodegradation of organic compounds, hydrogen generation from water splitting, CO₂ reduction for CH₄ evolution, solar cells, etc. To further improve the properties and activities of TiO_2-x, a combination of the Ti³⁺ self-doping and other traditional modifications like nonmetals doping has been proposed in the past decades. This paper provides a general and critical review on the further modifications on reduced TiO₂ samples, including non-metal elements (N, B, S, F and I) doping, noble-metal (Au, Pt, Pd and Ag) and iron-group metal (Fe, Co and Ni) grafting, metal oxide compositing, carbon (nanotubes and graphene) and carbon-based-material compositing, special facets exposure (mainly dual {001}-{101} and {111}-{110} facets) of TiO_2-x and ordered structure controlling of TiO_2-x. These modifications enhance the physical and/or chemical properties of the reduced TiO₂, or create new features for the modified TiO_2-x samples, which finally leads to the enhancement of photocatalytic performance. Key examples such as N-doping, Au grafting and graphene-based compositing are discussed carefully, and the mechanisms for solar light enhancement, electron transfer and charge separation are also investigated. Finally, some challenging issues on TiO_2-x catalysts are also proposed to encourage new approaches for preparation of TiO_2-x catalysts with efficiently photocatalytic performance.