Side chain engineering of naphthalene diimide–bithiophene‐based polymer acceptors in all‐polymer solar cells

Two novel polymeric acceptors based on naphthalene diimide (NDI) and 2.2′‐bithiophene, named as P(NDI2THD‐T2) and P(NDI2TOD‐T2), were designed and synthesized for all polymer solar cells application. The structural and electronic properties of the two acceptors were modulated through side‐chain engineering of the NDI units. The optoelectronic properties of the polymers and the morphologies of the blend films composed of the polymer acceptors and a donor polymer PTB7‐Th were systemically investigated. With thiophene groups introduced into the side chains of the NDI units, both polymers showed wider absorption from 350 nm to 900 nm, compared with the reference polymer acceptor of N2200. No redshift of absorption spectra from solutions to films indicated reduced aggregation of the polymers due to the steric hindrance effect of thiophene rings in the side chains. The photovoltaic performance were characterized for devices in a configuration of ITO/PEDOT:PSS/PTB7‐Th:acceptors/2,9‐bis(3‐(dimethylamino)propyl)anthra[2,1,9‐def:6,5,10‐def]diisoquinoline‐1,3,8,10(2H,9H)‐tetraone (PDIN)/Al. With the addition of diphenyl ether as an additive, the power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) of 2.73% and 4.75% for P(NDI2THD‐T2) and P(NDI2TOD‐T2) based devices were achieved, respectively. The latter showed improved J_sc, Fill Factor (FF), and PCE compared with N2200 based devices. © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J. Polym. Sci., Part A: Polym. Chem. 2017 , 55, 3679–3689     

Optimal feedback gains of a delayed proportional-derivative (PD) control for balancing an inverted pendulum

In the dynamics analysis and synthesis of a con-trolled system, it is important to know for what feedback gains can the controlled system decay to the demanded steady state as fast as possible. This article presents a sys-tematic method for finding the optimal feedback gains by taking the stability of an inverted pendulum system with a delayed proportional-derivative controller as an example. First, the condition for the existence and uniqueness of the stable region in the gain plane is obtained by using the D-subdivision method and the method of stability switch. Then the same procedure is used repeatedly to shrink the stable region by decreasing the real part of the rightmost charac-teristic root. Finally, the optimal feedback gains within the stable region that minimizes the real part of the rightmost root are expressed by an explicit formula. With the optimal feedback gains, the controlled inverted pendulum decays to its trivial equilibrium at the fastest speed when the initial val-ues around the origin are fixed. The main results are checked by numerical simulation.     

A key design to prolong lifetime of wireless sensor network

In order to solve the contradiction between the connectivity of the wireless sensor network and the key storage consumption, under the premise of reducing network storage consumption, the key pre-distribution management scheme with higher connectivity rate is proposed using the hexagonal network deployment information, which adopts the idea of the matrix space for the square deployment information strategy to reduce the burden of the network storage. Ability against the capture attack is improved obviously. The results show that contradiction between the network connectivity rate and the energy consumption has a better solution, and the proposed algorithm is suitable for the wireless sensor networks of energy limited.     

Modeling the deformation behavior of nanocrystalline alloy with hierarchical microstructures

A mechanism-based plasticity model based on dislocation theory is developed to describe the mechanical behavior of the hierarchical nanocrystalline alloys. The stress–strain relationship is derived by invoking the impeding effect of the intra-granular solute clusters and the inter-granular nanostructures on the dislocation movements along the sliding path. We found that the interaction between dislocations and the hierarchical microstructures contributes to the strain hardening property and greatly influence the ductility of nanocrystalline metals. The analysis indicates that the proposed model can successfully describe the enhanced strength of the nanocrystalline hierarchical alloy. Moreover, the strain hardening rate is sensitive to the volume fraction of the hierarchical microstructures. The present model provides a new perspective to design the microstructures for optimizing the mechanical properties in nanostructural metals.     

Thermal analysis of Mn50Ni50−x(Sn,In)x Heusler shape memory alloys

Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry - This paper reports the effects of welan gum on the hydration and hardening behaviors of Portland cement (PC) by using X-ray diffractometry, mercury...     

多孔活性自燃金属的光谱辐射特性研究

多孔活性金属材料因为内部存在大量的孔隙，大大地增加了与空气的接触面积，使得其在空气中的燃烧较为猛烈，燃烧温度迅速上升。其燃烧过程属于固体燃烧的范畴，较为复杂。以镁为例，通过建立燃烧模型，来研究多孔活性金属的光谱辐射特性。首先，建立氧气总消耗量与活性金属剩余质量的关系，研究氧气在活性金属孔隙内的扩散浓度关系，通过求解活性金属热平衡方程得到活性金属燃烧过程中温度与时间的关系式，进而得到活性金属的峰值光谱辐射强度表达式；然后，将模型计算的仿真结果与红外热像仪测得的实验结果对比，结果表明，模型的计算结果与实验结果相一致，误差在了10%以内；最后，通过建立的燃烧模型来研究活性金属燃烧规律以及其光谱辐射特性，解决了高空、高速下的活性金属光谱辐射强度难以实验获得的问题，大大减小了实验成本与时间。分别对比不同时间活性金属箔片在1～3，3～5以及8～12 μm波段下的辐射强度，得出活性金属燃烧时的辐射强度主要集中在3～5 μm波段的结论。研究结果表明：自燃金属最大燃烧温度随高度的增加逐渐下降，随气流速度的增加先增加后减小，在速度为30 m·s-1时，温度达到最大；自燃金属的光谱辐射强度在2～6 μm波段达到最大。该模型也可以用来研究其他活性金属的燃烧特性。     

Co (II)‐C12 alkyl carbon chain multi‐functional ionic liquid immobilized on nano‐SiO2 nano‐SiO2@CoCl3‐C12IL as an efficient cooperative catalyst for C–H activation by direct acylation of aryl halides with aldehydes

Nano‐silica supported ionic liquids composed of alkyl carbon chain and transition metal chlorides anions have been prepared and successfully applied as a heterogeneous catalyst in the direct aldehyde C‐H activation. Catalytic results indicated that nano‐SiO₂ supported ionic liquid consisting C12 alkyl carbon chain and CoCl₃ anion nano‐SiO₂@CoCl₃‐C12IL showed excellent catalytic properties with good to excellent yields towards the desired aryl ketones. The excellent recyclability of the supported catalyst, mild reaction conditions, low catalyst loading, and operational simplicity are the important features of this methodology.     

Some Remarks on One-dimensional Functions and Their Riemann–Liouville Fractional Calculus

A one-dimensional continuous function of unbounded variation on [0,1] has been constructed.The length of its graph is infnite,while part of this function displays fractal features.The Box dimension of its Riemann–Liouville fractional integral has been calculated.