Fully asynchronous stochastic coordinate descent: a tight lower bound on the parallelism achieving linear speedup

Mathematical Programming - We seek tight bounds on the viable parallelism in asynchronous implementations of coordinate descent that achieves linear speedup. We focus on asynchronous coordinate...     

新型含吡啶基团二羧酸配体的合成及单晶培养

以1，4-二溴-2，5-二甲基苯和4-吡啶硼酸为原料，经两步合成了一种新颖的含吡啶基团的二羧酸配体。通过核磁共振氢谱及傅里叶变换红外光谱对配体结构进行表征，通过热重分析对配体的热稳定性进行了测试；通过溶剂热法对配体的单晶进行培养，并考察反应温度、时间、pH和溶剂等条件对单晶培养的影响。结果表明：在反应温度为80 ℃，反应时间为12 h、溶剂为蒸馏水、溶液pH=5的条件下可获得高质量单晶。该配体为单斜晶系，属于C2/c空间群，结构中含有4个氧原子和2个氮原子，可为金属离子的配位提供足够的位点，有望应用于配合物的设计或催化、吸附和医药载体等行业。     

241Am-Be中子参考辐射的蒙特卡罗模拟研究

研究用于校准场所中子剂量监测仪表的241Am-Be中子参考辐射场计量特性。采用蒙特卡罗方法模拟了空气自由中子参考辐射(FRNR),GB/T 14055规定的最小尺寸中子参考辐射(SRNR)和实际中子参考辐射(ARNR)中不同检验点处中子周围剂量当量率、散射中子占比和能谱分布特征。研究结果表明,空气对FRNR中的剂量率和能谱分布影响小,近似为理想中子参考辐射;采用5%含硼聚乙烯作屏蔽的最小尺寸SRNR可减少热中子,降低散射中子占比,影锥法不适用于小尺寸中子参考辐射中对散射中子的修正;ARNR中的散射中子更少、占比更低,影锥法所得散射中子占比与理论值基本一致。     

Effects of Pore Structure on Stress-Dependent Fluid Flow in Synthetic Porous Rocks Using Microfocus X-ray Computed Tomography

Transport in Porous Media - Based on microfocus X-ray computed tomography analyses, the relationship between the characteristics of pore structure and fluid flow behavior was investigated through...     

SiO2@Gd2O3∶Tb3+核壳微球的可控合成及发光性能研究

采用简便的尿素辅助沉淀法将Gd2O3∶Tb3+成功包覆在二氧化硅微球表面合成了尺寸均匀的球形SiO2@Gd2O3∶Tb3核壳发光材料,解决了稀土发光材料普遍存在的形貌可控性差和颗粒尺寸不均一等问题.利用XRD、SEM、红外光谱和荧光光谱等表征测试了样品的形貌、结构和发光性能.SEM照片和尺寸分布图显示,SiO2@Gd2O3∶Tb3+粒子呈现均匀球形形貌,分散性良好,粒径约(608 +18) nm.XRD图谱分析表明,600℃煅烧后,壳层Gd(OH)3CO3完全转变为立方相Gd2O3,结晶性良好,无杂相生成.同时,结合红外光谱推测了SiO2@Gd2O3∶Tb3核壳微球的形成机理,并得出Gd2O3∶Tb3+壳层主要以Si-O-Gd键形式连接在二氧化硅微球表面.在240 nm紫外光激发下,SiO2@Gd2O3∶Tb3核壳微球呈现绿光发射,其中,位于540 nm处的主峰归属于Tb3+的5D4→7F5能级跃迁.不同Tb3掺杂浓度下的发射光谱表明,当Tb3+掺杂浓度为4mol;时,SiO2@Gd2O3∶Tb3+核壳微球的发射强度达到最大值,寿命为1.55 ms,色坐标位于绿色区域,展现了良好的绿光发光性能.     

Hydrogen Bond Networks Stabilized High-Capacity Organic Cathode for Lithium-Ion Batteries

High-capacity small organic materials are plagued by their high solubility. Here we proposed constructing hydrogen bond networks (HBN) via intermolecular hydrogen bonds to suppress the solubility of active material. The illustrated 2, 7- diamino-4, 5, 9, 10-tetraone (PTO-NH₂) molecule with intermolecular hydrogen (H) bond between O in −C=O and H in −NH₂, which make PTO-NH₂ presents transverse two-dimensional extension and longitudinal π–π stacking structure. In situ Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) has tracked the reversible evolution of H-bonds, further confirming the existence of HBN structure can stabilize the intermediate 2-electron reaction state. Therefore, PTO-NH₂ with HBN structure has higher active site utilization (95 %), better cycle stability and rate performance. This study uncovers the H-bond effect and evolution during the electrochemical process and provides a strategy for materials design.     

Enantioselective De Novo Synthesis of α,α-Diaryl Ketones from Alkynes

Chiral α,α-diaryl ketones are structural motifs commonly present in bioactive molecules, and they are also valuable building blocks in synthetic organic chemistry. However, catalytic asymmetric synthesis of α,α-diaryl ketones bearing a tertiary stereogenic center remains largely unsolved. Herein, we report a catalytic de novo enantioselective synthesis of α,α-diaryl ketones from simple alkynes via chiral phosphoric acid (CPA) catalysis. A broad range of enolizable α,α-diaryl ketones are prepared in good yields and with excellent enantioselectivities. The described protocol also serves as an efficient deuteration method for the preparation of enantiomerically enriched deuterated α,α-diaryl ketones. Using the methodology reported, bioactive molecules, including one of the best-selling anti-breast cancer drugs, tamoxifen, are readily synthesized.     

Palladium-Catalyzed Ring-Opening Addition of Activated Vinyl Cyclopropanes with N-Tosylhydrazones

Ring-opening addition reaction of activated vinyl cyclopropanes with N-tosylhydrazones in the presence of palladium(0) and triphenylphosphine affords N-tosylhydrazone butenylmalonate compounds. Aromatic aldehyde-derived N-tosylhydrazones produced terminal and internal N-allylated products, in which the terminal products are the main. While ketone-derived tosylhydrazones produced only terminal addition products. The transformation relationship of the terminal and internal N-allylated products in the reaction was also observed. A reasonable mechanism is proposed based on preliminary experimental results.