Altering the Position of Phenyl Substitution to Adjust Film Morphology and Memory Device Performance

In this study, two structural isomers α‐PBT and β‐PBT, which only differ in the phenyl substituent position on the quinoline chromophore, have been designed and successfully synthesized. The influences of substituent position on the film morphology and the storage performance of the devices were investigated. Both molecules employed in the memory devices exhibited same nonvolatile binary (write‐once‐read‐many‐times; WORM) characteristics, but the switch threshold voltage (Vth) of the β‐PBT‐based device was clearly lower than that of the α‐PBT‐based device. Simulation results demonstrate that the variation of the phenyl substituent position led to different intermolecular stacking styles and thus to varied grain sizes for each film morphology. This work illustrates that altering the phenyl substituent position on the molecular backbone could improve the quality of the film morphology and reduce power consumption, which is good for the rational design of future advanced organic memory devices (OMDs).     

The valuation of life contingencies: A symmetrical triangular fuzzy approximation

This paper extends the framework for the valuation of life insurance policies and annuities by Andrés-Sánchez and González-Vila (2012, 2014) in two ways. First we allow various uncertain magnitudes to be estimated by means of fuzzy numbers. This applies not only to interest rates but also to the amounts to be paid out by the insurance company. Second, the use of symmetrical triangular fuzzy numbers allows us to obtain expressions for the pricing of life contingencies and their variability that are closely linked to standard financial and actuarial mathematics. Moreover, they are relatively straightforward to compute and understand from a standard actuarial point of view.     

Hierarchical Archimedean copulas through multivariate compound distributions

In this paper, we propose a new hierarchical Archimedean copula construction based on multivariate compound distributions. This new imbrication technique is derived via the construction of a multivariate exponential mixture distribution through compounding. The absence of nesting and marginal conditions, contrarily to the nested Archimedean copulas approach, leads to major advantages, such as a flexible range of possible combinations in the choice of distributions, the existence of explicit formulas for the distribution of the sum, and computational ease in high dimensions. A balance between flexibility and parsimony is targeted. After presenting the construction technique, properties of the proposed copulas are investigated and illustrative examples are given. A detailed comparison with other construction methodologies of hierarchical Archimedean copulas is provided. Risk aggregation under this newly proposed dependence structure is also examined.     

Global well‐posedness of the 2D Euler‐Boussinesq system with stratification effects

This paper is concerned with the Cauchy problem of the two‐dimensional Euler–Boussinesq system with stratification effects. We obtain the global existence of a unique solution to this system without assumptions of small initial data in Sobolev spaces. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

The Quest for Mononuclear Gold(II) and Its Potential Role in Photocatalysis and Drug Action

The chemistry of gold strongly focuses on the ubiquitous oxidation states +I and +III. The intermediate oxidation state +II is generally avoided in mononuclear gold species. In recent years, gold(II) has been increasingly suggested as a key intermediate in artificial photosynthesis systems, with gold(III) moieties acting as electron acceptors, as well as in gold‐catalyzed photoredox catalysis and radical chemistry. This Minireview provides a concise summary of confirmed and characterized mononuclear open‐shell gold(II) complexes. Recent findings on structural motifs and reactivity patterns will be discussed. Exciting developments in the fields of photosynthesis, photocatalysis, and potential roles in medicinal chemistry will be outlined.     

Metal–Support Cooperative Catalysts for Environmentally Benign Molecular Transformations

Metal–support cooperative catalysts have been developed for sustainable and environmentally benign molecular transformations. The active metal centers and supports in these catalysts could cooperatively activate substrates, resulting in high catalytic performance for liquid‐phase reactions under mild conditions. These catalysts involved hydrotalcite‐supported gold and silver nanoparticles with high catalytic activity for organic reactions such as aerobic oxidation, oxidative carbonylation, and chemoselective reduction of epoxides to alkenes and nitrostyrenes to aminostyrenes using alcohols and CO/H₂O as reducing reagents. This high catalytic performance was due to cooperative catalysis between the metal nanoparticles and basic sites of the hydrotalcite support. To increase the metal–support cooperative effect, core–shell nanostructured catalysts consisting of gold or silver nanoparticles in the core and ceria supports in the shell were designed. These core–shell nanocomposite catalysts were effective for the chemoselective hydrogenation of nitrostyrenes to aminostyrenes, unsaturated aldehydes to allyl alcohols, and alkynes to alkenes using H₂ as a clean reductant. In addition, these solid catalysts could be recovered easily from the reaction mixture by simple filtration, and were reusable with high catalytic activity.     

Effects of Shape of Crowders on Dynamics of a Polymer Chain Closure

Using 3D Langevin dynamics simulations,we investigate the effects of the shape of crowders on the dynamics of a polymer chain closure.The chain closure in spherical crowders is dominated by the increased medium viscosity so that it gets slower with the increasing volume fraction of crowders.By contrast,the dynamics of chain closure becomes very complicated with increasing volume fraction of crowders in spherocylindrical crowders.Notably,the mean closure time is found to have a dramatic decrease at a range of volume fraction of crowders 0.36-0.44.We then elucidate that an isotropic to nematic transition of spherocylindrical crowders at this range of volume fraction of crowders is responsible for the unexpected dramatic decrease in the mean closure time.     

8×4×2~n设计纯净两因子交互作用成分最大数的界

混水平部分因析设计在各类试验中有广泛应用.纯净效应准则是用于选取最优部分因析设计的重要准则之一.本文考虑含有一个八水平因子、一个四水平因子和若干二水平因子的8×4×2~n混水平设计,给出了分辨度为Ⅲ和Ⅳ的该类混水平设计包含纯净两因子交互作用成分最大数的上界和下界.下界通过构造特定设计而得到.     

Utility maximization problem with random endowment and transaction costs: when wealth may become negative

In this article, we study the problem of maximizing expected utility from the terminal wealth with proportional transaction costs and random endowment. In the context of the existence of consistent price systems, we consider the duality between the primal utility maximization problem and the dual one, which is set up on the domain of finitely additive measures. In particular, we prove duality results for utility functions supporting possibly negative values. Moreover, we construct a shadow market by the dual optimal process and consider the utility-based pricing for random endowment.     

广义Khasminskii条件下自变量分段连续型带Poisson随机测度随机微分方程Euler方法的依概率收敛性

针对满足广义Khasminskii条件的由维纳过程和泊松随机测度驱动的自变量分段连续型随机微分方程(EPCASDEs),给出了Euler方法,广义Khasminskii条件比经典条件包容了更多的EPC.ASDEs.现有文献对该类方程的研究成果较少.针对EPCASDEs在广义Khasminskii条件下证明了全局解的存在唯一性,并研究了Euler方法的依概率收敛性.给出了数值算例支持主要结论.