Chemical modification of metal oxide carrier's surfaces with a silane coupling agent and an application of the method to catalyst preparation

Several metal oxides were modified with γ-anilinopropyltrimethoxysilane (AnPS). Variations in the physicochemical properties with the modification were investigated in detail. The adsorptivity of 12-tungstophosphate anion (PW12) was shown to be greatly improved in the carriers such as SiO₂, TiO₂, and Al₂O₃, which are porous and have a high surface area, but it was not increased in SnO₂ and MgO, which have a small surface area and a high isoelectric point. With TiO₂-carrier, quantitative studies on the adsorptivity were carried out further, and the interaction modes of PW12 on the AnPS-modified surfaces were discussed based on FT-IR and XPS analyses. The isotherm attained quite steeply to a monomolecular layer of PW12. The FT-IR bands ascribed to the anilino group deformed considerably and the N1s-peak in XPS shifted along with the PW12-adsorption. From the findings it was strongly suggested that PW12 was effectively fixed through an acid–base interaction on the AnPS-TiO₂. Catalytic activity of PW12 fixed on AnPS-TiO₂ for 2-propanol dehydration as a test reaction were examined; in the pretreatment at 300°C the activity was limited to a low level but after the treatment at 450°C it increased in proportion to the PW12-loading on the AnPS-TiO₂ surfaces. Thus, it was inferred that PW12 was quite regularly dispersed over the modified surface. In conclusion, it is suggested that the modification technique is applicable to the preparation of a metal oxide–supported heteropolyacid catalyst.     

AFM Observation of a Mica Surface Treated with Silane Coupling Agent Having a Mercapto Group

The topography of mica surface after treatment with silane coupling agent having a mercapto group was studied using an atomic force microscope. The cleaved mica plate was used as a model inorganic surface. The effect of treatment condition on the topography of the mica surface was investigated. Agglomerates consisting of self-condensed silane molecules were observed on the surface. However, their amount and size were smaller than those for silanes having other organo-functional groups such as amino, methacryloxy and vinyl groups. Aqueous and water/2-propanol mixture solutions gave a smoother surface as compared with a 2-propanol solution. There was no significant influence discernable from di- and trialkoxy structures. The aqueous solution of silane coupling agent having a mercapto group showed an acidic pH. This was the reason why the smoother silane-treated layer was formed by the silane with the mercapto group than by those with other organic functional groups, because the silanol group generated by hydrolysis is stable in an acidic pH.     

Improvement of resin impregnation into glass cloth by silane treatment in resin transfer molding

An evaluation method was proposed for resin impregnation using resin transfer molding of unsaturated polyester matrix composites with silane-treated glass cloth. The determination of whitening of the composite was carried out as a parameter of incompleteness of resin impregnation. The change of whitening with silane concentration was compared with the bending modulus as a parameter of chemical reinforcement. The materials used were unsaturated polyester resin as a matrix and methacryloxypropyltrimethoxysilane as a silane coupling agent for glass cloth. Resin transfer molding was used to produce four plies of glass cloth laminates by impregnating the resin. The silane-treated glass cloth repressed whitening above 0.026 w/w% of silane in aqueous solution, while the chemical reinforcement due to silane gave no appearance below 0.2 w/w% based on the bending test of the laminates. The large difference between the concentrations suggested that silane has a couple of functions, that is, chemical reinforcement and physico-chemical resin wettability.     

Interphase sizing temperature effect of LaRC PETI-5 on the dynamic mechanical thermal properties of carbon fiber/BMI composites

The dynamic mechanical thermal properties of carbon fiber-reinforced bismaleimide (BMI) composites processed using polyacrylonitrile(PAN)-based carbon fibers unsized and sized with LaRC PETI-5 amic acid oligomer as interphase material at 150°C, 250°C, and 350°C were investigated by means of dynamic mechanical thermal analysis. It was found that the storage modulus, loss modulus, tan δ and the peak temperature significantly depend on the sizing temperature as well as on the presence and absence of LaRC PETI-5 sizing interphase. The result showed that the carbon fiber/BMI composite sized at 150°C had the highest storage modulus at a measuring temperature of 250°C. The storage modulus decreased with increasing sizing temperature from 150°C to 350°C, being influenced by interdiffusion and co-reaction between the LaRC PETI-5 interphase and the BMI matrix resin. The present result is quite consistent with the interfacial result reported earlier in term of interfacial shear strength and interlaminar shear strength of carbon fiber/BMI composites. It is addressed that in the present composite system the sizing temperature of LaRC PETI-5 interphase critically influences not only the interfacial properties but also the dynamic mechanical thermal properties and its control is also important.     

Using self-assembled monolayer technology to probe the mechanical response of the fiber interphase-matrix interphase interface

In this paper, a brief review of the fiber-matrix interphase/interface region is given for carbon- and glass-fiber composites. The substructure of the interphase/interface region is discussed in terms of three interphases: (a) the fiber interphase (FI), (b) the sizing interphase (SI), and (c) the matrix interphase (MI), and two interface regions: (a) the FI-SI interface and (b) the SI-MI interface. These substructures are a synthesis of the ideas advanced by Ishida and Koenig and Drzal. The schematic model of interphase deformation behavior originally given by Bascom is reconstructed to include research results from the above researchers. To systematically probe adhesion at the SI-MI interface, functionalized self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) using bonding and non-bonding C₁₁- type trichlorosilanes are prepared using the research of Menzel and Heise, and that of Cave and Kinloch as a guide. Results from this research are compared with short chain bonding and nonbonding silanes prepared by aqueous and non-aqueous deposition processes. The data were interpreted using the mechanisms proposed by Sharpe, Ishida and Koenig, and Drzal and the mathematical equation proposed by Nardin and Ward. For the non-bonding short-chain silane deposited by aqueous deposition, 90% of the adhesion was found to be due to mechanical interlocking, with the remaining adhesion due to physicochemical interactions. For the bonding short-chain silane deposited by aqueous deposition, the interface strength relative to the non-bonding short-chain silane increased by 31%. However the interfacial shear strength (IFSS) of this system was approximately 40% lower than the comparable bonding SAM interface. This difference was interpreted in terms of the propensity of the C₃-alkylamine to form cyclic ring structures in the MI region as described by Ishida, Koenig, et al. The SAM data also indicates that 70-85% of the maximum IFSS is obtained with 25-50% of the surface covered with functional groups. This suggests that steric hindrance, due to the size of the DGEBA molecules, restricts access to the functional groups on the surface. Therefore, only 35% of the surface functional groups are accessible for bonding in the DGEBA/m-PDA epoxy resin system.     

单光束互相关法测量高浓度纳米颗粒粒径

针对光子相关光谱法不能测量高浓度纳米颗粒粒径和双光束互相关测量法装置结构过于复杂等问题,提出了一种基于范西特-泽尼克定理的单光束互相关法。首先分析了传统双光束互相关法存在的问题,然后根据范西特-泽尼克定理建立了单光束互相关测量法的模型,设计完成了单光束互相关颗粒粒度测量装置,最后对各种浓度不同粒径的颗粒进行了测量。实验证明,单光束互相关法能有效抑制多重散射的影响,适用于测量高浓度纳米颗粒粒径。     

The Bose-Einstein condensation in a finite one-dimensional homogeneous system of noninteracting bosons

Condensation of the ideal Bose gas in a closed volume having the shape of a rectangular parallel-epiped of length L with a square base of side length l (L ? l) is theoretically studied within the framework of the Bose-Einstein statistics (grand canonical ensemble) and within the statistics of a canonical ensemble of bosons. Under the condition N(l/L)⁴ ? l, where N is the total number of gas particles, dependence of the average number of particles in the condensate on the temperature T in both statistics is expressed as a function of the ratio t=T/T ₁, where T ₁ is a certain characteristic temperature depending only on the longitudinal size L. Therefore, the condensation process exhibits a one-dimensional (1D) character. In the 1D regime, the average numbers of particles in condensates of the grand canonical and canonical ensembles coincide only in the limiting cases of t → 0 and t → ∞. The distribution function of the number of particles in the condensate of a canonical ensemble of bosons at t ≤1 has a resonance shape and qualitatively differs from the Bose-Einstein distribution. The former distribution begins to change in the region of t ～ 1 and acquires the shape of the Bose-Einstein distribution for t ? 1. This transformation proceeds gradually that is, the 1D condensation process exhibits no features characteristic of the phase transition in a 3D system. For N(l/L)⁴ ? 1, the process acquires a 3D character with respect to the average number of particles in the condensate, but the 1D character of the distribution function of the number of particles in the condensate of a canonical ensemble of bosons is retained at all N values.     

On condensation of the vortex solitons in a 2 + 1 dimensional abelian Higgs model

We study the roles of the vortex solitons in a 2 + 1 dimensional abelian Higgs model. From the effective lagrangian L_eff for the soliton field χ, it is found that the appearance of the solitons reduces the dielectric constant to a value smaller than one. If the Higgs field 〈H〉_vac does not vanish, the vacuum is in the Higgs phase and the solitons are not important. If it does vanish, the solitons become massless and L_eff has an infinite number of classically degenerate vacua. In the quantum theory of L_eff with large coupling constant e, no evidence of 〈χ〉_vac ≠ 0 has been discovered. For this conclusion to hold it is crucial that the free energy of scalar QED monotonically increases with e².     

Trail formation and condensation of trajectories in a direct walker model with feedback

A directed walker model with external memory is studied by numerical simulations and statistical approaches. The structure of the trail systems depends strongly on the microscopic realization of the feedback mechanism and on the general repulsive or attractive interaction between different paths. Especially, we find nonergodic behavior for kinetic attraction and an ergodic one for repulsive interaction. The strong attraction regime shows a pronounced condensation of trajectories to one common path.     

滴状冷凝过程壁面反射光谱的分子团聚模型分析

根据反射光谱可用于分析固体表面介质凝聚状态的原理,理论分析了不锈钢表面上不同厚度薄液膜对表面反射率的影响,确定了在冷凝过程中该表面上冷凝液形成和更新过程导致相应反射率变化的范围. 通过分析滴状冷凝实验过程反射光谱的文献数据,研究了滴状冷凝过程壁面上蒸气分子凝聚特征,发现在实际的滴状冷凝传热过程中,液滴脱落后形成的裸露表面上存在反射特征介于液膜与体相蒸气分子之间的介质. 结合蒸气冷凝过程的分子团聚模型,得到了在滴状冷凝过程中近壁面附近的蒸气分子形成分子团聚分布的合理性. 此外,分析发现表面微观结构将改变团聚体分布密度,从而影响冷凝核化过程的现象. 这为冷凝传热强化方法的研究提出了新的思路. 关键词： 分子团聚 反射光谱 滴状冷凝     

制冷并联机组的冬季冷凝压力调节

制冷并联机组系统冬季易出现冷凝压力过低,弱化冷凝器的传热以减小冷凝器的换热量,即能防止冷凝压力过低。从工程应用出发,以使用空冷冷凝器的制冷系统为例,依照改变传热系数、传热面积和传热温差的思路,给出了防止冬季冷凝压力过低的技术措施,与此类似措施也可应用于采用水冷冷凝器或蒸发冷凝器的其他制冷系统。     

On the possibility of pair condensation in the Hubbard model with strong repulsion

The phonon-free mechanism of superconductivity at infinite Hubbard energy is discussed. The temperature of superconducting transition (T_c) depending on the rate of non-fulfilling (x) of the lower Hubbard subband has been calculated.     

Dynamic condensation in a damped system through rational selection of primary degrees of freedom

Various system reduction methods have been proposed to calculate eigenvalues and eigenvectors with computational efficiency. In the case of system condensation, the method of selecting proper primary degrees of freedom (PDOFs) is crucial because they are closely related to the accuracy and reliability of eigensystem prediction in a reduced system. Although reasonable selection methods for PDOFs have been proposed for undamped systems, these methods cannot be directly extended to damped systems. We propose a PDOF selection method for a damped system. The proposed method is based on the ratio of DOF-wise energy distributions. In order to estimate the energy distribution of the structure, Ritz vectors are obtained using a two-sided Lanczos algorithm. Energy distribution matrices are calculated from the obtained Ritz vectors. Then, degrees of freedom (DOFs) corresponding to the lowest Rayleigh quotients are selected as the PDOFs. The efficiency and reliability of the proposed method are demonstrated using numerical examples.     

Optoelectronic system of the aerosol photometer in the detector of molecular condensation nuclei

We study the light scattering by aerosol particles and air in the photometer of the molecular condensation nuclei, as well as the sensitivity of the photodector of the photometer. The interference nature of light scattering by aerosol particles is established and is found to be comparable (in order of magnitude) with the scattering of light by air in the photometer. The sensitivity of the photometer can be increased by more than an order of magnitude due to optimization of the optoelectronic part of the photometer. The detection threshold for the target component of the gas analyzer is attained at the spontaneous ionization background level and not at the limiting sensitivity level of the photodetector.     

High-intensity ultrasound promoted the aldol-type condensation as an alternative mean of synthesizing pyrazines in a Maillard reaction model system of D-glucose-13C6 and L-glycine

This study evaluated how the generation of pyrazines was promoted by high-intensity ultrasound (HIU) in a Maillard reaction (MR) model system of glucose-glycine. Carbohydrate module labeling (CAMOLA) technique was adopted using D-glucose-¹³C₆ to elucidate the carbon skeleton of both intermediate and final MR products (MRPs). In the D-glucose-¹³C₆-glycine HIU-MR model system, the concentration of 11 types of pyrazines was significantly higher than their counterparts in the thermal MR. Results of CAMOLA analysis showed that a significantly lower proportion of [M]⁺ in pyrazines with long-length side chains was observed when compared with the pyrazines generated in thermal MR. This phenomenon may suggest the aldol-type condensation was promoted by the HIU, which is a conversion from pyrazines with short-length side chains to those with long-length side chains involving carbonyl compounds. Furthermore, the analysis of isotopomers distribution in 2,3-dimethyl-quinoxaline as the o-phenylenediamine-derivatized 2,3-butanedione indicated that the increased proportion of [M + 4]⁺ in 2,3-dimethyl-quinoxaline (15.74% ± 0.11%) was attributed to a cleavage of D-glucose-¹³C₆ promoted by the HIU. The above-mentioned findings elucidate that the aldol-type condensation and cleavage of D-glucose contribute to the promoted synthesis of pyrazines. The HIU would generate an extremely high temperature and pressure environment that is favored by the aldol-type condensation as a high-pressure favored reaction. The HIU, therefore, can be further developed as a promising technique to promote flavor generation through the MR.     

Theory of DNA condensation in the presence of stretching force: Zimm-Bragg model

A theory of DNA condensation by multivalent cations in the presence of an external stretching force is presented. It is shown that in the mean-field approximation the system is described by the Zimm-Bragg model with effective parameters of growth of ordered phase and cooperativity. Within the frames of the proposed model the experimental results on stretching of a double-stranded DNA of λ-phage are interpreted. Possible scenarios of homo- and heteropolymeric behavior of DNA during condensation are analyzed. A possible mechanism restricting the growth of linear size of DNA is proposed.     

Physical-mathematical model of condensation process of the sub-micron dust capture in sprayer scrubber

A physical-mathematical model of the heat and mass exchange process and condensation capture of sub-micron dust particles on the droplets of dispersed liquid in a sprayer scrubber is proposed and analysed. A satisfactory agreement of computed results and experimental data on soot capturing from the cracking gases is obtained.     

Stability of the square-wave detonation in a model system

Using a set of model equations for reactive flow, we study the stability of a “square-wave” detonation, in which each particle of the fluid reacts instantaneously after an induction time which depends on how hard it was shocked. We obtain a differential-difference equation for the shock velocity, valid for small perturbations about the steady solution. This equation is of so-called “advanced” type, in which the velocity at a given time depends on both velocity and acceleration at an earlier time.     

Electron spectral functions of two-dimensional high-T c superconductors in the model of fermion condensation

Spectral functions of strongly correlated two-dimensional (2D) electron systems in solids are studied on the assumption that these systems undergo a phase transition, called fermion condensation, whose characteristic feature is flattening of the electron spectrum ε(p). Unlike the previous models, the decay of single-particle states in our study is properly taken into account. Results of our calculations are shown to be in qualitative agreement with ARPES data. The universal behavior of the ratio ImΣ(p, ε, T)/T as a function of x=ε/T, uncovered in [3] for the single-particle states around the diagonal of the Brillouin zone, are found to be reproduced reasonably well. However, in our model this behavior is destroyed in vicinities of the van Hove points, where the fermion condensate resides.     

Correction of ultrasonic array images to improve reflector sizing and location in inhomogeneous materials using a ray-tracing model

The use of ultrasonic arrays has increased dramatically within recent years due to their ability to perform multiple types of inspection and to produce images of the structure through post-processing of received signals. Phased arrays offer many advantages over conventional transducers in the inspection of materials that are inhomogeneous with spatially varying anisotropic properties. In this paper, the arrays are focused on austenitic steel welds as a representative inhomogeneous material. The method of ray-tracing through a previously developed model of an inhomogeneous weld is shown, with particular emphasis on the difficulties presented by material inhomogeneity. The delay laws for the structure are computed and are used to perform synthetic focusing at the post-processing stage of signal data acquired by the array. It is demonstrated for a simulated austenitic weld that by taking material inhomogeneity and anisotropy into account, superior reflector location (and hence, superior sizing) results when compared to cases where these are ignored. The image is thus said to have been corrected. Typical images are produced from both analytical data in the frequency domain and data from finite element simulations in the time domain in a variety of wave modes, including cases with mode conversion and reflections.