The Influence of the Magnetic Impurity Content on the Pore Size Distribution Determination via the DDIF Technique

The pore size distribution of porous media can be determined in a completely non-invasive manner using a new nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) technique which monitors the magnetization decay due to diffusion in internal fields (DDIF). However, using of the DDIF technique is restricted to the low-phase encoding limit when only the relaxation mode and the first-order diffusion mode are excited. In the present work the fulfillment of such a limit is verified for a progressive increase of the magnetic impurity content of the porous media. If the higher order diffusion modes are excited they lead both to a stronger attenuation of the echo signal and to the appearance of ripples in the DDIF spectra which cannot be related to a pore size distribution. The samples used in this study are porous ceramics prepared using the replication technique and the magnetic impurity is iron (III) oxide which is introduced in an increasing concentration inside the porous matrix. All NMR experiments were done on water filling such porous ceramics using a low-field instrument operating at a proton resonance frequency of 20 MHz. The average pore dimension obtained with the DDIF technique in the weak encoding limit indicates a satisfactory agreement with that observed in optical microscopy images.     

气孔分布特性对含水多孔介质气体扩散的影响

本文基于多孔介质的气孔分布特性,计算了多孔介质在含水状态下的扩散性能,并且比较了采用两种方式计算相对渗透率时的相对扩散性能。其结果表明,基于气孔分布的计算结果低于与气孔分布无关的计算结果。另外,疏水性含水多孔介质的扩散性能低于亲水性含水多孔介质的扩散性能,基于气孔分布计算含水多孔介质的气体扩散性能时,Wyllie公式并不适用。     

Probing Structural Compositions of Porous Media with Two-dimensional Nuclear Magnetic Resonance

Combination of two-dimensional nuclear magnetic resonance (2-D NMR) correlation maps and a simple three-component model are proposed here to identify the structural composition of porous media. Homogeneous magnetic field and field with constant gradient of a novel Halbach sensor are employed for respective relaxation and diffusion measurements. NMR results are compared and confirmed with independent measurements on a scanning electron microscope and by energy dispersive spectrometer methods.     

Dependences of Mechanical Properties of Ceramics with Bimodal Pore Size Distribution on the Porosity at Various Scale Levels

Russian Physics Journal - Peculiarities in the dependences of the elastic and strength properties of ceramics with a hierarchically organized pore structure on the porosity are revealed. To exclude...     

Effects of Magnet Size and Geometry on Magnetic Levitation Force

We obtain analytical relations for the levitation force as a function of dimensions of the superconductor-magnet system. The force has been calculated on the basis of the dipole-dipole interaction model. The effect of thickness of the superconductor on the levitation force is investigated. The results show that the influence of geometry and thickness of the magnet becomes significantly large at small levitation distances. Furthermore, approximating the permanent magnet as a point dipole results in an inaccurate estimation of the levitation force.     

Systematic Errors Associated with the CPMG Pulse Sequence and Their Effect on Motional Analysis of Biomolecules

A theoretical approach to calculate the time evolution of magnetization during a CPMG pulse sequence of arbitrary parameter settings is developed and verified by experiment. The analysis reveals that off-resonance effects can cause systematic reductions in measured peak amplitudes that commonly lie in the range 5–25%, reaching 50% in unfavorable circumstances. These errors, which are finely dependent upon frequency offset and CPMG parameter settings, are subsequently transferred into erroneousT₂values obtained by curve fitting, where they are reduced or amplified depending upon the magnitude of the relaxation time. Subsequent transfer to Lipari–Szabo model analysis can produce significant errors in derived motional parameters, with τ_einternal correlation times being affected somewhat more thanS²order parameters. A hazard of this off-resonance phenomenon is its oscillatory nature, so that strongly affected and unaffected signals can be found at various frequencies within a CPMG spectrum. Methods for the reduction of the systematic error are discussed. Relaxation studies on biomolecules, especially at high field strengths, should take account of potential off-resonance contributions.     

Experimental Study on Particle Size Distribution and Concentration Using Transmission Fluctuation Spectrometry with the Autocorrelation Technique

Based on the statistical characteristics of the transmission fluctuations in the particle suspension, transmission fluctuation spectrometry with autocorrelation (TFS‐AC) is described theoretically, with the assumptions of geometric ray propagation and completely absorbent particles in the suspension. The experiments presented here are realized in a focused Gaussian beam with the TFS‐AC technique. The acquisition of transmission fluctuation signals is achieved by using a high‐resolution digital oscilloscope. The transition function of TFS‐AC is obtained by varying the autocorrelation time. With a modified iterative Chahine inversion algorithm, solving a linear equation retrieves information on the particle size distribution and particle concentration. Some experimental results on spherical and non‐spherical particles are presented and discussed. The experiments cover a particle size range from 1μm to 1000 μm and a particle concentration of up to 12 %.     

Probing the Frequency Dispersion of Magnetic Permeability of a Sample during Dynamic Interaction with a Magnetized Probe

Technical Physics - The forces acting on a magnetic particle during nonrelativistic motion parallel to the surface of a homogeneous medium with a frequency dispersion of the magnetic permeability...     

Soret扩散对合成气层流火焰速度的影响

本文通过包含详细化学反应机理的数值模拟研究了常温常压和高温高压下Soret扩散对成气预混火焰的影响。研究重点是揭示并解释Soret扩散对合成气/空气层流火焰速度的影响。研究结果表明,合成气/空气层流火焰速度的下降主要是由H自由基的Soret扩散导致的,而H₂分子Soret扩散的影响几乎可以忽略不计。这是因为主反应区和H自由基的Soret扩散是强烈耦合的。由于H自由基Soret扩散流量的增强,Soret扩散对燃烧流量的影响会随着初始温度和压力的升高而增强。     

霍尔元件线度对磁场测量影响的研究

在原有霍尔效应原理的基础上,利用微积分的基本方法和相关的物理知识推导非均匀磁场中利用霍尔效应测量磁场的理论公式,并结合该公式理论解释实验中对于霍尔元件线度的要求,以及说明非均匀磁场的测量对霍尔元件线度的要求,从而说明实验中经常遇到的一类问题——平均值问题。     

Method of Measuring the Diffusion Resistance of the Structures of Porous Electrode Materials Based on a Proton-Conducting Ionomer and Carbon Nanomaterials

A method has been developed for measuring the oxygen mass-transport resistance of porous electrodes based on micro- and nanostructures of a Nafion proton-conducting ionomer, Pt/C, and carbon nanowires with the ultrahigh porosity. The method suggests measuring the limit oxygen electroreduction current density at the controlled oxygen flow through an electrochemical system and calculating the oxygen mass transport resistance using the ratio based on the Fick’s law. The method has been used to study the mass-transport loss of a membrane-electrode assembly electrode and electrode material based on a rotating disk electrode and can be applied in the development of new electrodes.     

激发光强度对多孔硅拉曼光谱的影响①

报道了经较强激发光辐照后的多孔硅呈现出的独特拉曼光谱性质,其一阶拉曼峰随着激发光功率的不同而变化。当激发光功率增大时,其峰位逐渐红移,同时峰的宽度变大,这种变化是可逆的。我们讨论了产生该现象可能机制。     

Effects of Monomer Size Distribution on the fractal dimensionality of diffusion-limited aggregates

Computer simulations of diffusion-limited aggregation (DLA) for monomers to investigate the effects of size and of lognormal distribution on the fractal dimensionality of the aggregates were conducted on a two-dimensional lattice. The results show the DLA clusters posses multifractal characteristics. For clusters consisting of monodisperse monomers, the bifurcation point on the graph of the pair correlation function (PCF) for each cluster is located right at the monomers size under investigation The textural dimension (D_f1) has a stable value of about 1.65, whereas the structural dimension (D_f2) decreased with increase in monomer size. For the cases with monomers in log-normal distributions, the textural dimension is around 1.67; however, the structural dimension decreases with increasing polydispersity of monomer size.     

Influence of Size Effects on the Electronic Structure of Hexagonal Gallium Telluride

Using methods of the density functional theory, the electronic band structure of a hexagonal modification of the layered GaTe semiconductor has been calculated. The structural parameters of a bulk crystal with the β-polytype symmetry have been determined taking into account van der Waals interactions and agree with experimental data for polycrystalline films within 2%. Estimates for the position of extrema of the upper valence band and the lower conduction band have been obtained with respect to the vacuum level for bulk β-GaTe and for ultrathin plates with the number of elementary layers ranging from 1 to 10, which corresponds to a thickness range of 0.5–8 nm. The calculations demonstrate that hexagonal GaTe is an indirect band gap semiconductor with a forbidden band width varying from 0.8 eV in the bulk material to 2.3 eV in the monolayer.     

金纳米粒子光学性质中的尺寸和形状效应

纳米尺度的金属及半导体呈现出特殊的光学、电学及磁学性质,采用近年发展起来的离散偶极近似(DDA)的方法,我们分析了金纳米粒子的尺寸及形状对其光学性质的影响。粒子周围介质的影响在文中亦作了分析。计算结果显示,金纳米粒子的等离子体吸收带同时受到粒子尺寸和形状的影响,但来自形状的影响更为明显。与米氏理论及扩展的甘氏理论相比较,DDA方法在粒子尺寸不再远小于入射光波长的时候更准确,并能应用于任何形状的纳米粒子。理论计算与实验结果能较好的吻合。     

Influence of Interface Scattering and Quantum Size Effect on the Giant Magnetoresistance in a Magnetic Sandwich Structure

An analytical Green's function approach to the study of the electronic transport in a magnetic sandwich structure is presented. Taking into account the quantum size effect and considering three types of scattering from bulk impurities, rough surface, and two rough interfaces, we calculate the one-particle Green's function and the in-plane conductivity, yield a new formula for conductivity. It is found that (i). the magnetoresistance in the ultrathin spin-value sandwiches shows oscillation as a function of thickness with a period of half Fermi wavelength; (ii) in the thin-film limit and the lowest-order approximation of the surface and interface scatterings, the total conductivity is given by a sum of conductivities of all the subbands and the two spin channels, for each subband and each spin channel the scattering rates due to the impurities, surfaces and interfaces are additive.     

Threshold Effects of the Magnetic Influence on the Microhardness of KDP Crystals

JETP Letters - The threshold of the magnetic effect on the microhardness of potassium dihydrogen phosphate (KDP) crystals has been found. It was previously shown that the preliminary exposure of...