Central European Journal of Operations Research - Environmental efficiency should not be treated independently of production efficiency. Several studies have demonstrated that lean management can... 相似文献
Transition Metal Chemistry - In this paper, four diiron toluene-3,4-dithiolate complexes with phosphine ligands were synthesized and characterized. Treatment of complex... 相似文献
A simple and efficient chemical method was developed to graft directly carbon nanofibers (CNFs) onto carbon fiber (CF) surface to construct a CF‐CNF hierarchical reinforcing structure. The grafted CF reinforcements via covalent ester linkage at low temperature without any usage of dendrimer or catalyst was investigated by FTIR, X‐ray photoelectron spectroscopy, Raman, scanning electron microscopy, atomic force microscopy, dynamic contact angle analysis, and single fiber tensile testing. The results indicated that the CNFs with high density could effectively increase the polarity, wettability, and roughness of the CF surface. Simultaneous enhancements of the interfacial shear strength, flexural strength, and dynamic mechanical properties as well as the tensile strength of CFs were achieved, for an increase of 75.8%, 21.9%, 21.7%, and 0.5%, respectively. We believe the facile and effective method may provide a novel and promising interface design strategy for next‐generation advanced composite structures. 相似文献
Spherical fullerenes offer noteworthy structures usually involving six- and five-membered faces, with application in technological issues. In this sense, cavernous spherical-like structures bearing larger holes provide interesting examples for further understanding of structure-properties relationship. Here, we explored the magnetic response of a proposed cavernous nitride fullerene, C24N24, which has a Oh-symmetry with six N4-macrocyclic and eight 1,3,5-triazine faces displaying 48-π electrons. C24N24 exhibits a local aromatic behavior owing to the contrasting antiaromatic response of the N4-macrocyclic faces and the aromatic character of the 1,3,5-triazine faces. Thus, the overall structure is ascribed as a local aromatic species, where the triazine faces exhibit the characteristic shielding cone for aromatic rings. Furthermore, the constructive combination of local shielding cones in C24N24 delivers a related shielding-cone response, as expected for a perfect aromatic cage. Hence, the local aromatic/nonaromatic/antiaromatic sections exhibit an additive or subtractive interaction, leading to a characteristic response inherent to the nature of the spherical cage. We expect that further study of the interplay between different aromatic and antiaromatic faces in fullerene-like cages can deliver interesting pseudo-aromatic or pseudo-antiaromatic spherical species. 相似文献
The inclusion of relativistic effects to understand chemical structures and related properties brings to the scientific community challenging study cases, showing the rich diversity of chemical behavior of the different elements along the periodic table. The results highlighted here represent applications of relativistic methodologies to study the nature of bonding and a prediction of optical and magnetic properties of meaningful chemical entities containing heavy atoms, all made in Latin America. The good agreement between calculated and experimental observables in many molecular and cluster-like systems ratifies that relativistic methods are appropriate to describe these entities realistically. We expect to enhance our knowledge in these methodologies, currently included in doctoral programs in our region. 相似文献
Five monophosphine‐substituted diiron propane‐1,2‐dithiolate complexes as the active site models of [FeFe]‐hydrogenases have been synthesized and characterized. Reactions of complex [Fe2(CO)6{μ‐SCH2CH(CH3)S}] ( 1 ) with a monophosphine ligand tris(4‐methylphenyl)phosphine, diphenyl‐2‐pyridylphosphine, tris(4‐chlorophenyl)phosphine, triphenylphosphine, or tris(4‐fluorophenyl)phosphine in the presence of the oxidative agent Me3NO·2H2O gave the monophosphine‐substituted diiron complexes [Fe2(CO)5(L){μ‐SCH2CH(CH3)S}] [L = P(4‐C6H4CH3)3, 2 ; Ph2P(2‐C5H4N), 3 ; P(4‐C6H4Cl)3, 4 ; PPh3, 5 ; P(4‐C6H4F)3, 6 ] in 81%–94% yields. Complexes 2 – 6 have been characterized by elemental analysis, spectroscopy, and X‐ray crystallography. In addition, electrochemical studies revealed that these complexes can catalyze the reduction of protons to H2 in the presence of HOAc. 相似文献
The remarkable properties of acoustic metamaterials have attracted massive researches and applications, especially on low-frequency sound absorptions. Currently, most of the acoustic metamaterial absorbers employ resonances in plastic cavities, and their structural strengths are important in many circumstances, especially in harsh environment. However, studies of metamaterials including this point are very scarce. Here, we propose an acoustic metamaterial for low-frequency (<500 Hz) absorptions, composed of three nested square split tubes with inverted opening directions. The efficiency of the absorber is investigated both numerically and experimentally, and absorptions at the peeks are found to exceed 90% and the frequency can be effectively adjusted by tuning its geometric parameters. We further test its yield strength under compression and confirm its buckling behavior happens from the outmost layer. This tunable acoustic metamaterial with a fairly good mechanical strength may lead to broad applications in noise reduction. 相似文献
Using a combustion synthesis, the range of achievable textures is broader than using conventional synthesis methods and can be controlled more successfully. As a tool allowing the achievement and control of desired textures, here we bring about wet chemistry synthesis using aluminium nitrate nonahydrate (ANN) precursor systematically combined with different fuels (amino acids). The amino acids; glycine (G), alanine (A) and asparagine (N) have been specifically selected in order to show the role of gradual increase in their: (1) molar mass, (2) enthalpy of combustion, (3) amine groups content and (4) ratio to ANN. Detailed (micro) structural and thermal characterisations confirm that the nanocrystalline character and thermomechanical stability were not diminished in the course of this synthesis. The conditions leading to development of different morphologies from gels to powders were found to be heavily under the influence of fuel/oxygen ratio, i.e. of the smouldering versus flaming mechanism of the combustion. Higher content of nitrates (predominately from amino-rich amino acids) strongly promoted auto-combustion behaviour. As-derived alumina precursors have been thermally treated at various temperatures (quenched and soaked), to monitor γ- and α-alumina crystallisation, with respect to the development of morphology. Different texture types have been observed, such as porous wormhole, porous and porous expanded flakes. Higher fuel levels promote specific surface increase. This combustion synthesis allows facile tailoring of nanocrystalline γ-alumina with different morphological features, whereas samples having optimal parameters were suitable for catalyst support application on behalf of rapid sorption performance.
It is well‐known that homogeneous electric fields can be used to generate giant unilamellar vesicles (GUVs). Herein we report an interesting phenomenon of formation of GUVs and lipid tubes simultaneously using a nonhomogeneous electric field generated by point‐to‐plane electrodes. The underlying mechanism was analyzed using finite element analysis. The two forces play main roles, that is, the pulling force (F) to drag GUVs into lipid tubes induced by fluid flow, and the critical force (Fc) to prevent GUVs from deforming into lipid tubes induced by electric fields. In the center area underneath the needle electrode, the GUVs were found because F is less than Fc in that region, whereas in the edge area the lipid tubes were obtained because F is larger than Fc. The diffusion coefficient of lipid in the tubes was found to be 4.45 μm2 s?1 using a fluorescence recovery after photobleaching (FRAP) technique. The method demonstrated here is superior to conventional GUV or lipid tube fabrication methods, and has great potential in cell mimic or hollow material fabrication using GUVs and tubes as templates. 相似文献